Some say that the Greeks took the constellation of Centaurus, and also its name " piercing bull ", from Mesopotamia, where it symbolized the god Baal who represents rain and fertility, fighting with and piercing with his horns the demon Mot who represents the summer drought.

In 17th Century Grimoire the Goetia there appears a demon called Baal

If pagans are corrupted by the demon -" god " Baal, then clearly they must be fought or at least oppressed.

While his Semitic predecessor was depicted as a man or a bull, the demon Baal was in grimoire tradition said to appear in the forms of a man, cat, toad, or combinations thereof.

In this way, we have Jewish names like Asmodai ( Book of Tobit ), Azazel ( Leviticus 16: 8-10 ), or Belial ( Deuteronomy 13: 13, Book of Judges 19: 22, Books of Samuel, part 1, 1: 16, 2: 12 10: 27 and 25: 17, and part 2 16: 7 and 22: 5, Books of Kings part 1, 21: 10-13, Books of Chronicles, part 1, 13: 7 ); Semitic deities like Adramelech, Baal ( see Baal ( demon ), Baal was also a general Jewish name for a false god ), Ashtaroth ( derived from Astarte ); Greek, Roman and Egyptian names like Bifrons ( See Bifrons ( demon )), Lamia, Phoenix ( see Phenex ); and so on.

However, Prinny suits filled with demon souls, as seen in Makai Kingdom or in the case of recurring boss Baal, will not.

Nevertheless, as recorded in the Tanakh (" Old Testament " Bible ), in defiance of the Torah's teachings, the patron god YHWH was frequently worshipped in conjunction with other gods such as Baal, Asherah, and El.

Mystical individuals arose, outside the Rabbinic establishment, called Nistarim or Baal Shem (" Masters of the Name " of God, used for practical kabbalistic intervention and miracles ), who sought to offer the downtrodden masses spiritual and physical encouragement, and practical healing.

The founder of Hasidism, Israel ben Eliezer ( 1698 – 1760 ), became known as the Baal Shem Tov ( the " Master of the Good Name ", abbreviated " Besht ").

Some scholars see a connection between Minos and the names of other ancient founder-kings, such as Menes of Egypt, Mannus of Germany, and Manu of India, and even with Meon of Phrygia and Lydia ( after him named Maeonia ), Mizraim of Egypt in the Book of Genesis and the Canaanite deity Baal Meon.

Founded by Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov ( 1698 – 1760 ), it originated in an age of persecution of the Jewish people, when a schism existed between scholarly and common European Jews.

A leading scholar of the Kabbalah, Moshe Idel ( Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic, SUNY, 1995, pp. 17 – 18 ), ascribes this doctrine to the kabbalistic system of Rabbi Moses Cordovero ( 1522 – 1570 ) and in the eighteenth century, Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, founder of the Hasidic movement, as well as his contemporary, Rabbi Menahem Mendel, the Maggid of Bar.

This helps explain Yahweh's attributes as a storm god ( he comes to rescue Israel surrounded by darkness and thick clouds, and the earth trembles, the clouds drop water, and the mountains quake at his appearance ), and the way he appropriates attributes from the rival storm god Baal.

Syncretism covers the worship of Baal, the heavenly bodies ( sun, moon, and stars ), the " Queen of Heaven " and other deities as well as practices such as child sacrifice: " Other gods were invoked and serviced in time of need or blessing and provision for life when the worship of Yahweh seemed inadequate for those purposes.

The prophet spoke boldly against the religious and moral corruption, when, in view of the idolatry which had penetrated even into the sanctuary, he threatened to " destroy out of this place the remnant of Baal, and the names of the ... priests " ( Zeph 1: 4 ), and pleaded for a return to the simplicity of their fathers instead of the luxurious foreign clothing which was worn especially in aristocratic circles ( 1: 8 ).

Balak meets with Balaam at Kirjat Huzoth, and they go to the high places of Baal ( Biblical Hebrew: בעל ), and offer sacrifices on seven altars, leading to Balaam being given a prophecy by Yahweh, which he speaks to Balak.

In Syria this deity was known as “ Baal ” (“ the Lord ” par excellence ), in Assyria as “ Ramanu ” (“ the Thunderer ”).

3: 29 ), literally meaning the Baal of Peor.

The historical enemy of Hayk ( the legendary ruler of Armenia ), Hayastan, was Bel, or in other words Baal ( Akkadian cognate Bēlu ).

These include A Toy Epic ( 1958 ), Outside the House of Baal ( 1965 ), and a sequence of seven novels, The Land of the Living, which surveys the political and cultural history of twentieth-century Wales.

Rabbi Yisroel ( Israel ) ben Eliezer ( רבי ישראל בן אליעזר — May 22, 1760 ), often called Baal Shem Tov ( or ) or Besht, was a Jewish mystical rabbi.

The Besht is better known to many religious Jews as “ the holy Baal Shem ” ( der heyliger baal shem in Yiddish ), or most commonly, the Baal Shem Tov ( בעל שם טוב ).

cvii., ascribed to him ( Zhitomir, 1804 ), Sefer mi-Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem-tov, may not be genuine.

Baal teshuva or ba ' al teshuvah (; for a woman, בעלת תשובה, baalat teshuva ; plural, בעלי תשובה, baalei teshuva ), sometimes abbreviated to BT, is a term that often refers to a Jew who turns to embrace Orthodox Judaism.

He would only allude in the most general ways to other great mystics, in Hebrew mekubalim, such as the Baal Shem Tov ( founder of Hasidism ), the great mystic known as the Ari who lived in the late Middle Ages, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, the Baal HaTanya Shneur Zalman of Liadi, Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbitz and many other great Hasidic masters as well as to the great works of Kabbalah such as the Zohar.

When the founder of Hasidic Judaism, Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov ( 1698 – 1760 ), emerged and made his teachings and influence felt through his own disciples, many rabbinical opponents of Hasidism were suspicious that he and his Hasidim were a class of Sabbateans.

He is also known as the Baal HaTanya, " Master of the Tanya ", and by a variety of other names including Shneur Zalman Baruchovitch, Baruchovitch being the Russian patronymic from his father Baruch, by the acronym RaZaSh, " Rabbi Za-Sh -", by the title Baal HaTanya ve-haShulchan Aruch, " Master of the Tanya and the Shulchan Aruch, as the Alter Rebbe (" Old Rebbe " in Yiddish ), Admor HaZaken (" Old Rebbe " in Hebrew ), Rabbeinu HaZokein, Rabbeinu HaGodol, " our great rabbi ", the GRaZ, and Rav.

The Hebrew noun kohen is most often translated as " priest ", whether Jewish or pagan, such as the priests of Baal or Dagon, though Christian priests are referred to in Hebrew by the term komer ( Hebrew כומר ).

The appellation “ Baal Shem ” was not unique to Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer ; however, it is Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer who is most closely identified as a “ Baal Shem ”, as he was the founder of the spiritual movement of Hasidic Judaism.

If this reflects the god that El refers to in the biblical text concerning Balaam, and the connection between Balaam and Baal Peor is accurate, then Baal Peor can be identified as Shamash.

) In Ugaritic texts, Yam's special enemy Hadad is also known as the " king of heaven " and the " first born son " of El, whom ancient Greeks identified with their god Cronus, just as Baal was identified with Zeus, Yam with Poseidon and Mot with Hades.

Yigael Yadin dated the palace excavated by Aharoni to the reign of Athaliah and identified it as the " House of Baal " recorded in 2 Kings 11: 18.

This encounter ends with Elijah victorious over the official Baal prophets of Israel in a contest held for the sake of the Israelites and their king, Ahab.

Coinciding with its transmission, a five-track EP of songs from the play, recorded earlier in Berlin, was released as David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht's Baal.

Omri achieved domestic security with a marriage alliance between his son Ahab and princess Jezebel, a priestess of Baal and the daughter of the king of Sidon in Phoenicia.

The major deities were not numerous – El, Asherah, and Yahweh, with Baal as a fourth god in the early period.

The Baal Shem Tov, and Hasidism, also opposed the earlier mystical and ethical ascetic paths of fasting and self-mortification, seeking to serve God by infusing physical activities with new spiritual inspiration.

The Baal Shem Tov traveled throughout Shtetl | Jewish life in Podolia Ukraine, and surrounding areas, with his close circle, or amidst the common folk.

Balak met with Balaam at Kirjath-huzoth, and they went to the high places of Baal, and offered sacrifices at seven altars, leading to Balaam being given a prophecy by God, which Balaam relates to Balak.

The Chasidic Jews of the 18th century, associated ha-Satan with Baal Davar.

A fragment from Kuntillet Ajrud ( 9th / 8th centuries ) mentions Baal in association with Yahweh, but in this case the word might simply mean " Lord " ( the literal meaning of " baal ").

In the 2nd millennium, polytheism was expressed through the concepts of the Divine Council and the divine family, a single entity with four levels: the chief god and his wife ( El and Asherah ); the seventy divine children or " stars of El " ( including Baal, Astarte, Anat, probably Resheph, as well as the sun-goddess Shapshu and the moon-god Yerak ); the head helper of the divine household, Kothar wa-Hasis ; and the servants of the divine household, including the messenger-gods who would later appear as the " angels " of the Hebrew Bible.

Under the two preceding kings, Amon and Manasseh, idolatry had been introduced in the most shameful forms ( especially the cult of Baal and Astarte ) into the Holy City, and with this foreign cult came a foreign culture and a great corruption of morals.

More often a connection with Hebrew / Phoenician ' brazier ' has been proposed, in the sense of " Baal ( lord ) of the brazier ".

The Moabites were to be excluded from the assembly of worshipers, because: “ They did not come to meet you with food and drink when you were on your way out of Egypt, and even hired Balaam, son of Beor, to oppose you by cursing you .” ( Deuteronomy 23: 3-5 ) The Israelites were allowed to harass Moab, but were forbidden to wage war on them, so they defeated Midian as a result of the advice that Balaam gave that led to a plague in punishment for the worship of idols at Baal Peor.

As Didorus confuses Osiris with another figure in his stories of Nysas and Dionysius, and this figure may be Belus, or Baal, who was equated with Montu, another deity of Thebes, his confusion of Busiris, Osiris and Amun may be a clue to unraveling the confused Greek tradition around the name.

Male examples include the ancient Near Eastern and Greek deities Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Attis Tammuz, Asclepius, Orpheus, as well as Ra the Sun god with its fusion with Osiris / Orion, Jesus, Zalmoxis, Dionysus, and Odin.

If the Baal Tekiyah ( shofar sounder ) blows with the intention that all who hear will perform the mitzvah, then anyone listening — even someone passing by — who intends to hear the Shofar can perform the mitzvah because the community blower blows for everybody.

The idea to learn Hasidic mystical texts with similar logical profundity, derives from the unique approach in the works of the Rebbes of Chabad, initiated by its founder Schneur Zalman of Liadi, to systematically investigate and articulate the " Torah of the Baal Shem Tov " in intellectual forms.

These various suggested equations combined with the popular solar theory hypotheses of the day generated a single theoretical sun god: Baal.