According to the Midrash, he came into the world on the same day that Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death.

According to the Midrash, the plural form of the word " weeping " indicates the double sorrow that Rebecca also died at this time.

According to the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Kabbalistic work, the Zohar, the ' deadline ' by which the Messiah must appear is 6000 years from creation.

According to the Midrash, only the Pharaoh was spared to give testimony to the miracle that occurred.

According to Midrash Tehillim, the shamir was brought from paradise by Solomon's eagle ; but most of the rabbis state that Solomon was informed of the worm's haunts by Asmodeus.

According to Jewish tradition in the Midrash and the Targum, the book is an allegory of God's love for the Children of Israel.

According to a Midrash, the Torah was created prior to the creation of the world, and was used as the blueprint for Creation.

According to Ramaz, it is fit to be called Midrash haNe ' elam because " its topic is mostly the neshamah ( an upper level of soul ), the source of which is in Beri ' ah, which is the place of the upper Gan Eden ; and it is written in the Pardes that drash is in Beri ' ah ... and the revealed midrash is the secret of externality, and Midrash haNe ' elam is the secret of internality, which is the neshamah.

According to another Midrash, Doeg the Edomite tried to preserve the life of Agag, the king of the Amalekites-Edomites, by interpreting Lev.

According to the Midrash, many families in the other Israelite tribes were descended from women from Simeon, which had been widowed from their original Simeonite husbands.

According to the Midrash, Sisera engaged in sexual intercourse with Jael seven times, but because she was attempting to exhaust him in order to kill him, her sin was for Heaven's sake and therefore praiseworthy.

According to the Midrash, the Patriarchs were buried in the cave because the cave is the threshold to the Garden of Eden.

According to one Midrash, it was God, or the angels, who gathered the animals to the ark, together with their food.

According to the Talmud, the Midrash, and the medieval kabbalistic work, the Zohar, the messiah must arrive before the year 6000 from the time of creation, or before the year 2240 CE.

According to a tradition which has historical confirmation, it was Akiva who systematized and brought into methodic arrangement the Mishnah, or Halakah codex ; the Midrash, or the exegesis of the Halakah ; and the Halakot, the logical amplification of the Halakah ( Yer.

According to the Midrash, all divine commandments were given on Mount Sinai, and no prophet could add any new one.

According to Midrash Leviticus rabbah he said " As in a theater and circus the statues of the king must be kept clean by him to whom they have been entrusted, so the bathing of the body is a duty of man, who was created in the image of the almighty King of the world.

According to the Midrash Pirke R. El.

According to the Midrash, the ladder signified the exiles which the Jewish people would suffer before the coming of the Messiah.

* According to the Midrash, the first person to pray at Rachel's tomb was her eldest son, Joseph.

According to the Midrash, Simeon and Levi were only 14 and 13 years old, respectively, at the time of the rape of Dinah.

According to the Jewish Midrash, " Jerusalem has 70 names ".

According to the Midrash, a few people made themselves deities: Pharaoh Kings of Egypt ( see Ezekiel 29: 3: " The Nile is mine and I have made myself ", understood by the Midrash as a claim that he created himself ); Hiram King of Tyre ( see Ezekiel 28: 2 ); Haman the Aggagite ( see Esther 3: 2 ).

According to The Chicago Tribune News Service, State Atty. Gen. Stanley Mosk of California has devised a series of questions which the joiner might well ask about any organization seeking his money and his name: 1.

According to the Food And Drug Administration ( FDA ), `` Doctor '' Ghadiali, Dr. Albert Abrams and his clique, and Dr. Wilhelm Reich -- to name three notorious device quacks -- succeeded, respectively, in distributing 10,000, 5000, and 2000 fake health machines.

According to this interpretation, the name is from aphrós " foam " and déatai " seems " or " shines " ( infinitive form * déasthai ), meaning " she who shines from the foam ", a byname of the dawn goddess ( Eos ).

According to Asinius Quadratus ( quoted in the mid-6th century by Byzantine historian Agathias ) their name means " all men ".

According to an interview she gave to an Egyptian journalist, her first name was Yvonne, though she is referred to as Yvette in most published references.

According to Rudbeck, Atland means fatherland, and it was the original name of Atlantis.

According to the Akkadian transcription in the Amarna letters, Anubis ' name was vocalized in Egyptian as Anapa.

According to the Torah, Benjamin's ( or in some countries, Biniam's ) name arose when Jacob deliberately corrupted the name Benoni, the original name of Benjamin, since Benoni was an allusion to Rachel's dying just after she had given birth, as it means son of my pain.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

According to the editors of the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, some scholars believe the name " Malachi " is not a proper noun but rather an abbreviation of " messenger of YHWH ".

According to Stephen Frederic Dale, the name Babur is derived from the Persian word babr, meaning " tiger ", a word that repeatedly appears in Firdawsī's Shāhnāma and had also been borrowed by the Turkic languages of Central Asia.

* According to the letter of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the correct name for this family should be Microcebidae, but the name Cheirogaleidae has been retained for stability.

According to physicist Phil Anderson, the term was coined by himself and Volker Heine when they changed the name of their group at the Cavendish Laboratories, Cambridge from " Solid state theory " to " Theory of Condensed Matter ", as they felt it did not exclude their interests in the study of liquids, nuclear matter and so on.

According to IUPAC, chemical elements are not proper nouns in English ; consequently, the full name of an element is not routinely capitalized in English, even if derived from a proper noun, as in californium and einsteinium.

According to Bruce L. Olsen, director of public affairs for the church, " The logo re-emphasizes the official name of the church and the central position of the Savior in its theology.

According to Johann Gottfried Walther, writing in 1732, the reason for the name is that " it sounded from far off not unlike a trumpet ".

According to the Book of Jubilees, Ur Kasdim ( and Chaldea ) took their name from Ura and Kesed, descendants of Arpachshad.

According to Biafra, the live albums are " cash-ins " on Dead Kennedys ' name and his music.

According to tradition, it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi ( or Lao Tzu, " Old Master "), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China.

According to Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Richard acquired his stage name by combining his short name with his roommates ' names, Hal and Del.

According to the direct-reference view, an early version of which was originally proposed by Bertrand Russell, and perhaps earlier by Gottlob Frege, a proper name strictly has no meaning when there is no object to which it refers.