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41KORAḤ, YIḤYE (Yaḥya) BEN SHALOM — (1840–1881), scholar and kabbalist, in Sanʾa , yemen . Koraḥ s works are concerned with masorah, the Targum Onkelos, grammar, explanations on the Pentateuch, and exegesis on Yemenite poetry. In two fields, those of Targum Onkelos and Yemenite… …
42Matthew 6:19–20 — Matthew 6:19 and 6:20 are the nineteenth and twentieth verses of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. These verses open the discussion of wealth. These verses are paralleled in… …
43Vesak — Infobox Holiday|Buddhism holiday name=Vesak official name=Wesak Visakah Puja Vaishaka Buddha Purnima Visakha Bucha Saga Dawa 佛誕 (fó dàn) Phật Đản nickname=Buddha s Birthday or Buddha Day observedby=Buddhists date=First full moon of the Taurus, in …
44Dream of the Rood — The Dream of the Rood is one of the earliest Christian poems in the corpus of Old English literature and an example of the genre of dream poetry. Like most Old English poetry, it is written in alliterative verse. Rood is from the Old English rod… …
45Unawatuna — is a beach resort, located on the southern coast of Sri Lanka.Mythical rootsFrom RamayanaThe description of the beach paradises in Valmiki s epic Ramayana sounds like Unawatuna:: a seashore dotted with thousands of trees, coconuts, and palms… …
46Hasseki Sultan Imaret — was an Ottoman public soup kitchen constructed in Jerusalem to feed the poor and the needy during the reign of Sultan Suleiman I, also known as Suleiman the Magnificent. The imaret was actually part of a massive Waqf Complex established in 1552… …
47Labourers, Statute of — 1351. This statute s purpose was to give oversight of the Ordinance of Labourers of 1349. It began, Because a great part of the people and especially of the workmen and servants has now died in that pestilence, some, seeing the straits of the… …
48charity — n. 1. Benevolence, kindness, benignity, tender heartedness, kind heartedness, fellow feeling, good will, good nature, milk of human kindness. 2. Beneficence, liberality, generosity, bounty, humanity, philanthropy, alms giving, active goodness,… …
49charity — [n1] generosity, gift alms, alms giving, assistance, benefaction, beneficence, contribution, dole, donation, endowment, fund, gifting, hand*, hand out, helping hand*, largesse, oblation, offering, philanthropy, relief, write off; concepts 337,657 …
50maundy — n. originally, ceremony of washing of feet of poor by sovereign; modern, alms giving by sovereign in its stead. ♦ Maundy money, such alms. ♦ Maundy Thursday, Thursday before Easter, on which the ceremony was performed and the money is… …
