Meaning as part of High Holidays Rosh Hashana marks the beginning of what are known as theHigh Holidays, or the Ten Days of Repentance (ʿAseret Yemei Teshuvah) or the Days of Awe (Yamim Noraʾim), which conclude on the 10th day of Tishri,Yom Kippur, or the Day ofAtonement. This...
It is highly valued by the military because the DU penetrator is self-sharpening (meaning it does not deform) and pyrophoric. It is highly effective against enemy tanks struck on the side, rear or top, but less so frontally where it can be deflected by sloped armor. APFSDS penetrators can...
Original Meaning. Just as by old Teutonic custom the owner of a man or beast that had been killed was to be pacified by the covering up of the corpse with grain or gold ("Wergeld") by the offender (Grimm, "Deutsche Rechts-Alterthümer," p. 740), so Abimelech gives to Abraham a ...
Birthdate of Myer Jacobs a “surveyor of customs and a Colonel in the 12th South Carolina Regiment who was the husband of Rebecca Jacobs and the father of Adeline ((Jacobs) Emanel 1792: Mordecai Davis married Sarah Jacobs today at the Great Synagogue. 1796: One day after she had passed a...
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The operation is in nearly every case performed simultaneously on males and females, though they are kept separate during the periods of preparation and operation. One sect of Jews, the Falashas, also circumcise both sexes (Andree, "Zur Volkskunde der Juden," p. 84); it is probable that ...
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The Targum is largely a paraphrase, reproducing the rabbinical tradition as regards the meaning of the text. For a history of this Targum see Targum. In passing a word should be said about the Samaritan version of the Pentateuch in the West-Aramaic dialect, which the Samaritans at one time...
Customs for the First Night of Rosh Hashanah The day before Rosh Hashanah also holds special significance and has its own special customs. In preparation for this sacred holiday the Selichot are more extensive and the shofar is not sounded. ...
They elect good men ["ṭobim"; See Charity] to receive the wages of their labor and the produce of the soil, and priests for the preparation [consecration?] of their bread and meat. They all live alike, and resemble most the [holy unmarried] city-builders [pioneers] of the Dacæ...