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91Eliza Tibbets — Eliza Tibbets, along with her husband Luther C. Tibbets, is best known as the founder of the California citrus industry. [ California State Parks, California Citrus State Historical Park. (Sacramento: 2002); U.S. Congress. House, Congressman… …
92FIRSTBORN — In the Bible Primogeniture is a persistent and widespread institution whose legal, social, and religious features were reflected in the norms of ancient Israelite society. Biblical legislation gave the firstborn male a special status with respect …
93KIBBUTZ FESTIVALS — Kibbutz celebrations originated in the 1920s and 1930s as an attempt to recapture the ancient Hebrew – mainly the agricultural – character of Jewish holidays. (See Table: List of Published Texts of Kibbutz Festivals and Special Occasions.) Over… …
94Talmud — • A post Biblical substantive formation of Pi el ( to teach ), and originally signified doctrine or study Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Talmud Talmud …
95CULT — The Israelite cult was a system of ritual acts by which the Israelites, individually and collectively, actualized their particular relationship to the God of Israel. In the pre Exilic period (before 587–586 B.C.E.) this activity took the form of… …
96MISHNAH — (Heb. מִשְׁנָה). The term mishnah is used in a number of different ways (see below), but when used as a proper noun ( the Mishnah ) it designates the collection of rabbinic traditions redacted by Rabbi judah ha nasi (usually called simply Rabbi ) …
97FESTIVALS — (Heb. חַג, hag; מוֹעֵד, mo ed; or יוֹם טוֹב, yom tov). Introduction The root of חַג is חָגֹג ḥagog, to celebrate, or possibly חוּג ḥug, to go round. It is related to the Arabic ḥajja which means to go on a pilgrimage from which comes ḥajj, the… …
98Lughnasadh — Infobox Holiday | holiday name = Lughnasadh type = Christianized folk traditions, Pre Christian, Pagan caption = observedby =Gaels, Irish People, Scottish People, Neopagans date = Northern Hemisphere: 1 August Southern Hemisphere: February 1… …
99SHAVUOT — (Heb. שָׁבוּעוֹת; weeks, Pentecost, the 50th day ), the festival celebrated on the sixth of Sivan (and also on the seventh outside Israel). The biblical names for the festival are: Ḥag Shavuot ( Feast of Weeks, Ex. 34:22; Deut. 16:10); Yom ha… …
100calendar — calendrical /keuh len dri keuhl/, calendric, calendarial /kal euhn dair ee euhl/, calendarian, calendaric, adj. /kal euhn deuhr/, n. 1. a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar. 2. any …
