"information about Moses in the Jewish apocrypha and in the genre of rabbinical exegesis known as Midrash, as well as in the primary works of the Jewish oral law, the Mishnah and the Talmud. Moses is also given a number of bynames in Jewish tradition. The Midrash identifies Moses as one of seven biblical personalities who were called by various names. Moses' other names were: Jekuthiel (by his mother), Heber (by his father), Jered (by Miriam), Avi Zanoah (by Aaron), Avi Gedor (by Kohath), Avi Soco (by his wet-nurse), Shemaiah ben Nethanel (by people of Israel). Moses is also attributed"
"amongst the following. Ishmael's children Nebaioth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. Isaac's children the Edomites and Israelites. Jokshan's children Sheba and Dedan. And finally Midian's children Ephah, Henoch, Abida, Eldaah and Epher. Children of Eber The Sons of Eber or Bnei Ever (בני-עבר) a synonym for the earliest cultural Hebrews, are first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 10:21 (). In orthodox circles the term is understood to refer to the wider family of Hebrew peoples from whom Abraham came. Each of the names of the children in question is understood to"
"Shebuel Shebuel () was a descendant of Gershom, the son of Moses and Zipporah. He, along with his kinsman Rehabiah a descendant of Eliezer, were described as chiefs and included in the Tribe of Levi. Shebuel is also described as ""ruler of the treasures"". His name means ""captive of God"" or ""returned of God"". His patrilineal lineage can be traced back to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob since Levi is both his great-great grandfather (through Jochebed) and great-great-great grandfather (through Amram). He is also descended from Jethro and Jethro's ancestor Midian, son of Abraham and his second wife Keturah, through his"
"""Jethro"" was a title, ""his Excellency""). According to Shimon bar Yochai, he had two names, ""Hobab"" and ""Jethro"" (Sifre, Num. 78). It became, however, generally accepted that he had seven names: ""Reuel"", ""Jether"", ""Jethro"", ""Hobab"", ""Heber"", ""Keni"" (comp. Judges i. 16, iv. 11), and ""Putiel""; Eleazar's father-in-law (Ex. vi. 25) being identified with Jethro by interpreting his name either as ""he who abandoned idolatry"" or as ""who fattened calves for the sake of sacrifices to the idol"" (Ex. R. xxvii. 7; Mek., Yitro, 'Amaleḳ, 1; Tan., Shemot, 11; comp. Targ. pseudo-Jonathan to Ex. vi. 25 and Soṭah 44a). According to"
"others to whom cases were delegated in accordance with the advice of Jethro, his Midianite father-in-law. The Book of Judges mentions twelve leaders who judged Israel: Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, and Samson. The First Book of Samuel mentions Eli and Samuel, as well as Joel and Abiah (two sons of Samuel). The First Book of Chronicles mentions Kenaniah and his sons. The Second Book of Chronicles mentions Amariah and Zebadiah (son of Ishmael). The biblical text does not generally describe these leaders as ""a judge"", but says that they ""judged Israel"", using the"
"Bithiah then adopted him as her son. Aside from the name ""Moses"", which Bithiah gave to him, he had seven names, or according to other stories ten, other names given to him by his mother, his father, his brother Aaron, his sister Miriam, his nurse, his grandfather Kehat, and Israel. These names were: Jared, Abi Gedor, Ḥeber, Abi Soko, Jekuthiel, Abi Zanoah, and Shemaiah (""Shama 'Yah"" meaning ""God has heard""), the last one being given to him by Israel. He was also called ""Heman"". Moses was a very large child at the age of three; and it was at this"
"ben Solomon in his ""Sekel Ṭob""; Jacob Tam in his ""Sefer ha-Yashar""; RaSHBaM in his commentary on the Pentateuch; Ibn Ezra (see above); Tobiah ben Moses the Karaite in his ""Yehi Me'orot""; Isaac ben Abba Mari in his ""Sefer ha-'Iṭṭur""; Isaac ben Moses in his ""Or Zarua""'; Zedekiah ben Abraham (see above); Judah ben Eliezer in his ""Minḥat Yehudah""; Eliezer ben Nathan in his piyyut ""Lel Shimmurim""; and numerous later Biblical commentators, halakists, and casuists. It will thus be seen that the ""Leḳaḥ Ṭov"" was considered as an authority by the German, French, and Italian, but not by the earlier"
"of others. His works are being reprinted by Mechon Harrai Kedem, Mechon Chachmas Shlomo and Mechon Meoros Hatorah. More can be seen in Hebrew in the front of Sefer Shoel Umeshiv reprinted by Mechon Harrai Kedem and haggada shel pesach Divrei Shaul reprinted by Mechon Meoros Hatorah. Joseph Saul Nathansohn Joseph Saul Nathansohn (1808–1875) () was a Polish rabbi and posek, and a leading rabbinical authority of his day. Rabbi Nathansohn was born at Berezhany (Berzan), Galicia (today's western Ukraine); he was the son of Aryeh Lebush Nathanson, rabbi at Berzan and author of ""Bet El."" He studied Talmud at"
"paternal grandmother Zipporah. Shebuel Shebuel () was a descendant of Gershom, the son of Moses and Zipporah. He, along with his kinsman Rehabiah a descendant of Eliezer, were described as chiefs and included in the Tribe of Levi. Shebuel is also described as ""ruler of the treasures"". His name means ""captive of God"" or ""returned of God"". His patrilineal lineage can be traced back to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob since Levi is both his great-great grandfather (through Jochebed) and great-great-great grandfather (through Amram). He is also descended from Jethro and Jethro's ancestor Midian, son of Abraham and his second wife"
"Uziah, son of Sheshak, son of Michael, son of Elyael, son of Amihud, son of Shephatya, son of Psuel, son of Pison, son of Malikh, son of Jerubaal, son of Yerucham, son of Chananya, son of Zavdi, son of Elpo'al, son of Shimri, son of Zecharya, son of Merimoth, son of Hushim, son of Sh'chora, son of Gazah, son of 'Azza, son of Gera, son of Bela, son of Benjamin, son of Jacob the firstborn, whose name is called Israel."" Mordecai Mordecai is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. He is described"
"group of Arabs, whose numbers have been vastly exaggerated. Zerah was a Gershonite Levite (1 Chr. 6:6; 6:26). Zerah Zerah or Zérach ( / ""sunrise"" Standard Hebrew Zéraḥ / Záraḥ, Tiberian Hebrew Zéraḥ / Zāraḥ) refers to several different people in the Hebrew Bible. Zerah was the name of an Edomite Chief. He was listed as the second son of Reuel, son of Basemath, who was Ishmael's daughter and one of the wives of Esau the brother of Jacob (Israel) (Genesis 36:13 and 36:17). According to the Book of Genesis, Zerah was the son of Tamar and of Judah, and"
"Nethanel ben Isaiah Nethanel ben Isaiah (14th century) was a Yemenite Jewish rabbi, Biblical commentator and poet of the fourteenth century. He is best known as the author of a homiletic commentary on the Torah entitled ""Nur al-Zulm wa-Mashbah al-Hikm,"" or what is simply translated into Hebrew as ""Sefer Me'or ha-Afelah"" (). The first notice of this work was given by Jacob Saphir, who saw a manuscript of it at Hirbah, a small town in Yemen, in 1863. But the beginning of the manuscript was missing, and Saphir's statement that the author's name was Isaiah and that the title was"
"He"") and Malkuth (Feminine Shekhinah). The teachings of Isaac Luria, which form the basis of modern esoteric Kabbalah, read the mythological doctrine of ""Shevirat HaKeilim"" (""Shattering of the vessels in God's Persona) from the account of the Edomite Kings of Genesis 36:31 and I Chronicles 1:43: ""These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before there reigned any king over the children of Israel..."" In Kabbalah, based on exoteric Midrash, the Hebrew Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, embody the sephirot of ""Chesed-Kindness"", ""Gevurah-Strength"" and ""Tiferet-Beauty"". Kindness and Judgement are polar forces and Beauty harmonises. The imbalances emerged"
"Jezebel Jezebel is a figure of the Hebrew Bible, described in the Book of Kings (1 Kings 16:31) as a queen who was the daughter of Ithobaal I of Sidon and the wife of Ahab, King of Israel. According to the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible, Jezebel incited her husband King Ahab to abandon the worship of Yahweh and encourage worship of the deities Baal and Asherah instead. Jezebel persecuted the prophets of Yahweh, and fabricated evidence of blasphemy against an innocent landowner who refused to sell his property to King Ahab, causing the landowner to be put"
"Bethuel Bethuel ( ""Bəṯū’êl"", “house of God”), in the Hebrew Bible, was an Aramean man, the youngest son of Nahor and Milcah, the nephew of Abraham, and the father of Laban and Rebecca. Bethuel was also a town in the territory of the tribe of Simeon, west of the Dead Sea. Some scholars identify it with Bethul and Bethel in southern Judah, to which David gives part of the spoils of his combat with the Amalekites. The man Bethuel appears nine times in nine verses in the Hebrew Bible, all in Genesis. Adherents of the documentary hypothesis often attribute most"
"a brief book on morality and spirituality, titled ""Mussar Avicha"". Another book, a collection of his letters called ""Igrot Hareiyah"", incorporated the acronym of his name, Abraham Isaac. It was in 1911 that Rav Kook also maintained a correspondence with the Jews of Yemen, addressing some twenty-six questions to ""the honorable shepherds of God's congregation"" (Heb. ) and sending his letter via the known Zionist emissary, Shemuel Yavneʼeli. Their reply was later printed in a book published by Yavneʼeli. Rav Kook's influence on people in different walks of life was already noticeable, as he engaged in kiruv (""Jewish outreach""), thereby"
"Eshbaʿal (""The Lord is Great""), and David's son Beeliada (""The Lord Knows""). The name Bealiah (""The Lord is Jah""; ""Yahweh is Baʿal"") combined the two. However John Day states that as far as the names Eshba’al, Meriba’al, and Beeliada (that is Baaliada), are concerned it is not certain whether they simply allude to the Cannanite god Ba’al, or are intended to equate Yahweh with Ba’al, or have no connection to Ba’al. It was the program of Jezebel, in the 9th century , to introduce into Israel's capital city of Samaria her Phoenician worship of Baal as opposed to the worship"
"Jerahmeel The name Jerahmeel (Hebrew , Yerachmi'el; Greek ) appears several times in the Tanakh. It means ""He will obtain mercy of God"", ""God pities"", ""May God have compassion"", or ""May God pity"". There are probably three distinct persons of that name in the Tanakh. In order of their lifetimes they are: The Jerahmeelites were a people, presumably descended from Jerahmeel number 1 above, living in the Negev, who David, while in service with the Philistines, claimed to have attacked (), but with whom he was really on friendly terms (). Cheyne developed a theory which made the Jerahmeelites into"
"identify the prophet Hud as Eber's son. Eber Eber (, ISO 259-3 ""ʕeber"", Standard Hebrew ""Éver"", Tiberian Hebrew ""ʻĒḇer"", Arabic ""ʿĀbir"") is an ancestor of the Israelites and the Ishmaelites according to the ""Table of Nations"" in and . Eber was a great-grandson of Noah's son Shem and the father of Peleg born when Eber was 34 years old, and of Joktan. He was the son of Shelah a distant ancestor of Abraham. According to the Hebrew Bible, Eber died at the age of 464 () when Jacob was 79. In the Septuagint, Eber's (῞Εβερ) father is called Sala (Σαλά)."
"the son of Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka (Gorodenka), one of the Baal Shem Tov's disciples, after whom Rebbe Nachman was named. Rebbe Nachman had two brothers, Yechiel Zvi and Yisroel Mes, and a sister, Perel. Rebbe Nachman told his disciples that as a small child, he avoided the pleasures of this world and set his sights on spirituality. He paid his melamed (teacher) three extra coins for every page of Talmud that he taught him, beyond the fee that his father was paying the teacher, to encourage the teacher to cover more material. From the age of six, he would"
"ben Abba Mari (for both of whom he is simply ""Ha-Rab,"" or ""Ha-Rab ha-Meḥabber""), Abraham ben David (RABaD III), and Zerahiah ben Isaac ha-Levi. The works of Maimonides and Jacob ben Asher, published a century later, caused Judah's codex to be neglected, although individual scholars down to the 16th century made use of it. From quotations found in works of more than forty authors it is seen that Judah codified the whole law, ritual and civil. His ""Sefer ha-'Ittim,"" of which manuscript fragments exist in the library of Jews' College, London (Hirschfeld, in ""J. Q. R."" xiv. 191-192), is cited"
"Saliba/Saliba, Bar Hibraius, Bar Mokates, Malek, Bet Qinyana, Arad, Sheenu/Shinu, Gabriel, Daniel, Malka, Malki, Graish, Bet Abraham, Abraham/Avrahim, Samano, Khiyyo, Shimun, Barkho, Akbalit/Akbalut, Sarmas, Hasaddo, Jendo, Mardo, Nisan/Neesan, Bar Sabaee, Hedo/Haydoo, Khoshaba, David/Dawid, Sharo, Abdishu/Abdisho, Balu, Jannu, Belo, Akkad, Somo, Danili, Khamur, Sorishu, Dudashu, Mishail/Mishael/Michael, Moushe, Malishu, Sulaqa, Khanna/Hanna, Naby, Yaqub, Khnanisho, Knaninyah, Bazi, Enwiya, Awia, Shammo, Shimun, Shlemun, Ezekiel, Oshana/Ochana, Oraha, Daniel, Elia, Yonadam, Yokhanis, Murza, Shabo, Homeh, Lazar, Tamraz, Mikho, Emmanuel, Sayad, Aho, Oshalim, Kakku/Kako, Talia, Kanna, Adamo, Rashu/Rasho, Bassoo, Khananishu, Ashita, Khaya, Mannu, Khammo/Khamu, Birkhu/Birkho, Israel, Asia, Yona, Chikko, Keno/Kinu, Babu/Baboo, Ammo Baba, Rasho, Tyareh, Eshtarzin, Kasri,"
"Zerah Zerah or Zérach ( / ""sunrise"" Standard Hebrew Zéraḥ / Záraḥ, Tiberian Hebrew Zéraḥ / Zāraḥ) refers to several different people in the Hebrew Bible. Zerah was the name of an Edomite Chief. He was listed as the second son of Reuel, son of Basemath, who was Ishmael's daughter and one of the wives of Esau the brother of Jacob (Israel) (Genesis 36:13 and 36:17). According to the Book of Genesis, Zerah was the son of Tamar and of Judah, and was the twin of Pharez. This same Zerah is mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in . Zerah"
"Asher ben Jehiel and the Mordechai. He also taught the author of the Or Zarua Isaac ben Moses of Vienna and the Smag Moses ben Jacob of Coucy. Some say all the items in the will were written through ""Ruach hakodesh"". Some commentaries go so far as to say that none of the ""Neviim"", Prophets of the Bible, came to the level of Rav Yehuda HeChasid. Many people are very careful with all the items listed in the will. Some say one who is not careful with the items in the tzavaah will have to give a ""din"" and ""cheshbon"""
"(Elpalet, Eliphalet); ""comforts"" (Nehemiah); ""heals"" (Rephael); ""conceals"" (Elzaphan, Zephaniah); ""establishes"" (Eliakim, Jehoiakim); ""knows"" (Eliada, Jehoiada); ""remembers"" (Zechariah); ""sees"" (Hazael, Jahaziel); ""hears"" (Elishama, Hoshama); ""answers"" (Anaiah, Ananiah, Janai); ""speaks"" (Amariah); ""is praised"" (Jehaleel); ""is asked"" (Shealtiel); ""comes"" (Eliathah); ""lives"" (Jehiel); ""exalts/uplifts"" (Jeremiah); ""thunders"" (Raamiah; Nehemiah 7:7); ""gladdens"" (Jahdiel, Jehdeiah); ""judges"" (Elishaphat, Jehoshaphat, Shephatiah, Daniel); ""is just"" (Jehozadak, Zedekiah); ""is king"" (Elimelech, Malchiel); ""is lord"" (Bealiah); ""is great"" (Gedaliah); ""is perfect"" (Jotham); ""is high"" (Jehoram); ""is glorious"" (Jochebed); ""is incomparable"" (Michael, literally ""who is like God?"") Besides these distinct names of God other divine names are used, as ""Adoni"" in Adoniram, and"
"Simeon wept when he thought that Hagar, the handmaid of Rabbi Simeon's ancestor Sarah, was found worthy of meeting an angel three times (including in ), while Rabbi Simeon did not meet an angel even once. A Midrash counted in which the angel told Hagar, ""Behold, you are with child ... and you shall call his name Ishmael,"" among four instances in which Scripture identifies a person's name before birth. Rabbi Isaac also counted the cases of Isaac (in ), Solomon (in ), and Josiah (in ). The Gemara taught that if one sees Ishmael in a dream, then God"
"philosophical commentary on the Pentateuch entitled ""al-Wajiz al-Mujna"". Nethanel ben Isaiah Nethanel ben Isaiah (14th century) was a Yemenite Jewish rabbi, Biblical commentator and poet of the fourteenth century. He is best known as the author of a homiletic commentary on the Torah entitled ""Nur al-Zulm wa-Mashbah al-Hikm,"" or what is simply translated into Hebrew as ""Sefer Me'or ha-Afelah"" (). The first notice of this work was given by Jacob Saphir, who saw a manuscript of it at Hirbah, a small town in Yemen, in 1863. But the beginning of the manuscript was missing, and Saphir's statement that the author's"
"named ""Sefer Ha-Zoref"", came to Nathan ben Levi, while others came into the possession of the Baal Shem Tov, who evidently valued them highly while unaware of their origins. Scholem (1974) contains a lengthier biography. Joshua Heschel Zoref Joshua Heschel Zoref (1633–1700) was a 17th-century ascetic, and an important figure in the Lithuanian Sabbatean movement. During the messianic fervor of 1666, he claimed to experience visions similar to those of Ezekiel. He, like Judah Leib Prossnitz also, considered himself to be possessed of the role of Messiah ben Joseph, with Shabbatai Tzvi playing the role of Messiah ben David. Shortly"
"Zebulun Zebulun (also Zebulon, Zabulon or Zaboules; or or , Tiberian Hebrew ', Standard Hebrew '/"""") was, according to the Books of Genesis and Numbers, the sixth and last son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Zebulun. Some biblical scholars believe this to be an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. With Leah as a matriarch, biblical scholars believe the tribe to have been regarded by the text's authors as a part of the original Israelite confederation. The name is derived from the"
"(generally unconnected with the contemporary surname), Saltijeral, von Saltiel and Xaltiel. Both genealogies of Jesus regard Shealtiel (and not Pedaiah) as the father of Zerubbabel. Matthew lists Shealtiel as the son of Jeconiah, while Luke lists a man named Shealtiel who is the son of an otherwise unknown man named Neri. ( and ) King Josiah and Zebidah are the parents of King Jehoiakim. King Jehoiakim and Nehustra are the parents of Shealtiel. Shealtiel's wife is Hachalya. Neri and Tamar are the parents of Hachalya. Neri is Shealtiel's father-in-law. [Geni.com] Shealtiel Shealtiel (, ""Shə’altî’ēl"") or Greek-derived variant Salathiel (Greek: Σαλαθιηλ,"
"his home to establish Yeshivas Beis Hatalmud. The founding ""chaburah"" included, Rabbi Bezalel Tannenbaum, Rabbi Levi Krupenia (R""Y Toras Emes Kamenitz), Rabbi Leib Shachar, Rabbi Leizer Horodzhesky, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Levovitz, (Rabbi Yeruchom's Levovitz son), Rabbi Shmuel (Charkover) Wilensky, Rabbi Chaim Wysokier, Rabbi Binyomin Paler, Rabbi Avrohom Levovitz, Rabbi Sholom Menashe Gottlieb, Rabbi Yisroel Perkowski, Rabbi Baruch Leib Sassoon Rabbi Aaron Zablotsky and Rabbi Binyomin Zeilberger. Rabbi Aryeh Leib Malin, along with Rabbi Chaim Wysokier served as the Roshei Hayeshiva. After the passing of Rabbi Malin, Harav Chaim Wysokier remained alone at the helm of the Yeshiva. Later on, Rabbi"
"bar Yochai and his son Rabbi Elazar (see the story of their hiding in the cave, below), with contribution from the soul of ""Ra`aya Meheimna"" (The Faithful Shepherd, i.e. Moshe) and from Eliyahu, of blessed memory; and with help from the souls of Tzadikim, headed by the soul of Adam haRishon and several ""Sabba""s (""Elders"") who came from Gan Eden to reveal new secrets of the Torah to Rabbi Shimon and his """"Chevraya Kadisha"""" (""Holy Friends""). This accords with the text of Tikunei haZohar having a somewhat different a dialect from—and much less stylistic variation than—the rest of the Zohar,"
"2:40, 3:2, 3:8, 3:9, 3:10, 3:18, 4:3, 8:33; Nehemiah 3:19, 7:7, 7:11, 7:39, 7:43, 8:7, 8:17, 9:4, 9:5, 11:26, 12:1, 12:7, 12:8, 12:10, 12:24, 12:26; 1 Chronicles 24:11; and 2 Chronicles 31:15—as well as in Biblical Aramaic at verse Ezra 5:2. These Bible verses refer to ten individuals (in Nehemiah 8:17, the name refers to Joshua son of Nun). This historical change may have been due to a phonological shift whereby guttural phonemes weakened, including [h]. Usually, the traditional theophoric element [Yahu] was shortened at the beginning of a name to [Yo-], and at the end to [-yah]. In the"