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A baal shem tov is a "Master of the Good Name," that is, one able to work miracles using the secret name of God. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Other sources explain his sobriquet as arising from a reputation of being a saintly, or superior, miracle-worker , hence he was given the nickname Baal Shem Tov, that is, the "good Baal Shem ".
In 1 Samuel 15:3, Israelite king Saul is told by God via the prophet Samuel: “Now go, attack Amalek, and proscribe [kill and dedicate to YHWH] all that belongs to him. Spare no one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels and asses!” [ 7 ] Saul's failure to be sufficiently harsh with Amalek is portrayed ...
The murders of Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran occurred on 8 May 2001, when two Jewish teenagers, Yaakov "Koby" Mandell and Yosef Ishran, were killed on the outskirts of the Israeli settlement of Tekoa in the Judea and Samaria, where they lived with their families.
Ruderman was one of the last surviving roshei yeshiva who came to America from Lithuania early in the 20th century. His son-in-law, Rabbi Weinberg, who married his only child, Chana, [1] succeeded him as rosh yeshiva of Ner Yisroel [13] until Rabbi Weinberg's death in 1999. [9] Weinberg's wife, Chana, died on January 23, 2012. [7] [9]
Baruch Kopel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך קאפל גולדשטיין; born Benjamin Carl Goldstein; [2] December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an American-Israeli mass murderer, religious extremist, and physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an incident of Jewish terrorism.
In the ensuing encounter, the soldier pointed his rifle at Ben Avraham and threatened to kill him if he reached for his bag; Ben Avraham complied but was nevertheless shot dead. [ 2 ] The IDF opened an investigation into what it termed a "grave" incident; the soldier, a reservist , was released a week later by an Israeli court. [ 3 ]
Eliane Raheb’s documentaries stress that stories are never black and white, and what people say may be an unconscious reflection of what they want their interlocutor to believe rather than what ...
The 1973 Israeli raid in Lebanon (also known as Operation Spring of Youth in Hebrew or the Verdun massacre in Arabic) [3] took place on the night of April 9 and early morning of April 10, 1973, when Israeli army special forces units attacked several Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) targets in Beirut and Sidon, Lebanon. [4]