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Frey said the Cunninghams then toured America singing the song with the text "Kum Ba Yah". [1] The story of an African origin for the phrase circulated in several versions, spread also by the revival group the Folksmiths, whose liner notes for the song stated that "Kum Ba Yah" was brought to America from Angola. [1] As Winick points out, however:
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First of all, the article never claims a connection to Aramaic. Hebrew and Aramaic are about as different as English and Dutch. They're related, but not the same language. Second, the idea that Gullah is a "Hebrew creole" is nonsense. Gullah contains words and grammatical features from several West African languages, but NOT Hebrew.
Etz Hayim (in Hebrew: עץ חיים) ("Tree [of] Life") is a text of the teachings of Isaac Luria collected by his disciple Chaim Vital. It is the primary interpretation and synthesis of Lurianic Kabbalah. It was first published in Safed in the 16th century. It consists of the primary introduction to the remainder of the Lurianic system.
The Hebrew and English bible text is the New JPS version. It contains a number of commentaries, written in English, on the Torah which run alongside the Hebrew text and its English translation, and it also contains a number of essays on the Torah and Tanakh in the back of the book.
The Hebrew text in Psalms was originally that of Christian D. Ginsburg's [4] earlier (1894) edition. [5] This led to protests, since Ginsburg had converted to Christianity , so subsequent volumes used a (completely reset) copy of Meir Letteris ' second (1866) edition of the Hebrew text.
Sifrei Kodesh (Hebrew: ספרי קודש, lit. 'Holy books'), commonly referred to as sefarim (Hebrew: ספרים, lit. 'books'), or in its singular form, sefer, are books of Jewish religious literature and are viewed by religious Jews as sacred.
Names of God in Judaism have further prominence, though infinite meaning turns the whole Torah into a Divine name. As the Hebrew name of things is the channel of their lifeforce, parallel to the sephirot, so concepts such as "holiness" and "mitzvot" embody ontological Divine immanence, as God can be known in manifestation as well as transcendence.