Search results for "Jewish services" - New World Encyclopedia
From New World Encyclopedia
- Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. While far from ... According to Jewish thought, God established a covenant with the Jewish ...32 KB (4,795 words) - 08:46, 12 May 2024
- or the circumstances of their composition. Jewish and Christian tradition maintains ... In Jewish usage, the Psalter is divided, after the analogy of the ...21 KB (3,276 words) - 00:29, 19 November 2023
- Christianity inherited the Jewish tradition of Sabbath, but gradually ... Jewish tradition holds that the Sabbath was instituted by God to commemorate ...24 KB (3,695 words) - 18:30, 22 December 2022
- help the process of increased Jewish settlement in Palestine. ... Weizman was a leading member of the Jewish delegation, arguing in favor ...11 KB (1,749 words) - 21:19, 9 February 2024
- are Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities of the Rhineland— ... only three percent of the world's Jewish population, Ashkenazi Jews ...20 KB (2,890 words) - 04:05, 18 August 2023
- ) is a major Jewish festival, also known as Succoth, Sukkos, the Feast ... During Sukkot, observant Jewish families eat, sleep, and entertain ...19 KB (2,871 words) - 21:43, 26 February 2023
- recited every morning and evening during Jewish prayers. Its twice-daily ... three portions relate to central issues of Jewish belief. ...14 KB (2,261 words) - 13:27, 27 January 2023
- Europe. A devout Jew and defender of the Jewish position, he was a mediator ... missions that made him a major figure in Jewish history, rather than merely ...14 KB (2,182 words) - 16:59, 10 November 2022
- ==Part of the Jewish oral law== The Haggadah is part of Judaism's ... and the foundations were laid for public services which were soon to offer ...13 KB (1,890 words) - 17:38, 27 January 2024
- writer, allegorist, and a well-known Jewish-American author. He has received ... 26, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York to Russian Jewish immigrants, Max and Bertha ...11 KB (1,589 words) - 15:38, 29 September 2023
- of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh). According to Jewish tradition, the Torah was ... the entire spectrum of authoritative Jewish religious teachings throughout ...24 KB (3,856 words) - 04:01, 1 May 2023
- and Irene Cohen Luzzato who was of Jewish origin from Trieste. LaGuardia ... Congressional district was shifting from a Jewish and Italian-American population ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi in the Jewish tradition. The Levites served ... Temple and became a mainstay in the mature Jewish tradition. After the destruction ...21 KB (3,292 words) - 22:17, 25 October 2022
- Easter is also linked to the Jewish Passover, especially for its position ... The observance of any non-Jewish holiday by Christians is believed ...23 KB (3,508 words) - 17:05, 10 October 2020
- Said al-Fayyumi, was a prominent rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete ... "Sefer ha-Galui," stressed his Jewish lineage, claiming to belong ...22 KB (3,468 words) - 18:29, 22 December 2022
- the Orthodox liturgy and other Christian services including the Divine Office ... Temple and the subsequent diaspora of the Jewish people, a consensus developed ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- starting at sunset, a practice inherited from Jewish tradition ... is traditionally lit in many church services. In candlelight services ...27 KB (4,071 words) - 21:38, 10 December 2023
- מגילת איכה) is a book of the Jewish Tanakh and the Christian ... The text is traditionally read by Jewish people on Tisha B'Av ...22 KB (3,444 words) - 00:22, 19 November 2023
- meaning "piety") is a Haredi Jewish religious movement that originated ... limited Talmudic studies. Many felt that Jewish life had turned anti-mystical ...28 KB (4,280 words) - 08:41, 20 January 2024
- and is used specifically to indicate non-Jewish peoples, as in Jesus's ... 9:2, and so on), namely the requirement of Jewish men to divorce their Gentile ...20 KB (3,103 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
