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Yahadut u-Madaʿ ke-Ḥokhmot Mashlimot

יהדות ומדע כחכמות משלימות

Yahadut u-Madaʿ ke-Ḥokhmot Mashlimot — work by Yehuda (Leo) Levi.

Nod shel Dema'ot

נאד של דמעות

Nod shel Dema'ot — work by Isaac Jacob Reines.

Urim Gedolim

אורים גדולים

Urim Gedolim — work by Isaac Jacob Reines.

Or Shivat ha-Yamim

אור שבעת הימים

Or Shivat ha-Yamim — work by Isaac Jacob Reines.

Chotam Tochnit

חותם תוכנית

Chotam Tochnit — work by Isaac Jacob Reines.

Or Chadash al Tzion

אור חדש על ציון

Or Chadash al Tzion — work by Isaac Jacob Reines.

Meorot Shlomo

מאורות שלמה

Meorot Shlomo — work by Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich.

Har ha-Mor

הר המור

Har ha-Mor — work by Mordekhaï Benet.

Machshevet Mordechai

מחשבת מרדכי

Machshevet Mordechai — work by Mordekhaï Benet.

Code Sacerdotal

Name given by modern scholars to this layer of the Pentateuch which deals with ceremonial regulations, namely those relating to sacrifice and purification. These laws formerly formed part of an independent narrative, which contained just enough material…

Typographie

(Redirigé depuis PRINTERS ; PRINTING.) L'art de l'imprimerie. L'invention de l'imprimerie a été accueillie par les Juifs comme « l'art d'écrire avec de nombreuses plumes ». Depuis l'époque des premiers imprimeurs, on fait référence à leur métier comme au « travail sacré » («…

Prosbol

Abbreviated form of the Greek phrase πρὸς βουλῇ βουλευτῶν ("before the assembly of counselors"; cf. Schürer, "History of the Jewish People," etc., English ed., division ii., vol. i., p. 362, which favors the derivation from προσβολή = "submission"); a declaration made in court…

Proverbes, Livre des

Title and Divisions. One of the Ketubim, or Hagiographa, belonging to the group of books of « Ḥokmah », or « Wisdom ». The masoretic superscription in the first and twenty-fifth chapters is « Proverbs of Solomon » (« Mishle Shelomoh »; and likewise in the subscription to…

Dagul me-Revavah

דגול מרבבה

Glosses by Yehezkel Landau on the Shulhan Arukh.

Netiv Hachaim

נתיב החיים

Commentary by Abraham David Lavut on the Derech HaChaim, an abbreviated halakhic guide to prayer.

Tzlach

צל"ח

Talmudic novellae (Tziyoun le-Nefesh Haya) by Yehezkel Landau.

Ziyyuni

ספר ציוני

Kabbalistic commentary on the Torah by Menahem Tsiyoni.

The Executioner's Song

Non-fiction novel by Norman Mailer about death row inmate Gary Gilmore, Pulitzer Prize winner.

The Glass Slipper

סנדל הזכוכית

Reworking of Cinderella for youth (1955).

Five Stories of Ferrara

Recueil de cinq récits ferrarais, prix Strega 1956.

Sdei Chemed

שדי חמד

Vast talmudic and halakic encyclopedia in several volumes.

Orḥot Ẓaddiḳim

Book of ethics written in Germany in the fifteenth century, titled "Sefer ha-Middot" by the author, but called "Orḥot Ẓaddiḳim" by a later copyist. Under this title, a Judeo-German translation, from which the last chapter and some other passages were omitted, was…

Manuscrits

(Redirected from ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.) Writing materials. The earliest materials used for writing were substances such as stone, wood, and metal, on which characters were engraved with a stylus. However, very early on, materials were used…

Proverbes, Midrash Sur Les

(Redirected from MIDRASH MISHLE.) Midrash aggadic to the Proverbs, mentioned for the first time, under the title « Midrash Mishle », by R. Hananeel b. Ḥushiel (first half of the eleventh century) cited in the « Mordekai » on B. M. iii. 293. Nathan of Rome calls this midrash « Agadat…