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Print. The Sefer Hasidim or Sefer Chassidim (Hebrew: ספר חסידים, Book of the Pious) is a text attributed to Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg (died 1217), [1] a foundation work of the teachings of the Chassidei Ashkenaz ("Pious Ones of Germany"). It offers an account of the day-to-day religious life of Jews in medieval Germany, and their ...
Ailurophobia. Specialty. Psychology. Ailurophobia (/ aɪˌlʊərəˈfoʊbiə /) [1] is the persistent and excessive fear of cats. [2] Like other specific phobias, the exact cause of ailurophobia is unknown, and potential treatment generally involves therapy. [3][4] The name comes from the Greek words αἴλουρος (ailouros), 'cat', and ...
e. Sifrei Kodesh (Hebrew: ספרי קודש, lit. 'Holy books'), commonly referred to as sefarim (Hebrew: ספרים, lit. 'books'), or in its singular form, sefer, are books of Jewish religious literature and are viewed by religious Jews as sacred. These are generally works of Torah literature, i.e. Tanakh and all works that expound on it ...
Sefaria is an online open source, [1] free content, digital library of Jewish texts. It was founded in 2011 by former Google project manager Brett Lockspeiser and journalist-author Joshua Foer. [2][3][4] Promoted as a "living library of Jewish texts", Sefaria relies partially upon volunteers to add texts and translations. [5][6] The site ...
Lashon hara (or loshon horo, or loshon hora) (Hebrew: לשון הרע; "evil tongue") is the halakhic term for speech about a person or persons that is negative or harmful to them, even though it is true. [ 4 ] It is speech that damages the person (s) that are talked about either emotionally or financially, or lowers them in the estimation ...
v. t. e. The Baraita on the Thirty-two Rules or Baraita of R. Eliezer ben Jose ha-Gelili is a baraita giving 32 hermeneutic rules, or middot, for interpreting the Bible. As of when the Jewish Encyclopedia was published in 1901–1906, it was thought to no longer exist except in references by later authorities. However, it was discovered in 1933 ...
The Ben-Yehuda Dictionary is a historical Hebrew dictionary. The first volume was published in 1908 [1] by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, while the last was published long after his death, in 1958 by his wife and his son. [2] An important feature of the dictionary was its inclusion of various new words invented by Ben-Yehuda to describe modern objects ...
The Tanakh consists of twenty-four books, counting as one book each 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles, and Ezra–Nehemiah. The Twelve Minor Prophets (תרי עשר) are also counted as a single book. In Hebrew, the books are often referred to by their prominent first words.