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 ).

On 29 January 2005 Sakhnin fans rioted during a home match ( played at Kiryat Eliezer ) against Hapoel Tel Aviv after a violent incident on the field between a team official and a referee, who had earlier had sent off two Sakhnin players.

Ofira Navon was born in Tel Aviv, to Batya and Eliezer Resnikov, Prisoners of Zion from Russia.

* Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv, Israel, named for Eliezer Kaplan

* 1858 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language ( d. 1922 )

Zamenhof's parents gave him the Hebrew name Eliezer, which appeared on his birth certificate in its Yiddish form Leyzer.

* 1881 – Revival of the Hebrew language as Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends agree to use Hebrew exclusively in their conversations.

" ( 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.

* Orot Sephardic Siddur, Eliezer Toledano: Lakewood, New Jersey, Orot Inc. ( Hebrew and English: Baghdadi text, Syrian variants shown in square brackets )

* January 7 – Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Russian-born advocate of the Hebrew language ( d. 1922 )

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 ").

Eliezer ben Nathan ( Hebrew: אליעזר בן נתן ) of Mainz ( 1090 – 1170 ), Ra ' aven ( ראב " ן ), was a halakist and liturgical poet.

; 1881: Eliezer ben Yehuda makes aliyah and leads efforts to revive Hebrew as a common spoken language.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, who founded the Hebrew Language Committee, coined thousands of new words and concepts based on Biblical, Talmudic and other sources, to cope with the needs and demands of life in the 20th century.

The founder of Modern Hebrew, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, built a home in Talpiot, but died before moving in.

* Orot Sephardic Siddur, Eliezer Toledano: Lakewood, NJ, Orot Inc. ( Hebrew and English: Baghdadi text, Syrian variants shown in square brackets )

Many pitams are preserved today thanks to an auxin discovered by Dr. Eliezer E. Goldschmidt, formerly professor of horticulture at the Hebrew University.

After Moses succeeded in taking the Israelites out of Egypt, and won a battle against Amalek, Reuel came to the Hebrew camp in the wil ­ derness of Sinai, bringing with him Zipporah, Gershom, and Eliezer.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, known as the father of modern Hebrew, was a teacher in Rishon LeZion.

A Hebrew printing press was established in Safed in 1577 by Eliezer Ashkenazi and his son, Isaac of Prague.

Hasidic Judaism was founded by Israel ben Eliezer ( 1700 – 1760 ), also known as the Baal Shem Tov or the Besht ( the Hebrew and Yiddish acronym of Baal Shem Tov ).

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.

The Hebrew word " sevivon " comes also from the root " SBB " (" to turn ") and was invented by Itamar Ben-Avi ( the son of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda ) when he was 5 years old.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, father of modern Hebrew

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the " father of modern Hebrew ", had instead used Yeshua for Jesus ( the name used in Maimonides and the expanded Josippon ) but, Kjaer-Hansen argues, this choice lost out to Yeshu as a result of Klausner's influential Hebrew work on Jesus titled Yeshu HaNotzri published in 1922.

To this end, there has been much recent work in what has become known as Friendliness Theory, which holds that, as advocate and AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky states, "... you ought to be able to reach into ' mind-design-space ' ( i. e. the hypothetical realm which contains all possible intelligent minds ) and pull out a mind ( design an intelligent machine ) such that afterwards, you're glad you made it real.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

* Eliezer Ben-Yehuda ( Eliezer Yitzhak Perelman, 1858-1922 ), responsible for the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language

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.

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda in particular worked to adapt Hebrew to the needs of the modern world, turning to Hebrew sources from all periods to develop a language that went beyond the sacred and was capable of articulating the modern experience.

The most prominent follower of this idea was Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, a linguist intent on reviving Hebrew as a spoken language among Jews ( see History of the Hebrew language ).