Search results for "Shem" - New World Encyclopedia
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- powerful miracle-working rabbi known as a baʿal shem (master of the name) could expel even the most evil dybbuk through a rite of exorcism. However, ...12 KB (1,997 words) - 17:25, 12 February 2024
- memorial and a name" translates as "yad va-shem." Located in Jerusalem, the complex consists of a number of memorials: Hall of ...14 KB (2,168 words) - 09:59, 22 May 2023
- Eliezer (1698–1760), also known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, Hasidism emerged when European Jews had grown disillusioned as a result of the failed messianism ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 00:12, 4 December 2023
- descendants, 30 for Ham's and 27 for Shem's, these figures became ... et Hungarorum (c. 1284; mentions 22 for Shem, 31 for Ham and 17 for Japheth ...34 KB (5,579 words) - 04:46, 1 May 2023
- opines that the answer was delivered through Shem, the son of Noah, into whose scholarly house Rebekah had come to inquire (Gen. R. 63: 6-8). Another ...13 KB (2,094 words) - 01:43, 8 December 2022
- *Sefer ha-Shem (ed. Lippmann, 1834) *Yesod Mispar, a small monograph on numerals (ed. Pinsker, 1863) *Iggeret Shabbat, a responsum on the Sabbath ...14 KB (2,169 words) - 06:29, 14 June 2023
- The hasidic teacher known as the Baal Shem Tov used the term "Amalekite" to represent the rejection of God, or atheism. The term has ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 02:37, 24 July 2023
- Charcoal is the blackish material consisting mainly of carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from plant matter (such ...15 KB (2,216 words) - 01:45, 4 December 2023
- was the granddaughter of Noah through his son Shem (Gen. Rabbah 30:11), Noah having lived until well into the time of Abraham. In the house of Judah ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 03:57, 27 February 2023
- They then asked him to bring back to life Shem; son of Prophet Noah. Shem ... God to bring him back to life and behold, Shem; son of Prophet Noah came ...59 KB (9,594 words) - 02:51, 1 August 2022
- as domains of the sons of Noah—Sem (Shem), Iafeth (Japheth), and Cham ([[Ham, son of Noah|Ham]])]] [[Image:T-O Mappa mundi.jpg|thumb|200px|Mappa ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 19:07, 19 May 2020
- Asia is peopled by descendants of Sem or Shem, Africa by descendants of Ham, and Europe by descendants of Japheth, the three sons of Noah. ...18 KB (2,717 words) - 06:05, 8 March 2024
- of a "declaration of intent"): L'Shem Mitzvat Tzitzit ("for the sake of the commandment of tzitzit"). Some rabbis are of ...20 KB (3,211 words) - 00:42, 3 May 2023
- Rabbi Chaim Joseph David Azulai wrote in his Shem HaGedolim: "Apparently, Rashi wrote his commentary by using a secret [technique to gain Godly ...21 KB (3,376 words) - 17:23, 16 April 2023
- was founded by Abraham's forefathers Shem and Eber. Genesis reports that the city was ruled by Melchizedek, regarded in Jewish tradition ...43 KB (6,551 words) - 12:27, 7 May 2024
- [[Image:Middle East Shem-Ham.jpg|thumb|The Middle East through the eyes of the ancient Israelites, reconstructed according to the documentary ...22 KB (3,511 words) - 15:45, 7 December 2022
- in Spain in the fifteenth century that Joseph ibn Shem-Tov drew from it arguments in his attacks against Maimonides. Ibid. Even representatives ...26 KB (4,149 words) - 06:08, 13 June 2023
- in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, a work by Shem-Ṭob Palquera, which bore a resemblance to parts of Fons Vitae, a Latin text by the philosopher ...24 KB (3,826 words) - 01:00, 4 February 2023
- ark and saving his family from The Flood. His sons Shem and Ham then had to restore the positions of Cain and Abel. Unfortunately, Ham failed to inherit ...29 KB (4,573 words) - 20:52, 9 February 2024
- with three bulls white, red and black which are Shem, Japheth, and Ham (90:9). It also covers the death of Noah described as the white bull and the ...29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
