The Jewish Talmud, dating back about 1800 years, suggests a cure for gum ailments containing " dough water " and olive oil.

In the Middle East, the war had made Britain conscious of its dependence on Arab oil and it attached more importance to cordial relations with the Arabs than to helping the Jewish people establish a homeland.

In Jewish eschatology, the term came to refer to a future Jewish King from the Davidic line, who will be " anointed " with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age.

According to the Talmud, after the Seleucid desecration of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, there was only enough sealed ( and therefore not desecrated ) consecrated olive oil left to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day.

These faithful followers of Jesus stood at Golgotha during the Crucifixion of Jesus and later came to his tomb early on the morning following the Sabbath with myrrh ( expensive oil ), according to the Jewish tradition, to anoint their Lord's body.

According to the Jewish Bible, whenever someone was anointed with the specific Holy anointing oil formula and ceremony described in, the Spirit of God came upon this person, to qualify him or her for a God-given task.

In the same way, other practices were borrowed from the Jewish liturgy as well, such as the use of incense and oil lamps.

In Jewish eschatology, the term came to refer to a future Jewish King from the Davidic line, who will be " anointed " with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age.

Known as Sikhnin or Sikhni, meaning " home of the labourers " in Aramaic, and Sukhsikha, meaning " produces oil " in Hebrew, the town was known for Jewish scholars like the rabbi Joshua of Sakhnin in the periods of the Mishna and Gemara.

Philby disclosed classified British intelligence to Ibn Saud ( King of Saudi Arabia ) during wartime ; he secretly helped secure American oil concessions in Saudi Arabia, double-crossing British competitors ; he created economic partnerships, allied against British interests and in favor of Nazi Germany, with the help of Allen Dulles ( later CIA Director ); and Philby worked with Nazi intelligence to sabotage efforts at creating a Jewish homeland.

The government did, however, set the minimum wage for Arab workers below that for Jewish workers, which meant that those making capital investments in the Yishuv's economic infrastructure, such as Haifa's electricity plant, the Shemen oil and soap factory, the Grands Moulins flour mills and the Nesher cement factory, could take advantage of cheap Arab labour pouring in from the countryside.

In 1928, the Bayside Land Corporation, a joint venture of the Palestine Economic Corporation and the Jewish National Fund, acquired 2, 400 dunams of residential land in a deal related to the building of the IPC oil pipeline.

In Jewish messianic tradition and eschatology, the term came to refer to a future Jewish King, who will be " anointed " with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age.

He vigorously opposes US influence, claiming it is driven by a quest for oil and hegemonic power ; he further describes Israel as a colonial settler state, which must be replaced with a state for all faiths and ethnicities ( Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian etc.

The Jewish agency condemned the Irgun for the " act of madness " that preceded the killing of Jewish workers at the Haifa oil refinery, but at the same time authorized retaliation.

The significance of wine, bread and oil is indicated by their incorporation into Jewish religious ritual, with the blessings over wine and bread for Shabbat and holiday meals, and at religious ceremonies such as weddings, and the lighting of Shabbat and festival lights with olive oil.

Candles of wax or tallow took the place of lamps used in various Jewish rituals such as the Sabbath lights ; in the Havdalah ceremony ; and the Hanukkah lights.

* Jewish, Roman and Christian lamps.

If the congregation had the fourfold ministry, the seven lamps, reminiscent of the seven-branched candlestick of the Jewish rituals, would hang over the chancel near the sanctuary.

The excavations have uncovered 7. 5 dunnams, about 5 % of the site, revealing a typical Jewish city featuring ritual baths, Herodian lamps, limestone cups and thousands of Hasmonean coins.

Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people, his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories, Il Pecorone, published in 1558, although written almost two centuries earlier.

He could learn at second hand from books, but could not thus capture the real Jewish spirit.

Young Morris, who, while attending the University of Pennsylvania, also taught and edited a paper, found time to write Henrietta twenty-page letters on everything that engaged his interest, from the acting of Sarah Bernhardt in Philadelphia to his reactions to the comments of `` Sulamith '' on the Jewish reform movement being promulgated by the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.

Should not everyone have been awakened to it as an outstanding fact of our time that the nations poisoned by anti-Semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom than those whose citizens saved their Jewish compatriots from the transports??

Though there was an occasional good-natured chuckle about Marvin Goulding, the Jewish officer from Chicago, singing tearfully about the ould sod, no one really thought it was strange.

What is noteworthy about this large group of teen-agers is that, although their attitudes hardly differentiate them from their gentile counterparts, they actually lead their lives in a vast self-enclosed Jewish cosmos with relatively little contact with the non-Jewish world.

Musical composition embodying angst as a primary theme have primarily come from European Jewish composers such as Gustav Mahler and Alban Berg, written during the period of great persecution of the Jewish people shortly before and during the period of Nazi activity in Europe.

Antisemitism may be manifested in many ways, ranging from expressions of hatred of or discrimination against individual Jews to organized violent attacks by mobs, state police, or even military attacks on entire Jewish communities.

Extreme instances of persecution include the pogroms which preceded the First Crusade in 1096, the expulsion from England in 1290, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Cossack massacres in Ukraine, various pogroms in Russia, the Dreyfus affair, the Final Solution by Hitler's Germany, official Soviet anti-Jewish policies and the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.

Corporate election draws support from a similar concept of corporate election found in the Old Testament and Jewish law.

Anbar was adjacent or identical to the Babylonian Jewish center of Nehardea ( Hebrew: ), and lies a short distance from the present-day town of Fallujah, formerly the Babylonian Jewish center of Pumbeditha ( Hebrew: ).

His tomb, according to a medieval Jewish tradition, is considered to be in a building not far from the Cave of the Patriarchs.

* 1948 – The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem.

* Portions of this article have been taken from the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

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For those who enjoy their garden at any time, there are also night accessories which include candle lanterns, oil lamps, patio torches, and illuminations.

( Beeswax for candles and olive oil for oil lamps are preferred because they burn very cleanly, although other materials are sometimes used.

Kerosene lamps consume an estimated 77 billion litres per year, equivalent to 1. 3 million barrels of oil per day.

The widespread availability of cheaper kerosene was the principal factor in the precipitous decline in the whaling industry in the mid-to-late 19th century, as the leading product of whaling was oil for lamps.

Still without an electricity supply, the church is illuminated entirely by oil lamps & candles.

Blasphemy is to be punished with death, and rules for the eating of sacrifices are set out ; the calendar is explained, and rules for sabbatical and Jubilee years set out ; and rules are made for oil lamps and bread in the sanctuary.

The subject was rarely seen in the large-scale sculpture of antiquity, although a representation of Leda in sculpture has been attributed in modern times to Timotheos ( compare illustration, below left ); small-scale sculptures survive showing both reclining and standing poses, in cameos and engraved gems, rings, and terracotta oil lamps.

Fresh olive oil of the purest quality was burned daily to light its lamps.

The lamps of the menorah were lit daily from fresh, consecrated olive oil and burned from evening until morning, according to.

The Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus states that three of the seven lamps were allowed to burn during the day also ; however, according to the Talmud ( Rashi, Tractate Shabbat 22b ), only the center lamp was left burning all day, into which as much oil was put as into the others.

Main light sources used during the time it was invented in the late 16th century were candles or oil lamps.

He was the inventor of the first street lights ( oil lamps ) in Copenhagen, and worked hard to try to control the beggars, poor people, unemployed, and prostitutes of Copenhagen.

It is commonly used in cooking, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps.

In the diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden, a great procession with oil lamps is held the night before Palm Sunday in honour of the Sorrowful Mother of Warfhuizen.

It is commonly an unwanted by-product of fires ( including stoves, candles, oil lamps, and fireplaces ), but may also be used for pest control ( cf.

Thorium dioxide ( ThO < sub > 2 </ sub >) and thorium nitrate () were used in mantles of portable gas lights, including natural gas lamps, oil lamps and camping lights.

* September – The first organised street lighting was introduced in London with oil lamps to be lit outside every tenth house on moonless winter nights.

La Scala was originally illuminated with 84 oil lamps mounted on the palcoscenico and another thousand in the rest of theatre.

In time, oil lamps were replaced by gas lamps, these in turn were replaced by electric lights in 1883.

Candles did not appear in Europe or the Middle East until sometime after AD 400, due largely to the availability of olive oil for burning in lamps.

Before the invention of electric lighting, candles and oil lamps were commonly used for illumination.

In southern Europe and the Mediterranean, oil lamps predominated.