In general, they expected God to intervene in history and to restore Israel to a state of peace, freedom, and prosperity. Not all Jews expected God to send a son of David as messiah to overthrow the Romans, though some did. The Qumran sect believed that there would be a great war ...
On visiting theTemple Mountarea—which Muslims came to know as Al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf (Arabic: “The Noble Sanctuary”)—and finding the place suffering from neglect,ʿUmarand his followers cleaned it with their own hands, declared it a sacred place of prayer, and erected there the first ...
Under these equitable laws the Jews of Lithuania reached a degree of prosperity unknown to their Polish and German coreligionists at that time. The communities of Brest, Grodno, Troki, Lutsk, and Minsk rapidly grew in wealth and influence. Every community had at its head a Jewish elder. The...
of Cologne, it fell, in 462, into the hands of the Franks; and a long period of freedom and prosperity for the Jews of that city followed, though many attempts were made by the fanatical clergy to disturb the harmony and interrupt the friendship existing between the Jews and the ...
established, of which Cordova was the center. During 'Abd al-Raḥman's reign the Jews devoted themselves to the service of the califate, to the study of the sciences, and to commerce and industry, especially to trading in silk and slaves, in this way promoting the prosperity of the ...
The places that some Jews had gone to or had living, there were often times of prosperity and relative peace, but ultimately things turn out badly for the Jews. There is no question that while I was growing up a lot was going well for us in this country. A number of years ago I ...
The wicked are destined to destruction, and will not profit in their great wealth. In ch. xxviii. he exalts wisdom, and contrasts, in the two following chapters, his present condition with his former prosperity. Formerly, he was respected and beloved by all for his generosity and his ...
Recent Wisconsin polls prove that, in the middle of the American political heart there is a king-sized scare to CHANGE, and it is not a conservative instinct, because conservative people crave to keep prosperity or benefits and yet, when union representation it is at stake to upkeep incomes ...
and prevent further violence and pollution around the world, and this is essential for the order and prosperity of the future common society in which your descendants will live. It involves risk, pain, and anxiety, but only by doing so can you gain the true value of life and heaven's ans...
For all that may be said pro and con about Hitler in any other perspective, my hope and my prayer that the good German people of RZN family finally find some vindication for these past sixty years in what their persecuted historians have always claimed: Hitler didn’t want the war, and...