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Hillel ( Hebrew: הִלֵּל Hīllēl; variously called Hillel the Elder or Hillel the Babylonian; [ 1][ 2] died c. 10 CE) was a Jewish religious leader, sage and scholar associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud and the founder of the House of Hillel school of tannaim. He was active during the end of the first century BCE ...
Jewish mysticism. Academic study of Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem 's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), draws distinctions between different forms of mysticism which were practiced in different eras of Jewish history. Of these, Kabbalah, which emerged in 12th-century southwestern Europe, is the most well known, but it ...
Admor. "Admor" is an acronym for " Ad onainu, M orainu, V e R abbeinu", a phrase meaning "Our Master, Our Teacher, and Our Rabbi". This is an honorific title given to scholarly leaders of a Jewish community, exclusively to Hasidic rebbes. In writing, this title is placed before the name, as in "Admor of Pinsk" or "R' (stands for Rabbi, Rabbeinu ...
July 13 (Catholic) Sunday of the Holy Forefathers (Orthodox) Ezra ( fl. 480–440 BCE) [ a][ b] was an important Jewish scribe ( sofer) and priest ( kohen) in the early Second Temple period. In the Greek Septuagint, the name is rendered as Ésdrās ( Ἔσδρας ), from which the Latin name Esdras comes.
Jewish mysticism has influenced the thought of some major Jewish theologians, philosophers, writers and thinkers in the 20th century, outside of Kabbalistic or Hasidic traditions. The first Chief Rabbi of Mandate Palestine, Abraham Isaac Kook was a mystical thinker who drew heavily on Kabbalistic notions through his own poetic terminology. His ...
Asceticism in Judaism. Ashkenazi Hasidim were a Jewish mystical and ascetic movement in medieval Germany. Asceticism is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from sensual pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals. Asceticism has not been a dominant theme within Judaism, but minor-to-significant ascetic traditions have been ...
The Essenes ( / ˈɛsiːnz, ɛˈsiːnz /; Hebrew: אִסִּיִים , Isiyim; Greek: Ἐσσηνοί, Ἐσσαῖοι, or Ὀσσαῖοι, Essenoi, Essaioi, Ossaioi) or Essenians were a mystic Jewish sect during the Second Temple period that flourished from the 2nd century BCE to the 1st century CE. [ 2]
Judah ha-Nasi ( Hebrew: יְהוּדָה הַנָּשִׂיא, Yəhūḏā hanNāsīʾ; Yehudah HaNasi or Judah the President) or Judah I, known simply as Rebbi or Rabbi, was a second-century rabbi (a tanna of the fifth generation) and chief redactor and editor of the Mishnah. He lived from approximately 135 to 217 CE.