Genesis 11: 10 records that Shem was still 100 years old at the birth of Arpachshad, ( but nearly 101-see Chronology note ,) two years after the flood, making him barely 99 at the time the flood began ; and that he lived for another 500 years after this, making his age at death 600 years.

Shem is mentioned in Genesis 5: 32, 6: 10 ; 7: 13 ; 9: 18, 23, 26-27 ; 10 ; 11: 10 ; also in 1 Chronicles 1: 4.

Although some rabbis since the Shabbetai Tzvi debacle still maintain that one should be married and forty years old in order to study Kabbalah, since the time of Baal Shem Tov there has been relaxation of such stringency, and many maintain that it is sufficient to be married and knowledgeable in halakhah and hence permitted to study Kabbalah and by inclusion, Tikunei haZohar ; and some rabbis will advise learning Kabbalah without restrictions of marriage or age.

Susa is further mentioned in the Book of Jubilees ( 8: 21 & 9: 2 ) as one of the places within the inheritance of Shem and his eldest son Elam ; and in 8: 1, " Susan " is also named as the son ( or daughter, in some translations ) of Elam.

The Hebrew wording of Genesis 10: 11 has led to some ambiguity as to whether Asshur here is the son of Shem or a city built by Nimrod ; either interpretation can be found in various modern versions.

Shem is traditionally held to be the ancestor of the Semitic people ;

These twins are contrasted in the book by allusions to sets of opposing twins and enemies in literature, mythology and history ; such as Set and Horus of the Osiris story ; the biblical pairs Jacob and Esau, Cain and Abel, and Saint Michael and the Devil – equating Shaun with " Mick " and Shem with " Nick " – as well as Romulus and Remus.

The slim volume contained three short fables pertaining to the novel's three children Shem, Shaun and Issy ; namely " The Mookse and the Gripes ", " The Triangle ", and " The Ondt and the Gracehoper ".

In many modern interpretations of the Hebrew text of Genesis 10, it is Nimrod, the son of Cush, who founded Nineveh ; other translations ( e. g., the KJV ) render the same Torah verse as naming Ashur ( Assyria ), son of Shem, as the founder of Nineveh.

; 1700 – 1760: Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Ba ' al Shem Tov, founds Hasidic Judaism, a way to approach God through meditation and fervent joy.

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.

File: Ohel Baal Shem Tov. jpg | Ohel of Baal Shem Tov ; August 4, 2008

Examples include Asshur from אשור ʼAššûr instead of Ασσυρια Assyria, and Shem from שם Šēm instead of Σημ Sēm.

According to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible Gether ( Aather in Arabic ) was the third son of Aram, son of Shem.

There is no connection with the name of Shem son of Noah ( which appears in Arabic as sam سام, with a different initial consonant, and without any internal glottal stop consonant ), as is sometimes assumed.

Ad ( also called Aad ) is the great-grandson of Shem, son of Noah ( Arabic: sam ibn Nuh سام بن نوح ) who came from the northeast and was the progenitor of the Adites.

Note that the name Sham has no valid etymological connection with the Biblical figure Shem son of Noah, which appears in Arabic as Sām سام ( with a different initial consonant, and without any internal glottal stop consonant ).

Shem merely means " name " or " renown ", " prosperity ".

The Gibborim were unusually powerful ; Genesis calls them " heroes of old, men of renown ;" ( Enoshi Ha Shem ).

Israel is elected for salvation because the " sons of Israel " are " the firstborn son " of the God of Israel, descended through Shem and Abraham to the chosen line of Jacob whose name is changed to Israel.

On the other hand, the theologian Benito Arias Montano ( 1571 ) proposed finding Ophir in the name of Peru, reasoning that the native Peruvians were thus descendants of Ophir and Shem.

" These twin sons of HCE and ALP consist of a writer called Shem the Penman and a postman by the name of Shaun the Post, who are rivals for replacing their father and for their sister Issy's affection.

There, Hazarmaveth is the name of a son of Joktan, one of the sons of Shem in the table of the Sons of Noah in Genesis 10 — i. e., the founders of nearby nations including Sheba, also a son of Joktan.

Hasidism's founder was Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Baal Shem Tov (" master of a good name " usually applied to a saintly Jew who was also a wonder-worker ), or simply " the Besht "; he taught that man's relationship with God depended on immediate religious experience, in addition to knowledge and observance of the details of the Torah and Talmud.

Rashi points out that Melchizedeq was another name for Shem, son of Noah.

The 216-letter name of God sought by the characters of the film is known as the Shem ha-Meforash or the Explicit Name.

The name is most well known in reference to the founder of Hasidic Judaism, the Baal Shem Tov (" Master of the Good Name ")- Israel ben Eliezer ( 1698 – 1760 ) in the Ukraine.

The name " Baal Shem " mainly survives in Jewish surnames of people descending from Ba ' ale Shem such as Balshem, Balshemnik and Bolshemennikov.

Judeo-Christian tradition claims the name is derived from the biblical Aram, son of Shem, a grandson of Noah in the Bible.

Among LDS linguists, the leading ( unofficial ) theory of the origin of the name " Sam " is that it is most likely a Hebrew dialectal form of " Shem ".

Based on the teachings of Rabbi Isaac Luria, the Baal Shem Tov and the Ohr ha-Chaim, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi taught in the name of the Zohar that " He who breathed life into man, breathed from Himself.

There, he wrote and published a book entitled Australia: An Appeal to the World on Behalf of the Younger Branch of the Family of Shem under the name Robert Menli Lyon.

Marr adopted the term " Japhetic " from Japheth, the name of one of the sons of Noah, in order to characterise his theory that the Kartvelian languages of the Caucasus area were related to the Semitic languages of the Middle East ( named after Shem, Japheth's brother ).

The third son of Noah, Shem still gives his name to the Semitic languages, a branch of the Afroasiatic family of languages, for which " Semito-Hamitic " is an older, and now virtually obsolete term.

The elder Zerachiah was a son of Shem Tov Ha-Levi, one of the greatest Talmudic scholars in Provence, who claimed direct descent of the prophet Samuel, who according to Jewish tradition was a direct descendant of Yitzhar ( hence the family name " Ha-Yitzhari "), son of Kehath, son of Levi, son of Jacob.

" The differing interpretations depend on whether the Hebrew word ha-gadol (" the elder ") is taken as grammatically referring to Japheth, or Shem.

James Joyce used the legend of Gráinne Ní Mháille (" her grace o ' malice ") and the Earl of Howth in chapter 1 of Finnegans Wake, but added the kidnapping of another fictional son, Hilary, to match his Shem and Shaun theme.

The first verse of the Shema is recited aloud, simultaneously by the hazzan and the congregation, which responds with the rabbinically instituted Baruch Shem (" Blessed be the Name ") in silence before continuing the rest of Shema.

The Panentheism ( all creation takes place " within God ") taught by the Baal Shem Tov is systematically articulated in Kabbalistic philosophy.

European Jews who rejected the Hasidic movement were dubbed Mitnagdim (" opponents ") by the followers of the Baal Shem Tov, who had previously called themselves Freylechn (" happy ones ") and now began to call themselves Hasidim (" pious ones ").

Arpachshad or Arphaxad or Arphacsad ( ʔarpakšad ; ; " healer ," " releaser ") was one of the five sons of Shem, the son of Noah ( Genesis 10: 22, 24 ; 11: 10-13 ; 1 Chron.

The Rebbe Elimelech was a disciple of the Rebbe Dovber, the Maggid (" preacher ") of Mezeritch, the primary disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism.

Accordingly, the Baal Shem Tov interpreted the Hebrew word for sin ( חטא -" Cheit ") as possessing a silent letter Aleph at the end.

In verse 25, Noah names Shem and Japheth as the " brethren " ( The New Living Translation translates this as " relatives ") of Canaan, seven verses after stating that they were uncles.