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  2. Names of God in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    The general halachic opinion is that this only applies to the sacred Hebrew names of God, not to other euphemistic references; there is a dispute as to whether the word "God" in English or other languages may be erased or whether Jewish law and/or Jewish custom forbids doing so, directly or as a precautionary "fence" about the law. [96]

  3. Tohu wa-bohu - Wikipedia

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    Tohuw is frequently used in the Book of Isaiah in the sense of "vanity", but bohuw occurs nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible (outside of Genesis 1:2, the passage in Isaiah 34:11 mentioned above, [5] and in Jeremiah 4:23, which is a reference to Genesis 1:2), its use alongside tohu being mere paronomasia, and is given the equivalent translation of ...

  4. Religious views on truth - Wikipedia

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    In Orthodox Judaism, truth is the revealed word of God, as found in the Hebrew Bible, and to a lesser extent, in the words of the sages of the Talmud. For Hasidic Jews truth is also found in the pronouncements of their rebbe, or spiritual leader, who is believed to possess divine inspiration. [15]

  5. Aletheia - Wikipedia

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    A painting that reveals (aletheia) a whole world.Heidegger mentions this particular work of Van Gogh's (Pair of Shoes, 1895) in The Origin of the Work of Art.In the early to mid 20th-century, Martin Heidegger brought renewed attention to the concept of aletheia, by relating it to the notion of disclosure, or the way in which things appear as entities in the world.

  6. Belial - Wikipedia

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    The word occurs twenty-seven times in the Masoretic Text, in verses such as the Book of Proverbs (Proverbs 6:12), where the King James Version (KJV) translates the Hebrew phrase adam beli-yaal as "a naughty person". [7] In the Hebrew text, the phrase is either "sons of Belial" or simply "sons of worthlessness".

  7. I Am that I Am - Wikipedia

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    According to the Hebrew Bible, in the encounter of the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), Moses asks what he is to say to the Israelites when they ask what gods have sent him to them, and YHWH replies, "I am who I am", adding, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you. ' " [4] Despite this exchange, the Israelites are never written to have asked Moses for the name of God. [13]

  8. Emet Veyatziv - Wikipedia

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    The word emet (truth) is appended onto the Shema, and veyatziv appears as the first word. In the Western Ashkenazic rite, when a Zulat is recited, a shorter form of this prayer is recited instead of the regular form. Al Harishonim is the second paragraph. It focuses on the truth of redemption.

  9. Asha - Wikipedia

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    Asha (/ ˈ ʌ ʃ ə /) or arta (/ ˈ ɑːr t ə /; Avestan: 𐬀𐬴𐬀 Aṣ̌a / Arta) is a Zoroastrian concept with a complex and highly nuanced range of meaning. It is commonly summarized in accord with its contextual implications of 'truth' and 'right' (or 'righteousness'), 'order' and 'right working'.