* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.

), the prayer of Hezekiah ( Isaiah xxxviii.

Their major objections ( exceptions ) were: firstly, that it was improper for the lay congregation to take any vocal part in prayer ( as in the Litany or Lord's Prayer ), other than to say " Amen "; secondly, that no set prayer should exclude the option of an extempore alternative from the Minister ; thirdly, that the Minister should have the option to omit part of the set liturgy at his discretion ; fourthly, that short Collects should be replaced by longer prayers and exhortations ; and fifthly, that all surviving " Catholic " ceremonial should be removed.

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

In the Antiphoner of Inchcolm Abbey, the " Iona of the East " ( situated on an island in the Firth of Forth ), a 13th century prayer begins O Columba spes Scotorum ... " O Columba, hope of the Scots ".

35 or 50-between 98 and 117 ), one of the Apostolic Fathers, mentions the Eucharist as " the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ ", and Justin Martyr speaks of it as more than a meal: " the food over which the prayer of thanksgiving, the word received from Christ, has been said ... is the flesh and blood of this Jesus who became flesh ... and the deacons carry some to those who are absent.

While Paul's opening prayer is for love ( 1: 9 ), based on knowledge of Christ, his final prayer is for the peace of God ( 4: 7 ), which surpasses all understanding.

Salat consists of five daily prayers according to the Sunna ; the names are according to the prayer times: Fajr ( morning dawn ), Zuhr ( noon ), Asr ( afternoon ), Maghrib ( after-sunset ), and ' Isha ' ( late evening, night ).

# " the practice of inner prayer, aiming at union with God on a level beyond images, concepts and language ", a sense in which the term is found in Evagrius Ponticus ( 345-399 ), Maximus the Confessor ( c. 580-662 ), and Symeon the New Theologian ( 949-1022 );

Tzitzit ( Hebrew: צ ִ יצי ִ ת ) ( Ashkenazi pronunciation: tzitzis ) are special knotted " fringes " or " tassels " found on the four corners of the tallit ( Hebrew: ט ַ ל ִּ ית ) ( Ashkenazi pronunciation: tallis ), or prayer shawl.

Some Protestant Christian denominations prohibit the drinking of alcohol based upon Biblical passages which condemn drunkenness ( such as Proverbs 23: 21, Isaiah 28: 1, Habakkuk 2: 15 ), but others allow moderate use of alcohol.

Habakkuk ( or ; ; ; also spelled Habacuc ), was a prophet in the Hebrew Bible.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are traditionally divided into three groups: " Biblical " manuscripts ( copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible ), which comprise roughly 40 % of the identified scrolls ; Other manuscripts ( known documents from the Second Temple Period like Enoch, Jubilees, Tobit, Sirach, additional psalms, etc., that were not ultimately canonized in the Hebrew Bible ), which comprise roughly 30 % of the identified scrolls ; and " Sectarian " manuscripts ( previously unknown documents that shed light on the rules and beliefs of a particular group or groups within greater Judaism ) like the Community Rule, War Scroll, Pesher on Habakkuk ( Hebrew: פשר pesher = " Commentary "), and the Rule of the Blessing, which comprise roughly 30 % of the identified scrolls.

* Habakkuk ( fanzine ), a Hugo-nominated science fiction fanzine

* Paul Guldin, originally " Habakkuk Guldin " ( 1577-1643 ), a Swiss mathematician and astronomer

* John Habakkuk ( 1915-2002 ), an English economic historian

* Enbaqom ( the Ethiopian form of Habakkuk ), Ethiopian abbot

Rabbi Simlai taught " Six hundred and thirteen commandments were given to Moses ; then David came and reduced them to eleven in Psalm 15 .; Isaiah ( 33: 15 ), to six ; Micah ( 6: 8 ), to three: ' To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God '; Isaiah again ( 56: 1 ), to two: ' Maintain justice, and do what is right '; and Habakkuk ( 2: 4 ), to one: ' The righteous person lives by his faithfulness '.

Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk ( spelling varies ; see below ) was a plan by the British in World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete ( a mixture of wood pulp and ice ), for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which were beyond the flight range of land-based planes at that time.

This is most clearly spelled out in the Habakkuk Pesher ( 1QpHab ), where the author of the text asserts that God has made known to the Teacher of Righteousness, a prominent figure within the history of the Essene community, " all the mysteries of his servants the prophets " ( 1QpHab VII: 4-5 ).

Some of these other scrolls where he is mentioned are the Habakkuk Pesher ( numerous times ), Micah Pesher ( once ), Psalms Pesher and also 4Q172.

* Martyrs Marinus, Martha, Audifax, Abbacum ( Habakkuk ), Cyrinus, Valentine, and Asterius the Presbyter in Macedonia ( 269 )

On the other, God is infinitely holy and just, which means that he cannot approve of or even look upon evil ( Habakkuk 1: 13 ), neither can he justify a wicked person ( Book of Proverbs 17: 15 ).

He reasons that, i ) if we knew the nature of this power, then the mind-body divide would seem totally unmysterious to us ; ii ) if we had immediate knowledge of this mysterious power, then we would be able to intuitively explain why it is that we can control some parts of our bodies ( e. g., our hands or tongues ), and not others ( e. g., the liver or heart ); iii ) we have no immediate knowledge of the powers which allow an impulse of volition to create an action ( e. g., of the " muscles, and nerves, and animal spirits " which are the immediate cause of an action ).

iii. 74a ), is in the main pure Hebrew, and even includes Hebrew translations of Greek proper names, to avoid the danger of possible exposure should the letter have fallen into the hands of enemies and informers ( compare Eruvin 53b ).

The most notable alteration is the shortening of most feasts from nine to three lessons at Matins, keeping only the Scripture readings ( the former lesson i, then lessons ii and iii together ), followed by either the first part of the patristic reading ( lesson vii ) or, for most feasts, a condensed version of the former second Nocturn, which was formerly used when a feast was reduced in rank and commemorated.

In Materialism and Empiriocriticism ( 1908 ), Lenin explained dialectical materialism as three axes: ( i ) the materialist inversion of Hegelian dialectics, ( ii ) the historicity of ethical principles ordered to class struggle, and ( iii ) the convergence of " laws of evolution " in physics ( Helmholtz ), biology ( Darwin ), and in political economy ( Marx ).

* Trilogie van de Laatste Dag ( 1996 – 97 ) ( each of its three sections may be performed separately: ( i ) The Last Day ( texts by Lucebert, folksong A Woman and Her Lass ) for boy soprano, 4 male voices, orchestra ; ( ii ) TAO ( texts by Laozi, Kotaro Takamura ) for 4 female voices, piano voice, koto, small orchestra winds, 2 horns, harp, piano (+ celesta ), 2 percussion, minimum 14 strings ; ( iii ) Dancing on the Bones ( text by the composer ) for children's chorus, orchestra, 1997 )

5 and 6 ), Josephus ( Antiquities 1. 4. 3 ), and the Sibylline Oracles ( iii.

I285a ), while Isocrates refers to the Spartans as " subject to an oligarchy at home, to a kingship on campaign " ( iii.

" In On the Nature of Animals ( Περὶ Ζῴων Ἰδιότητος, De natura animalium ), Aelian, quoting Ctesias, adds that India produces also a one-horned horse ( iii.

* Pollen, J. H. " Mary Queen of Scots and the Babington plot ," Scottish Historical Society 3rd ser., iii ( 1922 ), reprints the major documents.

Andrews ), iii, 152 ).

Amphitrite is not fully personified in the Homeric epics: " out on the open sea, in Amphitrite's breakers " ( Odyssey iii. 101 ), " moaning Amphitrite " nourishes fishes " in numbers past all counting " ( Odyssey xii. 119

To tune the sympathetic strings to raga Kafi for example: I Sa, vii ni ( lower case denotes flat ( komal ) I Sa, II Re, iii ga, III Ga ( Shuddh or natural, in Kafi the third is different ascending and descending ), iv ma, V Pa, VI Dha, vii ni, I Sa, II Re, iii ga.

These circumstances are secondary to the fact of Ixion's primordial act of murder ; it could be accounted for quite differently: in the Greek Anthology ( iii. 12 ), among a collection of inscriptions from a temple in Cyzicus is an epigrammatic description of Ixion slaying Phorbas and Polymelos, who had slain his mother, Megara, the " great one ".

*‘ Die 3 Gafurius-Kodizes der Fabbrico del Duomo, Milano ’, Acta Musicologia, iii ( 1931 ), 14 – 28

Jahrhunderts ’, Studia musicologica Academiae scientiarum hungaricae, iii ( 1962 ), pp. 149 – 60

# The IIA condition can be justified for three reasons ( Mas-Colell, Whinston, and Green, 1995, page 794 ): ( i ) normative ( irrelevant alternatives should not matter ), ( ii ) practical ( use of minimal information ), and ( iii ) strategic ( providing the right incentives for the truthful revelation of individual preferences ).

Therefore the accounts given of him by the Byzantine authors, Theophylact Simocatta ( iii. 16 ff ), Menander Protector and John of Ephesus ( vi. 22 ), who give a full account of these negotiations, are far from favourable.

:( iii ) intimation ( the creative person gets a " feeling " that a solution is on its way ),