Recovery International ( formerly Recovery, Inc., often referred to simply as Recovery ) is a mental health self-help organization founded in 1937 by neuropsychiatrist Abraham Low in Chicago, Illinois.

Previous Recovery Logo In 1937 Abraham Low was on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and participants in Recovery were limited to those who had been hospitalized in the Psychiatric Institute at the University.

On January 1, 2008 Recovery International Merged with The Abraham Low Institute and provisionally renamed the new organization Recovery International / The Abraham Low Institute ( RI / TALI ).

On January 1, 2009, Abraham Low Self-Help Systems was incorporated, completing the merger of the two organizations.

In 1945, Abraham Low found the average member improved considerably after the first or second week in the program as it existed at that time.

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Paul Abraham Dukas ( 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935 ) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher.

In the so-called “ Polenaktion ”, more than 12, 000 Polish-born Jews, among them philosopher and theologian Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and future literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, were expelled from Germany on 28 October 1938, on Hitler's orders.

According to film critic Leonard Maltin, professional failure following an early success is referred to in Hollywood circles as the " F. Murray Abraham syndrome ".

Prominent there were Rabbi Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor ( the " Kovner Rav "; officiated 1864-96 ); Abraham Mapu, one of the first modern Hebrew writers ; and Israel Isidor Elyashev, the " Ba ' al Makhshoves ", the first Yiddish literary critic.

Noted Yale critic of secular and sacred literature Harold Bloom, who classes these the book of Moses and the Book of Abraham among the “ more surprising ” and “ neglected ” works of LDS scripture, is intrigued by the fact that many of their themes are “ strikingly akin to ancient suggestions ” that essentially restate “ the archaic or original Jewish religion, a Judaism that preceded even the Yahwist .” While expressing “ no judgment, one way or the other, upon the authenticity ” of LDS scripture, he finds “ enormous validity ” in the way these writings “ recapture … crucial elements in the archaic Jewish religion .… that had ceased to be available either to normative Judaism or to Christianity, and that survived only in esoteric traditions unlikely to have touched Smith directly.

( 1438 – 48 ; early adherent of Old Norse mythology ), Jöns Bengtsson ( Oxenstierna ) ( 1448 – 67 ; King of Sweden ), Jakob Ulfsson ( 1470 – 1514 ; founder of Uppsala University ), Gustav Trolle ( 1515 – 21 ; supporter of the Danish King ), Johannes Magnus ( 1523-26: wrote an imaginative Scandianian Chronicle ), Laurentius Petri ( 1531 – 73 ; main character behind the Swedish Lutheran reformation ), Abraham Angermannus ( 1593 – 99 ; controversial critic of the King ), Olaus Martini ( 1601 – 09 ), Petrus Kenicius ( 1609 – 36 ),

In 1955 a tribute described as a Festschrift, Fanfare for Ernest Newman was published to mark his golden jubilee as a critic, with contributions from Neville Cardus, Philip Hope-Wallace, Gerald Abraham, Winton Dean, Christopher Hassall and Sir Jack Westrup, among others.

Carl Abraham Mankell ( 1802 – 1868 ), music critic of Svenska Tidningen ( Swedish News ), admired Crusell's playing for the roundness of his tone and its evenness in quality throughout the range of the instrument.

Kook, first Chief Rabbi of Israel, stressed that the climax of the story, commanding Abraham not to sacrifice Isaac, is the whole point: to put an end to the ritual of child sacrifice, which contradicts the morality of a perfect and giving ( not taking ) monotheistic God.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

One source, Abraham ibn Daud of Toledo, gives them an importance similar to the exilarchs of Babylon.

In 1861, the fact that " the faith of all the then thirteen States was expressly plighted and engaged that Union should be perpetual " was considered of major importance by President Abraham Lincoln when declaring the secession of the southern states from the Union to be illegal.

He also painted many subjects like the " St John Preaching ," the " Covenant of Abraham ," and the " Journey to Emmaus ," in which, while the landscape is usually prominent the figures are yet of sufficient importance to supply the title of the work.

1614. The most outstanding artwork of international importance in the collection is the large-scale painting Peace and Plenty Binding the Arrows of War ( 1614 ) by the Flemish Baroque painter Abraham Janssens van Nuyssen ( ca.

Lineage and descent were of great importance in Jewish society of the time, and a descent from David and Abraham was crucial to accepting Jesus as the Messiah.

Christadelphians believe that he will return to the earth in person to set up the Kingdom of God in fulfilment of the promises made to Abraham and David.

Abraham asks God that Ishmael " might live in Thy sight ," ( that is, be favoured ), but God replies that Sarah will bear a son, who will be named Isaac, through whom the covenant will be established.

Isaac (;, Yiçḥaq, " he will laugh ";, ;, ; ; or ) as described in the Hebrew Bible, was the only son Abraham had with his wife Sarah, and was the father of Jacob and Esau.

In a fuller description, when angels came to Abraham to tell him of the future punishment to be imposed on Sodom and Gomorrah, his wife, Sarah, " laughed, and We gave her good tidings of Isaac, and after Isaac of ( a grandson ) Jacob " ( XI: 71-74 ); and it is further explained that this event will take place despite Abraham and Sarah's old age.

* 1861 – American Civil War: at the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25 mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.

The scriptural basis for this new positive attitude towards Jews among Evangelicals is Genesis 12: 3, in which God promises that He will bless those who bless Abraham and his descendants, and curse those who curse them ( see also " Abrahamic Covenant ").

I shall endeavour to persuade you, that He who is said to have appeared to Abraham, and to Jacob, and to Moses, and who is called God, is distinct from Him who made all things, I mean numerically, not in will.

And He is called Angel and Apostle ; for He declares whatever we ought to know, and is sent forth to declare whatever is revealed ; as our Lord Himself says, “ He that heareth Me, heareth Him that sent Me .” From the writings of Moses also this will be manifest ; for thus it is written in them, “ And the Angel of God spoke to Moses, in a flame of fire out of the bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of thy fathers ; go down into Egypt, and bring forth My people .” And if you wish to learn what follows, you can do so from the same writings ; for it is impossible to relate the whole here.

But so much is written for the sake of proving that Jesus the Christ is the Son of God and His Apostle, being of old the Word, and appearing sometimes in the form of fire, and sometimes in the likeness of angels ; but now, by the will of God, having become man for the human race, He endured all the sufferings which the devils instigated the Jews to inflict upon Him ; who, though they have it expressly affirmed in the writings of Moses, “ And the angel of God spake to Moses in a flame of fire in a bush, and said, I am that I am, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ,” yet maintain that He who said this was the Father and Creator of the universe.

Giannotto, knowing of the debauched and decadent ways of the Roman clergy, fears the Abraham will never want to convert after witnessing the corruption of the Church.

Thus, according to Orthodox theology, Jesus ' salvific work on the Cross has been accomplished, and the righteous departed in the Bosom of Abraham have been released from their bondage ; however, the Good News of the Resurrection has not yet been proclaimed to the living on earth ( this will occur during the Paschal Vigil ).

) Abarbanel relates the cups to the four historical redemptions of the Jewish people: the choosing of Abraham, the Exodus from Egypt, the survival of the Jewish people throughout the exile, and the fourth which will happen at the end of days.

The new museum will incorporate the facade of the old South Park Presbyterian Church, where Abraham Lincoln once spoke.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

While he reasoned that " the seed of Abraham " was hardly predominant in a second generation after conversion to Christianity, he still warned of the " thousands which by the Russian tyranny will now come upon us even more abounding from Poland ", " the impure flood from the East ".

The first mention in relation to the Israelites comes in, when God promises Abraham that his descendants will form a (" great nation ").

Abraham had been assured by God that “ Your seed will be called through Isaac ” ( Gen. 21: 12 ), i. e., Isaac ( and not Ishmael ) would father a great nation — the Jewish people.

For example, the patriarch Abram and his wife Sarai are renamed " Abraham " and " Sarah " when they are told they will be the father and mother of many nations ( Genesis 17: 4, 17: 15 ).

Isaac's responsa evidence a profound knowledge of the philosophical writings of his time ; in one of Responsa No. 118 he explains the difference between the opinion of Gersonides and that of Abraham ben David of Posquières on free will, and gives his own views on the subject.

Abraham says that the wicked will " putrefy in the belly of the crafty worm Azazel, and be burned by the fire of Azazel's tongue " ( Abr.