Unlike his Karaite predecessors in the field of Bible exegesis, Yefet realized the importance of grammar and lexicography for the interpretation of Scripture, although he did not excel in either.

Yefet reproaches Saadia with being unfaithful to the principles he himself had laid down for the interpretation of the Law, according to which no deductions by analogy are admissible in definite revealed precepts.

5 Yefet cites fragments from Saadia's " Kitab al-Tamyiz ", a polemical work against Karaism, in which the author states that there are three sects which are divided on the question of the new moon: ( 1 ) the Rabbinites, who, except in special cases, determine it by the molad ; ( 2 ) the sect of the Tiflis, which follow the molad absolutely ; and ( 3 ) a sect which is guided by the first appearance of the moon.

* " Sefer ha-Miẓwot ", treating of the precepts, and containing many controversies with the Rabbinites ; mentioned by Yefet in the commentaries to I Sam.

Yefet endeavors in this epistle to demonstrate that there is no trace of oral tradition in Scripture, and consequently the Mishnah, Talmud, and other rabbinical writings fall under the prohibition " Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you " ( Deut.

Yefet had interpreted a biblical verse ( Amos 9: 7 ) to refer to Black women as being ' promiscuous and therefore no one knows who his father is.

Though he opposed Karaism, the Rabbinic commentator Abraham Ibn Ezra regularly quoted Karaite commentators, particularly Yefet ben ‘ Eli, to the degree that a legend exists among some Karaites that Ibn Ezra was ben ‘ Eli's student.

Victims include Itamar Yefet ( 18 ), who was shot and killed by a Palestinian sniper in November 2000.

Schorsch and other scholars, such as David M. Goldenberg, point out Abrabanel's comments on the Book of Amos as indicating very humanistic sentiments: " responded with unconcealed anger to the comment of a tenth-century Karaite from Jerusalem, Yefet b. Ali, on the issue of Black.

' Abrabanel: ' I don ’ t know who told Yefet this practice of promiscuity among Black women, which he mentions.

These writings influenced the rabbinical sage Abraham ibn Ezra, who quotes Yefet forty-two times in his commentary of the minor prophets.

Yefet was an adversary of the philosophico-allegorical treatment of Scripture.

Yefet attacked Islam with the greatest violence.

Yefet was no less bitter in his attacks on Christianity and on rabbinical Judaism, to which he refers many prophecies.

One of his comments about the Rabbanites, writing on his Arabic commentary on Isaiah, Yefet ben Ali digresses as follows: " This section refers to the people of the Diaspora and to the best among them as well.

Before devoting himself to Biblical exegesis Yefet wrote several other works of lesser importance.

Inquiry to Benjamin was a duty, and he held that errors arrived at through sincere inquiry do not constitute a sin ( compare Yefet ben Ali's commentary, cited in Dukes's " Beiträge ," ii.

Judging from the quotations made by later Karaite writers, such as Jacob al-Qirqisani, Yefet ben Ali, and Hadassi, Benjamin betrayed the influence of Philonic ideas, while he adopted the Motazilite theories on the divine attributes, free-will, and other questions of a like character expounded before by Anan.

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Even today, people insist that admissions to psychiatric hospitals, traffic accidents, homicides or suicides increase during a full Moon, although there is no scientific evidence to support such claims.

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The website of the 66th Military Intelligence Brigade claims they moved out in 2008, but Google Maps and Bing satellite imagery still show a respectively full and quarter-full parking lot.

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From 1573, both the Latin and the Polish equivalent wielki ksiaze, in chief of Lithuania as well as Russia, Prussia, Mazovia, Samogithia, Kiev, Volhynia, Podolia, Podlachia, Livonia, Smolensk, Severia and Chernigov ( including hollow claims ), were used as part of the respective versions of the full style officially used by the kings ( title Krol ) of Poland during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Tony claims to have lost the case, but Mark notices it on the bed, full of cash.

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The other three, a A-4B Skyhawk of FAA Grupo 5 on 23 May & two A-4C Skyhawk of FAA Grupo 4 on 24 May and 25 May 1982, were subjected to the full force of the San Carlos Air Defences, with claims going to Sea Wolf, Sea Cat, Blowpipe and small arms, as well as T Battery.

The story is based on a vision Allen had during the full moon of Easter, 1966 in which he claims he could see his future laid out before him.

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In the episode, " Checkpoint ", Anya is questioned by members of the Watchers ' Council, and invents the full name Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins, and claims to have been born on the Fourth of July in Indiana.

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The Institute for Government claims that the reduced number of full Cabinet meetings signify " that the role of Cabinet as a formal decision-making body has been in decline since the war.

For equity, the Act provided that a party trying to have his case dismissed could not do so until he had paid the full costs, rather than the nominal costs that were previously required ; at the same time, the reforms the Act made to common-law procedure ( such as allowing claims to be brought against executors of wills ) reduced the need for parties to go to equity for a remedy.

While the Byzantine Eastern Roman Emperors retained full Roman imperium and made the episcopate subservient, in the feudal West a long rivalry would oppose the claims to supremacy within post-Roman Christianity between sacerdotium ( the ' priesthood ', i. e. the clergy ministering the word and will of God ) in the person of the Pope and the secular imperium of the revived Western Roman Emperor since Charlemagne.

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