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Chaim Leib Halevi Shmuelevitz, (Hebrew: חיים לייב שמואלביץ;1902–1979) [1] — also spelled Shmulevitz — was a member of the faculty of the Mirrer Yeshiva for more than 40 years, [2] in Poland, Shanghai and Jerusalem, serving as Rosh yeshiva during its sojourn in Shanghai from 1941 to 1947, and again in the Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1979.
Conversion to Judaism (Hebrew: גִּיּוּר, romanized: giyur or Hebrew: גֵּרוּת, romanized: gerut) is the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion and become members of the Jewish ethnoreligious community. It thus resembles both conversion to other religions and naturalization.
The Seder HaDorot or "Book of Generations" (completed 1725, published 1769) by Lithuanian Rabbi Jehiel Heilprin (1660–1746) is a Hebrew-language chronological work that serves as a depot of multiple Hebrew language chronological books and manuscripts. The work presents all given dates in the Hebrew calendar format. [1]
More conjecturally, it has also been suggested that suph may be related to the Hebrew suphah ("storm") or soph ("end"), referring to the events of the Reed/Red Sea escape itself: The crossing of the sea signaled the end of the sojourn in Egypt and it certainly was the end of the Egyptian army that pursued the fleeing Hebrews (Ex 14:23-29; 15:4-5).
In 1891 Meyer Dovid Hersch traveled to South Africa, where he worked as a correspondent for the Hebrew press in Eastern Europe. During their father's four-year sojourn in South Africa Liebmann and his brothers were in the care of a teacher in the town. [4] Liebmann's father returned to Šiauliai in 1895, and remarried the same year.
Seven instances include the Hebrew definite article ha-('the') or have a prepositional form indicating the presence of the definite article. [10] All of these texts condemn Israelites who engage in practices associated with Moloch, and most associate Moloch with the use of children as offerings.
Title page of Wessely's Divrei Shalom ve-Emet (Berlin, 1782). Wessely was an advocate of the educational and social reforms outlined in Emperor Joseph II's Toleranzedict.He even risked his reputation for piety by publishing a manifesto in eight chapters, entitled Divrei Shalom ve-Emet ('Words of Peace and Truth'), in which he emphasized the necessity for secular instruction, as well as for ...
Primarily, copies of Visions of Amram are written in Aramaic, [1] unlike the majority of the Qumran texts which were scripted in Hebrew. This unique feature, along with its suspected dating to the second century BCE, leads most scholars to believe these documents were written prior to and apart from the Qumran sectarian documents. [3]