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Hedyot also characterizes an untrained as opposed to a skilled worker (Mo'ed Katan 10a). [1] In judicial practice, a hedyot is a layperson who serves as a judge, rather than an expert (mumkheh). For example, a single expert can remove the serious sanction of herem from a sinner, but such a removal would take three people of hedyot status. [2]
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Daas/Daat Elyon ("Higher Knowledge") and Daas/Daat Tachton ("Lower Knowledge") are two alternative levels of perception of reality in Hasidic thought. Their terms derive from the Kabbalistic sephirot : Keter (above conscious Will ) and Da'at (conscious Knowledge ), considered two levels of the same unifying principle; the first encompassing ...
The locations, lands, and nations mentioned in the Bible are not all listed here. Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.
A Dictionary of the Bible (1863), edited by William Smith, title page for the third volume. A Bible dictionary is a reference work containing encyclopedic entries related to the Bible, typically concerning people, places, customs, doctrine and Biblical criticism. Bible dictionaries can be scholarly or popular in tone.
The Hebrew Bible is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures and is the textual source for the Christian Old Testament.In addition to religious instruction, the collection chronicles a series of events that explain the origins and travels of the Hebrew peoples in the ancient Near East.
In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...
Chaim Dov Rabinowitz (Hebrew: חיים דב רבינוביץ January 24, 1911 – April 18, 2001) was a Haredi rabbi, educator, sofer and author. He is most well known for his monumental commentary on the Hebrew Bible (Da'ath Soferim) and a history of the Jewish people (The History of the Jewish People - From Nechemia to the Present).