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The priestly divisions or sacerdotal courses (Hebrew: מִשְׁמָר mishmar) are the groups into which kohanim "priests" were divided for service in the Temple in Jerusalem in ancient Judea. The 24 priestly divisions are first listed in 1 Chronicles 24 .
1 Hebrew Bible. 2 New Testament. 3 After the destruction of the Temple. 4 References. Toggle the table of contents. Temple tax. 5 languages. ... [3] New Testament
By Talmudic times, the Babylonian system of dividing up the day (from sunset to sunrise, and sunrise to sunset), into hours (Hebrew: שעה, sha'ah), parts (Hebrew: חלק, heleq, plural halaqim), and moments (Hebrew: רגע, rega, plural rega'im), had been adopted; the relationship of these units was:
The term is used 29 times in the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh. An unrelated homonym , the noun herem meaning "fisherman's net" (also חֵרֶם), is used a further 9 times. [ 4 ] The adjective herem and the associate verb haram ("devote") come from the Semitic root Ḥ-R-M , with cognates in the Syriac and Arabic languages .
Shtreimel on a mannequin. A shtreimel (Yiddish: שטרײַמל shtrayml, plural: שטרײַמלעך shtraymlekh or שטרײַמלען shtraymlen) is a fur hat worn by some Ashkenazi Jewish men, mainly members of Hasidic Judaism, on Shabbat and Jewish holidays and other festive occasions. [1]
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Arba'ah Turim (Hebrew: אַרְבָּעָה טוּרִים), often called simply the Tur, is an important Halakhic code composed by Yaakov ben Asher (Cologne, 1270 – Toledo, Spain c. 1340, also referred to as Ba'al Ha-Turim).
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