Homiletic
91AARON BEN SAMUEL — (c. 1620–1701), German rabbinical author. He is best known for his concordance Beit Aharon (Frankfurt on the Oder, 1690–91) in which he assembled all biblical passages cited or explained in the Talmud, the midrashim, and the many religious… …
92ASHER ANSHEL BEN ISAAC OF PRZEMYŚL — (17th century), scholar and homiletic author. He is known almost exclusively through his popular collection of sermons Shemenah Laḥmo (Dessau, 1701; frequently reprinted). The first part of the work consists of seven major sermons devoted to the… …
93ASHKENAZI, SAMUEL JAFFE BEN ISAAC — (16th century), rabbi in Constantinople. He wrote a number of works, some of which are still in manuscript. Most of them are homiletic commentaries on the major Midrashim: e.g., Yefeh To ar, a homiletic exegesis on Midrash Rabbah (Genesis, Venice …
94BEKEMOHARAR — BEKEMOHARAR, family of 18th–19th century rabbis of Adrianople. MENAHEM BEN ISAAC ASHKENAZI (1666–1733) was born in Temesvár; he was two years old when his parents moved to Adrianople. He used to sign his name בכמוהר״ר (BKMOHRR= Ben Kevod Morenu… …
95DEUTERONOMY RABBAH — DEUTERONOMY RABBAH, aggadic Midrash on the Book of Deuteronomy. Name In medieval literature the work was also referred to as Haggadat Elleh Ha Devarim Rabbah and Devarim Rabbati, the designation Rabbah being used to distinguish it from… …
96DISCIPLINE, MANUAL OF — ( The Sectarian Document or The Rule of the Community ; Heb. סֶרֶךְ הַיַּחַד, Serekh ha Yaḥad; abbr. 1QS), one of the dead sea scrolls , found in the spring of 1947 near Qumran; now in the Israel Museum s Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. The… …
97GEOGRAPHY — In the Bible The geographic horizon in the early biblical period was the lu aḥ ha ammim, a table of 70 nations listed in Genesis 10. The identification of the names and the location of the countries are the subject of differences of opinion among …
98GREECE — (Heb. יָוָן, Yavan), country in S.E. Europe. SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD (TO 330 C.E.) Although the earliest known Jews on the Greek mainland are to be found only from the third century B.C.E., it is highly probable that Jews traveled or were forcibly… …
99MAGIC — Early Magic Broadly defined, magic is a system of non canonical ritual practices aiming at changing reality. In early Jewish magic this system was based on the use of powerful verbal performative formulae – incantations – whose oral or written… …
100MONEYLENDING — The Religious Context BIBLICAL PERIOD Deuteronomy 23:20–21 states: You shall not lend on interest to your brother, interest of food or money or anything on which interest can be charged. You may charge interest to a foreigner, but not to your… …
