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	Imitatio dei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Imitatio dei (Latin, imitating god) is a religious concept according to which virtue among man is found by resembling God, to which man should aspire.
		The concept of imitatio dei - generally taken to be a Mitzvah - in Judaism is derived, in part, from the concept of imago dei - being made in the shape of God.
		Luke 6:36 states: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful." In Ephesians 5, he is told by Paul to: "Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imitatio_Dei (332 words)

	Jewish Education at the Lookstein Center - WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
		The doctrine of Imitatio Dei is found, in one form or another, in other religions as well as in the writings of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoic philosophers.
		In Aristotle the concept of Imitatio Dei is almost devoid of ethical content, being primarily intellectualistic in character.
		It is the rejection of Imitatio Dei as the great goal of human existence, and the exploitation of knowledge for unethical ends.
	www.lookstein.org /articles/wisdom_knowledge.htm (6222 words)

	rav05
		Before examining the essay itself, let us discuss the concepts of imitation of God and of dialectic, which are two of the pillars upon which the Rav's philosophy rests.
		The principle of imitating God is known in philosophic parlance by the Latin term "imitatio Dei," and in halakhic terms by the phrase "Ve-halakhta bi-derakhav" ("You shall walk in His ways").
		Imitatio Dei: R. David Shapiro, "The Doctrine of the Image of God and Imitatio Dei," in Contemporary Jewish Ethics, ed.
	www.vbm-torah.org /archive/rav/rav05.htm (2126 words)

	I
		IMITATIO DEI (Imitating God.) I for one, am against jargonism, re-inventing the wheel, and the use of dead languages, such as Latin, to make a term seem more sophisticated than it really is, however, I find this term useful.
		Imitatio dei is the phenomena in philosophy that is behind the concept of Socrates' "reals" or "archetypes".
		Imitatio dei still is a powerful influence on our culture today.
	www.candleinthedark.com /i.html (4871 words)

	Rabbi Mayer Twersky - You Shall Be Holy
		After all, there is a Mitzva of imitatio dei, to emulate the ways of Hashem (1).
		Since Hasem is holy, the mitzva of imitatio dei mandates that we too be holy.
		Rather the general imperative of imitatio dei encompasses all such divine attributes.
	www.torahweb.org /torah/2002/parsha/rtwe_kedoshim.html (697 words)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		Architecturally inspired installation artist Christine Tarkowski has envisioned a provocative way of harnessing this truth with "Imitatio Dei," her new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, showing as part of the "12 x 12: New Artists/New Work" series.
		A Connecticut native, Tarkowski earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute in 1992 and has lived and worked in Chicago since.
		This idea of habitation and usage directly informs "Imitatio Dei," Latin for "Imitating God." The piece is a large geodesic dome inspired by Buckminster Fuller's ideas of communal dwellings, composed of concrete triangles embedded with jagged colored glass and light bulbs, evoking the stained-glass windows of ecclesiastical yore.
	www.newcitychicago.com /chicago/5791.html (342 words)

	The First Holy Thing
		Mankind is unique in all creation for Adam was made imago dei, to echo the Latin of the Church Fathers, in the "image of God." We are separated from all living things by a divine mark upon our kind.
		If we are made in the image of God it follows that we should engage our lives in an imitatio Dei, "imitation of God." If we are made like God, it follows that we should act like God.
		The verb "to rest" is sabat (Heb), meaning "to stop, cease." The noun form is sabbat from which we get our word "Sabbath." The seventh day came to be named by what Yahweh did on the first one-He stopped his work and rested in peace with his image bearers.
	www.biblesabbath.org /tss/480/firstHolyThing.html (2189 words)

	Amazon.com: "Imitatio Dei": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Imitatio Dei und Imitatio Christi sind abgelst durch Gehorsam gegenber dem gttlichen Gebot.
		Temple- building had been an act of imitatio dei, enabling humanity to participate in the creativity of the gods themselves.
		David Shapiro, "The Doctrine of the image of God and imitatio Dei," in Menachem Kellner, ed., Contemporary Jewish Ethics, pp.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Imitatio-Dei (556 words)

	rav06
		Last week, in analyzing the introduction to "Majesty and Humility," we examined the concepts of imitatio Dei and dialectic.
		In short, cosmic man experiences majestas Dei (the majesty of God), and origin-questing man experiences humilitas Dei (the humility of God).
		However, when man experiences humilitas Dei, he formulates not an ethic of triumph but one of retreat, sacrifice and humility.
	www.vbm-torah.org /archive/rav/rav06.htm (2194 words)

	Imitating God-the Basis of Jewish Morality \| The Chabad House at Stanford
		Beyond the clearly prescribed legal precepts of the Torah there are vast areas in which one's moral duty is not precisely defined.
		Yet man is bidden by the principle of imitatio Dei to create, to be a shutaf (partner) in Yetzirah, fashioning form out of chaos.
		Of course, man does not create ex nihilo, as did God, though at times it seems to man that his task is as formidable as if it were yesh me'ayin (from absolute nothing).
	chabadstanford.org /pages/wisdom_center/Article/130.html (1775 words)

	Jewish Education at the Lookstein Center - RAV JOSEPH B Soleveitchik
		This emphasis upon ethics must be seen not as a concession to modern Jewish thinkers such as Mendelssohn, Luzzatto, Ahad Ha'am and Cohen, but it reflects his affinity for Maimonidean approaches.
		Since the Rav maintains that the entire ethical domain is founded upon imitatio dei, he was extremely sensitive to ethical demands.
		22"Imitatio Dei in Maimonides' Sefer Hamitzvot and the Mishneh Torah," Tradition and Transition, Jonathan Sacks, ed., 1986, pp.
	www.lookstein.org /articles/soloveitchik_posek.htm (5772 words)

	Two Roads - One Path
		His definition of happiness is simply to make a connection with your Creator and seek ways to emulate His ways.
		There is perhaps no way in which we demonstrate our imitatio dei (Emulation of God) more, than by having children and bestowing them with love and care to raise them as worthy members of planet earth.
		When they, and we, are "hitting on all cylinders" promoting God's Will in the world, children can be the more delightful than the most pleasurable French wine and cuisine.
	www.tworoadsonepath.com /html/happynj2.html (306 words)

	The Journal: News of the Churches of God at www.thejournal.org
		Mankind is unique in all creation for Adam was made imago Dei, to echo the Latin of the church fathers, in the "image of God."
		These were deliberate actions of the Creator to indicate the Sabbath's universality, giving clear evidence that every human being who lives with sunsets and sunrises--Jew and gentile--is to engage in imitatio Dei, "imitation of God," by resting as God rested.
		The former has by far the greater appeal and authority, especially for those engaged in imitatio Dei.
	www.thejournal.org /articles/issue34/ken.html (2198 words)

	David Ray Griffin - Redefining The Divine
		And to some extent, this world view came out of the notion that the divine reality of the universe was essentially independent from the world.
		Now, one of my key notions is that there is a deep drive in us that we can call the imitatio dei - the desire to imitate deity, to create ourselves in the model or shape of what we understand to be the divine reality.
		Of the postmodern spiritual energies that seem to be emerging, the term ecological may describe the most pervasive one - the sense that all things are interconnected.
	www.context.org /ICLIB/IC24/Griffin.htm (4476 words)

	Sin
		God wipes away the sins away from those who repent.
		As Jews are commanded in imitatio Dei, emulating God, rabbis take these attributes into account in deciding Jewish law and its contemporary application.
		The idea of atonement begins in the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/at/Atonement.html (1844 words)

	COMMANDED TO BE HOLY
		Rabbi Akiva suggests the fundamental principle of the Torah is found just a few verses later in our text, "Love your fellow as yourself.
		Indeed, we can deduce that the most important way to be holy is to emulate G-d, imitatio Dei.
		It was G-d who visited Abraham after his bris milah, teaching us the mitzvah of bikur cholim, or visiting the sick.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0501/to.be.holy.asp (759 words)

	UJC - MyJewishLearning.com: Overview: Shabbat Themes and Theology
		And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because on it God ceased from all the work of creation that He had done." (Genesis 2:2-3).
		Together, these passages give us the profound concept of imitatio dei--the imitation of God--in association with Shabbat.
		We should rest because God rested--and we should "remember" Shabbat and keep it holy.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=70209 (548 words)

	Textual Reasoning, Vol. 1, #2, July 1991
		Maimonides' point of departure is the idea of `Imitatio Dei', i.e.
		by understanding Imitatio Dei both as a speculative as well as an emulative ideal, we find Cohen's own anti-Aristotelian conclusions counterproductive.
		Reading Maimonides, the moot questions of either/or [practical or theoretical, contemplative or active, Platonic or Aristotelian] give way to a more complementary reading that can admit seemingly mutually exclusive theses to be equally part of Maimonides' thinking.
	etext.virginia.edu /journals/tr/archive/pmjp/pmjp1_2.html (10849 words)

	vayera5766
		When we offer hospitality, it is not for ourselves, not for any reward or return.
		We offer hospitality, compassion, support, help, et al in order to be in imitatio Dei, imitating G"d.
		And because this is what G"d commands us to do through the mitzvot.
	home.comcast.net /~adurlester/musings/vayera5766.htm (737 words)

	Avodah V8 #50
		I agree with that point, that we are created so that our reward requires struggle, and therefore the imitatio dei of deciding, doing and creating (including self-creation).
		since G-d is the Ultimate Good, imitatio dei is inherently the ultimate good the imitator can recieve from G-d.
		To him, imitatio dei is not part of the ultimate good, passively basking in Ziv haShechinah is. REED's whole giving-receiving thing is rejected.
	www.aishdas.org /avodah/vol08/v08n050.shtml (4525 words)

	Re: orion-list Dumb questions department. >>Tzedek does not mean "righteousnes
		or active probation in the 'imitatio dei', a phrase normally >linked to 'righteousness' (Tzedeka).
		Rightness and straightness, not only in Biblical Hebrew, but (using cognates) in most Northwest Semitic civilizations.
		To state that 'tzedek' if translated as 'righteous' is normally linked to 'imitatio dei' goes right back to the point about a poor and loaded translation.
	orion.mscc.huji.ac.il /orion/archives/1999b/msg00397.html (373 words)

	Yom haKippurim: 'And God passed before him and declared...' - Torah.org
		Before suggesting a resolution, let's take a look at a seemingly unrelated perspective in Jewish ethics.
		IMITATIO DEI: THE BASIS OF JEWISH ETHICAL BEHAVIOR
		As we have discussed in some earlier shiurim (note the shiurim on Parashat Kedoshim and Parashat B'har in the Vayyikra archives), the basis for Jewish ethics is the imitation of the Divine, known by the Latin term: imitatio dei.
	www.torah.org /advanced/mikra/5757/dv/dt.57.5.10.html (904 words)

	NCC 2002 General Assembly Bioethics Resolution
		Moreover, in these days of fiscal constraint it is necessary that in addition to constituency ownership and interest financial resources must accompany any new initiative at its inception.
		The Planning and Development offices, in discussion with other elements of the Council, developed a planning grant proposal entitled “Imitatio Dei” which would allow the Council to initiate a process of study discernment and policy consideration on this timely topic.
		These efforts were reported for information to the October Executive Committee by Jaydee Hanson, of the Eco-justice Working Group and staff.
	www.ncccusa.org /news/02news97a.html (1499 words)

	Rabbi Mayer Twersky - Projecting Faith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Let us explore the Rambam’s doctrine of the mean.
		In Hilchos De’os, Rambam explains that this doctrine is mandated by the mitzva of v’holachto b’drachav (imitatio dei).
		Hashem’s actions are all balanced, and thus the mitzva of imitatio dei commands that we behave in a similar fashion.
	www.torahweb.org /torah/2002/parsha/rtwe_chukas.html (445 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		Not across the sea, rather the instruction is very near, in your mouth and in your heart."
		This week's Torah portion, Kedoshim, is the how-to handbook for the religious concepts of imitatio dei and predicate theology.
		It teaches that we mere human beings are holy because God is holy, and that we find our holiness through performing godly acts.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/23/story_2335_2.html (419 words)

	Parashat Kedoshim: The Basis for the Moral Society - Torah.org
		Speak to the entire congregation of Israel and say to them: Be holy!
		Our striving for holiness is an attempt at imitatio dei - imitating God.
		This is, of course, a limited enterprise, as no human could ever come close to truly being God-like.
	www.torah.org /advanced/mikra/5757/va/dt.57.3.06.html (988 words)

	Bat Kol Institute - Order of a Meeting for a Bat Kol Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hebrew language is a powerful tool for understanding the biblical text.
		observance is 'imitatio Dei,' and also in imitation of Jesus and his early followers.
		Sunday worship is enhanced by observance of the Sabbath.
	www.batkol.info /BK_order_of_meetings.htm (401 words)

	What is the first thing called Holy in the Bible? - at BibleStudy.org
		To imitate him in every way it is possible for a human to do.
		The verb "to rest" is sabat (Hebrew), meaning "to stop, cease." The noun form is sabbat from which we get our word "Sabbath." The seventh day came to be named by what Yahweh did on the first one—he stopped his work and rested in peace with his image bearers.
		The former has by far the greater appeal and authority—especially for those engaged in an imitatio Dei.
	www.biblestudy.org /godsrest/firstholy.html (2162 words)

	YSMZ: weekly parsha
		From this verse we derive the obligation to imitate Hashem.
		This is the fundamental principle of imitatio dei.
		I would like to share with you a fascinating insight from my Rebbe, Rav Soloveichik, zatz”al.
	www.mevaseret.org /ysmz/articles/5764/kitavo.htm (1890 words)

	Preaching Peace
		Where it seems helpful, we'll also refer you to other texts that discuss the term in greater detail.
		If the Synoptics give us the ethics and eschatology of Jesus’; non-retaliatory posture and the Fourth Gospel connects this to the imitatio Dei, then we must begin to ask ourselves about the God behind most of our theologies.
		If we are to judge by external standards, that is, by what we see and hear, we may well wonder if most of the people who attend church, clergy included, desire to follow Jesus as Jesus followed his Father.
	www.preachingpeace.org /yearb/proper16.htm (2397 words)

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