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- Rakugo (落語 literally, "fallen words") is a form of Japanese ... to illustrate the spiritual principles of Buddhism such as the transiency ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- The question of being (Greek, τό ὄν, the present participle of ... Philosophers often suppose a certain sense of being as primary, and ...32 KB (4,866 words) - 10:28, 26 September 2023
- Substance, in philosophy, has to do with the question or problem of ... The origin of the term goes back to the ancient Greeks. The English ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 21:25, 26 February 2023
- and in the New York Central Railroad. Most of his fortune was gifted to the ... career as a stenographic clerk to Bernard Baruch of the War Industries Board ...9 KB (1,337 words) - 17:39, 31 October 2023
- ) is a hill in modern Israel near the Kibbutz of Megiddo, the site ... A rich archaeological site covering many levels of settlement, it ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 21:46, 28 October 2022
- ), the Jewish Festival of Rededication (also known as the Festival ... The holiday is a joyous one, celebrated with various traditions of ...28 KB (4,314 words) - 19:38, 29 January 2022
- reasoning cannot replace direct experience of God. He also mounted a strong ... Judah Ha-Levi is regarded as one of the greatest Hebrew poets. More ...27 KB (4,480 words) - 20:50, 4 October 2022
- Jewish works refer to him by the acronym of his title and name, RaMBaM ... Maimonides is typically regarded as the greatest of the medieval Jewish ...14 KB (2,001 words) - 05:30, 5 November 2022
- and a leading philosopher and psychologist of the French Enlightenment. He ... 30, 1715, at Grenoble, France to a family of lawyers. Like his elder brother ...14 KB (2,137 words) - 04:37, 22 March 2024
- Enlightenment philosopher whose advocacy of religious tolerance resounded ... the Jewish faith while advancing the cause of reason. Towards the end of ...14 KB (2,061 words) - 16:58, 10 November 2022
- Euclid (also referred to as Euclid of Alexandria) (Greek: ... Egypt, almost certainly during the reign of Ptolemy I (323 B.C.E.–283 ...21 KB (2,999 words) - 04:41, 22 March 2024
- The Masoretic Text (MT) is the Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible (Tanakh ... The MT was primarily copied, edited, and distributed by a group of ...26 KB (4,162 words) - 16:18, 7 November 2022
- Yerushalmi, was born August 1, 1932 (29th of Tamuz) – and assassinated ... views, exemplified in his promotion of a theocratic "Greater ...20 KB (3,012 words) - 04:16, 9 November 2022
- that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometrical structure ... Under the influence of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, Clifford ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- Rachael) was the younger and favorite wife of Jacob, sister of Leah and mother ... A native of Haran, and the younger daughter of Jacob's uncle ...14 KB (2,238 words) - 22:37, 7 December 2022
- In Judaism, the name of God represents the Jewish conception of the ... Kabbalistic tradition makes more direct use of the sacred names of God, using ...18 KB (2,791 words) - 01:12, 11 November 2022
- An archangel is a superior or higher-ranking angel found in a number ... According to Christian and Jewish traditions, the number of archangels ...17 KB (2,515 words) - 02:14, 9 January 2023
- The original context of the term scapegoat was a Jewish purification ... The modern (almost clichéd) use of the term to describe an individual ...26 KB (4,249 words) - 02:32, 21 April 2023
- The Brooklyn Bridge (originally the New York and Brooklyn Bridge) ... on May 24, 1883. On that first day, a total of 1,800 vehicles and 150,300 ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
- The Assumption of Moses describes two or more Jewish apocryphal works ... Also called the Testament of Moses, this work begins with a brief ...13 KB (2,063 words) - 05:06, 18 August 2023
