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According to the Bible, Gershom (גֵּרְשֹׁם Gēršōm, "a sojourner there"; Latin: Gersam) was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah. [1] The name means "a stranger there" in Hebrew, ( גר שם ger sham ), which the text argues was a reference to Moses' flight from Egypt.
Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גֵרְשׁׂם שָׁלוֹם) (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kabbalah , Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem .
Gershom ben Judah, (c. 960–1040) best known as Rabbeinu Gershom (Hebrew: רבנו גרשום, "Our teacher Gershom") and also commonly known to scholars of Rabbinic Judaism by the title Rabbeinu Gershom Me'Or Hagolah ("Our teacher Gershom the light of the exile"), was a famous Talmudist and Halakhist.
Biblical scholars regard the name as being essentially the same as "Gershom" (גֵּרְשֹׁם Gēršōm), [2] which appears to mean "a sojourner there" (גר שם), and it is Gershom rather than Gershon who is sometimes listed in the Book of Chronicles as a founder of one of the principal Levite factions. [3]
Gershom Mendes Seixas (January 15, 1745 – July 2, 1816) was the first native-born Jewish religious leader in the United States. He served as the hazzan of Congregation Shearith Israel , New York City 's first Spanish and Portuguese synagogue , for about five decades.
In his introduction to Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, Scholem blames Jewish scholars of the Haskalah period, who, because of what he decried their antagonism and neglect of the study of Kabbalah, allowed the field be all but monopolized by "charlatans and dreamers".
Gershom Bulkeley (1635 – December 2, 1713) was a Christian minister, physician, surgeon and magistrate. [1] Early life, family and education.
Gershom Gustav Schocken (Hebrew: גרשום גוסטב שוקן, 29 September 1912 – 20 December 1990) was an Israeli journalist and politician who was editor of Haaretz for more than 50 years and a member of the Knesset for the Progressive Party between 1955 and 1959.