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91BOOKS — Production and Treatment The history of Hebrew bookmaking is as old as the history of the Jewish people and goes back for more than 3,000 years. It may be divided into three periods: from earliest times to the final editing of the Talmud (sixth… …
92NAPLES — NAPLES, city and former kingdom in Campania, S. Italy. The first Jewish settlement there probably dates to the beginning of the first century C.E., if not before. Josephus (Antiquities, XVII, 23–25, and Wars, II, 101–05) reports that during… …
93PESARO — PESARO, city in north central Italy on the Adriatic Sea. A rabbinical responsum attests to the existence of a Jewish community there in 1214. We can assume that Jews had settled in the city even earlier, attracted by its commercial importance.… …
94SALONIKA — (Thessaloniki), port located in N.E. Greece. Although historical evidence is scarce, it is believed that the Alexandrian Jews who arrived in ca. 140 B.C.E. were among the first Jews to settle in Salonika. Several sources give evidence of the… …
95Abraham Joshua Heschel — (January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972) was a Warsaw born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians of the 20th century.BiographyAbraham Joshua Heschel was descended from preeminent European rabbis on both sides of the family. . His …
96Gematria — or gimatria (Rabbinic Hebrew he. גימטריה transl|sem|gēmaṭriyā ), is a system of assigning numerical value to an alphabet. The word Gematria is believed to have been formed from a metathesis of the Greek word grammateia ( play upon letters ), from …
97Rashi — For the astrological concept, see Rāshi (Jyotiṣa). Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, ( he. רבי שלמה יצחקי), better known by the acronym Rashi (Hebrew: rlm;רש י lrm;), (February 22, 1040 ndash; July 13, 1105), was a rabbi from France, famed as the author of… …
98Jewish views of religious pluralism — Religious pluralism is a set of religious world views that hold that one s religion is not the sole and exclusive source of truth, and thus recognizes that some level of truth and value exists in other religions. As such, religious pluralism goes …
99Haggadah of Pesach — The Haggadah ( he. הגדה) is a Jewish religious text that sets out the order of the Passover Seder. Haggadah, meaning telling, is a fulfillment of the scriptural commandment to each Jew to tell your son about the Jewish liberation from slavery in… …
100Tikkun olam — This article is about a concept in Judaism. For the blog, see Tikun Olam (blog). For other related concepts, see Tikkun (disambiguation). Tikkun olam (Hebrew: תיקון עולם) is a Hebrew phrase that means repairing the world. In Judaism, the concept …
