Gender neutral names Maayan(Hebrew): “Water spring,” referring to a miraculous spring that followed the Jews in the desert. Neri(Hebrew): “Candle,” in honor of the Hanukkah miracle of lights. Or(Hebrew): “Light.” Sinai(Hebrew): Various meanings; the mountain where the Torah was rece...
Others have CUT ME OFF from their so-called “friendship” — all of this happening only in the last two weeks. I am about to put myself in HARM’S WAY with the expanding Public Ministry for the CAUSE of THE TRUTH of Our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ. Thus, I see all of this as...
A very large majority of the 2,800 personal names (referring to about 15,000 persons) contained in the Old Testament convey a special meaning, apart from their personal application, while the meanings of the remainder probably have merely been obscured by textual corruption or the insufficient ...
xxiii. 24. Baraita (7a) on Nisan 1 and its four meanings, the first being deduced from Ex. xii. 2 and Deut. xvi. 1, although an objection caused Lev. xxiii. 39 to be regarded by Ḥisda as the basic passage, while Zech. i. 7 was cited to refute an allegation made by Rabina...
In the introductory section of Sefer Hakhmoni as well as in Sefer ha-mazzalot Donnolo ascribes to the term tli two distinct meanings. Firstly, it is the imaginary line connecting the two points known as "lunar nodes," along which the orbit of the Moon intersects the terrestrial ecliptic....
God then confirms the change of his name to Yisra’eland also shares one of God’s names, El Shaddai. By simply re pronouncing the consonants of the name Yisra’el with different vowels, the name takes on 3 meanings that all apply to the path of Jacob’s life. As someone who gains ...
Last night was Shabbat, one of the two nights (along with Tuesday), that Agrat bat Maḥlat, one of the queens of the shedim (aka demons), haunts the air with her train of eighteen myriads of messengers of destruction (1). With Havadalh behind me, I was out on patrol driving aroun...
The Amida has many deep meanings and should be said both with intensity and deep concentration, both in the silent and repeated version. Extracted from the shiurim of Rabbi Isaac Oelbaum MAIN THEME The parshiot describes how the Mishkan-Tabernacle was constructed. ...
This is a difficult question, and one where the numerology of the Bible – the use of numbers to communicate other than literal meanings – becomes important. From David forward, the years and regnal years of the Bible are relatively consistent. Knowing a few facts – the Babylonian captivity...
The earliest known work giving a lexical survey of part of the Hebrew language, with comments, is the dictionary of Biblical proper names (Ερμενεία Εβραικῶν ΟΝομάτων) ascribed to Philo of Alexandria, and in any case the work of a Greek Jew. Origen, in...