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Of special historical interest is the observation of Abbahu in regard to the benediction " Baruk Shem Kebod Malkuto " ( Blessed be the Name of His glorious Kingdom ) after the " Shema ' Yisrael ," that in Palestine, where the Christians look for points of controversy, the words should be recited aloud ( lest the Jews be accused of tampering with the unity of God proclaimed in the Shema '), whereas in the Babylonian city of Nehardea, where there are no Christians, the words are recited with a low voice ( Pesahim 56a ).
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.
The verse is translated in the KJV as follows, " Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born ".
" The differing interpretations depend on whether the Hebrew word ha-gadol (" the elder ") is taken as grammatically referring to Japheth, or Shem.
* Shem is the father of the Semitic race
As further disseminated through the teachings of the Yisrael Ba ' al Shem Tov, the pursuit of permitted physical pleasures is encouraged as a means to " serve God with joy " ( Deut.
The verse is translated in the KJV as " Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born .".
), Shem is believed to have been Melchizedek, King of Salem whom Abraham is recorded to have met after the battle of the four kings.
In a few of the many extra-biblical sources that describe him, Shem is also credited with killing Nimrod, son of Cush.
Further, it is said that Tuitsch a German patriarch is none other than Shem himself ( see Assyrian-German theory ).
According to Armenian tradition, Dr. Hales is quoted saying, " To the sons of Shem was alloted the middle region of the earth viz., Palestine, Syria, Assyria, Samaria ( Shinar?
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.
According to it the staff is a fragment of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and was successively in the possession of Shem, of the three Patriarchs, and of Judah, just as in the Jewish legend.
Elam (; ע ֵ יל ָ ם ) in the Hebrew Bible ( Genesis 10: 22, Ezra 4: 9 ;) is said to be one of the sons of Shem, the son of Noah.
It is also used ( as in Akkadian ), for the ancient country of Elam in what is now southern Iran, whose people the Hebrews believed to be the offspring of Elam, son of Shem.
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.
Another Sheba is listed in the Table of Nations ( Genesis 10: 28 ) as a son of Joktan, another descendant of Noah's son Shem.
In Shem, the elder brother of Ham and Japheth, first born son of Noah, is referred to as the father of the sons of Eber ( עבר ), which may have a similar meaning.
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 and mentioned
Le Petit, a writer in 1601 mentioned King Adel, said to be descendant of Shem, ruler of Britain having 3 children that migrated to India.
In the Book of Jubilees, it is mentioned as being part of the border, beginning with its easternmost point up to its mouth, between the allotments of sons of Noah, that of Japheth to the north and that of Shem to the south.

Shem and Genesis
Genesis appears to be structured around the recurring phrase elleh toledot, meaning " these are the generations ," with the first use of the phrase referring to the " generations of heaven and earth " and the remainder marking individuals — Noah, the " sons of Noah ", Shem, etc., down to Jacob.
They are listed in the order " Shem, Ham, and Japheth " in Genesis 5: 32 and 9: 18, but treated in the reverse order in chapter 10.
Genesis 10: 21 refers to relative ages of Japheth and his brother Shem, but with sufficient ambiguity to have given rise to different translations.
Genesis 11: 10 records that Shem was one hundred years old when his son Arphaxad was born, two years after the Flood.
If Noah was six hundred years old ( Genesis 7: 13 ), then Shem was ninety-eight years old at the Flood.
Genesis 10: 21 refers to relative ages of Shem and his brother Japheth, but with sufficient ambiguity to have yielded different translations.
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.
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.
Additionally, it is known as Elam in the Hebrew Bible, where they are called the offspring of Elam, eldest son of Shem ( see Elam in the Bible ; Genesis 10: 22, Ezra 4: 9 ), although in actuality the Elamites spoke a non-Semitic language isolate.
Therefore, in Chabad, the Baal Shem Tov and Schneur Zalman, who share the same birthday, are called the " two great luminaries " ( after Genesis 1: 16, according to the Midrashic account, before the moon was diminished ), representing heart and mind.
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.
The Gibborim were unusually powerful ; Genesis calls them " heroes of old, men of renown ;" ( Enoshi Ha Shem ).
In Genesis 10: 26-29 there is a reference to another person named Sheba, listed along with Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Ophir, Havilah and Jobab as the descendants of Joktan, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, the son of Arphaxad, the descendant of Shem, another son of Noah.
* Aram, son of Shem, according to the " Table of Nations " in Genesis 10
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.
Lud ( לו ּ ד ) was a son of Shem and grandson of Noah, according to Genesis 10 ( the " Table of Nations ").
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.
P is responsible for the first of the two creation stories in Genesis ( Genesis 1 ), for Adam's genealogy, part of the Flood story, the Table of Nations, and the genealogy of Shem ( i. e., Abraham's ancestry ).
Resen was, according to Genesis 10: 11, a city founded by Asshur son of Shem.
In the Book of Genesis, Hul is the son of Aram, son of Shem.

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