As there existed a belief in two Messiahs—an Ephraitic Messiah, who would be the forerunner of the Davidic Messiah—there appear among the pseudo-Messiahs both those who claim to be the Messiah of the house of David and those who pretend to be the Messiah, son of Joseph. Their ...
R. xiv. has Elijah and the Messiah as heavenly recorders, a survival of the national Jewish eschatology.Gehenna. There is no Scriptural basis for the belief in retribution for the soul after death; this was supplied by the Babylonians and Persians, and received a Jewish coloring from the ...
and political causes were at work, especially a general decline in relations between Jews and their neighbors in the Hellenistic world, but when these finally led to the of a rebellion, it was the belief in a messianic future that made possible the leap of faith to the belief that the revo...
Between the two decks, there are 108 individual cards that tell the stories of angels and shedim (demons); giants and sea monsters; rabbinic grimoires and amulets; Jewish women’s home magic rituals and ingredients; and a long list of amazing characters including Yosef Sheyda (Joe the Demon),...
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