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| | |  shekel: Encyclopedia II - Shmuel Yosef Agnon - LifeHe was born as Shmuel Yosef Czaczkes in Buczacz in Austrian Galicia, in what is now Ukraine. Although his birthdate on the Hebrew calendar is given as 18 Av 5648 (July 26) by some sources [1], he himself was known to state his birthdate as the ninth, the Tisha B'Av commemoration. His father, Shalom Mordechai Halevy, was ordained as a rabbi, but dealt in the fur trade. Young Shmuel did not go to school. He was educated by his parents. When he was eight he began to write in Hebrew and Yiddish, and read extensively in the writers of the ...
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - Dollar - History The name is related to the historic currencies Tolar in Bohemia, Thaler or Taler in Germany, Daalder in the Netherlands and Daler in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The name thaler (from Thal, or nowadays usually Tal, "valley") originally came from the German Guldengroschen ("great gulden", being of silver but equal in value to a gold gulden) coins minted from the silver from a rich mine at Joachimsthal (St. Joachim's Valley) in Bohemia (then part of the Habsburg Empire). The name "Spanish dollar" was used for a Span ...
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - Dollar - Numismatic history The name is related to the historic currencies Tolar in Bohemia, Thaler or Taler in Germany, Daalder in the Netherlands and Daler in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. The name thaler (from Thal, or nowadays usually Tal, "valley") originally came from the German Guldengroschen ("great gulden", being of silver but equal in value to a gold gulden) coins minted from the silver from a rich mine at Joachimsthal (St. Joachim's Valley) in Bohemia (then part of the Habsburg Empire). The name "Spanish dollar" was used for a Span ...
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - Sabbatical year Bible - Descriptions of observances Any natural produce of the land was not to be farmed, but instead left to be taken by poor folk, passing strangers, and beasts of the field. All debts, except those of foreigners, were to be deferred for the year.
For some time, it was accepted that all debts between the people of Israel were to be remitted; however, most modern commentators and scholars hold that such debts were to be suspended for the year. This practice was, presumably, instituted to prevent the resources of the debtor, already stretched thin due t ...
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - Pound mass - Measurement systems In the Imperial system (often referred to as the pound-inch system, or the English system in the United States) there are two basic pounds defined, and also an obsolete definition of one variant of the pound.
Pound mass - Avoirdupois or international.
Main article: avoirdupois
The avoirdupois pound was invented by London merchants in 1303.
The pound (avoirdupois) or international pound, abbreviation "lb" or sometimes # in the United States, is the mass unit defined ...
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - 613 mitzvot - Other views The Talmudic source is not without dissent. Apart from Rabbi Simlai, to whom the number 613 is attributed, other classical sages who hold this view include Rabbi Simeon ben Azzai (Sifre, Deuteronomy 76) and Rabbi Eleazar ben Yose the Galilean (Midrash Aggadah to Genesis 15:1). It is quoted in Midrash Exodus Rabbah 33:7, Numbers Rabbah 13:15–16; 18:21 and Talmud Yevamot 47b.
However, some held that this count was not an authentic tradition, or that it was not logically possible to come up with a systematic count. This is possibly why ...
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - Money in Harry Potter - Banks The only reference to a bank in Harry Potter is Gringotts, which is located on Diagon Alley in London. Hagrid indicates that wizards have "just the one" bank.
There is a possiblity of other Gringotts branches in the world, most notably in Egypt, where Ron's older brother, Bill, worked prior to his attempt to get a transfer to the London branch.
Because there are apparently no banknotes in the wizard world, and because the coins apparently come in just the three different values, wizard money would be expected to be quite cumber ...
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - Money in Harry Potter - Coin design and specifications On every Galleon there is a serial number referring to the goblin who cast it. In Order of the Phoenix, Hermione bewitched fake Galleons to show the time and date of the next DA (Dumbledore's Army) meeting instead of the serial number.
Although the coins used in the film are round, the books might have had other designs for them. In one scene, when Harry gets a heptagonal (seven-sided) fifty-pence piece for Christmas, Ron exclaims how odd the shape of the coin is, and if he could have it for this very reason, thus giving rise to the i ...
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - 613 mitzvot - Works enumerating the commandments In practice there is no one definitive list that explicates the 613 laws. The differences come about because in some places the Torah lists related laws together, so it is difficult to know whether one is dealing with a single law, which lists several cases, or several separate laws; Other "commandments" in the Torah are restricted as one-time acts, and would not be considered as "mitzvot". In rabbinic literature there are a number of works, mainly by the Rishonim, that were composed to determine which commandments belong in this enumeration ...
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - Belshazzar - Belshazzar in contemporary Babylonian sources Belshazzar was the son of Nabonidus, who after ruling only three years, went to the oasis of Tema and devoted himself to the worship of the moon god, Sin. He made Belshazzar co-regent in 553 B.C, leaving him in charge of Babylon's defense.
In the year 540 B.C. Nabonidus returned from Tema, hoping to defend his kingdom from the Persians who were planning to advance on Babylon. In 539 B.C. Belshazzar was positioned in the city of Babylon to hold the capital, while Nabonidus, marched his troops north to meet Cyrus. On October 10, 539 B.C. Nabonidus surrendered and fled from Cyrus. Two days la ...
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - Pound mass - Ambiguity If neither “avoirdupois” nor “troy” is specified, nowadays the international pound (avoirdupois) is meant and is by law the only proper definition in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada; the troy pound has been officially abandoned in the United Kingdom. The valuation of precious metals on U.S. exchanges is specified as dollars per troy ounce, although the fact that the troy ounce is used is usually implied.
In the colloquial context of vegetable and meat sales within metric countries, a metric pound (500 g) is usually implied.
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - Belshazzar - In classical rabbinic literature Belshazzar appears in many works of classical Jewish rabbinic literature.
The chronology of the three Babylonian kings is given in the Talmud (Megillah 11a-b) as follows: Nebuchadnezzar reigned forty-five years, Evil-merodach twenty-three, and Belshazzar was monarch of Babylonia for two years, being killed at the beginning of the third year on the fatal night of the fall of Babylon (Meg. 11b).
The references in the Talmud and the Midrash to Belshazzar emphasize his tyrannous oppression of his Jewish subjects. Several passages i ...
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| | | | shekel: Encyclopedia II - Pound mass - Force weight and mass Historically, the pound predates the understanding of the distinction between force and mass. Once that distinction became clear, it was natural to ask whether the pound should be construed as a unit of mass, or a unit of force. But because the foot-pound-second (fps) systems are no longer used in science (and are gradually approaching extinction even in U.S. engineering work), many scientists today would be as bemused by this question as by the question ...
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