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The translation of the Hebrew word for abomination is actually the translation of three different levels or kinds of abominations in terms of severity: toebah, sheḳeẓ, and piggul. [1] While abomination refers mostly to violations of the Mosaic law , specifically violations of the mitzvot on the worship of God in Judaism , it also includes ...
The Two Priests Are Destroyed (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot). Shemini, Sh'mini, or Shmini (שְּׁמִינִי —Hebrew for "eighth", the third word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 26th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Leviticus.
New Hebrew-German Dictionary: with grammatical notes and list of abbreviations, compiled by Wiesen, Moses A., published by Rubin Mass, Jerusalem, in 1936 [12] The modern Greek-Hebrew, Hebrew-Greek dictionary, compiled by Despina Liozidou Shermister, first published in 2018; The Oxford English Hebrew dictionary, published in 1998 by the Oxford ...
In fact, a work written in Hebrew may have Aramaic acronyms interspersed throughout (ex. Tanya), much as an Aramaic work may borrow from Hebrew (ex. Talmud, Midrash, Zohar). Although much less common than Aramaic abbreviations, some Hebrew material contains Yiddish abbreviations too (for example, Chassidic responsa, commentaries, and other ...
In the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Ezekiel classifies the charging of interest among the worst sins, denouncing it as an abomination and metaphorically portraying usurers as people who have shed the borrower's blood. (See Ezekiel 18:13 [1] and 18:17. [2]) The Talmud dwells on Ezekiel's condemnation of charging interest. [3] [4]
Repentance (/tʃuvɑː/; Hebrew: תשובה, romanized: tǝšūvā "return") is one element of atoning for sin in Judaism.Judaism recognizes that everybody sins on occasion, but that people can stop or minimize those occasions in the future by repenting for past transgressions.
In summarizing the Talmudic statements concerning heretics in Sanhedrin 90-103, Maimonides says: [13]. The following have no share in the world to come, but are cut off, and perish, and receive their punishment for all time for their great sin: the minim, the apikoresim, they that deny the belief in the Torah, they that deny the belief in resurrection of the dead and in the coming of the ...
"You shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field." Kedoshim, K'doshim, or Qedoshim (קְדֹשִׁים —Hebrew for "holy ones," the 14th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 30th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Leviticus.