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centers of Jewish culture. After all, what is life really about? Food, relationships, enrichment … So is Jewish life. So many of our traditions inherently...

minor tradition in Jewish mystical history.[citation needed] Four Worlds Ein Sof Aggadah Gnosticism Jewish mythology Angels in Judaism Jewish mystical...

rise to Hellenistic Judaism in the Jewish diaspora which sought to establish a Hebraic-Jewish religious tradition within the culture and language of Hellenism...

religion that comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal traditions of the Jewish people. Judaism evolved from Yahwism, an ancient Semitic religion...

"Prophets", literally "spokespersons") The last Jewish prophet is believed to have been Malachi. In Jewish tradition it is believed that the period of prophecy...

romanized: Qabbālā, lit. 'reception, tradition') is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. A traditional Kabbalist is...

Jerusalem after its desecration by the Seleucid Empire. According to Jewish tradition, during the Maccabean Revolt, only a small amount of pure olive oil...

demons in Solomon's encounters are of Greek, Egyptian, Jewish, Christian, Arabic, and other traditions. The majority of the testament consists of Solomon's...

literary units in the work are considered to be older and predominantly of Jewish origin. There is wide agreement that the original was composed in a Semitic...

and was fifty years old when he had his final vision. According to Jewish tradition, Ezekiel did not write his own book, the Book of Ezekiel, but rather...

any member of any tribe, in any tribal territory. According to Jewish religious tradition, upon making Aliyah by crossing the Jordan River to enter the...

agricultural practices, and civil claims and damages. According to Rabbinic Jewish tradition, the Oral Torah was passed down orally in an unbroken chain from generation...

spheres, imported from Christianity, was alien to Jewish tradition – were the only venues in which Jewishness could be expressed. The nascent Reform movement...

from the Hebrew Masoretic Text of the Bible. This calendar is used within Jewish communities for religious purposes and is one of two official calendars...

named Simon ben Nathanael. In the Christian tradition, Gamaliel is recognized as a Pharisee doctor of Jewish Law. Acts of the Apostles, 5 speaks of Gamaliel...

continue his father's quest, that Terah himself was unable to achieve. In Jewish tradition, when Terah died at age 205, Abraham (70 years younger) was already...

Genesis 1:2. The Jewish divisions of the Hebrew text differ at various points from those used by Christians. For instance, Jewish tradition regards the ascriptions...

the Jewish population of Judea devastated. Jewish war captives were again captured and sold into slavery by the Romans. According to Jewish tradition, the...

last in Jewish tradition—Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi—were active during this period.[citation needed] After the death of the last Jewish prophet and...

Ptolemaic context, most of these passages belong to later revisions." In Jewish tradition, he is the ancestor of a second Messiah called "Mashiach ben Yosef"...