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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.
Hod is associated with the god-name of Elohim Tzabaoth. The archangel of this sphere is Michael, and the Bene Elohim is the Angelic order. [3] The opposing demonic force of the qlippoth is Samael. [4] Hod is said to be the sphere in which the magician mostly works. An example is given by occultist and author Dion Fortune in The Mystical Qabalah:
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 .
It is mandatory for a Scientologist to be a member of the IAS in order to take services at a Church of Scientology, and all newcomers are given a free six month membership to start. [ 2 ] : 350 As of 2024, annual memberships were $250 and lifetime membership were $5,000 for USA Scientologists.
Bene Israel tradition places Rahabi's arrival at either 1000 or 1400, although some historians have dated his arrival to the 18th century. They suggest that the "David Rahabi" of Bene Israel folklore was a man named David Ezekiel Rahabi, who lived from 1694 to 1772, and resided in Cochin, then the center of the wealthy Malabar Jewish community.
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 ...
Congregation Baith Israel Anshei Emes [6] (Hebrew: בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל אַנְשֵׁי אֱמֶת, lit. 'House of Israel – People of Truth'), more commonly known as the Kane Street Synagogue, is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue at 236 Kane Street in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, New York, United States.
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.