Twitter Google Share on Facebook High Holidays (redirected fromHigh Holy Days) Thesaurus Wikipedia Related to High Holy Days:Rosh Hashanah pl n (Judaism)Judaismthe festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the period of repentance in the first ten days of the Jewish new year. Also called:Day...
LORD God orders depopulation and destruction of civilization in the Promised Land (Numbers 33:50-56); religious imagery and art work must also be destroyed. LORD God commands the Hebrews to "utterly destroy" the seven nations that are in the Promised Land, "nor shew mercy unto them." In...
In 1756 Freemasonry was so popular among the Jews of Curaçao that even the local Rabbi, Haham Chumaceiro, wrote a book trying to link Freemasonry with Judaism (2). In 1756 Jehoshua Henríquez, a Jewish ship owner, baptized one his ships with the name Vrij Metzelar –The Freemason. (3...
The attendance was small due to dreary weather, but that made the setting more intimate and the discussion more dynamic amongst a group comprised of at least one member of the top three religions being discussed: Islam, Judaism and Christianity. In his presentation, Dr. Salem suggested that mod...
Following the genocide of the Armenians and the people between Greece and Turkey in 1923, their numbers in Turkey substantially decreased.Eastern Orthodox WorksheetsThis fantastic bundle includes everything you need to know about Eastern Orthodox across 32 in-depth pages. These ready-to-use worksheets...
The greatest challenge in history has always been the question of truth. It is the central issue of religion and philosophy, which directly involves controversies over authority and education and the central debate between theism and atheism, the differences between paganism and Judaism and Christianity...
claims over it have spilled into violence before, including abloody 11-day warbetween Israel and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza. Al-Aqsa is the third-holiest site in Islam and stands in a spot known to Jews as the Temple Mount, which is the holiest site in Judaism. ...
9Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,Pontusand Asia,[b]10Phrygiaand Pamphylia,Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene;visitors from Rome11(both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our ...
Like Muslim and Christian legal lit-erature from around the same period, the Mishnah Torah provides a wealth of legal rul-ings regarding Jewish interactions with non-Jews in many areas of life. Not surprisingly, given the concern regarding ritually pure food in Judaism, questions of what foods...
11(both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” 12Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” 13Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.” ...