Encyclopedia - Davidic Line: Encyclopedia - Davidic Line
Davidic line, (also Davidic Kingdom or Davidic dynasty), known in Hebrew as Malchut Beit David ("Monarchy [of the] House [of] David") ref...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Davidic Line: Encyclopedia Ii - Davidic Line - History
Upon being chosen and becoming king, the custom in the times of the Tanakh was to be anointed with olive oil by having it poured on the h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Messiah: Encyclopedia - Jewish Messiah
The Jewish Messiah, (משיח) or Mashiach, or Moshiach, has traditionally referred to a future Jewish king from the Davidic line who wil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Messiah: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Messiah - Views Of Maimonides
The predominant Jewish understanding of moshiach ("the messiah") is based on the writings of Maimonides, (the Rambam). His views on the m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Eschatology: Encyclopedia - Jewish Eschatology
Jewish eschatology is concerned with Mashiach (the Jewish Messiah) the continuation of the Davidic line, and Olam Haba (Hebrew for "the w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rashi: Encyclopedia - Rashi
Rashi רש"י, an acronym for Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac or Shlomo Yitzchaki, (February 22, 1040 – July 17, 1105) is one of Judaism's clas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David: Encyclopedia - David
David (דָּוִד "Beloved", Standard Hebrew Davíd, Tiberian Hebrew Dāwiḏ; Arabic داود Dāʾūd "Beloved"), as referred to as K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Israel Ben Eliezer: Encyclopedia - Israel Ben Eliezer
Rabbi Israel (Yisroel) ben Eliezer (רבי ישראל בן אליעזר, about 1698 Okopy Świętej Trójcy – May 22, 1760 Międzyborz)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tree Of Life: Encyclopedia - Tree Of Life
The Tree of Life, in the Book of Genesis, is a tree whose fruit gives everlasting life, i.e. immortality. After eating of the Tree of Kno...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Messiah: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Messiah - Judaism And Christianity
Christianity as we have come to know it emerged from Judaism in the first century of the Common Era. The first Christians were Jews, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Principles Of Faith: Encyclopedia - Jewish Principles Of Faith
There are a number of basic Jewish principles of faith that one is expected to uphold in order to be said to be in consonance with the Je...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Bereavement: Encyclopedia - Jewish Bereavement
Everything that Jews do regarding death is for one of two reasons: respect for the dead (kavod ha-met) or to console those left behind (n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Messiah: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Messiah - Present-day Positions
Jewish Messiah - Orthodox Judaism. Orthodox Judaism maintains that Jews are obligated to accept Maimonides's 13 Principles of Faith, in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exilarch: Encyclopedia Ii - Exilarch - Holders Of The Office
The following list of exilarchs is based on the evidence detailed in the following sections. Exilarchs listed in the Second Book of Kings...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Bereavement: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Bereavement - Days Of Memorial
Jewish bereavement - Yahrzeit. Yahrzeit or Yohr Tzeit, יארצייט, means "Time (of) Year" in Yiddish. The word is also used by non-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Judah Loew Ben Bezalel: Encyclopedia Ii - Judah Loew Ben Bezalel - Influence
Judah Loew ben Bezalel - Disciples. It is unknown how many Talmudic rabbinical scholars the Maharal taught in Moravia, but the main dis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David: Encyclopedia Ii - David - David's Life
David - David's early life. David was the eighth and youngest son of Jesse, a citizen of Bethlehem. His father seems to have been a man...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tree Of Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Tree Of Life - Analysis
The serpent and tree theme, especially as it relates to the development of the earliest man, occurs in the beginning of the Hebrew Bible,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Principles Of Faith: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Principles Of Faith - Jewish Principles Of Faith
Jewish principles of faith - Monotheism. Judaism is based on a strict unitarian monotheism, the belief in one God. The prayer par excel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rashi: Encyclopedia Ii - Rashi - Works
Besides minor works, such as an edition of the Siddur (Prayer-Book), Rashi wrote two great commentaries on which his fame rests. These we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bahá'ís Under The Provisions Of The Covenant: Encyclopedia Ii - Bahá'ís Under The Provisions Of The Covenant - Beliefs
Bahá'ís Under the Provisions of the Covenant - Messiah ben David. One teaching of the BUPC that varies greatly from the rest of Bahá...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David: Encyclopedia Ii - David - David's Life
David - David's early life. David was the seventh and youngest son of Jesse, a citizen of Bethlehem. His father seems to have been a ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Israel Ben Eliezer: Encyclopedia Ii - Israel Ben Eliezer - Elements Of Besht's Doctrines
The foundation-stone of Hasidism as laid by Besht is a strongly marked panentheistic conception of God. He declared the whole universe, m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Eschatology - The Afterlife And Olam Haba The World To Come
Although Judaism concentrates on the importance of the Earthly world, all of classical Judaism posits an afterlife. Jewish tradition affi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Bereavement: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Bereavement - Mourning
The mourners traditionally make a tear in an outer garment (keriah), which is not mended for the duration of the shiv'ah week. For the sa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Bereavement: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Bereavement - Visiting The Gravesite
It's customary to visit the cemetery on fast days (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chayim 559:10) and before Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (581:4, 60...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Bereavement: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Bereavement - Memorial Through Prayer
Jewish bereavement - Mourner's Kaddish. Kaddish Yatom (heb. קדיש יתום lit. "Orphan's Kaddish") or the "Mourner's" Kaddish, said...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bahá'ís Under The Provisions Of The Covenant: Encyclopedia Ii - Bahá'ís Under The Provisions Of The Covenant - History
It is necessary to distinguish between the Bahá'ís Under the Provision of the Covenant and other Bahá'í divisions. The discrepancies ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David: Encyclopedia Ii - David - Representation In Art And Literature
David - Art. Famous sculptures of David include (in chronological order) those by: Donatello (ca. 1430 - 1440) (see Donatello's David)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Bereavement: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Bereavement - Community
Jewish bereavement - Chevra kadisha. A chevra kadisha (heb.: lit. "burial society") is a loosely structured but generally closed organi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Judah Loew Ben Bezalel: Encyclopedia Ii - Judah Loew Ben Bezalel - His Name
His second name (possible also his family's second name - depending on varying sources) of "Löw" or "Loew", derived from the German Löw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Judah Loew Ben Bezalel: Encyclopedia Ii - Judah Loew Ben Bezalel - Biography
The Maharal was probably born in Posen (now in Poland) to Rabbi Bezalel (Loew), whose family originated from the German town of Worms. Hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David: Encyclopedia Ii - David - Representation In Art And Literature
David - Art. Famous sculptures of David include (in chronological order) those by: Donatello (ca. 1430 - 1440) (see Donatello's David)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Israel Ben Eliezer: Encyclopedia Ii - Israel Ben Eliezer - Influence On Hasidism
The later developments of Hasidism are unintelligible without consideration of Besht's opinion concerning man's proper relation with the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Israel Ben Eliezer: Encyclopedia Ii - Israel Ben Eliezer - Characteristics
Besht did not combat the practice of rabbinical Judaism; this seemed harmless to him: it was the spirit of the practice which he opposed....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Israel Ben Eliezer: Encyclopedia Ii - Israel Ben Eliezer - In Legend
About his parentage, legend tells that his father, Eliezer, whose wife was still living, was seized during an attack (by the Tatars perha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Israel Ben Eliezer: Encyclopedia Ii - Israel Ben Eliezer - His Miracles
At this time, too, he learned how to work miracles with the name of God. The following is an instance: In Constantinople, where Besht sto...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Israel Ben Eliezer: Encyclopedia Ii - Israel Ben Eliezer - Development As Leader And Challenges
The Besht's condition was bettered when he took a position as a ritual butcher in Kshilowice, near Iaslowice. This position he soon gave ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Israel Ben Eliezer: Encyclopedia Ii - Israel Ben Eliezer - Early Life And Marriage
His benefactors gave up the hope of his ever becoming a rabbi, and made him a "helper", who took the children to and from school and rehe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Eschatology: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Eschatology - Mashiach/messiah
The Hebrew word Mashiach (or Moshiach) means anointed one, and refers to a mortal human being. Within Judaism, the Mashiach is a human be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rashi: Encyclopedia Ii - Rashi - Biography
Rashi was born at Troyes, northern France, in 1040 and died there in 1104 or 1105. He was reputedly descended from the Davidic line with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tree Of Life: Encyclopedia Ii - Tree Of Life - Interpretation Within The Western Church
Until the Enlightenment the Christian church generally gave the biblical narratives of early Genesis the weight of being in some way hist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Bereavement: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Bereavement - Burial
The Torah requires burial, even for executed criminals (Deut. 21:23). Jews are buried in caskets that aren't hermetically sealed. Man was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Israel Ben Eliezer: Encyclopedia Ii - Israel Ben Eliezer - Bibliography
The chief source for Besht's biography is Baer (Dob) b. Samuel's Shibchei ha-Besht, Kopys, 1814, and frequently republished. For Besht's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Bereavement: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Bereavement - Death And Dying
Everything that Jews do regarding death is for one of two reasons: respect for the dead (kavod ha-met) or to console those left behind (n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Bereavement: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Bereavement - Preparing The Body
In preparing the body, it must first go through the ritual of tahara, or purification. The body is thoroughly cleansed of dirt, body flui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jewish Bereavement: Encyclopedia Ii - Jewish Bereavement - Funeral Service
Observant Jews do not have "open casket" services. Typically, when the funeral service has ended the mourners, starting with the immediat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David: Encyclopedia Ii - David - David's Family
David - David's father. Jesse (ישי "Gift", Standard Hebrew Yíšay, Tiberian Hebrew Yíšay / Yēšay), King David's father, was the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exilarch: Encyclopedia Ii - Exilarch - Character Of The Exilarchate In The First Era
Exilarch - Relations with the Academies. In accordance with the character of Talmudic tradition it is the relation of the exilarchs to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David: Encyclopedia Ii - David - David As A Religious Figure
David - David in Judaism. In Judaism, David's reign represents the formation of a coherent Jewish state with its political and religiou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exilarch: Encyclopedia Ii - Exilarch - Development And Organization
The history of the exilarchate falls naturally into two periods, separated by the beginning of the Arabic rule in Babylonia. Nothing is k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David: Encyclopedia Ii - David - Historicity Of David
See The Bible and history for a more complete description of the general issues surrounding the Bible as a historical source. Biblical mi...   » Read the article

Article - Popular Pages Sitemap Viii - D
This is a sitemap for Popular Pages VIII - D . Click on a link and you will find multiple definitions and articles related to the word....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Davidic Line: Encyclopedia Ii - Davidic Line - Bahá'í View
Bahá'u'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith, referring to himself stated, "The Most Great Law is come, and the Ancient Beauty ruleth upo...   » Read the article