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In Israel, rain falls mostly in the fall and winter; this half of the year is called in the Mishnah "yemot ha-geshamim" (days of rains). On Shemini Atzeret, which is the last holiday before the beginning of this rainy season, traditional Jews begin mentioning rain in their prayers (adding the phrase "He causeth the wind to blow and the rain to descend").
Geshem the Arabian (or Geshem the Arab; Hebrew: גֶשֶׁם הָעַרְבִי) is an Arab man mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. He was an ally of Sanballat and Tobiah and adversary of Nehemiah (Neh. 2:19, 6:1).
Geshem may refer to: Geshem (גשם), a Hebrew word for " rain ," applied mostly to the rains which occur in Israel over the course of the fall and winter. This half of the year is called in the Mishnah "yemot ha-geshamin" (Hebrew: ימות הגשמין , days of rains).
According to The Jewish Encyclopedia, [6] atzeret (Biblical Hebrew: עצרת, romanized: ʿaṣereṯ, lit. 'assembly') is the name given to this day in four different locations in the Hebrew Bible. [7] It is not mentioned in Deuteronomy 16, and is found only in those parts of the Bible known as the Priestly Code.
The Hebrew term שיעור ("designated amount") came to refer to a portion of Judaic text arranged for study on a particular occasion, such as a yahrzeit, the dedication of a new home, or the evening of a holiday, and then to a public reading and explanation of the same.
Daf Yomi (Hebrew: דף יומי, Daf Yomi, "page of the day" or "daily folio") is a daily regimen of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries (also known as the Gemara), in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud is covered in sequence.
The earliest piyyuṭim date from late antiquity, the Talmudic (c. 70 – c. 500 CE) [citation needed] and Geonic periods (c. 600 – c. 1040). [1] They were "overwhelmingly from the Land of Israel or its neighbor Syria, because only there was the Hebrew language sufficiently cultivated that it could be managed with stylistic correctness, and only there could it be made to speak so expressively."
A kollel (Hebrew: כולל, pl. כוללים , kollelim, a "gathering" or "collection" [of scholars]) is an institute for full-time, advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature. Like a yeshiva , a kollel features shiurim (lectures) and learning sedarim (sessions); unlike most yeshivot, the student body of a kollel typically consists ...