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Sons of God (Biblical Hebrew: בְנֵי־הָאֱלֹהִים, romanized: Bənē hāʾĔlōhīm, [1] literally: "the sons of Elohim" [2]) is a phrase used in the Tanakh or Old Testament and in Christian Apocrypha. The phrase is also used in Kabbalah where bene elohim are part of different Jewish angelic hierarchies.
Until 1795, all documented congregations in the United States followed the Sephardic minhag.However, many included Ashkenazi members as well.. There are a few references to an Ashkenazi Beth Elohim in Charleston prior to 1791, although this may have been a subgroup within the Sephardic Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim rather than a fully independent congregation [3]
At the time, membership was approximately 420 families. As of June 2009, that had grown to 660, [2] by July 2015, it had reached 750, and in 2023 its members included over 850 families. [citation needed] As of November 2023, B'nai Torah's clergy team included Rabbi Heller, Rabbi Hillel Konigsberg, and Rabbi Elizabeth Breit.
The Hebrew term benei elohim ("sons of God" or "sons of the gods") in Genesis 6:2 [71] compares to the use of "sons of gods" (Ugaritic: b'n il) sons of El in Ugaritic mythology. [72] Karel van der Toorn states that gods can be referred to collectively as bene elim , bene elyon , or bene elohim .
Bene Israel teachers in Bombay, 1856. The Bene Israel community believes that their ancestors fled Judea during the persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes and are descended from fourteen Jews, seven men and seven women, who came to India as the only survivors of a shipwreck [7] [21] near the village of Navagaon on the coast about 20 miles (32 km) south of Mumbai. [22]
B'nai Jeshurun took a leading role in founding the Board of Directors of American Israelites in 1859. By 1874, there were divisions within the congregation over remaining strictly Orthodox or adopting ideas from the Reform movement, [29] and by 1875, it was in litigation, [2] with the Reform movement ultimately winning in court.
The Watchers do not propose a community life, but a communion of prayer. The Watchers' Rule commits them to live "three moments for the essential". These are times set aside each day for prayer, in communion with other Watchers. No particular office or liturgy is imposed. Each Watcher is free to use the manuals, publications or daily reading ...
The word is identical to elohim meaning gods and is cognate to the 'lhm found in Ugaritic, where it is used for the pantheon of Canaanite gods, the children of El and conventionally vocalized as "Elohim" although the original Ugaritic vowels are unknown. When the Hebrew Bible uses elohim not in reference to God, it is plural (for example ...