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Eliezer Ben Yehuda is credited by many as being almost single-handedly responsible for the Zionist movement's revitalization of Hebrew as a modern spoken language, although in his book " Language in Time of Revolution " the Israeli linguist and literature researcher Benjamin Harshav diminishes Ben-Yehuda's role and attributes the success of the revival to a wider movement in the Jewish society.
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" ( The captain's family name is " Ben Yehuda "— the name of the noted Zionist linguist Eliezer Ben Yehuda who had a major share in transforming Hebrew, a purely liturgical language for many centuries, into a spoken language again.
The founder of Modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, built a home in Talpiot, but died before moving in.
Eliezer Ben ‑ Yehuda ( ; 7 January 1858 – 16 December 1922 ) was a Litvak lexicographer and newspaper editor.
All of them became extinct as native languages in the early 1st millennium CE, although Hebrew remained in continuous literary and religious use among Jews, and was revived as an everyday spoken language in the 19th and 20th centuries in an effort spearheaded by Eliezer Ben Yehuda.
" Early in the 20th century, Haredi Jews in Jerusalem were accused by the media of having recited the curse against the linguist Eliezer Ben Yehuda.
The attacks were carried out on Ben Yehuda Street, a major thoroughfare, later a pedestrian mall, named for the founder of modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben Yehuda.
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His father Eliezer Ben Yehuda raised him to be the first modern native speaker of Hebrew.
The term chanukkiyah was coined at the end of the nineteenth century in Jerusalem by the wife of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the reviver of the Hebrew language.
In the XVIII century the community was headed by David Ben Karasubazar Lehno Eliezer ( d. 1735 ), author of the introduction of the " ritual prayer book Kaffa " and the works of " Mishkan David " (" Abode of David "), devoted to grammar of Hebrew.
Pellikan wrote the Chronikon and also translated Hebrew works into Latin, such as Bechji Ben Asher's commentary on the Torah and the work of Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer ( Eliezer filius Hircani ), the Liber sententiarum Judiacarum, in 1546.
Eliezer and Yehuda
The nine are: Rabbi Eliezer his son, Rabbi Abba, Rabbi Yehuda, Rabbi Yossi bar Yaakov, Rabbi Yitzchak, Rabbi Chezkiyah bar Rav, Rabbi Chiyya, Rabbi Yossi and Rabbi Yisa.
Kaplan received semicha from some of Israel's foremost rabbinic authorities, including Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel.
* Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel ( son of the Alter ) of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Mir and Jerusalem, Israel
Among Akiva's other contemporaries were Elisha ben Avuya, Eliezer ben Tzodok, Eleazar ben Azaria, Gamliel II, Yehuda ben Betheira, Yochanan ben Nuri, Yosi Haglili, Rabbi Yishmael and Chanina ben Dosa.
; 1881: Eliezer ben Yehuda makes aliyah and leads efforts to revive Hebrew as a common spoken language.
Leading rabbis who have lived in Bnei Brak include Rabbi Yaakov Landau, Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler, Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (" the Steipler "), Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman ( Ponevezher Rov ), Rabbi Elazar Menachem Mann Shach and Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz.
Although Hebrew was the daily speech of the Jewish people for centuries, by the fifth century BCE, the closely related Aramaic joined Hebrew as the spoken language in Judea and by the third century BCE Jews of the diaspora were speaking Greek, and soon afterwards Hebrew was no longer used as a mother tongue-for over sixteen centuries being used almost exclusively as a liturgical language until revived as a spoken language by Eliezer ben Yehuda in the Palestine of the late 1880s and eventually becoming the official language of the state of Israel.
When Eliezer ben Yehuda drafted his Standard Hebrew language, he based it on Sephardi Hebrew, both because this was the de facto spoken form as a lingua franca in the land of Israel and because he believed it to be most beautiful of the Hebrew dialects.
Shternberg grew up in the northern Bessarabian shtetl of Lipkany ( Yiddish: Lipkon, now Lipcani in Moldova ), which was famously termed " Bessarabian Olympus " by Hebrew and Yiddish poet Chaim Nachman Bialik and which in the second half of the 19th century produced several major figures of the modern Yiddish and Hebrew belle-lettres, among them Yehuda Shteinberg and Eliezer Shteinbarg.
Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg ( December 10, 1915 – November 21, 2006 ) was known as the Tzitz Eliezer after his monumental halachic treatise Tzitz Eliezer that covers a wide breadth of halacha, including Jewish medical ethics, as well as ritual halachic issues from Shabbat to kashrut.
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" Reacting against the blurring of theological distinctions, Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits wrote that " Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism.
The 20th-century Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler is frequently quoted as defining love from the Jewish point of view as " giving without expecting to take " ( from his Michtav me-Eliyahu, Vol.
Eliezer Zamenhof street in Tel Aviv: the street sign in Hebrew and Esperanto states he is the creator of the international language Esperanto.
In some Israeli cities, street signs identify Esperanto's creator and give his birth and death dates, but refer to him solely by his Jewish name Eliezer ( a variant of which, El ' azar, is the origin of Lazarus ).
This passage from Pirqei R. Eliezer, a writing which was composed in Israel after the Islamic conquest, is paralleled in an Arabic text of approximately the same period but gives some noticeably different information.
Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky ( born September 11, 1979 ) is an American writer, blogger, and advocate for the development of friendly artificial intelligence and the understanding of a possible future singularity.
This group gradually evolved into Kehilat Orach Eliezer, which means " Congregation of the Way of Eliezer " ( Eliezer was Louis Finkelstein's given name in Hebrew — and the congregation is popularly abbreviated as " KOE ").
In a legend recorded in the Midrash called Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer it is stated that the fish which swallowed Jonah narrowly avoided being eaten by the Leviathan, which eats one whale each day.
To Eliezer is attributed the commentary on the Maḥzor published in Ostroh in 1830.
Eliezer is also supposed to be the author of a history of the terrible events of 1096, the year of the German Crusade, part of the First Crusade.
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.
Besht ’ s parents died soon after his birth ; bequeathing to him only the deathbed exhortation of Eliezer, “ Always believe that God is with you, and fear nothing .” Besht ever remained true to this injunction.
His own son, Eliezer Yehudah ( Lazer Yudel ) Finkel eventually became the head of the far older Mir yeshiva, eventually leading it all the way to Jerusalem where it is today the largest post-high school yeshiva in the world with thousands of students.
In Sotah 10b, Samael is Esau's guardian angel, and in the Sayings of Rabbi Eliezer, he is charged with being the one who tempted Eve, then seduced and impregnated her with Cain.
Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits writes that " Judaism is Judaism because it rejects Christianity, and Christianity is Christianity because it rejects Judaism.
The fact that Eliezer was his first teacher, and the only one whom Akiva later designates as " rabbi ," is of importance in settling the date of Akiva's birth.
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From these circles of spiritual inspiration, the early Hasidic movement arose, led by Israel ben Eliezer, the Baal Shem Tov, in 18th century Podolia ( now Ukraine ).
Hasidic Judaism was founded by Yisroel ben Eliezer ( 1700 – 1760 ), also known as the Ba ' al Shem Tov ( or Besht ).
The Shem HaGedolim by Chaim Joseph David Azulai, ( entry on Rebbe Eliezer bar Nosson
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.
There are those who attribute Sifra diTzni ` uta to the patriach Yaakov ; however, Rabbi Eliezer Tzvi of Kamarno in his book Zohar Chai wrote, " Sifra diTzni ` uta was composed by Rashbi ... and he arranged from baraitas which were transmitted to Tannaim from mount Sinai from the days of Moshe, similar to the way Rabeinu HaKadosh arranged the six orders of Mishnah from that which was repeated from before.
The attacks on the Jews were witnessed by Ekkehard of Aura and Albert of Aix ; among the Jewish communities, the main contemporary witnesses were the Mainz Anonymous, Eliezer ben Nathan, and Solomon bar Simson.
This was the opinion of R. Eliezer, who, in the course of a voyage in company with R. Joshua, explained to the latter, when frightened by the sudden appearance of a brilliant light, that it probably proceeded from the eyes of the Leviathan.
Modern Orthodox rabbis such as Joseph Soloveitchik, Norman Lamm, Randalf Stolzman, Abraham Besdin, Emanuel Rackman, Eliezer Berkovits and others have written on this issue ; many of their works have been collected in a volume published by the Rabbinical Council of America: Theological and Halakhic Reflections on the Holocaust ( edited by Bernhard H. Rosenberg and Fred Heuman, Ktav / RCA, 1992 ).
Many of Berkovits ' books will be republished by the Eliezer Berkovits Institute for Jewish Thought under the auspices of Shalem Center, Jerusalem.
Not until its importance had been specially urged by the most influential rabbis of Poland — Mordecai Jafe, Samuel Eliezer Edels ( Maharsha ), Solomon Ephraim Luntschitz, among others, in a formal appeal issued from Posen in 1609 — was its publication undertaken.
* Jewish Encyclopedia article for Eliezer ben Nathan, by Louis Ginzberg and A. Kaminka.
Israel ben Eliezer worked as a laborer, digging clay and lime, which his wife delivered every week by the wagonload to the surrounding villages, and from this they derived their entire support.
About his parentage, legend tells that his father, Eliezer, whose wife was still living, was seized during an attack ( by the Tatars perhaps ), carried from his home in Wallachia, and sold as a slave to a prince.
During an expedition undertaken by the king, when other counsel failed, and all were disheartened, Eliezer ’ s advice was accepted ; and the result was a successful battle of decisive importance.
* Future Shock Levels by Eliezer Yudkowsky
) narrates that Akiva at the age of 40, and when he was the father of a numerous family dependent upon him, eagerly attended the academy of his native town, Lod, presided over by Eliezer ben Hyrkanus.
; 1876: English novelist George Eliot publishes the widely read novel Daniel Deronda, later cited by Henrietta Szold, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Emma Lazarus as having been highly influential in their decision to become Zionists.
The Mishnah may also not have recorded a specific text because of an aversion to making prayer a matter of rigor and fixed formula, an aversion that continued at least to some extent throughout the Talmudic period, as evidenced by the opinions of R. Eliezer ( Talmud Ber.
* Sefer Yere ' im (" Book of the fearing ") by Rabbi Eliezer of Metz ( not a clear enumeration );
Many pitams are preserved today thanks to an auxin discovered by Dr. Eliezer E. Goldschmidt, formerly professor of horticulture at the Hebrew University.
Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler was once waiting at a bus stop in a driving rain when a former student drove by in a van.
A Hebrew printing press was established in Safed in 1577 by Eliezer Ashkenazi and his son, Isaac of Prague.
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