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'Baʿal of the Covenant') and El Berith (Hebrew: אל ברית, lit. 'God of the Covenant') are titles of a god or gods worshiped in Shechem , in ancient Canaan , according to the Bible . The term for "covenant" (Hebrew: ברית , romanized: bərīt ) appears also in Ugaritic texts (second millennium BCE) as brt ( 𐎁𐎗𐎚 ), in connection ...
Elohim tzivita li-yedidcha bechiracha (Hebrew: אלהים צוית לידידך בחירך, literally "God, You Commanded Your Beloved Chosen One") is a piyyut recited during Birkat Hamazon for the meal of a berit milah ceremony. The piyyut is composed by Rabbi Ephraim of Bonn.
A sandek or sandak (Hebrew: סנדק "companion of child") is a person honored at a Jewish brit milah (circumcision) ceremony, traditionally either by holding the baby boy on the knees or thighs while the mohel performs the brit milah, or by handing the baby to the mohel.
The Berit Menuḥa focuses on a complex system describing the various hypostases of the divine world and God, and associating them with the niqqudot or vowel markings of the Hebrew script. Especially central is the role of the divine, angelic, and magical names associated with the various sefirot or divine emanations described. They are often ...
The Hebrew Bible makes reference to a number of covenants (Hebrew: בְּרִיתוֹת) with God ().These include the Noahic Covenant set out in Genesis 9, which is decreed between God and all living creatures, as well as a number of more specific covenants with Abraham, the whole Israelite people, the Israelite priesthood, and the Davidic lineage of kings.
The Hebrew term kareth ("cutting off" Hebrew: כָּרֵת, ), or extirpation, is a form of punishment for sin, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and later Jewish writings. The typical Biblical phrase used is "that soul shall be cut off from its people" or a slight variation of this. [1]
The brit milah (Hebrew: בְּרִית מִילָה , Modern Israeli: [bʁit miˈla], Ashkenazi: [bʁis ˈmilə]; "covenant of circumcision") or bris (Yiddish: ברית , Yiddish:) is the ceremony of circumcision in Judaism and Samaritanism, during which the foreskin is surgically removed. [1]
The name Betar בית"ר refers both to Betar (fortress), the last Jewish fort to fall in the Bar Kokhba revolt and to the altered abbreviation of the Hebrew name of the organisation, "Berit Trumpeldor" or "Brit Yosef Trumpeldor" ( ברית יוסף תרומפלדור, Joseph Trumpeldor Alliance), named after Joseph Trumpeldor.