"(Dramatic) for ""Restoration"". In Israel, ""Restoration"" received 11 nominations for the Ophir Awards. Restoration (2011 film) Restoration is a 2011 Israeli film directed by Yossi (Joseph) Madmoni. The Hebrew title is בוקר טוב אדון פידלמן (transliterated ""Boker Tov Adon Fidelman"", literally ""Good Morning Mr Fidelman""). The film concerns a small furniture-restoration business in downtown Tel Aviv, Malamud & Fidelman. As the film begins, one of the partners (Malamud, played by Rami Danon) has died, and bequeathed his share in the business not to his longtime partner Yaakov Fidelman (Sasson Gabai), but to Yaakov's son Noah Fidelman (Nevo Kimhi). The aging"
"Nava Boker Nava Prehi-Boker (, born 15 November 1970) is an Israeli journalist and politician. Nava Boker was born and raised in Pardes Hanna-Karkur. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Yemen. A journalist by profession, Boker worked for both Yedioth Ahronoth and Ma'ariv, as well as Channel 1. She married and had two daughters, then divorced. At age 27, as a reporter, she met Hadera police chief Lior Boker, and married him. Due to difficulties with obtaining a marriage certificate from the Israeli rabbinate, she married Boker in what she described as an ""alternative marriage."" In 2010 her husband was"
"perspective of the ideology, and two tablets of stone in the center symbolizing the Torah. The two perspectives of Torah and Avoda are united together by the ribbon which says Bnei Akiva on it - symbolizing that the two aspects can only and must work hand in hand. The letters on the two tablets are the Hebrew letters 'Taf' and 'Ayin' standing for ""Torah veAvoda"" (""Torah and work""). The Bnei Akiva's anthem was composed by Moshe-Zvi Neria (originally known as Chaver Minkin). He composed the anthem during the Chol HaMoed period of the holiday of Sukkot, 1932, at a gathering"
"Hakarat HaTov Hakarat HaTov or (Ashekenaz) Hakaras HaTov, is the Hebrew term for gratitude. It literally means ""recognizing the good."" The Hebrew word lehakir means to recognize; The word Tov means good or goodness. The word Jew is derived from the name given to Judah (son of Jacob), son of Jacob and Leah. The Hebrew for Judah is Yehudah, from the wording ""I will praise"" (odeh, Gen. 29:35). The root for this wording means ""to thank."" and refers to ""I am grateful."" Hakaras Hatov is an attitude and a required part of the Jewish way of life : It is"
"and Tel Aviv, claiming it to be a tradition of his family dating to Israelite antiquity preserved by an underground school of ""Bani Abir"" in Habban, Yemen, and styling himself ""Aluf Abir"" ""Grandmaster of Abir"". The word ""abir"" in Modern Hebrew means ""knight"", interpreted as an acronym , for (""Our Lord, our Creator, our Maker, our Healer""). The style does incorporate prayer and the reading of texts because ""Abir is a religious practice which includes Torah studies,"" but it does not mandate what a practitioner's personal choices are outside of the training hall. Yehoshua Sofer Yehoshua Sofer () is an"
"Boaz Boaz (; Modern Hebrew: בועז Bốʿaz; Massoretical Hebrew: בֹּ֫עַז ""Bṓʿaz""; ) is a biblical figure appearing in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible and in the genealogies of Jesus in the New Testament and also the name of a pillar in the portico of the historic Temple in Jerusalem. The word is found 24 times in the Scriptures, two being in Greek (in the form ""Booz""). The root בעז, just used in the Bible in relation to ""Boaz"" (see ""The Temple""), perhaps expresses 'quick(ness)'. The etymology of the name has been suggested by many as ""be'oz"", ""in"
"killed in the Mount Carmel forest fire. She subsequently established a foundation to support fire and rescue workers. Prior to the 2015 Knesset elections she was placed 25th on the Likud list. She was elected to the Knesset as Likud won 30 seats. Boker lives in Hadera and has two daughters. Nava Boker Nava Prehi-Boker (, born 15 November 1970) is an Israeli journalist and politician. Nava Boker was born and raised in Pardes Hanna-Karkur. Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Yemen. A journalist by profession, Boker worked for both Yedioth Ahronoth and Ma'ariv, as well as Channel 1. She"
"Rabbi Bomzer's passing (yahrtzeit), entitled, ""Keter HaRachzav."" Mr. Sklar writes in his introduction that the title was a combination of Rabbi Bomzer's names - firstly, ""RACHZAV"" is the Hebrew acronym for ""Rabbi Chaim Zev Bomzer."" Secondly, Rabbi Bomzer would also call his name a reference to ""the crown of Torah,"" since ""zer"" in Hebrew means ""crown"", and ""Bom"" can be read as a reference to the Shema's reference to Torah as ""bom"" - (Deuteronomy 11:19) ""and you shall speak of them (bom)."" Rabbi Aaron Ziegler, as well as Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, friends and colleagues of Rabbi Bomzer, wrote forewords for"
"where King James Version translates with the words ""confusion"" and ""emptiness"". The two Hebrew words are properly segolates, spelled ""tohuw"" and ""bohuw"". Hebrew ""tohuw"" translates to ""wasteness, that which is laid waste, desert; emptiness, vanity; nothing"". ""tohuw"" is frequently used in Isaiah in the sense of ""vanity"", but ""bohuw"" occurs nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible (outside of Genesis 1:2, the passage in Isaiah 34:11 mentioned above, and in Jeremiah 4:23, which is a reference to Genesis 1:2), its use alongide ""tohu"" being mere paronomasia, and is given the equivalent translation of ""emptiness, voidness"". In the early rabbinical period, the"
"including a familiar ""piyyut"" (liturgical song) entitled ""Usherers of Mercy"", recited before and after Rosh Hashanah in Selichot (Jewish penitential prayers). The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh is the Jewish scriptural canon and central source of Jewish law. The word is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the three traditional subdivisions of the Tanakh: The Torah (""Teaching"", also known as the ""Five Books of Moses"" or ""Pentateuch""), the Nevi'im (""Prophets"") and the Ketuvim (""Writings""). The Tanakh contains 24 books in all; its authoritative version is the Masoretic Text. Traditionally, the text of the Tanakh was said to have"
"Eikev Eikev, Ekev, Ekeb, Aikev, or Eqeb ( — Hebrew for ""if [you follow],"" the second word, and the first distinctive word in the parashah, is the 46th weekly Torah portion (, ""parashah"") in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Deuteronomy. It comprises The parashah tells of the blessings of obedience to God, the dangers of forgetting God, and directions for taking the Land of Israel. Moses recalls the making and re-making of the Tablets of Stone, the incident of the Golden Calf, Aaron's death, the Levites' duties, and exhortations to serve"
"from ""mazel"", which is the Hebrew word for luck or fortune; ""Tof"" which is ""Tov"", in Hebrew meaning good (as in מזל טוב – Mazel tov); and ""Goochem"", in Hebrew ""Chacham"" or Hakham, meaning wise, sly, witty or intelligent, where the Dutch ""g"" is pronounced similarly to the 8th letter of the Hebrew Alphabet the guttural ""Chet"" or Heth. Jews played a major role in the development of Dutch colonial territories and international trade, and many Jews in former colonies have Dutch ancestry. However, all the major colonial powers were competing fiercely for control of trade routes; the Dutch were"
"Israel""), or simply ""kofer"" (כופר, literally ""denier"" and heretic). The Torah states: In 1 Kings King Solomon is warned in a dream which ""darkly portray[s] the ruin that would be caused by departure from God"": The prophetic writings of Isaiah and Jeremiah provide many examples of defections of faith found among the Israelites (e.g., Isaiah 1:2–4 or Jeremiah 2:19), as do the writings of the prophet Ezekiel (e.g., Ezekiel 16 or 18). Israelite kings were often guilty of apostasy, examples including Ahab (I Kings 16:30–33), Ahaziah (I Kings 22:51–53), Jehoram (2 Chronicles 21:6,10), Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:1–4), or Amon (2"
"Turner Stadium The Turner Stadium (), officially the Yaakov Turner Toto Stadium Be'er Sheva (Hebrew: ) is a football stadium in Be'er Sheva and the home ground of Hapoel Be'er Sheva. It was named for former Be'er Sheva mayor Yaakov Turner. The stadium has an all-seated capacity of 16,126 seats, with the southern stand named after Arthur Vasermil, for whom the club's previous Vasermil Stadium was named. and is a part of a sports complex which also includes the multi-purpose 3,000-seat Conch Arena, a training field and a swimming pool. The stadium, located on the northern side of Beer Sheva,"
"which is that even if we didn't get it all, we would have been thankful for even ... Hakarat HaTov Hakarat HaTov or (Ashekenaz) Hakaras HaTov, is the Hebrew term for gratitude. It literally means ""recognizing the good."" The Hebrew word lehakir means to recognize; The word Tov means good or goodness. The word Jew is derived from the name given to Judah (son of Jacob), son of Jacob and Leah. The Hebrew for Judah is Yehudah, from the wording ""I will praise"" (odeh, Gen. 29:35). The root for this wording means ""to thank."" and refers to ""I am grateful."""
"brother, Sharon Drucker, is a professional basketball coach. He lives with his partner, TV director Anat Goren and their four boys, in Tel Aviv-Yafo. Raviv Drucker Raviv Drucker (; born September 11, 1970) is an Israeli journalist, political commentator and investigative reporter. Drucker began his journalistic career as a general reporter, and later on a real-estate and infrastructure reporter in Maariv newspaper. In 1997 he was promoted to be the newspaper's chief political reporter. In 1998 he became the political and diplomatic correspondent for Galei Tzahal (Israel's Army Radio), where he also occasionally hosted the daily ""Ma Bo'er"" (What's Hot)"
"Masoretic Text is the authoritative Hebrew text of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh. It defines the books of the Jewish canon, and also the precise letter-text of these biblical books, with their vocalization and accentuation. The oldest extant manuscripts of the Masoretic Text date from approximately the 9th century CE, and the Aleppo Codex (once the oldest complete copy of the Masoretic Text, but now missing its Torah section) dates from the 10th century. The name Tanakh (Hebrew: ) reflects the threefold division of the Hebrew Scriptures, Torah (""Teaching""), Nevi'im (""Prophets"") and Ketuvim (""Writings""). The Torah (תּוֹרָה) is also known"
"number ""n""); for example, the Mesha Stele is ""KAI 181"". The Deir Alla Inscription (c. 840–760 BCE), which is written in a peculiar Northwest Semitic dialect, has provoked much debate among scholars and had a strong impact on the study of Hebrew language history. The Hebrew Bible, which in Christianity is known as the ""Old Testament"", is commonly known in Judaism as the ""Tanakh"", it being a vocalization of the acronym TNK (תַּנַ""ךְ): ""Torah"" (""Teachings""), ""Nevi'im"" (""Prophets"") and ""Ketuvim"" (""Writings""). The Bible is not a single, monolithic piece of literature because each of these three sections, in turn, contains books"
"Kook. Mossad Harav Kook Mossad HaRav Kook (, ""Rabbi Kook Institute"") is a religious research foundation and publishing house based in Jerusalem. Mossad Harav Kook is named after Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine, and was founded by Yehuda Leib Maimon in 1937. More than 2000 books have been published by Mossad Harav Kook. Among their significant publications are the Daat Mikra TaNaKh series, authoritative editions of Hidushei Ritva and Rashba, Rambam LeAm (Mishna Torah and other works of Maimonides with nikud and a simple commentary), and the complete writings of Rabbi A."
"Mossad Harav Kook Mossad HaRav Kook (, ""Rabbi Kook Institute"") is a religious research foundation and publishing house based in Jerusalem. Mossad Harav Kook is named after Abraham Isaac Kook, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine, and was founded by Yehuda Leib Maimon in 1937. More than 2000 books have been published by Mossad Harav Kook. Among their significant publications are the Daat Mikra TaNaKh series, authoritative editions of Hidushei Ritva and Rashba, Rambam LeAm (Mishna Torah and other works of Maimonides with nikud and a simple commentary), and the complete writings of Rabbi A. I."
"118:22: ""The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone [lit. ""head of the corner"", i.e. ""rosh pina"" in Hebrew]."" Moshe David Shuv (born 1854 in Moineşti; died 1938 in Jerusalem) had been sent ahead to find and purchase an appropriate piece of land for the colonists. Born as Moşe David Iancovici, in Palestine he became known as שו""ב, Shuv, a Hebrew abbreviation of the name of his profession, שוחט ובודק, read ""shochet ve-bodék"", butcher and examiner [of kosher meat]; ""shuv"" has the Hebrew meaning of ""once again"" or ""return!"", an allusion to the main principle of Zionism. Laurence"
"connotations. In the 1960 film adaptation ""The Story of Ruth"", Boaz is played by Stuart Whitman. Boaz Boaz (; Modern Hebrew: בועז Bốʿaz; Massoretical Hebrew: בֹּ֫עַז ""Bṓʿaz""; ) is a biblical figure appearing in the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible and in the genealogies of Jesus in the New Testament and also the name of a pillar in the portico of the historic Temple in Jerusalem. The word is found 24 times in the Scriptures, two being in Greek (in the form ""Booz""). The root בעז, just used in the Bible in relation to ""Boaz"" (see ""The Temple""),"
"German into Hebrew together with his cousin Mordechai Breuer. Mordechai Breuer Mordechai Breuer (; May 14, 1921 – February 24, 2007) was a German-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi. He was one of the world's leading experts on Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), and especially of the text of the Aleppo Codex. His first cousin was the historian also named Mordechai Breuer. Breuer was a great-grandson of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. Mordechai Breuer was born in 1921 to Samson and Else Leah Breuer. His paternal grandfather was Rabbi Dr. Salomon Breuer, son-in-law of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. His mother died while Mordechai was a"
"confidence for learning beyond yeshiva. Rabbi Becker currently studies in The Jerusalem Kollel under Rav Yitzchak Berkowitz shlita, and resides in Har Nof with his family. Machon Yaakov Machon Yaakov is a baal teshuva yeshiva for men located in Har Nof, Jerusalem, Israel. Its faculty and student body are all English speaking. The program, which is designed for students with little or no formal Jewish education, has a one-year minimum and a two-year maximum. Enrollment is limited to about 35 students, generally weighted about 2/3-1/3 between the first- and second- year programs. Machon Yaakov was founded in 2005 by Rabbi"
"thus God's Temple in Jerusalem). The Biblical Hebrew term ""qěnēh bośem"" (קְנֵה בֹּשֶׂם), possibly derived from Sumerian ""kanubi"", literally ""reed of balm"", probably refers to cannabis according to some etymologists, but is more commonly thought to be lemon grass, calamus, or even sweet cane, due to widespread translation issues. Notably, the specific anointing oil in question, is a special herbal formula that functions as a kind of polish and fragrance for the Ark and Tabernacle, and the Bible forbids its manufacture and use to anoint people () with the exception of the Aaronic priesthood (). In Aryeh Kaplan's contemporary English"
"on January he transferred to F.C. Ashdod. Tomer Haliva Tomer Haliva (; born September 27, 1979) is an Israeli football Full back playing for Maccabi Be'er Sheva. Haliva began his career as a defender for Hapoel Be'er Sheva youth team, and in 1997-1998 season he moved to the first team of the club. He played for Be'er Sheva sporadically until 2004-2005, moving to other lower league clubs the likes of Hapoel Tzafririm Holon (national league at the time) and Hapoel Mashosh-Segev Shalom (Liga Bet). In 2005-2006 Haliva transferred to Beitar Jerusalem and a year later he moved to Hapoel Tel"
"Tel Abib Tel Abib (, ""Tel Aviv"" (""the hill of (the season) Spring""), from Akkadian ""Tel Abûbi"" (""The Tel of the flood"") is the season of the year) is an unidentified ""tell"" (hill city) on the Kebar Canal, near Nippur in what is now Iraq. Tel Abib is mentioned in : Nahum Sokolow adopted the biblical place-name as the title for his Hebrew translation of Theodor Herzl's novel ""Altneuland"" (""Old New Land""). It later gave its name to the modern Israeli city of Tel Aviv (the Hebrew letter ב without dagesh represents a sound like [v], but archaic English translations"
"Ki Tavo Ki Tavo, Ki Thavo, Ki Tabo, Ki Thabo, or Ki Savo ( — Hebrew for ""when you enter,"" the second and third words, and the first distinctive words, in the parashah) is the 50th weekly Torah portion (, ""parashah"") in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Deuteronomy. It constitutes The parashah tells of the ceremony of the first fruits (, ""bikkurim""), tithes, and the blessings from observance and curses from violation of the law. The parashah is made up of 6,811 Hebrew letters, 1,747 Hebrew words, 122 verses, and 261"
"sources: Ki Tavo Ki Tavo, Ki Thavo, Ki Tabo, Ki Thabo, or Ki Savo ( — Hebrew for ""when you enter,"" the second and third words, and the first distinctive words, in the parashah) is the 50th weekly Torah portion (, ""parashah"") in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Deuteronomy. It constitutes The parashah tells of the ceremony of the first fruits (, ""bikkurim""), tithes, and the blessings from observance and curses from violation of the law. The parashah is made up of 6,811 Hebrew letters, 1,747 Hebrew words, 122 verses, and"
"Abraham Isaac Kook Abraham Isaac Kook ( ""Abraham Yitshak ha-Kohen Kuk""; 7 September 1865 – 1 September 1935) was an Orthodox rabbi, the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine, the founder of Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav Kook (The Central Universal Yeshiva), a Jewish thinker, Halakhist, Kabbalist, and a renowned Torah scholar. He is known in Hebrew as HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, and by the acronym (HaRaAYaH), or simply as HaRav. He was one of the most celebrated and influential rabbis of the 20th century. Abraham Isaac Kook was born in in the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire"
"emailed every Friday to many hundreds of readers. In addition to the Shabbos page, Rabbi Adler uses his talent to pen the weekly Doresh Tov (דורש טוב) blog (The name ""Doresh Tov"" originally refers to Mordechai Hatzaddik, who is a direct descendant of Binyomin Ben Yaakov, Rabbi Adler's namesake), which contains thoughts on the weekly parsha and/or ""inyoni d'yuma"" (current events in the Jewish calendar). These blogs were all augmented by Hakosev, Adler's umbrella writing organization. Rabbi Adler is also a frequent contributor to ""Parsha Perspectives"", a weekly column on Partners In Torah's website. During the holiday of Purim, where"
"with lawyers, journalists, government ministers, judges, or financiers. Some scribes also copied documents, but this was not necessarily part of their job. The Jewish scribes used the following rules and procedures while creating copies of the Torah and eventually other books in the Tanakh. Sofers () are among the few scribes that still ply their trade by hand, writing on parchment. Renowned calligraphers, they produce the Hebrew Torah scrolls and other holy texts. Until 1948, the oldest known manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible dated back to CE 895. In 1947, a shepherd boy discovered some scrolls dated between 100 BCE"
"deputy Chief of mission in the Netherlands (1997–2003). Boker and his wife Tali have three children. Zeev Boker Zeev Boker is Consul General of Israel to New England since October 2018. He was Israel's sixth Ambassador to Ireland and its first Ambassador to Slovakia. Boker was born and spent his early life on Kibbutz Afek in the North of Israel. He earned a Masters in Political Science (cum laude) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has served as a diplomat since November 1987, when he joined the Ministry of Foreign affairs as a cadet. He became the first Israeli"