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The Dance of Flags [1] (Hebrew: ריקוד דגלים or ריקודגלים, romanized: Rikud Degalim), or March of Flags (מצעד הדגלים, Mitzad ha’Degalim), is an annual flag flying parade on Jerusalem Day to celebrate what some Israelis term the "reunification of Jerusalem", but more widely-recognised as the military occupation and annexation of East Jerusalem of the West Bank ...
The Tetragrammaton [note 1] is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה (transliterated as YHWH or YHVH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four letters, written and read from right to left (in Hebrew), are yodh , he , waw , and he . [ 1 ]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Jerusalem Day The Israeli Dance of Flags at Jaffa Road, 2007 Official name יום ירושלים (Yom Yerushaláyim) Observed by Israelis Type National Significance Marks the reunification of East Jerusalem with West Jerusalem under Israel ; the first time the whole city came under Jewish rule ...
Spelling the letters in יהוה (YHWH) by itself gives יוד הא ואו הא. Each letter in Hebrew is given a value, according to gematria, and the value of יוד הא ואו הא is also 45. [citation needed] The 72-fold name is derived from three verses in Exodus 14:19–21. Each of the verses contains 72 letters.
The flag consists of an orange field with the city's emblem (which was adopted in 1951) in the center. the emblem consists of a shield with a charged light blue field representing the sea and sky of Ashkelon. the 5 Stars represent the city's five neighborhoods, alongside a marble column with a title, and a gear, representing Ashkelon's ...
[1] [2] Some Bible versions, such as the Jerusalem Bible, employ the name Yahweh, a transliteration of the Hebrew tetragrammaton (YHWH), in the English text of the Old Testament, where traditional English versions have L ORD. [3] Most Sacred Name versions use the name Yahshua, a purported Semitic form of the name Jesus. [1]
Sidney Jellicoe wrote that "the evidence most recently to hand is tending to confirm the testimony of Origen and Jerome, and that Kahle is right in holding that LXX texts, written by Jews for Jews, retained the divine name in Hebrew Letters (paleo-Hebrew or Aramaic) or in the Greek-letters imitative form ΠΙΠΙ, and that its replacement by ...
The flag was officially chosen as the flag of the State of Israel on 28 October 1948, and was favoured over other flag proposals mainly due to its popularity among the Jewish population of Israel. The two blue stripes represent a tallit or prayer shawl, and both sides of the split Red Sea that the Hebrews walked through as written in the Book ...