YESODOT — (Heb. יְסוֹדוֹת; Foundations ), moshav shittufi in central Israel, near Ḥuldah, affiliated with Po alei Agudat Israel. Yesodot was founded in June 1948 in the short interval between the battles during the War of Independence for the opening of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
TRANSLATION AND TRANSLATORS — The earliest Jewish translations, apart from possible examples in the Bible, are the Greek version of the Pentateuch and, later, other books of the Bible, which were made to fill a need in the Greek speaking Jewish community of Alexandria and… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ARTICLES OF FAITH — ARTICLES OF FAITH. The term dogma which is well defined in Christianity has as such no place in Judaism. In Judaism the need for a profession of belief did not arise and rabbinic synods saw no necessity for drawing up concise formulas expressing… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Joseph ibn Shem-Tov — (15th century) was a prolific Judæo Spanish writer born in Castile. He lived in various cities of Spain: Medina del Campo de Leon (1441); Alcalá de Henares (1451); Segovia (1454). Though it is not known precisely what office he held at court, he… … Wikipedia
Eliezer ben Solomon Ashkenazi — was a Rabbi and Talmudical scholar born in Poland about the beginning of the 19th century, who resided afterward in Tunis. He published at Metz in 1845, under the title Dibre Hakamim ( Words of [the] Wise ), a selection of 11 ancient manuscripts … Wikipedia
Nahal Sorek Regional Council — (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית נחל שורק, Mo atza Azorit Nahal Sorek) is a regional council in the Center district of Israel. The seat of the council is Yad Binyamin. The council is named for the Sorek stream. List of settlements This regional council… … Wikipedia
David ben Yom Tov ibn Bilia — was a Portuguese Jewish philosopher who lived in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Ibn Bilia was the author of many works, the greater part of which, no longer in existence, are known only by quotations. Among them were: Me or Enayim, a… … Wikipedia
BLAU, JOSHUA — (1919– ), scholar of biblical Hebrew grammar, Middle Arabic, and genizah manuscripts. Born in Cluj, Transylvania, Blau studied in the Jewish Gymnasium in Budapest and Baden. He had barely spent a year in Jewish studies at the Rabbinical Seminary… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
GUTTMANN, JULIUS — (Yitzhak; 1880–1950), philosopher of religion and historian of Jewish philosophy; son of jacob guttmann . In 1903 he received his Ph.D. at the University of Breslau and in 1906 he was ordained as rabbi by the Juedisch Theologisches Seminar of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ISRAELI, ISAAC BEN SOLOMON — (c. 855 c. 955), physician and philosopher. Born in egypt , Israeli emigrated at about the age of 50 to kairouan , capital of the maghreb , where ʿUbayd Allāh al Mahdī, founder of the Fatimid dynasty, appointed him court physician. His renown… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
