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Amichai Chikli (Hebrew: עמיחי שיקלי; born 12 September 1981) [1] is an Israeli politician currently serving as the Minister of Diaspora Affairs. He served in the 24th Knesset as part of the Yamina party slate, and in the 25th Knesset as part of Likud .
Bellarmine, one of the first Christians to write a Hebrew grammar, composed a valuable commentary on the Psalms, giving an exposition of the Hebrew, Septuagint, and Vulgate texts. It was published as part of Cornelius a Lapide's commentary on the whole Bible. Cornelius a Lapide, S. J. (born 1566), was a native of the Low Countries, and was well ...
Rav (or Rab, Modern Hebrew: רב ) is the Hebrew generic term for a person who teaches Torah or is a Jewish spiritual guide or a rabbi. For example, Pirkei Avot (in the Talmud) states (1:6) that: (..) Joshua ben Perachiah says, "Set up a teacher [RaB] for yourself. And get yourself a friend [HaBeR]. And give everybody the benefit of the ...
Reb (Yiddish: רב, / ˈ r ɛ b /) is a Yiddish or Hebrew honorific traditionally used for Orthodox Jewish men. It is not a rabbinic title. [1] In writing it is abbreviated as ר׳. On a gravestone, ב'ר is an abbreviation for ben/bat reb meaning "son/daughter of the wort
Kimhi saw himself primarily as a compiler and summarizer. As a noted Hebrew grammarian, his book Mikhlol (מכלול ) and his dictionary of the Hebrew language called Sefer HaShorashim (ספר השורשים , "Book of Roots") draws heavily on the earlier works of Judah ben David Hayyuj and Jonah ibn Janah, as well as from the work of his father.
He studied at the College for Hebrew Teachers (now the David Yellin College of Education) [2] in Jerusalem and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [3] He worked as a teacher in Jerusalem until 1967. In 1946–58, Even-Shoshan compiled HaMilon HeHadash ( The New Dictionary of the Hebrew Language), which since 2003 has become known as the Even ...
Sifre 39 likewise follows Rabbi Ishmael's view, according to Hullin 49a. These and other less cogent reasons seem to indicate that the Sifre to Numbers originated in Rabbi Ishmael's school, although this does not exclude the assumption that the editor in addition borrowed much from Shimon bar Yochai's midrash [16] and other less-known midrashim.
There were, therefore, various erroneous opinions regarding this lost work. Zunz [10] considered it as a kabbalistic work ascribed to R. Shimon ben Yochai. M. H. Landauer [11] identified it with the Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael, while J. Perles [12] held that the medieval authors applied the name "Mekhilta de-Rabbi Shimon" merely to his maxims which were included in the Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yishmael ...