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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. [95]
Rashi was an only child born at Troyes, Champagne, in northern France.His mother's brother was Simeon bar Isaac, rabbi of Mainz. [11] [12] Simon was a disciple of Gershom ben Judah, [13] who died that same year.
The Aleph Institute is an American non-profit organization affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement that provides support services to the approximately 85,000 Jews in the U.S. prison system [1] and Jewish members of the U.S. military located in the United States and deployed abroad.
The Jewish Encyclopedia of Moral and Ethical Issues", Jason Aronson, 1994; Charlesworth, James H. “Jewish Astrology in the Talmud, the Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and Early Palestinian Synagogues,” Harvard Theological Review 70 (1977), 183-200; Erlanger, Gad. Signs of the Times: the Zodiac in Jewish Tradition (New York, NY ...
Menachem Mendel Schneerson (Yiddish: מנחם מענדל שניאורסאהן; Russian: Менахем-Мендл Шнеерсон; Modern Hebrew: מנחם מנדל שניאורסון; April 5, 1902 OS – June 12, 1994; AM 11 Nissan 5662 – 3 Tammuz 5754), known to adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, [2] [3] was a Russian-American Orthodox ...
Tisha B'Av (Hebrew: תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב [a] Tīšʿā Bəʾāv; IPA: [tiʃʕa beˈʔav] ⓘ, lit. ' the ninth of Av ') is an annual fast day in Judaism.A commemoration of a number of disasters in Jewish history, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem.
During the Second Temple period, there was a Jewish custom to make a public proclamation on the first day of the lunar month Adar, reminding the people that they are to prepare their annual monetary offering to the Temple treasury, known as the half-Shekel. [2]
Each Torah portion consists of two to six chapters to be read during the week. There are 54 weekly portions or parashot.Torah reading mostly follows an annual cycle beginning and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with the divisions corresponding to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, which contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between leap years and regular years.