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101prayer — prayer, suit, plea, petition, appeal mean an earnest and usually a formal request for something and their corresponding intransitive verbs pray, sue, plead, petition, appeal mean to make such a request. Prayer and pray imply that the request is… …
102Arnold, Sir Edwin — (1832 1904) Kentish poet and journalist, graduated from University College, Oxford (where he won the Newdigate prize for poetry), in 1854. He served as principal of the government college in Poona, Bombay, and returned to England in 1861 to… …
103BERIḤAH — (Heb. בְּרִיחָה; flight ), name of an organized underground operation moving Jews out of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, the Baltic countries, and the U.S.S.R. into Central and Southern Europe between 1944 and 1948 as a step …
104ENCYCLOPEDIAS — of General Content in Hebrew and Yiddish Outside of Israel The first Hebrew encyclopedias were translations or adaptations of Arabic works, which were intended as systematic presentations of the sciences in the medieval Aristotelian scheme, not… …
105HAI BEN SHERIRA — (939–1038), gaon of Pumbedita and molder of the halakhah and the most prominent figure of his time. Of his youth nothing is known. From 986 he was the avbet din in the academy of pumbedita , acting as the deputy to his father Sherira gaon; in… …
106IBĀḌĪS — The Ibāḍiyya is a moderate branch of the Khārijī sect, that broke with mainstream Islam in 657 on the question of who was entitled to the caliphate. From their first center in basra , missionaries were sent to propagate the Ibāḍī teaching. As a… …
107ISAIAH BEN ELIJAH DI TRANI — (the Younger, Riaz ; d. c. 1280), rabbinical scholar; grandson of isaiah b. mali di trani (the Elder). Little is known of his life, and even his works have remained mostly in manuscript. His novellae are known mainly from quotations in Joshua… …
108JENER, ABRAHAM NAPHTALI HIRSCH BEN MORDECAI — (1805–1876), rabbi and author. Jener was appointed dayyan at Cracow in 1831 and in 1856, after the death of Alexander Landau, the head of the bet din. The extreme Orthodox element refused to elect him chief rabbi of Cracow on account of his… …
109MENDELSSOHN, MOSES — (Moses ben Menahem, acronym RaMbeMaN, or Moses of Dessau; 1729–1786), philosopher of the German Enlightenment in the pre Kantian period, early Maskil, and a renowned Jewish figure in the 18th century. Born in Dessau, son of a Torah scribe,… …
110MINHAGIM BOOKS — Variations in usage between various sections of Palestine are already recorded in the period of the tannaim and amoraim. Thus, customs of Jerusalem (Ket. 4b, 12b; BB 93b; TJ, Suk. 4:14; Sem. 3:6), variations between Judah and Galilee (TJ, Pes.… …
