@article{Kosman2009, author = {Kosman, Admiʾel}, title = {What did Cain say to Abel?}, series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.}, journal = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.}, number = {15}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {1614-6492}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-36293}, pages = {157 -- 160}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @article{Kosman2009, author = {Kosman, Admiʾel}, title = {What did Cain say to Abel?}, issn = {1614-6492}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @article{Kosman2020, author = {Kosman, Admiʾel}, title = {Viktor Frankel Gazes out at the world from a concentration camp and teaches us how to utilize that gaze in our own spiritual lives}, series = {CCAR journal}, volume = {Fall 2020/Winter 2021}, journal = {CCAR journal}, publisher = {CCAR Journal, Dept. of Religion}, address = {Cleveland, Ohio}, issn = {0007-7976}, pages = {131 -- 142}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Kosman2020, author = {Kosman, Admiʾel}, title = {Theological "Black Holes" in Religions and the Ways They Lead to Heaven (or Hell)}, series = {CCAR journal}, journal = {CCAR journal}, number = {Winter 2020}, publisher = {CCAR Journal, Dept. of Religion}, address = {Cleveland, Ohio}, issn = {0007-7976}, pages = {158 -- 179}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{KosmanLangFinkelman2023, author = {Kosman, Admiʾel and Lang, David and Finkelman, Yoel}, title = {The will is man's only property}, series = {The Lehrhaus}, journal = {The Lehrhaus}, pages = {11}, year = {2023}, language = {en} } @article{Kosman2017, author = {Kosman, Admiʾel}, title = {The temptation in the garden of R. Hiyya bar Ashi and his wife}, series = {European Judaism}, volume = {50}, journal = {European Judaism}, number = {2}, publisher = {Berghahn Journals}, address = {Brooklyn}, issn = {0014-3006}, doi = {10.3167/ej.2017.500214}, pages = {129 -- 146}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The narrative in BT Kiddushin 81b about R. Hiyya bar Ashi tells of a sage who waged a battle with his Urge after he refrained from engaging in sexual relations with his wife. He, however, did not reveal to her the battle being waged within him, but rather pretended to be an 'angel'. When his wife incidentally found it, she disguised herself as a harlot and set out to seduce him. After they had engaged in sexual relations, the rabbi wanted to commit suicide. The traditional readings view R. Hiyya as the hero of the tale. This article claims that the aim of the narrative is to present the rabbi as being carried away by dualistic-Christian conceptions. The article further argues that the topic of the narrative is not sexual relations, but dialogue.}, language = {en} } @article{KosmanHadad2022, author = {Kosman, Admiʾel and Hadad, Yemima}, title = {The societal role of the man of spirit according to Martin Buber}, series = {Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion : HUCA}, volume = {91}, journal = {Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion : HUCA}, publisher = {College}, address = {Cincinnati}, issn = {0360-9049}, doi = {10.15650/hebruniocollannu.91.2020.0207}, pages = {207 -- 259}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This study offers a view into Buber's conception of the social role of the "person of spirit" - the individual who, in other contexts, would be called philosopher, thinker, or intellectual.A key element of the person of spirit's role, according to Buber, is the evaluation of social reality - judging the public's ability to be guided by the realm of the spirit at any given hour while responding to the challenges that this particular hour may present. The person of spirit is required to constantly mediate between "heaven" and "earth" - between the ideal and reality - even if in a particular situation the moral action which has to be taken can only be partial, and will fall short of the absolute demand of the spirit.Buber emphasizes that the influence of the spirit on reality always begins with an effort of the "person of spirit" to transform him or herself from a monological to a dialogical person. Without a dialogical affinity between the person of spirit and their community, there can be no real effect of the spirit on reality.The person of spirit is, therefore, according to Buber, fully involved in the social life of the community. Our study shows that Buber shaped this figure of the "person of spirit" by combining the model of the biblical prophet, who is sent to the people, with the model of the Hasidic leader who acts according to the principle of the "Descent of the Zaddik." The person of spirit is required to live their life in a "Thou" relationship with their community, and is therefore frequently descending from an elevated spiritual level to the level of the people, in order to empathetically share their mundane worries, fears, and afflictions.By comparing the models of the biblical prophet and the Hassidic Zaddik to the model of the Greek prophetes and Plato's philosopher-king, we can, according to Buber, reflect on the role of the person of spirit in society in our time as well.}, language = {en} } @article{Kosman2018, author = {Kosman, Admiʾel}, title = {An Overview of Masculinity in Judaism}, series = {God's own gender?}, journal = {God's own gender?}, publisher = {Ergon}, address = {Baden-Baden}, isbn = {978-3-95650-453-2}, pages = {149 -- 183}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @article{Kosman2022, author = {Kosman, Admiʾel}, title = {A religious approach to sexual behavior for our liberal communities from a dialogical jewish perspective}, series = {CCAR journal : a reform jewish quarterly}, volume = {Spring 2022}, journal = {CCAR journal : a reform jewish quarterly}, publisher = {Central Conference of American Rabbis}, address = {Cleveland}, isbn = {978-0-88123-618-7}, issn = {0007-7976}, pages = {125 -- 146}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @article{Kosman2021, author = {Kosman, Admiʾel}, title = {A Journey Through the Gates of Good and Evil in Jewish Sources}, series = {Zeramim : an Online Journal of Applied Jewish Thought}, volume = {V}, journal = {Zeramim : an Online Journal of Applied Jewish Thought}, number = {2}, issn = {2577-4921}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @article{Kosman2018, author = {Kosman, Admiʾel}, title = {"And the spirit of god hovered"}, series = {Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies \& Gender Issues}, journal = {Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies \& Gender Issues}, number = {33}, publisher = {Indiana University Press}, address = {Bloomington}, issn = {0793-8934}, doi = {10.2979/nashim.33.1.01}, pages = {7 -- 19}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In this article the author proposes a new reading for the opening words of the Bible, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Now the earth was unformed and void ... ; and the spirit of God hovered over the water" (Gen. 1:1-2). This new reading is based on the connections drawn by Otto Eissfeldt between the Ugaritic literature and the Bible. God, according to this opening picture, connects intimately, empathetically, with the existing matter (the tehom) in dialogic address. It is from this relationship, which today we call "love," that all comes to be "born" from the material "womb" of the tehom. From this "big bang," all continues to be born.}, language = {en} }