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  2. Chai (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    According to The Jewish Daily Forward, its use as an amulet originates in 18th century Eastern Europe. [1] Chai as a symbol goes back to medieval Spain.Letters as symbols in Jewish culture go back to the earliest Jewish roots, the Talmud states that the world was created from Hebrew letters which form verses of the Torah.

  3. Category:Jewish symbols - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Jewish symbols" ... Tree of life (Kabbalah) Y. Yesod; Yiddish symbols

  4. Jewellery of the Berber cultures - Wikipedia

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    Jewellery of a Berber woman in the Musée du quai Branly, Paris. Jewellery of the Berber cultures (Tamazight language: iqchochne imagine, ⵉⵇⵇⵛⵓⵛⵏ ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ) is a historical style of traditional jewellery that was worn by women mainly in rural areas of the Maghreb region in North Africa and inhabited by Indigenous Berber people (in the Berber language Tamazight ...

  5. Ancient Jewish art - Wikipedia

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    The Jews began to use specific symbols in their art as a means of expressing and affirming their Jewish identity. These symbols included the menorah, the showbread table, the ark, ritual objects, and the conch. Originally part of the Temple rites, these symbols held significant meaning and became a prominent feature in Jewish art of the period.

  6. Jewish heraldry - Wikipedia

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    Such as the Benveniste family who, when emigrating to the Amsterdam adopted a new arms which included the Star of David, a lion cub of Judah a castle and 10 moons (the Kabbalist symbols of the 10 Sefirot). This was a common trend of the Dutch Jewish community who adopted arms which were not overtly Jewish, yet had several deeply rooted Jewish ...

  7. Star of David - Wikipedia

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    The Jewish Encyclopedia cites a 12th-century Karaite document as the earliest Jewish literary source to mention a symbol called "Magen Dawid" (without specifying its shape). [ 69 ] The name 'Shield of David' was used by at least the 11th century as a title of the God of Israel , independent of the use of the symbol.

  8. Jewish paper cutting - Wikipedia

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    The origin of Jewish paper cutting is unclear. Ashkenazi Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries practiced this type of art. However, Jewish paper cuts can be traced to Jewish communities in Syria, Iraq, and North Africa, and the similarity in the cutting techniques (using a knife) between East European Jews and Chinese paper cutters, may indicate that the origin goes back even further.

  9. Temple menorah - Wikipedia

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    A nine-branched menorah is also a symbol closely associated with the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. According to the Talmud, after the Seleucid desecration of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, there was only enough sealed (and therefore not desecrated) consecrated olive oil left to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day. Miraculously, the ...

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