homiletic commentaries
51Priestly covenant — Part of Judaic series of articles on Priesthood in Judaism   …
52ALKABEẒ, SOLOMON BEN MOSES HA-LEVI — (c. 1505–1584), kabbalist and mystical poet, composer of the Sabbath hymn lekhah dodi ( Come, my Beloved ). In 1529 he decided to settle in Ereẓ Israel. In the course of his trip he stayed briefly in Adrianople. Here, a group of kabbalist… …
53GALUT — (Golah) (Heb. גָּלוּת, גּוֹלָה), exile. The Concept The Hebrew term galut expresses the Jewish conception of the condition and feelings of a nation uprooted from its homeland and subject to alien rule. The term is essentially applied to the… …
54Old Norwegian Homily Book — The Old Norwegian Homily Book (AM 619 4to) is one of two main collections of Old West Norse sermons. The manuscript was written around 1200, contemporary with the other principal collection of sermons, the Old Icelandic Homily Book; together they …
55DISCIPLINE, 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… …
56MAGIC — 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… …
57PEREK SHIRAH — (Heb. פֶּרֶק שִׁירָה chapter of song ), a short, anonymous tract containing a collection of hymnic sayings in praise of the creator placed in the mouths of His creatures. All creation, except man, is represented – the natural and supernatural… …
58Cyril of Turaw — For other uses, see Cyril. Saint Cyril of Turaw Cyril of Turaw Born 1130 Died 1182 Honored in Roman Catholic Church East …
59Elijah ben Solomon Abraham ha-Kohen — (d. 1729) was dayyan of Smyrna, almoner and preacher. Works Elijah produced over 30 works, of which the principal, according to Wunderbar ( Orient, Lit. p. 579), are as follows: * Midrash Eliyahu, eleven funeral sermons and a commentary on the… …
60Catena (Biblical commentary) — A catena (from Latin catena , a chain) is a collection of excerpts from the writings of Biblical commentators, especially the Church Fathers and early ecclesiastical writers, strung together like the links of a chain. A catena exhibits a… …
