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In casual conversation some Jews, even when not speaking Hebrew, will call God HaShem (השם), which is Hebrew for 'the Name' (compare Leviticus 24:11 and Deuteronomy 28:58). When written, it is often abbreviated to ה׳. Likewise, when quoting from the Tanakh or prayers, some pious Jews will replace Adonai with HaShem.
Ibn Ezra's use of biblical as well as Arabic ideas has been noted. Many of his poetic phrases use Arabic ornamentation and style. Ibn Ezra uses Arabic examples to illustrate the badi, twenty rhetorical techniques found in the Kitab al-Muhadara. The presence of the badi in Ibn Ezra's work reflects a tension among Arabic, Greek, and biblical ...
The two-faced Roman god come to life," after learning of Trevelyan's betrayal. The University of Maryland's undergraduate history journal, created in 2000, is named Janus. [274] Cats with the congenital disorder diprosopus, which causes the face to be partly or completely duplicated on the head, are known as Janus cats. [275]
The Mesha Stele bears the earliest known reference (840 BCE) to the Israelite god Yahweh. [16]Judaism, the oldest Abrahamic religion, is based on a strict, exclusive monotheism, [4] [17] finding its origins in the sole veneration of Yahweh, [4] [18] [19] [20] the predecessor to the Abrahamic conception of God.
The description of the Ancient of Days, identified with God by most commentators, [17] in the Book of Daniel is the nearest approach to a physical description of God in the Hebrew Bible: [18] . ...the Ancient of Days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and ...
According to Ernst Knauf, "El Shaddai" means "God of the Wilderness" and originally would not have had a doubled "d". He argues that it is a loanword from Israelian Hebrew, where the word had a "sh" sound, into Judean Hebrew and hence, Biblical Hebrew, where it would have been śaday with the sound śin.
Scholem theorizes that the two Hebrew spellings of Metatron's name represent these two separate traditions. [16] In his view, the second Metatron is linked to Yahoel. Scholem also links Yahoel with Michael. [16] In the Apocalypse of Abraham, Yahoel is assigned duties normally reserved for Michael. Yahoel's name is commonly seen as a substitute ...
Asking God to bring the Jews back from the Exile into Israel. Mishpat משפט Asking God to judge us justly and to restore the judges to Israel. Minim מינים Asking to destroy the heretical sects and informers. This blessing was a later addition to the Amida, and is the 19 blessing. Tzadikim צדיקים