The image of these charismatic figures, often wandering among the people, became shaped by the Kabbalistic legend of the Lamed Vav Tzadikim ( 36 hidden righteous people who sustain the world ).

* In the novel The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, Alma's brother Bird believes himself to be a Lamed Vovnik, one of the 36 special people in the world.

* In the Coen Brothers film, A Serious Man, the eulogy spoken by the rabbi at a funeral refers to the deceased as perhaps having been a " Lamed Vovnik ".

* In the 1999 novel Lords of Light: A Novel by Deepak Chopra, the Lamed Vav are depicted, one of them who betrayed God posing as the new Messiah.

* In the novel Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult, the main character, Faith White, is believed to be one of the Lamed Vovnik by Rabbi Solomon.

* In the television series Touch, season 1, episode 9, " Music of the Spheres ", Jacob " Jake " Bohm, a mute boy who mysteriously feels the suffering of those along his path and aims to positively adjust their fates, is revealed as possibly one of the " Lamed Vav Tzadikim " by a Hasidic man.

The Convoy of 35 ( or the Lamed Hey, which stands for " thirty five " in Hebrew numerals ) was a convoy of Haganah men who were ambushed and killed by Arabs during an attempt to resupply the blockaded kibbutzim of Gush Etzion on January 16, 1948, after earlier convoys had been attacked.

Lambda is related to the Phoenician letter Lamed Lamedh.

The term lamedvavnik is derived from the Hebrew letters Lamed ( L ) and Vav ( V ), whose numerical value adds up to 36.

The LaTeX for Aleph is known as Lamed.

The bottom left crown is meant to be initialed to depict the " Crown of Priesthood " ( Keter Kehuna ), but incorrectly has the Hebrew letter Lamed instead of Kaf )

Lamed or Lamedh is the twelfth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Lamed and Arabic alphabet.

* Highway Commissioners-Joel S. Hart, Erastus Lamed, and William Canfield

The Tzadikim Nistarim (, hidden righteous ones ) or Lamed Vav Tzadikim (, 36 righteous ones ), often abbreviated to Lamed Vav ( niks ), refers to 36 Righteous people, a notion rooted within the more mystical dimensions of Judaism.

* In the 1998 film The Cruise, the main character Speed discusses the Lamed Vovnik.

; The Lamed Wufniks: There are precisely thirty-six Lamed Wufniks in existence.

In 1905, he met the Yiddish writer Lamed Shapiro.

Prominent members of Di Yunge included Mani Leib, Moyshe-Leyb Halpern, H. Leivick, Zishe Landau and the prose writers David Ignatoff, Lamed Shapiro and Isaac Raboy.

He caught her by an arm and helped her into the kitchen.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

Indian ghosts would not impinge upon his nights, nor would his days be haunted by the dimly-outlined, ill-conceived figure of her benighted ancestor.

She had been snared here by a vile sensuality that writhed around her throat in ever-tightening circles.

`` Golly '', Rod exclaimed to Harmony as he dutifully stood by her side among the ringed spectators, `` don't that fiddle make you wish the Bible didn't say us Baptists can't dance ''??

With a swift swoop of his big arms, he grabbed Sally out of the circle surrounding him, and then kissed her soundly before setting her down so she could stand by his side while they jointly chose the rest of their `` outfit ''.

`` We'll double teams zigzagging up the mountain, Harmony '', he spoke reassuringly, concerned by the pinched look around her mouth.

I sat by her on the divan.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

Her impact in the zing commercials had led to her being considered for an excellent part in an upcoming TV series, Underwater Western Eye, a documentary-type show to be sponsored by Oatnut Grits.

True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

It had been five days too late before he learned that she'd gone through the wedding ceremony in a semitrance of laudanum, administered by her mother.

He swung toward the front to give the news to Hettie, then stopped, barred from her by the vehemence of her blame and hate.

Jorden, who was reportedly physically abusive to Day, committed suicide in 1967 by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Mrs. Bowles is a single mother who was married three times — her first husband divorced her, her second one died in a jet accident, and her third one committed suicide by shooting himself in the head — and has two children who don't like or even respect her ( which stems from her permissive, often negligent and abusive parenting — Mrs. Bowles brags that her kids beat her up and she's glad that she can hit back ).

In the 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the narrator and protagonist Lily describes a punishment her abusive father routinely inflicted on her: kneeling on grits.

The most commonly reported form of abusive sibling incest is abuse of a younger sibling by an older sibling.

They are regulated by state laws, which include restrictions on rates and forms, and which aim to protect consumers and the public from unfair or abusive practices.

These shots, starting with a medium shot and culminating in two close-ups of the Monster's face, were repeated by Whale to introduce Griffin in The Invisible Man and the abusive husband in One More River.

The experiments were also controversial, and considered by some scientists to be unethical and physically or psychologically abusive.

The claim that an interaction between low MAO-A activity and maltreatment would cause anti-social behavior has been criticized since the predisposition towards anti-social behavior could equally well have been caused by other genes inherited from abusive parents.

The Humane Society of the United States takes the position that all sexual molestation of animals by humans is abusive, whether it involves physical injury or not.

Revelations by Tina Turner in her autobiography of her abusive relationship with Turner and the film adaptation of this coupled with his cocaine addiction damaged Turner's career in the 1980s and 1990s.

The publication of " persistent abusive, often brutal behavior by named individuals with their official title, place, and time of torture " suggests that there is no official will to cease and desist such activities.

On June 1, 2008, the Alfa Matrix label announced that Front 242 would make an ultimate statement towards abusive audio compression by releasing the free two-track download, First Moment.

In 1974, frustrated by lack of commercial success, he released two albums of more conventional rock music that were critically panned ; this move, combined with not having been paid for a European tour, and years of enduring Beefheart's abusive behavior, led the entire band to quit.

Another aspect to consider is whether the debtor can avoid a challenge by the United States Trustee to his or her Chapter 7 filing as abusive.

# Consent-trafficking victims are those who have been subjected to coercive, deceptive, or abusive action by traffickers.

This is the case where photographs are taken by private individuals and shown on private websites for no commercial purpose ( the current trend for photo albums ), as long as these pictures are displayed at a low resolution ( 600 pixels maximum, resolution of 72dpi ) to avoid abusive usage and downloads.

His witty, abusive style appears for example in this quote by Herodian, who however was mainly interested in its linguistic aspects ( many of the extant verses were preserved for us by lexicographers and grammarians interested in rare words ):

Martha ’ s initially positive wish to be liked by her oppressive and abusive husband push her to such an extreme that she becomes deranged leading to her own permanent physical paralysis.

The Mensheviks and the right-wing of the Socialist Revolutionaries, outraged by the abusive and coercive acts carried out by the Red Guard and Bolsheviks, fled Petrograd, leaving control in the hands of the Bolsheviks and remaining Left Socialist Revolutionaries.

Nancy goes further by causing her abusive stepfather to have a heart attack and die.

* The Cult Awareness Network ( CAN ) was driven into bankruptcy in 1996 in part by a number of Scientology-related lawsuits ( CAN had also been held liable for over $ 1 million in damages for the kidnapping and abusive deprogramming of a member of the Life Tabernacle Church, a church unaffiliated with Scientology ).

Juliet is sequestered in her family ’ s mansion, watched over by her abusive father Cappy, passive mother Ingrid, and overprotective cousin Tyrone, all the while being sexually satisfied by family servant Ness ( Debbie Rochon ).