Yemenite Jews

Yemenite Jews (תֵּימָנִי, Standard Hebrew Temani, Tiberian Hebrew Têmānî; plural תֵּימָנִים, Standard Hebrew Temanim, Tiberian Hebrew Têmānîm) are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen (תֵּימָן "far south", Standard Hebrew Teman, Tiberian Hebrew Têmān), on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. They are sometimes considered to be Mizrahi. Yemenite Jews - History of the community. Loc ...

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• Yemenite Jews - History of the community
• Yemenite Jews - Religious Traditions
• Yemenite Jews - Yemenite Jews and Maimonides
• Yemenite Jews - Religious Groups
• Yemenite Jews - Form of Hebrew
• Yemenite Jews - Writings
• Yemenite Jews - Operation Magic Carpet
• Yemenite Jews - External link

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Local Yemenite Jewish traditions trace the earliest settlement of Jews in this region back to the time of King Solomon. One legend has it that King Solomon sent Jewish merchant marines to Yemen to prospect for gold and silver with which to adorn the Temple in Jerusalem. Another legend places Jewish craftsmen in the region as requested by Bilqis, the Queen of Saba (Sheba). Interestingly enough, the Beta Israel or Chabashim (Jews in neighboring Ethiopia) have a sister legend of their origins ...

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Yemenite Jews, Yemenite Jews - History of the community, Yemenite Jews - Religious traditions, Yemenite Jews - Yemenite Jews and Maimonides, Yemenite Jews - Religious groups, Yemenite Jews - Form of Hebrew, Yemenite Jews - Writings, Yemenite Jews - Operation Magic Carpet

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Local Yemenite Jewish traditions trace the earliest settlement of Jews in this region back to the time of King Solomon. One legend has it that King Solomon sent Jewish merchant marines to Yemen to prospect for gold and silver with which to adorn the Temple in Jerusalem. Another legend places Jewish craftsmen in the region as requested by Bilqis, the Queen of Saba (Sheba). Interestingly enough, the Beta Israel or Chabashim (Jews in neighboring Ethiopia) have a sister legend of their origins ...

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Yemenite Jews, Yemenite Jews - History of the community, Yemenite Jews - Religious Traditions, Yemenite Jews - Yemenite Jews and Maimonides, Yemenite Jews - Religious Groups, Yemenite Jews - Form of Hebrew, Yemenite Jews - Writings, Yemenite Jews - Operation Magic Carpet, Yemenite Jews - External link

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Aliyah (Hebrew: עלייה; "ascent") is a term widely used to mean Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel (and since its establishment in 1948, the State of Israel). The opposite action, Jewish emigration away from Israel, is called Yerida ("descent"). Land of Israel Districts · Cities · Transportation Dead Sea · Red Sea · Sea of Galilee Mediterranean · Negev · Judea · Samaria Jerusalem · Tel Aviv · Haifa Zio ...

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• Aliyah - Aliyot
• Aliyah - First Aliyah 1882-1903
• Aliyah - Second Aliyah 1904-1914
• Aliyah - Third Aliyah 1919-1923
• Aliyah - Fourth Aliyah 1924-1929
• Aliyah - Fifth Aliyah 1929-1939
• Aliyah - Aliyah Bet: Illegal immigration 1933-1948
• Aliyah - Immigration from 1948-1950
• Aliyah - Middle Eastern Jews
• Aliyah - Ethiopian Aliyah
• Aliyah - Russian Aliyah
• Aliyah - Argentine aliyah
• Aliyah - Recent Trends
• Aliyah - Trivia
• Aliyah - Notes

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The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ʻarab) are a large and heterogenous ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa, originating in the Arabian Peninsula of southwest Asia. Arab - Who is an Arab?. The definition of who an Arab is has several aspects: Ethnic identity: someone who considers himself to be an Arab (regardless of racial or ethnic origin) and is recognized as such by others. Linguistic: someone whose first language is Arabic (including any of its varieties); this d ...

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• Arab - Who is an Arab?
• Arab - Religions
• Arab - History
• Arab - Traditional genealogy
• Arab - Etymology

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Baladi Jews are Yemenite Jews who generally follow the legal rulings of the Rambam (Maimonides) as codified in his work the Mishneh Torah. Other related archivesJews, Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Yemenite Jews, legal rulings

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The siddur (plural siddurim) is the prayerbook used by Jews the world over, containing a set order of daily prayers. A separate article, Jewish services, discusses the prayers that appear in the siddur, and when they are said. This entry discusses how some of these prayers evolved, and how the siddur as we know it today has developed. Siddur - History of the siddur. The earliest parts of Jewish prayer are the "Shema Yisrael" (Hear O Israel) (Deuteronomy 6:4 et seq) and the set of 19 blessings ...

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• Siddur - History of the siddur
• Siddur - Creating the siddur
• Siddur - Different Jewish rites
• Siddur - Complete versus weekday siddurim
• Siddur - Variations and additions on holidays
• Siddur - Popular siddurim
• Siddur - Ashkenazi Orthodox
• Siddur - Sephardic
• Siddur - Yemenite Jews - Teimanim
• Siddur - Chabad
• Siddur - Conservative
• Siddur - Reform
• Siddur - Reconstructionist
• Siddur - External link

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Chayei Sarah (Hebrew for “life of Sarah”) is the fifth weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis 23:1–25:18. Jews in the Diaspora read it the fifth Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in November. Chayei Sarah - Summary. On the death of his wife Sarah, Abraham bargained for and acquired Machpelah for a family tomb. Abraham sent his senior servant to the land of his birth to find a wife for his son Isaac. (Gen. 24:2-4.) By the well outside t ...

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• Chayei Sarah - Summary
• Chayei Sarah - Commandments
• Chayei Sarah - Haftarah

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The Republic of Yemen (Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية), composed of former North and South Yemen, is a country on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south and the Red Sea on the west. It borders Oman to the northeast and Saudi Arabia elsewhere. Its territory includes the remote island of Socotra, about 350 km to the south off the coast of East Africa. Yemen - History. Main article: History of Yemen ...

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• Yemen - History
• Yemen - Politics
• Yemen - Governorates
• Yemen - Geography
• Yemen - Economy
• Yemen - Foreign relations
• Yemen - Demographics
• Yemen - Languages
• Yemen - Culture
• Yemen - Holidays
• Yemen - Miscellaneous topics

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The Yemenite Hebrew language or Temani Hebrew language is a descendant of Biblical Hebrew traditionally used by Yemenite Jews. It is believed by some scholars that its phonology was heavily influenced by Yemeni-spoken Arabic. Yet, according to other scholars as well as Yemenite Jewish Rabbis such as Rabbi Yosef Qafah the Temani Hebrew dialect was not influenced by Yemenite Arabic, as this type of Arabic was also spoken by Yemenite Jews and is distinct from the liturgical Hebrew and the coversational Hebrew of the communities. Pron ...

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Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people. It is one of the first recorded monotheistic faiths and one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. The tenets and history of Judaism are the major part of the foundation of other Abrahamic religions, including Samaritanism, Christianity, and Islam. Over at least the last two thousand years, Judaism has not been monolithic in practice, and has not had any centralized authority or binding dogma. Despite this, Judaism in all its variations has remained tightly bound ...

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• Judaism - Introduction
• Judaism - Monotheism
• Judaism - Practical worship and the laws
• Judaism - Traditional view of the development of Judaism
• Judaism - Critical historical view of the development of Judaism
• Judaism - Religious doctrine and Principles of Faith
• Judaism - The traditional Jewish bookshelf
• Judaism - Jewish Law and interpretation
• Judaism - What makes a person Jewish?
• Judaism - Jewish philosophy
• Judaism - Jewish denominations
• Judaism - Jewish denominations in Israel
• Judaism - Karaism
• Judaism - Jewish prayer and practice
• Judaism - Prayers
• Judaism - Jewish holidays
• Judaism - Torah readings
• Judaism - Synagogues and Jewish buildings
• Judaism - Dietary laws: Kashrut
• Judaism - Family purity
• Judaism - Life-cycle events
• Judaism - Community leadership
• Judaism - Classical priesthood
• Judaism - Prayer leaders
• Judaism - Specialized religious roles
• Judaism - Jewish religious history
• Judaism - Ancient Jewish religious history
• Judaism - Historical Jewish groupings to 1700
• Judaism - Persecutions
• Judaism - Hasidism
• Judaism - The Enlightenment and Reform Judaism
• Judaism - The Holocaust
• Judaism - The present situation
• Judaism - Judaism and other religions
• Judaism - Christianity and Judaism
• Judaism - Islam and Judaism
• Judaism - Jews and Judaism
• Judaism - Jewish law and religion
• Judaism - Comparative

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  • African Jews     • Qemant     • Falas Mora   • Other Jewish groups" Ethiopia: 15,000 (est.)   • African Jews     • Qemant     • Falas Mora   • Other Jewish groups The Beta Israel (or "House of Israel"), known by outsiders by the term Falasha ("exiles" or "strangers"), a term that they con ...

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• Beta Israel - Ethiopian enclave
• Beta Israel - Religious traditions
• Beta Israel - Languages
• Beta Israel - Oppression
• Beta Israel - Israel intervenes
• Beta Israel - Origins
• Beta Israel - Traditions of the Beta Israel
• Beta Israel - Rabbinical views
• Beta Israel - DNA evidence
• Beta Israel - Scholarly view
• Beta Israel - In fiction
• Beta Israel - Photos

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Bereishit or Bereshit is the first weekly parshah or portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis 1:1-6:8. Jews in the Diaspora read it the first Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in October. Bereishit parsha - Summary. Bereishit parsha - Creation. The creation narrative in Genesis can be split into two sections. The first section starts with an account of God's Creation of the universe, which occurs in six days. The second secti ...

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• Bereishit parsha - Summary
• Bereishit parsha - Creation
• Bereishit parsha - Adam and Eve
• Bereishit parsha - Cain and Abel
• Bereishit parsha - The Nephilim
• Bereishit parsha - Commandments
• Bereishit parsha - Haftarah

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Agunah, according to Jewish law, is a woman who wishes to obtain a divorce from her husband, but whose husband is either unable or unwilling to grant her a halachic bill of divorce, or Get. Agunah - Causes. Circumstances leading to a woman being declared an agunah are: The disappearance of the husband without any witnesses declaring that he is dead; The husband succumbing to a physical or mental disease that leaves him in a coma or insane and unable to actively grant a di ...

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• Agunah - Causes
• Agunah - Background
• Agunah - Mesurevet get
• Agunah - Activism
• Agunah - Zaka le-Yibbum

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A targum (plural: targumim) is an Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) written or compiled in the Land of Israel or in Babylonia from the Second Temple period until the early Middle Ages (late first millennium). As translations, the targumim largely reflect rabbinic (i.e. midrashic) interpretation of the Tanakh. This is true both for those targumim that are fairly literal, as well as for those whi ...

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• Targum - The Two Official Targumim
• Targum - Targum Ketuvim
• Targum - Other Targumim on the Torah
• Targum - The Peshitta

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Traditional Yemenite music is usually performed in the home, in a window-lined room at the top of the house called a mafraj during a khat chew, in which the performers intake a mild narcotic. This form of performance uses sung poetry and is called homayni; it is a tradition that dates to the 14th century. Two of the most famous Yemenite musicians, Ahmed Fathey and Osama al Attar, are now resident in the United Arab Emirates. The urban homayni style known in the capital of Yemen, Sanaan singing, is the most ...

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Music of Yemen, Music of Yemen - Folk music, Music of Yemen - Yemeni musicians

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Because of the independence of local communities, Jewish "ethnicities", even when they circumscribe differences in liturgy, language, cuisine and other cultural accoutrements, are more often a reflection of geographic and historical isolation from other communities. It is for this reason that communities are referred to by referencing the historical region in which the community cohered when discussing their practices, regardless of where those practices are found today. The Jewish communities of the modern world can all be found represented today in Israel, ...

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Jewish ethnic divisions, Jewish ethnic divisions - History, Jewish ethnic divisions - In Israel, Jewish ethnic divisions - Divisions, Jewish ethnic divisions - Europe and the Caucasus, Jewish ethnic divisions - Middle East and Central Asia, Jewish ethnic divisions - Africa, Jewish ethnic divisions - India and China, Jewish ethnic divisions - Americas

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Hebrew phonology - Consonants. Note: dagesh and mappiq symbols, the dots in otherwise identical letters, are often omitted in writing. For instance, בּ is often written as ב. The use or omission of such marks is usually consistent throughout any given context. א   alef   silent (traditionally, /ʔ/ when before a vowel) בּ   bet   /b/ ב   vet   /v/ (/b/ among Egyptian Jews) ג   ghimel   /g/ (See also:

Hebrew phonology, Hebrew phonology - Basic Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew phonology - Consonants, Hebrew phonology - Vowels, Hebrew phonology - Notes on writing

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On the death of his wife Sarah, Abraham bargained for and acquired Machpelah for a family tomb. Abraham sent his senior servant to the land of his birth to find a wife for his son Isaac. (Gen. 24:2-4.) By the well outside the city of Nahor, in Aram-naharaim, the servant met Rebekah daughter of Bethuel, Abraham’s nephew. (Gen. 24:10-15.) The servant told Rebekah’s household his good fortune in meeting Bethuel’s daughter, Abraham’s relative. (Gen. 24:47-48.) Rebekah chooses to leave her family to marry Isaac. Abraham had other children by another wife, Keturah, among whose descendants are the Midianite ...

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Chayei Sarah, Chayei Sarah - Summary, Chayei Sarah - Commandments, Chayei Sarah - Haftarah

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Beta Israel - Traditions of the Beta Israel. The Ethiopian legend described in the Kebra Negast relates that Ethiopians are descendants of Israelite tribes who came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, alleged to be the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (or Makida, in the legend). The legend relates that Menelik, as an adult, returned to his father in Jerusalem, and then resettled in Ethiopia, and that he took with him the Ark of the Covenant. In the Bible there is no mention that the Queen of Sheba either marrie ...

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Beta Israel, Beta Israel - Ethiopian enclave, Beta Israel - Religious traditions, Beta Israel - Languages, Beta Israel - Oppression, Beta Israel - Israel intervenes, Beta Israel - Origins, Beta Israel - Traditions of the Beta Israel, Beta Israel - Rabbinical views, Beta Israel - DNA evidence, Beta Israel - Scholarly view, Beta Israel - In fiction, Beta Israel - Photos

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