Dr. Zadok Krouz, was born in Jerusalem. In his youth, he studied in various `yeshivoth` in Israel. He enlisted in the army, where he served in a combat engineering unit.He obtained a master`s degree, `cum laude` . He also studied Philosophy in New-York, where he obtained a doctorate. He studied psychology and the philosophy of education , where he also completed a teachers` training program and Gestalt training program. He is certified by the Certification Committee for Teachers to teach Talmud. He organized a workshop in Philosophy and Jewish Heritage in the United States. Dr. Krouz served as a lecturer at New York and at the Teachers` Training College . He has published books, various articles, a collection of writings on language and literature, religious existential meditation, philosophical doctrine of the human spirit and produced a number of self-hypnosis audio cassettes for improving the quality of life. His studies, work and rich experience as a healer have helped him to create a new and unique type of therapy, applying philosophical theories to hypnotherapy, humanistic therapy and logotherapy.
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The article will discuss the dialogue between the skilled man and God continues with man's confession. This is the final condition necessary for the meeting to take place. Man confesses because he thinks that to do so will benefit him. He believes that God can forgive him and hopes that, indeed, he will be forgiven. This hope for salvation is a fundamental of faith. The essence of the confession is the faith of the one confessing in God, for otherwise he would not confess before God at all.
This article Part 4, will discuss the Imperative as Expression of Love and The Subjective Aspect of the Commandment to Love.
The article will discuss the Commandment "You will Love" in its total construction. The discussion of the characteristics of the commandment will be divided into a number of sections: 1. Investigation of the parts of the commandment; "you will love" in its total construction. 2. Time within which the commandment is valid. 3. The subjective side of the command. 4. Its singularity in comparison with other commandments. 5. Can love be commanded?
The article will discuss the prior conditions to the occurrence of the meeting between man and God. Several conditions must be fulfilled before man can meet with God: b) The skilled man cannot yet meet God because he expects redemption from God. The second prerequisite for the meeting is the commandment to love God, after which God can then respond.
The article will discuss the prior conditions to the occurrence of the meeting between man and God. Several conditions must be fulfilled before man can meet with God: a) Only the gifted man meets with God. He must ear the meeting with god through arduous intellectual and spiritual study and discipline.
The article will discuss place as dialogue between man and God. Man's place is in the middle of the universe as a living, real creation. Everything else surrounds him, including those people that he meets. This idea forces man to be within a specific time and place. Man's place refers to a specific time, the present, and a specific place, existence in the present.
This article discusses the reasons Franz Rosenzweig, an influential Jewish theologian in prewar Germany, rejected the intellectual approach seeking to understand man as an object of the intellect. In establishing that the nature of man in the God-man-world relationship is one of inclusivity or unity, Rosenzweig provides an antidote to the futility of existence, and an answer for the fear of death.
The article will discuss place as dialogue between man and God. Man's place is in the middle of the universe as a living, real creation. Everything else surrounds him, including those people that he meets. This idea forces man to be within a specific time and place. Man's place refers to a specific time, the present, and a specific place, existence in the present. This makes man's place part of a dynamically moving stream of changing life-experiences, never stagnant and always flowing.
The article part 3 will continue discuss the aspects of the dialogue meeting. Rozenzweig changes the historical meeting (revelation at Mt. Sinai) to a personal one. The meeting is real, factual, not figurative, and does not depend on what happened before. It is a suddent event, an axis between the past creation and the future redemption. The present time makes the reality of the meeting firm. The meeting takes man from the pole of pessimism to that of optimism. The dialogue gives man purpose.
This article part 2 will continue discuss the aspects of the dialogue meeting. Rozenzweig changes the historical meeting (revelation at Mt. Sinai) to a personal one. The meeting is real, factual, not figurative, and does not depend on what happened before. It is a suddent event, an axis between the past creation and the future redemption. The present time makes the reality of the meeting firm. The meeting takes man from the pole of pessimism to that of optimism. The dialogue gives man purpose.

