to be bareheaded
101bareheadedness — noun see bareheaded …
102un|bon|net|ed — «uhn BON uh tihd», adjective. wearing no bonnet or cap; bareheaded …
103ALATINO — (Alatini), Italian family of physicians and scholars from Spoleto (Umbria). JEHIEL REHABIYAH (VITALE) ALATINO was physician to Pope Julius III (1550–55) and to the cardinal of Urbino. His half brother, MOSES AMRAM (d. 1605), a celebrated… …
104COMMANDMENTS, THE 613 — (Heb. תַּרְיַ״ג מִצְווֹת, taryag mitzvot). The total number of biblical commandments (precepts and prohibitions) is given in rabbinic tradition as 613. R. Simlai, a Palestinian teacher, states: 613 commandments were revealed to Moses at Sinai,… …
105HUNA BEN (Bereih de-Rav) JOSHUA — (fourth century C.E.), Babylonian amora. R. Huna, together with R. Papa , was a pupil of abbaye (Pes. 111b) and of rava (BB 22a). Rava held them in great esteem, saying of them Happy are the righteous (Hor. 10b; Kid. 32b), but he was also… …
106JUDAIZERS — JUDAIZERS, persons who, without being Jews, follow in whole or in part the Jewish religion or claim to be Jews. The prototype of the Judaizer was naaman , the minister to the king of Syria, who, after being cured by Elisha, worshiped the God of… …
107MODENA, LEON — (Judah Areyeh mi Modena; 1571–1648), Venetian rabbi, cantor, preacher, teacher, author, and polemicist. His father, Isaac, came from an old French Jewish family which settled in Modena and, after they moved to Bologna and later Ferrara,… …
108REFORM JUDAISM — REFORM JUDAISM, first of the modern interpretations of Judaism to emerge in response to the changed political and cultural conditions brought about by the emancipation . The Reform movement was a bold historical response to the dramatic events of …
109RESPONSA — (Heb. שְׁאֵלוֹת וּתְשׁוּבוֹת; lit. queries and replies ), a rabbinic term denoting an exchange of letters in which one party consults another on a halakhic matter. Such responsa are already mentioned in the Talmud, which tells of an inquiry… …
