Nissan Rubin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nissan Rubin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nissan |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubin |
| SIGNATURE | RUBIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tikkun (Divine Repair) and Healing in a Kabbalistic Yeshiva
From Corpse to Corpus
The Clothing of the Primordial Adam as a Symbol of Apocalyptic Time in the Midrashic Sources
One relates to existential reality through the lenses that one's culture supplies. The culture of each society, in turn, includes the way it relates to time and, as a result, to history. Time as a physical quantity would appear to be a neutral concept, but its measurement is arbitrary. Time is certainly not neutral in any culture. It assumes various qualities, depending on the symbolic meaning that persons attribute to it. One therefore finds dif…
Ethnic Civil Religion
Journal Article Ethnic Civil Religion: A Case Study of Immigrants from Rumania in Israel Get access Rina Neeman, Rina Neeman Bar-Ilan UniversityTel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nissan Rubin Nissan Rubin † Bar-Ilan University † Direct corresponcence to Nissan Rubin, Department of Sociology and Anthropobgy, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel 52900. Search for other works by this author…
From Fat to Thin
Rituals provide public solutions to some types of life crises, or change. There are crises which beset the individual in modern society which are not easily addressed by public ritual. The present paper observes such a life crisis and identifies conscious rites performed by individuals. These rites are called, 'personal definitional rites', and take place in situations demanding identity changes. Newly acquired identity is performed ritually in a…
Social Networks and Mourning
This article suggests using social network theory to explain the varieties of mourning behavior in different societies. This context is used to compare the participation in funeral ceremonies of members of different social circles in modern-American society and in the Israeli kibbutz. The two cases demonstrate the validity of concepts deriving from social network analysis in the study of bereavement, mourning behavior, and funerary practice. The …
Death Customs in a Non-Religious Kibbutz
This paper examines the development of mourning customs from the early stages of the kibbutz, where the sacred in terms of Jewish tradition was rejected as a matter of ideology, and where secular tradition had not yet developed. Coinciding with the eradication of traditional symbols, there was a search for alternate symbols to replace those rejected by the revolutionary kibbutz pioneers. Hence, a process of creation and innovation of new rituals …
Unofficial Memorial Rites in an Army Unit
Formal military rules specify the rites for soldiers killed while serving in the Israel Defense Force. The military officially forbids the memorialization of individual soldiers by comrades in arms, and there are no formal rituals for expression of bereavement. Informal expressions of bereavement and memorialization of fellow soldiers however, do occur in a combat unit. Further, despite efforts by the military to institute an egalitarian system o…
From Fat to Thin
Rituals provide public solutions to some types of life crises, or change. There are crises which beset the individual in modern society which are not easily addressed by public ritual. The present paper observes such a life crisis and identifies conscious rites performed by individuals. These rites are called, 'personal definitional rites', and take place in situations demanding identity changes. Newly acquired identity is performed ritually in a…
Death Customs in a Non-Religious Kibbutz
This paper examines the development of mourning customs from the early stages of the kibbutz, where the sacred in terms of Jewish tradition was rejected as a matter of ideology, and where secular tradition had not yet developed. Coinciding with the eradication of traditional symbols, there was a search for alternate symbols to replace those rejected by the revolutionary kibbutz pioneers. Hence, a process of creation and innovation of new rituals …
Unofficial Memorial Rites in an Army Unit
Formal military rules specify the rites for soldiers killed while serving in the Israel Defense Force. The military officially forbids the memorialization of individual soldiers by comrades in arms, and there are no formal rituals for expression of bereavement. Informal expressions of bereavement and memorialization of fellow soldiers however, do occur in a combat unit. Further, despite efforts by the military to institute an egalitarian system o…
Death Customs in a Non-Religious Kibbutz
This paper examines the development of mourning customs from the early stages of the kibbutz, where the sacred in terms of Jewish tradition was rejected as a matter of ideology, and where secular tradition had not yet developed. Coinciding with the eradication of traditional symbols, there was a search for alternate symbols to replace those rejected by the revolutionary kibbutz pioneers. Hence, a process of creation and innovation of new rituals …
Social Networks and Mourning
This article suggests using social network theory to explain the varieties of mourning behavior in different societies. This context is used to compare the participation in funeral ceremonies of members of different social circles in modern-American society and in the Israeli kibbutz. The two cases demonstrate the validity of concepts deriving from social network analysis in the study of bereavement, mourning behavior, and funerary practice. The …
From Fat to Thin
Rituals provide public solutions to some types of life crises, or change. There are crises which beset the individual in modern society which are not easily addressed by public ritual. The present paper observes such a life crisis and identifies conscious rites performed by individuals. These rites are called, 'personal definitional rites', and take place in situations demanding identity changes. Newly acquired identity is performed ritually in a…
Ethnic Civil Religion
Journal Article Ethnic Civil Religion: A Case Study of Immigrants from Rumania in Israel Get access Rina Neeman, Rina Neeman Bar-Ilan UniversityTel Aviv University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Nissan Rubin Nissan Rubin † Bar-Ilan University † Direct corresponcence to Nissan Rubin, Department of Sociology and Anthropobgy, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel 52900. Search for other works by this author…
The Clothing of the Primordial Adam as a Symbol of Apocalyptic Time in the Midrashic Sources
One relates to existential reality through the lenses that one's culture supplies. The culture of each society, in turn, includes the way it relates to time and, as a result, to history. Time as a physical quantity would appear to be a neutral concept, but its measurement is arbitrary. Time is certainly not neutral in any culture. It assumes various qualities, depending on the symbolic meaning that persons attribute to it. One therefore finds dif…
From Corpse to Corpus
Tikkun (Divine Repair) and Healing in a Kabbalistic Yeshiva
Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works)