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'''Jewish Science''' is a ] spiritual ] comparable with the ]. Many of its members also attend services at conventional ]s.<ref name="jweekly.com">{{cite magazine | last=Horowitz | first=Sarah | url=https://jweekly.com/1998/01/16/jewish-science-groups-explore-karma-reincarnation/ <!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20060321164425/http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7792/edition_id/148/format/html/displaystory.html --> | title=Jewish Science groups explore karma, reincarnation | work=Jewish Bulletin of Northern California | publisher=San Francisco Jewish Community Publications | date=16 January 1998}}</ref> '''Jewish Science''' is a ] spiritual ] comparable with the ]. Many of its members also attend services at conventional ]s.<ref name="jweekly.com">{{cite magazine | last=Horowitz | first=Sarah | url=https://jweekly.com/1998/01/16/jewish-science-groups-explore-karma-reincarnation/ <!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20060321164425/http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/7792/edition_id/148/format/html/displaystory.html --> | title=Jewish Science groups explore karma, reincarnation | magazine=Jewish Bulletin of Northern California | publisher=San Francisco Jewish Community Publications | date=16 January 1998}}</ref>


It is an interpretation of ] that was originally conceived by Rabbi ] in the early 1900s in response to the growing influence of ] and the New Thought Movement. Rather than the paternal God figure encountered in ] tradition, "Jewish Science views God as an energy or force penetrating the reality of the universe. God is the source of all reality, and not separate from but a real part of our world."{{r|jweekly.com}} His fundamental teachings are found in his 1916 book ''Jewish Science: Divine Healing in Judaism''. The movement was institutionalized in 1922<!-- according to two of the references quoted below --> with Rabbi ]'s founding of the Society of Jewish Science.{{sfn|Umansky|2005|p=104}} It is an interpretation of ] that was originally conceived by Rabbi ] in the early 1900s in response to the growing influence of ] and the New Thought Movement. Rather than the paternal God figure encountered in ] tradition, "Jewish Science views God as an energy or force penetrating the reality of the universe. God is the source of all reality, and not separate from but a real part of our world."{{r|jweekly.com}} His fundamental teachings are found in his 1916 book ''Jewish Science: Divine Healing in Judaism''. The movement was institutionalized in 1922<!-- according to two of the references quoted below --> with Rabbi ]'s founding of the Society of Jewish Science.{{sfn|Umansky|2005|p=104}}
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* {{cite book | date=1957 | last=Lichtenstein | first=Morris |title=How to Live | publication-place=New York |publisher=Society of Jewish Science |isbn=978-0-943745-02-2}} * {{cite book | date=1957 | last=Lichtenstein | first=Morris |title=How to Live | publication-place=New York |publisher=Society of Jewish Science |isbn=978-0-943745-02-2}}
* {{cite book | date=1974 | last=Lichtenstein | first=Morris | title=The Healing of the Soul | publisher=Society of Jewish Science | isbn=978-0-943745-05-3}} * {{cite book | date=1974 | last=Lichtenstein | first=Morris | title=The Healing of the Soul | publisher=Society of Jewish Science | isbn=978-0-943745-05-3}}
* {{cite book | date=1989 | last=Lichtenstein | first=Tehilla | last2=Friedman | first2=Doris | title=Applied Judaism: Selected Jewish Science Essays | publisher=Society of Jewish Science |isbn=978-0-943745-08-4}} * {{cite book | date=1989 | last1=Lichtenstein | first1=Tehilla | last2=Friedman | first2=Doris | title=Applied Judaism: Selected Jewish Science Essays | publisher=Society of Jewish Science |isbn=978-0-943745-08-4}}
* {{cite book | date=1998 | last=Lichtenstein | first=Morris | last2=Kaplan | first2=Steven J. | title=Healing the Distressed: A Jewish Approach | publisher=Society of Jewish Science | isbn=978-0-943745-13-8}} * {{cite book | date=1998 | last1=Lichtenstein | first1=Morris | last2=Kaplan | first2=Steven J. | title=Healing the Distressed: A Jewish Approach | publisher=Society of Jewish Science | isbn=978-0-943745-13-8}}
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* {{cite magazine | last=Joselit |first=Jenna Weissman | title=Prayer Fare: A Look Back at ‘Jewish Science’ | work=The Forward | issn=1051-340X | date=4 February 2005 | url=https://forward.com/news/2890/prayer-fare-a-look-back-at-e2-80-98jewish-science-e2-80-99/ | access-date=26 September 2023}} * {{cite magazine | last=Joselit |first=Jenna Weissman | title=Prayer Fare: A Look Back at 'Jewish Science' | magazine=The Forward | issn=1051-340X | date=4 February 2005 | url=https://forward.com/news/2890/prayer-fare-a-look-back-at-e2-80-98jewish-science-e2-80-99/ | access-date=26 September 2023}}
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Jewish Science is a Judaic spiritual movement comparable with the New Thought Movement. Many of its members also attend services at conventional synagogues.

It is an interpretation of Jewish philosophy that was originally conceived by Rabbi Alfred Geiger Moses in the early 1900s in response to the growing influence of Christian Science and the New Thought Movement. Rather than the paternal God figure encountered in Hebrew tradition, "Jewish Science views God as an energy or force penetrating the reality of the universe. God is the source of all reality, and not separate from but a real part of our world." His fundamental teachings are found in his 1916 book Jewish Science: Divine Healing in Judaism. The movement was institutionalized in 1922 with Rabbi Morris Lichtenstein's founding of the Society of Jewish Science.

History

Thanks to radio broadcasts on WMCA and the establishment of the Jewish Science Interpreter magazine the movement attracted numerous adherents, thereby helping its rise to prominence in the Jewish community.

In 1938, Tehilla Lichtenstein became the spiritual leader of the Society of Jewish Science in New York, making her the first Jewish American woman to serve as the spiritual leader of an ongoing Jewish congregation, although she was not ordained.

Currently, the Society's "Home Center" and synagogue is located in midtown Manhattan, NY. The Society also maintains a congregation in Los Angeles California, and many study groups around the country which focus on each of the main texts of Jewish Science.

Affirmative prayer

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Jewish Science leader Morris Lichtenstein found affirmative prayer to be particularly useful because, he believed, it provided the personal benefits of prayer without requiring the belief in a supernatural God who could suspend the laws of nature. He considered affirmative prayer to be a method to access inner power that could be considered divine, but not supernatural. He taught that the origins of affirmative prayer can be found in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Psalms, and that affirmations, or affirmative prayers, are best offered in silence.

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Citations

  1. ^ Horowitz, Sarah (16 January 1998). "Jewish Science groups explore karma, reincarnation". Jewish Bulletin of Northern California. San Francisco Jewish Community Publications.
  2. ^ Umansky 2005, p. 104.
  3. "Tehilla Lichtenstein | Jewish Women's Archive". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  4. "This Week in History - Tehilla Lichtenstein becomes leader of Society of Jewish Science | Jewish Women's Archive". Jwa.org. 1938-12-04. Archived from the original on 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2012-07-23.

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