* Tiklal Ha-Mefoar ( MAHARITS ) Nusahh Baladi, Meyusad Al Pi Ha-Tiklal Im Etz Hayim Ha-Shalem Arukh Ke-Minhag Yahaduth Teiman: Bene Berak: Or Neriyah ben Mosheh Ozeri, or 2002

On " the other side of the river of Kush " dwell the Bene Mosheh ( tribe of Levi ).

The four other tribes communicate with the Bene Mosheh from the borders of the river.

Intending to refute Eldad's assertion of the existence of independent Jewish states — an assertion contrary to the teaching of the Roman-Catholic Church — the Christian writer told of a priest who ruled over the great kingdom of Ethiopia, to which were subject some Jewish tribes, including the Bene Mosheh who dwelt beyond the River Sambation.

The old institutions, the Bene Gesserit, the Bene Tleilax, the Spacing Guild, the houses Major and Minor, the Landsraad, the technocrats of Ix, and CHOAM, have all faded from power in the face of Leto's hydraulic despotism: since he has absolute control of the spice on which the whole universe depends, he has the universe in the palm of his hand, and ruthlessly enforces his simplistic order.

For this reason, Lady Jessica's decision to defy the Sisterhood and to produce an Atreides son, Paul, threw the Bene Gesserit's plans into turmoil and established an irreconcilable tension between Feyd and Paul as the scions of their bitterly opposed noble houses.

An enraged Baron is left with no choice but to order a duplicate from the Bene Tleilax: the Mentat De Vries featured in Herbert's original novel Dune.

Every member of the Bene Gesserit is conditioned into singular loyalty to the order and its goals with allegiances to even family being secondary, and no goal is more paramount than the Sisterhood's large-scale breeding program.

The Bene Tleilax's use of their women in this capacity explains why no one has ever seen a Tleilaxu female.

When Bene Gesserit awaken to their " other memories " in the ritual of the spice agony, they are adults with fully formed personalities, and can withstand the inner assault of their forebears ; the pre-born have no such defense.

In accordance with Bene Gesserit protocol, Jessica was conceived by the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and the Bene Gesserit Helen Morhiam as part of the Bene Gesserit breeding program ; she was raised to be a legal concubine to the Duke Leto Atreides I, and instructed to produce for him a daughter, but no sons.

Wishing to rid himself of their machinations, Paul negotiates with the Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, saying " You may have my seed, but not my person ... Irulan banished and inseminated ... You may have my seed for your plans, but no child of Irulan's will sit on my throne.

By the time of the events described in Heretics of Dune ( 1984 ), the power of the Ixians seems at its apex with their alliance with the Fish Speakers ; however, Bene Gesserit analysts see them as a failing power, because Ixian society had become a bureaucracy and no great inventions had come out of the workshops of Ix for centuries.

" Duncan Idaho realizes that the defection of Irulan leaves the Bene Gesserit with " no remaining lever against the Atreides heirs.

In the Prelude to Dune prequel series ( 1999-2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, a younger Baron Harkonnen consults with Yueh seeking a cure for the debilitating disease which is slowly but surely rendering him obese ; Yueh is aware of no cure, but correctly suggests that the disease's source may be the Bene Gesserit.

This leaves an ordinary person with no real way of detecting a replacement ; the Tleilaxu believe that the Bene Gesserit cannot detect these new Face Dancers either.

The very fact that no one spiritual thinker can be identified as the movement's founder ( names linked to the movement include Amaury de Bene, Giochinno de Fiori and Meister Eckhart, all of whom, at different times, were cited by individuals proclaiming their adherence to the Heresy as the originators of their beliefs ), or claimed to be so, indicate how disparate a movement it was.

When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").

The situation is desperate for the Bene Gesserit as they find themselves the targets of the Honored Matres, whose conquest of the Old Empire is almost complete.

Lucilla is then " betrayed ", and taken before the Great Honored Matre Dama, who tries to persuade her to join the Honored Matres, preserving her life in exchange for Bene Gesserit secrets.

Murbella's ascension to leadership is not accepted as victory by all the Bene Gesserit.

Alia had been born with her ancestral memories in the womb, a circumstance the Bene Gesserit called Abomination, because in their experience it is inevitable that the individual will become possessed by the personality of one of their ancestors.

The Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam is instructed by the Sisterhood to collect the genetic material of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen ( through conception ) for their breeding program.

Odrade is a loose cannon ; she does not obey normal Bene Gesserit prohibitions about love, and is also Teg's biological daughter.

Bene Gesserit Imprinter Lucilla is also sent by Taraza to bind Idaho's loyalty to the Sisterhood with her sexual talents.

An attack is then made on Sheeana on Rakis, which is prevented by the intervention of the Bene Gesserit.

As the meeting draws to a close, Taraza accidentally divines that Waff is a Zensunni, giving the Bene Gesserit a lever to understand their ancient competitor.

This agreement causes consternation among the Bene Gesserit, but Odrade realizes that Taraza's plan is to destroy Rakis.

The Mentat discipline is developed as a replacement for computerized calculation, just as the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild take on functions previously performed by thinking machines.

The art is not eliminated, however, surviving through underground schools ; notably, the Bene Gesserit preserve the art, assuming that Leto knows of this ( through his prescience ) and approves.

A descendant of XyWrite called Nota Bene ( word processor ) is still being actively developed.

Nota Bene, which runs on the XyWrite engine, is popular among academics.

Nota Bene for Windows is now in version 10.

For example, XyWrite is unaware of Windows ANSI or Unicode character sets and Nota Bene does not support languages ( such as Chinese ) that require double-byte characters.

Jessica is a Bene Gesserit and an important key in the Bene Gesserit breeding program.

Although Paul is a boy, he receives a Bene Gesserit training, giving him among other things, great control over his metabolism, heightened senses, and knowledge of martial arts.

In Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Hunters of Dune, the 2006 sequel to Chapterhouse: Dune, Scytale is a prisoner on the no-ship Ithaca, at the mercy of the latest Duncan Idaho ghola and a rebel group of Bene Gesserit.

A full description of life in Israel for the Bene Israel community can be found in the following reference.

The novel chronicles the continued struggles of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood against the violent Honored Matres, who are succeeding in their bid to seize control of the universe and destroy the factions and planets that oppose them.

The Bene Gesserit have two other prisoners on Chapterhouse: the latest Duncan Idaho ghola, and former Honored Matre Murbella, whom they have accepted as a novice despite their suspicion that she intends to escape back to the Honored Matres.

Murbella pilots a small craft down to the surface, announcing herself as an Honored Matre who, in the confusion, has managed to escape the Bene Gesserit with all their secrets.

Only the Bene Gesserit perceive the Golden Path and are therefore faced with a choice: keep to their traditional role of hidden manipulators who quietly ease tensions and guide human progress while struggling for their own survival, or embrace the Golden Path and push humanity onward into a new future where humans are free from the threat of extinction.

A new civilization has risen, with three dominant powers: the Ixians, whose no-ships are capable of piloting between the stars and are invisible to outside detection ; the Bene Tleilax, who have learned to manufacture spice in their axlotl tanks and have created a new breed of Face Dancers ; and the Bene Gesserit, a matriarchal order of subtle political manipulators who possess superhuman abilities.

When pressed on the issue of Idaho, he also admits that the Bene Tleilax have conditioned their own agenda into him.

Lucilla arrives at a Bene Gesserit safe house to discover it has been taken over by Honored Matres, who have Idaho as their captive.

Sometimes called " witches " due to their secretive nature and misunderstood powers, the Bene Gesserit are loyal only to themselves.

As the skills of a Bene Gesserit are as desirable as an alliance with the Sisterhood itself, they are able to charge a fee to school the females from Great Houses, and install some of their initiates as wives and concubines to their advantage.

Herbert notes that over 10, 000 years before the events of Dune, in the chaotic time after the Butlerian Jihad and before the unveiling of the Orange Catholic Bible, the Bene Gesserit " consolidated their hold upon the sorceresses, explored the subtle narcotics, developed prana-bindu training and conceived the Missionaria Protectiva, that black arm of superstition.

But beyond the outer virtues of poise, self-control, and diplomacy, Bene Gesserit training includes superior combat skills and precise physiological control that grants them direct control over conception and embryotic sex determination, ageing, and even the ability to render poisons harmless within their bodies.

The Bene Gesserit power of Voice allows them to control others by merely modulating their vocal tones.

The Bene Gesserit super-being – whom they refer to as the Kwisatz Haderach – arrives a generation earlier than expected in the form of Paul Atreides, who is free from their direct control though his mother is the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica.

" He has taken the Bene Gesserit breeding program from them and uses it for his own mysterious purposes, and their limited spice supply is subject to their obedience to Leto, and his whims.

Fifteen hundred years later in Heretics of Dune ( 1984 ), the Bene Gesserit have regained their power and relocated to a hidden homeworld they call Chapterhouse, and the spice cycle has been renewed on Arrakis, now called Rakis.

Among the Bene Gesserit, some are willing to accept the merge with the Honored Matres, while others oppose allying with their enemies ; a group of dissenters led by Reverend Mother Sheeana had previously fled Chapterhouse aboard a no-ship upon Murbella's ascension to leadership.