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Amalek (/ ˈ æ m ə l ɛ k /; [1] Biblical Hebrew: עֲמָלֵק , romanized: ʿĂmālēq) is described in the Hebrew Bible as the enemy nation of the Israelites. The name "Amalek" can refer to the descendants of Amalek, the grandson of Esau, or anyone who lived in their territories in Canaan, [2] [3] [4] or North African descendants of ...
Moses ben Maimon [a] (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (/ m aɪ ˈ m ɒ n ɪ d iː z / my-MON-ih-deez) [b] and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam (Hebrew: רמב״ם), [c] was a Sephardic rabbi and philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
t. e. Aggadah ( Hebrew: אַגָּדָה ʾAggāḏā or הַגָּדָה Haggāḏā; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַגָּדְתָא ʾAggāḏəṯāʾ; "tales, fairytale, lore") is the non-legalistic exegesis which appears in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly the Talmud and Midrash. In general, Aggadah is a ...
38767535. The Old New Land ( German: Altneuland; Hebrew: תֵּל־אָבִיב Tel Aviv, " Tel of spring"; Yiddish: אַלטנײַלאַנד) is a utopian novel published in German by Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, in 1902. It was published six years after Herzl's political pamphlet, Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State) and ...
Bava Metzia ( Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: בָּבָא מְצִיעָא, "The Middle Gate") is the second of the first three Talmudic tractates in the order of Nezikin ("Damages"), the other two being Bava Kamma and Bava Batra. Originally all three formed a single tractate called Nezikin (torts or injuries), each Bava being a Part or subdivision.
In Greek the word βωμός (bômós) can mean an altar of any religion or, in a broader sense, the area surrounding it; that is to say, the entire sanctuary. [36] In an Eastern Orthodox or a Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic church this sanctuary includes both the area behind the iconostasis , and the soleas (the elevated projection in front of ...
Va'eira, Va'era, or Vaera ( וָאֵרָא — Hebrew for "and I appeared," the first word that God speaks in the parashah, in Exodus 6:3) is the fourteenth weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 6:2–9:35. The parashah ...
אגרת הקדש, אגה״ק ( Igeret HaKodesh) - 1) ( Chasidism) Holy Letter; a volume of the Tanya. 2) A treatise by the Ramban on marriage. אגרת התשובה, אגה״ת ( Igeret HaT'shuvah) - ( Chasidism) lit. Letter of Teshuvah; a volume of the Tanya. אגרות קודש, אג״ק ( Igrot Kodesh) - Holy Letters.