Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Smith was born on October 9, 1970, [7] in Embro, Ontario. [8] He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo and Emmaus Bible College.He earned a Master of Philosophy degree in philosophical theology in 1995 at the Institute for Christian Studies [8] where he studied under James Olthuis. [9]
Simcha Jacobovici was born on April 4, 1953, in Petah Tikva, Israel, to a Romanian–Jewish family.His parents were Holocaust survivors from Iași, Romania, who emigrated to then Mandatory Palestine in 1941. [7]
The Zohar also notes that the Hebrew word for "in happiness" (b'simcha, Hebrew: בשמחה) contains the same letters as the Hebrew word for "thought" (machshava, Hebrew: מחשבה). [26] This is understood to mean that the key to happiness is found through our minds, by training oneself to weed out any negative thought that prevent one from ...
Simcha is also the name of a kosher beer from Saxony, Germany. [2] It was also a slang term used in Jewish-American organized crime circles to refer to a pimp. [3] Members of the Chabad movement sometimes use the word Simcha (abbreviated as "S.") when referring to place names that begin with the word "Saint" in order to avoid what they believe is idolatry.
On the Hebrew calendar, the seven-day holiday of Sukkot in the autumn (late mid-September to late mid-October) is immediately followed by the holiday of Shemini Atzeret.In Orthodox and Conservative communities outside Israel, Shemini Atzeret is a two-day holiday, and the Simchat Torah festivities are observed on the second day.
Simcha of Rome was a Jewish scholar and rabbi who lived in Rome in the last quarter of the 13th century . He was given an open letter by the community and sent out to find Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah and bring it back with him. He traveled through Provence and Catalonia without meeting with any success.
Simcha Paull Raphael (born 1951) is a Canadian psychotherapist, death awareness educator, and writer. He is the founder of the Da'at Institute for Death Awareness, Advocacy, and Training, [2] and author of the book Jewish Views of the Afterlife, [1] a synthesis of premodern mystical Jewish philosophy with postmodern concepts of transpersonal psychology, consciousness research, and near-death ...
Simon Weinstein, known by his Hebrew name Simcha Weinstein (Hebrew: שמחה וינשטיין), is an English author and a rabbi. In 2006, his first book, Up Up and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero, was published. In 2008, his second book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the 21st Century, was published.