Chava
Original Woman; Created so that she and Adam would find completeness and happiness together. Ideally, a woman is an...
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Achashverosh
Achashverosh - Xerxes I - A Persian king (reigned 485 - 465 BC) of the Achaemenid dynasty. "Xerxes" is the Greek transliteration of the Persian throne name...
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Devarim (Deuteronomy)
The fifth of the Five Books of Moses. Of all the Five Books, this is truly a "Book of Moses," in that it consists entirely of Moshe's farewell address to...
Zohar
Basic Book of Jewish Mysticism; written by Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai in the Galilean Cave, during his period of enforced hiding from the Romans. Bar Yochai...
Shlomo HaMelech
King Solomon, son of David HaMelech, King David. Shlomo carried out the dream of his father, to build the Beit HaMikdash, the Temple, in about 1,000 B.C.E.
Iyov
The Biblical character, the main character in "Sefer Iyov," the Book of Job, which contains perhaps the classic discussion of "theodicy," why...
Eishet Chayil
Composed by Shlomo Hamelech, Eishet Chayil (Mishlei 31:10-31) is recited on Friday night, after 'Shalom Aleichem" and prior to reciting Kiddush.
Gehinnom
Gehinnom refers, generally, to a limited-time experience (Edyos 2:10) in the afterlife where the soul is purged of its blemishes...
Tzaddik
A righteous man (for the female equivalent, see "Tzidkanit") - based on the Hebrew word "Tzedek," or Justice. The Jewish hero is not the swashbuckling warrior...
Ezra HaSofer
Ezra the Scribe; a great leader of the Jewish People at the time of the building of the "Second Temple," in approximately year 516 B.C.E.
Chessed
An act of kindness. It was said by Shimon HaTzaddik (Simon the Righteous) that the world continues to exist because of...
Beit HaMikdash
Holy Temple, spiritual center of the Jewish People. Three "Batei Mikdash" have played or, we believe, will soon play important...
Nechemiah
Nechemia appears in 13 chapters of Tanach in which he leads the people of Israel back to Jerusalem, following orders to that effect from...
Mitzvah
"Mitzvah" - (pl. "Mitzvot"); a Command of G-d. There are several types, including the following...
Avraham
First of the "Avot," the "Founding Fathers" of the Jewish People. Father of the Jewish People in particular and, by...
Rachel
One of the "Imahot," "Founding Mothers" of the Jewish People; younger sister of Leah, daughter of Lavan, beloved wife of Yaakov...
Yechezkel
Yechezkel, the Prophet Ezekiel, who prophesied by the River Kvar in Babylon to the Jewish Exiles who were depressed and dispirited concerning the fate of their People...