Akiba devoted his attention particularly to the grammatical and exegetical rules, while Ishmael developed the logical.

On the other hand, to each of the other four books of the Pentateuch there was a midrash from the school of R. Akiba and one from the school of R. Ishmael, and these midrashim are still in great part extant.

The halakhic midrash to Exodus from the school of R. Ishmael is the Mekilta, while that of the school of R. Akiba is the Mekilta of R. Shimon bar Yochai, most of which is contained in the Midrash ha-Gadol.

The halakhic midrash to Numbers from the school of R. Ishmael is the " Sifre "; while of that of the school of R. Akiba, the Sifre Zuṭa, only extracts have survived in the Yalkut Shim ' oni and in the Midrash ha-Gadol.

The middle portion of the Sifre to Deuteronomy forms a halakhic midrash on that book from the school of R. Akiba, while another from the school of R. Ishmael has been shown by Hoffmann to have existed.

Sherira was a student of cabalistic mysticism ; he believed that the mystical works " Shi ' ur Komah " and " Hekalot " represented ancient traditions, originating with R. Ishmael and R. Akiba.

* Players still living who, though past their best in 1950, were recognised as having been world class when at their peak: Ossip Bernstein, Oldřich Duras, Ernst Grünfeld, Borislav Kostić, Grigory Levenfish, Géza Maróczy, Jacques Mieses, Viacheslav Ragozin, Akiba Rubinstein, Friedrich Sämisch, Savielly Tartakower, and Milan Vidmar.

103 ; Sifra, Wayikra, 2 ), which teaches that angels — who are spiritual beings — and also that the departed pious, who are bereft of their flesh, can see God, the words of Akiba, in Sifra, l. c., must be noticed.

Things become even more complicated when Itsuki Akiba returns to Japan ; she is a girl Ichitaka was friends with in their childhood before she moved to the United States, and who had a huge crush on him.

It is related that, during his stay in Rome, Akiva became intimately acquainted with the Jewish proselyte ḳeṭia ' bar Shalom, a very influential Roman — according to some scholars identical with Flavius Clemens, Domitian's nephew, who, before his execution for pleading the cause of the Jews, bequeathed to Akiba all his possessions ( Ab.

Jewish chess players such as Akiba Rubinstein were ranked among the best, and they contributed to the Polish world championship in 1930.

These examples will suffice to justify the opinion that Akiba was the man to whom Judaism owes preeminently its activity and its capacity for development.

In the genera Aggregata, Atoxoplasma, Cystoisospora, Schellackia and Toxoplasma the original is now definitive while in Akiba, Babesiosoma, Babesia, Haemogregarina, Haemoproteus, Hepatozoon, Karyolysus, Leucocytozoon, Plasmodium, Sarcocystis and Theileria, the original hosts are now intermediate.

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His works influenced numerous other players, including Savielly Tartakower, Milan Vidmar, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Bent Larsen and Tigran Petrosian, and his influence is still felt today.

Additionally, the Aedicule would be quite close to the city even the west wall of the city had been to its east ; yet Akiba remarks that Jewish law insists that tombs should not be built within 50 cubits of a city.

The archaeological record indicates that the instructions reported by Akiba, for choosing a burial location, were rigidly adhered to ; almost all of the tombs from classical Jerusalem are to the east of the city, on the Mount of Olives, except for a few located over a kilometre to the west, and those in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

The San Sebastián 1912 tournament won by Akiba Rubinstein was a designated grandmaster event.

According to Akiba, the divine language of the Torah is distinguished from the speech of men by the fact that in the former no word or sound is superfluous.

The family attended Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and Monica attended Sinai Akiba Academy, its religious school.

Rabbi Akiba declared, " Heaven forbid that any man in Israel ever disputed that Song of Songs is holy.

His students have included Tadatoshi Akiba, Jon Folkman, John Mather, Laurent C. Siebenmann, and Michael Spivak.

Finkelstein authored a number of books, including Tradition in the Making, Beliefs and Practices of Judaism, Pre-Maccabean Documents in the Passover Haggadah, Abot of Rabbi Nathan, ( a three volume series on The Pharisees ), and Akiba: Scholar, Saint and Martyr.

According to the romantic story of Akiva's marriage with the daughter of the wealthy Jerusalemite, Kalba Savua, Akiba began life as an uneducated shepherd who worked for this aristocrat.

7 could not be reconciled by Akiba with his view of Jewish ethics: for him a " Jewish slave " is a contradiction in terms, for every Jew is to be regarded as a prince ( B. M. 113b ).

How Akiba endeavors to substantiate this from the Hebrew text is shown by A. Geiger ( Urschrift, p. 187 ).

For similar reasons Akiba comes near abolishing the Biblical ordinance of Kil ' ayim ; nearly every chapter in the treatise of that name contains a mitigation by Akiba.

Strict monotheist that Akiba was, he protested against any comparison of God with the angels, and declared the plain interpretation of כאחד ממנו ( Gen. iii.

Neither Hillel, Ishmael, nor Eliezer ben Jose ha-Gelili sought to give a complete enumeration of the rules of interpretation current in his day, but they omitted from their collections many rules that were then followed.

Elsewhere in the Qur ' an, Isaac is mentioned in lists: Joseph follows the religion of his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ( XII: 38 ) and speaks of God's favor to them ( XII: 6 ); Jacob's sons all testify their faith and promise to worship the God that their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", worshiped ( II: 127 ); and the Qur ' an commands Muslims to believe in the revelations that were given to " Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs " ( II: 136 ; III: 84 ).

Ishmael dies on their journey near a place called " Nahum ".

It was during this banquet that Sarah happened upon the then teenaged Ishmael mocking and was so disturbed that she requested that both he and Hagar be removed from their company.

Muslims regard Isaac as highly important because they believe that it was Isaac and his older half-brother Ishmael who continued their father's legacy and preached the message of God after the death of Abraham.

Elsewhere in the Qur ' an, Isaac is mentioned in lists: Joseph follows the religion of his forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob ( XII: 38 ) and speaks of God's favor to them ( XII: 6 ); Jacob's sons all testify their faith and promise to worship the God that their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", worshiped ( II: 127 ); and the Qur ' an commands Muslims to believe in the revelations that were given to " Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Patriarchs " ( II: 136 ; III: 84 ).

In other chapters of the Qur ' an, however, which date from the Medina period, Ishmael is mentioned closely with his father Abraham: Ishmael stands alongside Abraham in their attempt to set up the Kaaba in Mecca as a place of monotheistic pilgrimage ( II: 127-129 ) and Abraham thanks God for granting him Ishmael and Isaac in his old age ( XIV: 35-41 ).

Ishmael is further mentioned alongside the patriarchs who had been given revelations ( II: 136 ) and Jacob's sons promise to follow the faith of their forefathers, " Abraham, Ishmael and Isaac ", when testifying their faith ( II: 133 ).

According to exegesis, God told Abraham to listen to Sarah, who said that both Hagar and Ishmael should be taken out of their household and into the desert.

Abraham and Ishmael constructed a stone and mortar structure — known as the Kaaba — which was to be the gathering place for all who wished to strengthen their faith in God.

When Ishmael was about 13 ( Ibrahim being 99 ), Allah ( God ) decided to test their faith in public.

When both father and son had shown their perfect obedience to Allah and they had practically demonstrated their willingness to sacrifice their most precious possessions for His sake — Abraham by laying down his son for sacrifice and Ishmael by lying patiently under the knife – Allah called out to them stating that his sincere intentions had been accepted, and that he need not carry out the killing of Ishmael.

However, Muslim scholars came to endorse the belief that it was Ishmael, not Isaac.

The argument of those early scholars who believed it was Isaac rather than Ishmael ( notably Ibn Ḳutayba, and al-Ṭabarī ) was that " God's perfecting his mercy on Abraham and Isaac " () referred to his making Abraham his friend and saving him from the burning bush, and to his rescuing Isaac.

Commentators and scholars believed that Abraham himself had many children, but Ishmael and Isaac were the only two who became prophets.

In the genealogical trees that the early scholars drew, Ishmael was considered the ancestor of the Northern Arabs and Muhammad was linked to him through the lineage of the patriarch Adnan.