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Shehecheyanu. The Shehecheyanu berakhah (blessing) ( Hebrew: ברכת שהחיינו, "Who has given us life") is a common Jewish prayer to celebrate special occasions. It expresses gratitude to God for new and unusual experiences or possessions. [ 1] The blessing was recorded in the Talmud [ 2] over 1500 years ago.
Shiviti with Hebrew text in the form of a menorah. A shiviti or shivisi (Hebrew: שויתי) is a meditative representation of a verse from Psalms. It is crowned at the top by the sacred name of God, followed by the rest of the passage set in the shape of the Temple lampstand. It is used in Kabbalah for contemplation of the Tetragrammaton.
Altaschith ( Hebrew: אל תשחית; Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈ (ʔ)al taʃˈχit]) is a Hebrew phrase sometimes translated "do not destroy". It was used in the titles of Psalms 57, 58, 59, and 75. Scholars have not reached agreement about its meaning, but it may have been a reference to an ancient song whose tune was to be used in singing the ...
Primary. A fragment of Sūrat an-Nisā' – a chapter of Islam's sacred text entitled 'Women' – featuring the Persian, Arabic, and Kufic scripts. Islam views men and women as equal before God, and the Quran underlines that man and woman were "created of a single soul" (4:1, [ 15] 39:6 [ 16] and elsewhere).
The Hebrew word aliyah means "ascent" or "going up". Jewish tradition views traveling to the Land of Israel as an ascent, both geographically and metaphysically. In one opinion, the geographical sense preceded the metaphorical one, as most Jews going on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, which is situated at approximately 750 meters (2,500 feet) above ...
The Torah has the first reference to kefitzat haderech during the story of Eliezer, Abraham 's manservant; he travels to find a wife for Isaac from among Abraham's family, where he eventually finds and leaves with Rebecca (Genesis, 24:42). When Eliezer speaks to Bethuel and Lavan, the father and brother of Rivkah, he states: "I came today to ...
Almah ( עַלְמָה ‘almā, plural: עֲלָמוֹת ‘ălāmōṯ ), from a root implying the vigour of puberty, is a Hebrew word meaning a young woman ripe for marriage. [ 1] Despite its importance to the account of the virgin birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, Marvin Alan Sweeney states that scholars agree that it refers ...
From the expression "closed captions", the word "caption" has in recent years come to mean a subtitle intended for the deaf or hard-of-hearing, be it "open" or "closed". In British English, "subtitles" usually refers to subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing (SDH); however, the term "SDH" is sometimes used when there is a need to make a ...