) The name is found again in the Midrashic text Kohelet Rabba 10: 5 where a healer of the grandson of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi is described as being of ben Pandera.

Ecclesiastes ( Hebrew: Kohelet ; קהלת ) is read publicly in some communities, especially by Ashkenazim, on the Sabbath of Sukkot.

# Kohelet (, Ecclesiastes ), is read in Ashkenazi synagogues on the Shabbat of Sukkot.

When Shemini Atzeret falls on Shabbat, Kohelet is read on that day outside of Israel.

Through a careful examination of the Book of Ecclesiastes, Luzzatto came to the conclusion that its author was not Solomon, but someone who lived several centuries later and whose name was " Kohelet ".

His writings include the anti-Aristotelian philosophical work Kitāb al-Muʿtabar (" The Book of What Has Been Established by Personal Reflection "); a philosophical commentary on the Kohelet ; and the treatise " On the Reason Why the Stars Are Visible at Night and Hidden in Daytime ".

Josephus too relates that this was the name by which he was known to the Greeks, and the Midrashic text, Esther Rabba also makes the identification.

As toward Ruth, Boaz had also been kind toward his kinsmen, Naomi's sons, on hearing of their death, taking care that they had an honorable burial ( Ruth Rabba to 2. 20 ).

The Mandaeans re-appear at the beginning of the Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia, when their " head of the people " Anush son of Danqa appears before Muslim authorities showing them a copy of the Ginza Rabba, the Mandaean holy book, and proclaiming the chief Mandaean prophet to be John the Baptist, who is also mentioned in the Quran.

in addition to Flavius Josephus, this is also the view found in the Talmud ( Chullin 89a, Pesahim 94b, Erubin 53a, Avodah Zarah 53b ), and later midrash such as Genesis Rabba.

Nahman ben Jacob ( died 320 ) also became closely connected with the house of the exilarchs through his marriage with Rabba ben Abuha's daughter, the proud Yaltha ; and he owed to this connection perhaps his office of chief judge of the Babylonian Jews.

As described in the Idra Rabba, before the Idra disjourned, three of the students died: Rabbi Yossi bar Yaakov, Rabbi Chezkiyah bar Rav, and Rabbi Yisa.

Rabbi Weissmandl pointed out that if you combine the three small letters together they form the word, which in the accepted Hebrew notation for year numbers ( using Gematria ) corresponds to the Jewish year 707 Anno Mundi, which is the Jewish year that the 10 Nazi leaders were executed ( October 16, 1946 corresponds to Tishrei 21, 5707, the day known as Hoshanna Rabba, the day of severe judgments for the nations of the world, according to the Jewish calendar ).

About 70 are cited with the name of the Rabbi with whom they originated or whose explanation of the verse in question was used as an introduction to the section of Genesis Rabba.

The tradition that Rabbi Hosha ' iah is the author of Genesis Rabba may be taken to mean that he began the work, in the form of the running commentary customary in tannaitic times, arranging the exposition on Genesis according to the sequence of the verses, and furnishing the necessary complement to the tannaitic midrashim on the other books of the Torah.

" as if the word " rabbah " belonged originally to the name of the amora, and that the name of the work, " Genesis Rabba ," is an abbreviation of " Bereshit derabbi Hoshayah rabbah ," is untenable for the reason that in the best manuscripts — and in a very old quotation — the name " Rabbi Hoshayah " stands without the addition " rabbah " in the first preface at the beginning of the midrash.

In Kiddushin 72b, Adda bar Ahavah of the third century, is said to be " sitting in the bosom of Abraham ," Likewise " In the world to come Abraham sits at the gate of Gehenna, permitting none to enter who bears the seal of the covenant " according to Rabbi Levi in Genesis Rabba 67.

Since there are many opinions that dispute the Rema ( such as the Shulchan Aruch, Turei Zahav, Eliyah Rabba, Chayei Adam, Sh ' vut Ya ' akov, Mor U-K ' tzi ' a ), Rabbi Feinstein writes that, practically speaking, one should not fast on Friday in such circumstances.

* Rabba no 1

Ancestrally, Samaritans claim descent from a group of Israelite inhabitants from the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh ( the two sons of Joseph ) as well as some descendants from the priestly tribe of Levi, who have connections to ancient Samaria from the period of their entry into the land of Canaan, while some suggest that it was from the beginning of the Babylonian Exile up to the Samaritan Kingdom of Baba Rabba.

This older book is mentioned in some of the works of the Geonim ; however no complete copies of Sefer Raza Rabba are still in existence.

Many quotations in the Shulchan Aruch mention the passage of Genesis Rabba by the number of the section.

Some of the Babylonian amoraim were closely related to the house of the exilarchs, as, for example, Rabba ben Abuha, whom Gaon Sherira, claiming Davidian descent, named as his ancestor.

The term " dayyane di baba " (" judges of the gate "), which was applied in the post-Talmudic time to the members of the court of the exilarch, is derived from the phrase just quoted Harkavy, l. c .. Two details of Nahman ben Jacob's life cast light on his position at the court of the exilarch: he received the two scholars Rav Chisda and Rabba b. Huna, who had come to pay their respects to the exilarch ( Sukkah 10b ); and when the exilarch was building a new house he asked Nahman to take charge of the placing of the mezuzah according to the Law 33a.

The modification of ritual requirements granted to the exilarchs and their households in certain concrete cases is characteristic of their relation to the religious law 76b, Levi ben Sisi ; Hullin 59a, Rab ; Avodah Zarah 72b, Rabba ben Huna ; Eruvin 11b, Nahman versus Sheshet ; Eruvin 39b, similarly ; Mo ' ed Katan 12a, Hanan ; Pesahim 40b, Pappai.

There are frequent references to questions, partly halakic and exegetical in nature, which the exilarch laid before his scholars ( to Huna, Gittin 7a ; Yebamoth 61a ; Sanhedrin 44a ; to Rabba ben Huna, Shabbat 115b ; to Hamnuna, Shabbat 119a ).

Every chapter of the Genesis Rabba is headed by the first verse of the passage to be explained, and is introduced, with few exceptions, by one or more prefatory remarks starting from a verse taken from another Biblical passage as text — generally from the Writings or Ketuvim.

Definitely characterized as they are in their beginning by these introductions, the sections of Genesis Rabba have no formal ending, although several show a transition to the Biblical passage that is expounded in the following section.

The present Genesis Rabba shows a singular disproportion between the length of the first Torah portion and that of the eleven others.

The name is indeed found in Genesis Rabba 50 in the expression qol Pandar ( literally " voice of Pandaros " denoting false promises of a betrayer ) used as a derogatory placeholder name for a judge of Sodom.

Esther Rabba and the Vulgate present " Ahasuerus " as a different name for the king to " Artaxerxes " rather than an equivalent in different languages, and the Septuagint distinguished between the two names using a Greek transliteration of Ahasuerus for occurrences outside the Book of Esther.

* Sacred Texts: Judaism: The Bereshith or Genesis Rabba, a selection of sayings from the work translated into English by Samuel Rapaport.

Pausanias also relates that a gigantic skeleton, its kneecap in diameter, appeared on the beach near Sigeion, on the Trojan coast ; these bones were identified as those of Ajax.

Herodotus also relates the desecration of Ahmose II / Amasis ' mummy when the Persian king Cambyses conquered Egypt and thus ended the 26th Saite dynasty:

Tabari relates ( Suyuti also relates the same through Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi's report ) from Aisha her description of Abu Bakr:

" Diogenes Laertius also says that Nicocreon, the tyrant of Cyprus, commanded him to be pounded to death in a mortar, and that he endured this torture with fortitude and Cicero relates the same story.

“ Acts, then is a continuation of the Lucan Gospel, not in the sense that it relates what Jesus continued to do, but how his followers carried out his commission under the guidance of his Spirit .” Thus, part of the answer to the purpose of Acts is that Luke is writing to Theophilus, who is also mentioned in Luke 1: 3, in order to explain to him the occurrences that take place in the church that fulfill Jesus ’ promise to his disciples that “ you will be baptized with, the Holy Spirit not many days from now ” ( Acts 1: 5 ).

" Gow also relates how Housman intimidated his students, sometimes reducing them to tears.

Cuthbert's letter also relates a five-line poem in the vernacular that Bede composed on his deathbed, known as " Bede's Death Song ".

Citizenship most usually relates to membership of the nation state, but the term can also apply at the subnational level.

Availability also relates to failure and recovery from it ( see Recovery from failure and disaster below ): Upon failure and during recovery normal availability changes, and special measures are needed to satisfy availability requirements.

The above three-level database architecture also relates to and being motivated by the concept of data independence which has been described for long time as a desired database property and was one of the major initial driving forces of the Relational model.

It also relates a folkloric story of his death in the Aeginetan theatre.

Brockovich has a more extensive role in the 2012 documentary Last Call at the Oasis, which focuses not only on water pollution but also on the overall state of water scarcity as it relates to water policy in the United States.

The word fascismo also relates to political organizations in Italy known as fasci, groups similar to guilds or syndicates.

The term " frigate " implied a long hull design, which relates directly to speed ( see hull speed ) and also, in turn, helped the development of the broadside tactic in naval warfare.

In abstract algebra, the fundamental theorem on homomorphisms, also known as the fundamental homomorphism theorem, relates the structure of two objects between which a homomorphism is given, and of the kernel and image of the homomorphism.

It also relates to scriptures of other religions by abrogation, explanation, affirming or reformation-an example of progressive revelation as a principle of the religion.

Orthodox tradition also relates that Mary's brother Lazarus was cast out of Jerusalem in the persecution against the Jerusalem Church following the martyrdom of St. Stephen.

Significant progress has also been made in bringing the world of UML modeling and the Semantic Web together through the adoption of the Ontology Definition Metamodel which relates UML models in a standard way with RDF and Web Ontology Language ( OWL ) models.

Some Pakistani scholars, such as Masood Ashraf Raja, editor of Pakistaniaat, have also provided a more specific form of criticism that relates to the consequences of war on terror on the region.

The name of the Philistines in their own language is not known ; however, the Bible also relates them as the people of " Kaftor " ( כפתור in Hebrew, see for example the Book of Jeremiah Chapter 47, Verse 4 ).

The PC ( USA ) is a leader in disaster assistance relief and also participates in or relates to work in other countries through ecumenical relationships, in what is usually considered not missions, but deaconship.

He also relates his subsequent work in cryptography with Steve Pohlig ( the Pohlig – Hellman system ) and others.

Additionally, rabbits are often used as symbols of playful sexuality, which also relates to the human perception of innocence, as well as its reputation as a prolific breeder.