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The central ideas of Jewish thought — from tzimtzum and sefirot to shabbat, shechitah, and devekut. Each concept page traces the idea’s development across centuries with key passages and a layered explanation.

2594 concepts · 2,979,018 corpus discussions

For the halachic map and era filters, see Halacha; for the customs of Jewish life, see Minhagim.

Malkhut / Shekhinah (Sovereignty, the 10th Sefirah)

מלכות

44,184

texts

sefirotExplore →

Partzufim (Divine Countenances)

פרצופים

38,254

texts

sefirotExplore →

Tikkun (Rectification)

תיקון

35,400

texts

creationExplore →

Kinyan (Modes of Halachic Acquisition)

קנין

28,408

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Devekut (Cleaving to God)

דבקות

26,461

texts

soulExplore →

Sefirot (Divine Emanations)

ספירות

26,180

texts

sefirotExplore →

Dinei Mamonot (Monetary Law)

דיני ממונות

26,063

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Form & Matter

25,920

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Hashgachah (Divine Providence)

השגחה

25,591

texts

providenceExplore →

Shem Havayah (The Tetragrammaton)

שם הויה

24,243

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Hitlabshut (Enclothement)

התלבשות

24,033

texts

practical kabbalahExplore →

Tzaddik (The Righteous One)

צדיק

23,048

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

D'Oraita / D'Rabbanan (Biblical vs Rabbinic Law)

דאורייתא / דרבנן

22,846

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Ze'ir Anpin (The Small Face)

זעיר אנפין

22,271

texts

sefirotExplore →

Tumah and Taharah (Ritual Impurity and Purity, umbrella)

טומאה וטהרה

22,243

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Kodashim (Sanctified Items, Temple Offerings)

קדשים

21,904

texts

temple korbanotExplore →

Edut (Testimony)

עדות

21,663

texts

court procedureExplore →

Shabbat (The Sabbath)

שבת

20,144

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Actuality & Potentiality

19,989

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Virtue

19,118

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Middat HaDin (Attribute of Justice)

מידת הדין

18,775

texts

providenceExplore →

Yetzer HaRa (Evil Inclination)

יצר הרע

18,414

texts

soulExplore →

Logos (Reason / Cosmic Principle)

17,836

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Nitzotzot (Holy Sparks)

ניצוצות

17,665

texts

cosmic struggleExplore →

Gevurah (Judgment/Strength)

גבורה

17,120

texts

sefirotExplore →

Kiddushin (Betrothal / Marriage Sanctification)

קידושין

16,815

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Chochmah (Wisdom)

חכמה

16,579

texts

sefirotExplore →

Kelipot (Husks/Shells)

קליפות

16,531

texts

cosmic struggleExplore →

Muchzak (Possessor in Monetary Law)

מוחזק

16,277

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Middat HaRachamim (Attribute of Mercy)

מידת הרחמים

16,116

texts

providenceExplore →

Binah (Understanding)

בינה

16,066

texts

sefirotExplore →

Talmudic Method (Sugya Structure and Argumentation)

דרך הלימוד התלמודי

15,590

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Yichudim (Divine Unifications)

ייחודים

15,438

texts

practical kabbalahExplore →

Ahavah / Yirah (Love / Awe of God)

אהבה / יראה

15,272

texts

soulExplore →

Avodah Zarah (Idolatry)

עבודה זרה

15,149

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

Sod (Secret/Mystical Level)

סוד

14,764

texts

torah studyExplore →

Sitra Achra (The Other Side)

סטרא אחרא

14,615

texts

cosmic struggleExplore →

Neshamah (Soul)

נשמה

14,497

texts

soulExplore →

Get (Bill of Divorce)

גט

14,278

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Chesed (Lovingkindness)

חסד

14,239

texts

sefirotExplore →

The Telos / Final End

14,184

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Practical Wisdom

14,152

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Ohr (Divine Light)

אור

13,917

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Hashgachah Pratit (Particular Providence)

השגחה פרטית

13,886

texts

maimonidean philosophyExplore →

The Four Causes

13,790

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Birur (Refinement/Clarification)

בירור

13,772

texts

cosmic struggleExplore →

Shechitah (Ritual Slaughter)

שחיטה

13,163

texts

kashrutExplore →

Shtar (Written Legal Document)

שטר

13,019

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Moach-Lev (Mind-Heart)

מוח-לב

12,971

texts

practical kabbalahExplore →

Nedarim (Vows, general)

נדרים

12,971

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Machshava (Divine Thought)

מחשבה

12,700

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Seder Hishtalshelut (Chain of Emanation)

סדר השתלשלות

12,698

texts

creationExplore →

Kashrut (Jewish Dietary Law, umbrella)

כשרות

12,570

texts

kashrutExplore →

Beit HaMikdash (The Temple in Jerusalem)

בית המקדש

12,038

texts

temple korbanotExplore →

Mechilah (Waiver of a Monetary Claim)

מחילה

11,663

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Issurei Bi'ah (Forbidden Sexual Relations)

איסורי ביאה

11,337

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Duty

11,330

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Providence

11,196

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

The Good

11,138

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Simcha (Joy in Divine Service)

שמחה

11,008

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

Ketubah (Marriage Contract)

כתובה

10,979

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

PaRDeS (Four Levels of Interpretation)

פרדס

10,950

texts

torah studyExplore →

Beit Din (Rabbinic Court)

בית דין

10,866

texts

court procedureExplore →

Shevuah (Oath)

שבועה

10,661

texts

court procedureExplore →

Korban (Sacrificial Offering, generic)

קרבן

10,647

texts

temple korbanotExplore →

Nezikin (Damages)

נזיקין

10,422

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Talmud Torah (Torah Study)

תלמוד תורה

10,251

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

Terumah and Maaser (Priestly Tithes)

תרומה ומעשרות

10,137

texts

kashrutExplore →

Neshamah Levels (Soul Hierarchy)

מדרגות הנשמה

10,099

texts

soulExplore →

Ratzon (Divine Will)

רצון

10,054

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Merkavah (The Divine Chariot)

מרכבה

10,032

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Heseter Panim (Hiding of the Face)

הסתר פנים

9,954

texts

providenceExplore →

Safek (Halachic Doubt)

ספק

9,913

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Tiferet (Beauty/Harmony)

תפארת

9,680

texts

sefirotExplore →

Yerushah (Inheritance Law)

ירושה

9,608

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Derech Eretz (Proper Conduct)

דרך ארץ

9,568

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Mochin (Higher Consciousness)

מוחין

9,568

texts

sefirotExplore →

Geulah (Redemption)

גאולה

9,477

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Ohr Yashar (Direct Light)

אור ישר

9,329

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Modeh BeMiktzat (Partial Admission)

מודה במקצת

9,266

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Da'at (Knowledge)

דעת

9,110

texts

sefirotExplore →

Nistar/Nigleh (Hidden/Revealed Torah)

נסתר / נגלה

8,921

texts

torah studyExplore →

Treifah (18 Categories of Fatal Defects)

טריפה - י"ח טרפיות

8,774

texts

kashrutExplore →

Nature

8,762

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

Chazakah (Legal Presumption)

חזקה

8,601

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Yesod (Foundation)

יסוד

8,583

texts

sefirotExplore →

Galut (Exile)

גלות

8,576

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Yibum (Levirate Marriage)

יבום

8,547

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Pesach (Festival of Passover, umbrella)

פסח

8,254

texts

festivalsExplore →

The One

8,223

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

The Ten Divine Names

עשרה שמות הקדושים

8,199

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Yom Tov (Festival Day, Halachic Institution)

יום טוב

8,177

texts

festivalsExplore →

Justice in the City

7,951

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Kavanot HaTefillah (Mystical Intentions of Prayer)

כוונות התפילה

7,709

texts

practical kabbalahExplore →

Shomrim (Bailees)

שומרים

7,655

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Oikeiōsis (Appropriation)

7,512

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Olamot (Worlds)

עולמות

7,435

texts

creationExplore →

Chatat (Sin Offering)

חטאת

7,371

texts

temple korbanotExplore →

Dinei Nefashot (Capital Cases)

דיני נפשות

7,368

texts

court procedureExplore →

Melachah (Forbidden Creative Labor)

מלאכה

7,322

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Adam Rishon (Primordial Adam)

אדם הראשון

7,320

texts

soulExplore →

Gezel (Robbery)

גזל

7,283

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

De'ot (Character Traits and Their Refinement)

דעות

7,148

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Hitbonenut (Contemplation)

התבוננות

7,113

texts

soulExplore →

Lashon HaRa (Evil Speech)

לשון הרע

7,073

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Justice

7,057

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Machloket (Halachic Disagreement Framework)

מחלוקת

7,023

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Atzmut (Divine Essence)

עצמות

7,011

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Likeness to God

6,907

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Chillul HaShem (Profaning the Name)

חילול השם

6,838

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

The Passions

6,712

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Niddah (Menstrual Purity)

נדה

6,681

texts

family taharahExplore →

Nevuah (Prophecy)

נבואה

6,642

texts

maimonidean philosophyExplore →

Definition

6,574

texts

greek-epistemologyExplore →

Hechalot (Heavenly Palaces)

היכלות

6,354

texts

creationExplore →

Shaliach Amana / Shlichut (Agency)

שליחות

6,339

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Hotza'ah (Carrying Between Domains)

הוצאה

6,333

texts

shabbat melachahExplore →

Avodah b'Gashmiyut (Service in Materiality)

עבודה בגשמיות

6,219

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

Emunah (Faith / Belief)

אמונה

6,155

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Ta'amei HaMitzvot (Reasons for the Commandments)

טעמי המצוות

6,081

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Piety

6,057

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Keter (Crown)

כתר

6,042

texts

sefirotExplore →

Reshuyot (Shabbat Domains)

רשויות שבת

6,028

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Birkot HaNehenin (Blessings on Enjoyment)

ברכות הנהנין

6,020

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Mai Ta'ama (What is the Reason)

מאי טעמא

5,923

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Derash (Homiletical Interpretation)

דרש

5,829

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Korban Pesach (The Pesach Sacrifice)

קרבן פסח

5,714

texts

pesachExplore →

Four Worlds (Atzilut, Beriah, Yetzirah, Asiyah)

ארבע עולמות

5,636

texts

creationExplore →

Faction & Civil Strife

5,633

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

The Rule of Law

5,550

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Atzilut (World of Emanation)

עולם האצילות

5,540

texts

creationExplore →

Hubris & Nemesis

5,524

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Tum'at Met (Corpse Impurity)

טומאת מת

5,454

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Ratzo VaShov (Running and Returning)

רצוא ושוב

5,442

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

Kapparah (Atonement, theological concept)

כפרה

5,400

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Lifnim Mishurat HaDin (Beyond the Strict Letter of the Law)

לפנים משורת הדין

5,362

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Tevilah (Immersion)

טבילה

5,317

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Brit (Covenant)

ברית

5,289

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Minhag (Custom)

מנהג

5,275

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Batel BeShishim (Nullification in 60×)

בטל בשישים

5,265

texts

kashrutExplore →

Yehareg V'Al Ya'avor (Martyrdom Laws)

ייהרג ואל יעבור

5,245

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Shomer Chinam (Unpaid Bailee)

שומר חינם

5,201

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Eudaimonia

5,178

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Chametz (Leaven)

חמץ

5,118

texts

pesachExplore →

Faculties of the Soul

5,112

texts

greek-soulExplore →

Chalitzah (Release from Yibum)

חליצה

5,061

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

HaShem and Elokim (The Two Names)

ה׳ ואלה׳ים

5,038

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Olah (Burnt Offering)

עולה

4,980

texts

temple korbanotExplore →

The Cosmos

4,956

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)

יום הכיפורים

4,928

texts

chagim otherExplore →

Tzelem Elokim (Divine Image)

צלם אלוקים

4,923

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Migo (Since-Argument in Witness Law)

מיגו

4,905

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Memaleh Kol Almin (Filling All Worlds)

ממלא כל עלמין

4,870

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Ona'at Devarim (Verbal Wronging)

אונאת דברים

4,851

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Pikuach Nefesh (Saving Life)

פיקוח נפש

4,807

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Bitul (Self-Nullification)

ביטול

4,805

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

Gemilut Chasadim (Acts of Loving-Kindness)

גמילות חסדים

4,794

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Muktzeh (Shabbat-Prohibited Handling)

מוקצה

4,785

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Rebbe-Chasid Relationship

רבי-חסיד

4,761

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

The Divine

4,749

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Sugya (Talmudic Discussion Unit)

סוגיא

4,740

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Intellect

4,717

texts

greek-soulExplore →

Peshat and Derash (Plain and Homiletical Reading)

פשט ודרש

4,712

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Shevirat HaKelim (Shattering of the Vessels)

שבירת הכלים

4,668

texts

creationExplore →

Shemitah / Sheviit (Sabbatical Year)

שמיטה

4,667

texts

agricultural land lawExplore →

The World-Soul

4,636

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

Klipat Nogah (Translucent Shell)

קליפת נוגה

4,599

texts

cosmic struggleExplore →

The Tripartite Soul

4,569

texts

greek-soulExplore →

Tzedakah (Charity / Righteousness)

צדקה

4,553

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Karet (Excision, Divine Cutting-Off)

כרת

4,519

texts

temple korbanotExplore →

Tzimtzum (Divine Contraction)

צמצום

4,477

texts

creationExplore →

Rhetoric

4,471

texts

greek-rhetoricExplore →

Moach Shalit al HaLev (Mind Rules the Heart)

מוח שליט על הלב

4,399

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

Bedikat HaRe'ah / Bedikas HaRe'ah (Lung Examination)

בדיקת הריאה

4,370

texts

kashrutExplore →

Nazir (The Nazirite Vow)

נזיר

4,360

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Ribbit (Interest / Usury)

ריבית

4,355

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Chinuch (Education of Children)

חינוך

4,348

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

The Commonwealth

4,330

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

The Golden Mean

4,315

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Shomer Sachar (Paid Bailee)

שומר שכר

4,293

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Ein Sof (The Infinite)

אין סוף

4,237

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Yichud Hashem (Active Unification of the Name)

ייחוד השם

4,209

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Rishonim (Early Medieval Authorities, ~1038-1500)

ראשונים

4,202

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Yetziat Mitzrayim (The Exodus from Egypt)

יציאת מצרים

4,191

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Keren (Horn — Intentional Damage by Animal)

קרן

4,150

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Kibud Av V'Eim (Honoring Parents)

כיבוד אב ואם

4,140

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Kriat Shema (Recitation of Shema)

קריאת שמע

4,140

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Hitlahavut (Burning Enthusiasm)

התלהבות

4,068

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

The Four Elements

4,051

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

Weakness of Will

4,021

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Tzaraat (Biblical 'Leprosy', Ritual Affliction)

צרעת

4,017

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Sukkah (Booth)

סוכה

3,974

texts

sukkotExplore →

Taarovet (Forbidden Mixtures)

תערובת

3,970

texts

kashrutExplore →

Treifah and Nevelah (Non-Kosher Carcass)

טריפה ונבילה

3,970

texts

kashrutExplore →

Chumra and Kula (Stringency and Leniency)

חומרא וקולא

3,916

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Hashavat Aveidah (Returning Lost Objects)

השבת אבדה

3,914

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Tefillin (Phylacteries)

תפילין

3,903

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Shalom Bayit (Domestic Peace)

שלום בית

3,895

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

The Sage

3,876

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Tum'at Niddah (Menstrual Impurity)

טומאת נדה

3,874

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Kilayim (Forbidden Mixtures in Agriculture)

כלאים

3,865

texts

kashrutExplore →

Hashkafah (Worldview / Jewish Theology)

השקפה

3,862

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Lifnei Iver (Before the Blind)

לפני עוור

3,862

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Bechor (Firstborn Status)

בכור

3,859

texts

kashrutExplore →

Soul as Form of the Body

3,857

texts

greek-soulExplore →

Kiddush HaShem (Sanctifying the Name)

קידוש השם

3,820

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

Geneivah (Theft / Stealing)

גניבה

3,778

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Marit Ayin (Appearance to the Onlooker)

מראית עין

3,737

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Takanah (Rabbinic Enactment)

תקנה

3,721

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Ohr Chozer (Returning Light)

אור חוזר

3,719

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Aveilut (Mourning Laws)

אבילות

3,709

texts

mourningExplore →

Knowledge vs Opinion

3,688

texts

greek-epistemologyExplore →

Sefer Torah Laws (Scribing the Torah Scroll)

הלכות ספר תורה

3,669

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

The Categories

3,666

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Eruv Chatzerot (Shared Courtyard Eruv)

עירוב חצירות

3,656

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Gilgul (Reincarnation)

גלגול

3,626

texts

soulExplore →

Malkos (Lashes)

מלקות

3,594

texts

court procedureExplore →

Kibud Rabbo (Honoring One's Torah Teacher)

כיבוד רבו

3,566

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Birkat HaMazon (Grace After Meals)

ברכת המזון

3,564

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Memshalah (Divine Sovereignty)

ממשלה

3,535

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Divination

3,501

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Rov (Majority Principle)

רוב

3,478

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Peshat (Plain-Sense Reading)

פשט

3,464

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Gezerah Shavah (Analogy by Wording)

גזירה שווה

3,449

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Meilah (Misappropriation of Sanctified Property)

מעילה

3,447

texts

temple korbanotExplore →

Number & Harmony

3,443

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

Ketamim (Stain Laws of Niddah)

כתמים

3,419

texts

family taharahExplore →

Kushya (Talmudic Difficulty/Objection)

קושיא

3,410

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Eruv Techumin (Travel-Boundary Eruv)

עירוב תחומין

3,408

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Shemoneh Esrei (The Amidah)

שמונה עשרה

3,403

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Keriat HaTorah (Public Torah Reading)

קריאת התורה

3,402

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Parshanut (Tanach Commentary Genre)

פרשנות

3,395

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Temperance

3,381

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Empire & Power

3,371

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Melichah (Salting Meat to Remove Blood)

מליחה

3,371

texts

kashrutExplore →

Moral Progress

3,352

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Erusin (Betrothal Stage of Marriage)

אירוסין

3,343

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Ohr Ein Sof (Infinite Light)

אור אין סוף

3,336

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Sovev Kol Almin (Encompassing All Worlds)

סובב כל עלמין

3,335

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Rosh Hashanah

ראש השנה

3,303

texts

chagim otherExplore →

The Soul

3,302

texts

greek-soulExplore →

Reshut HaRabim (Public Domain)

רשות הרבים

3,284

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Kal V'Chomer (A Fortiori)

קל וחומר

3,275

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Avot V'Toldot HaTum'ah (Tum'ah Categories)

אבות ותולדות הטומאה

3,261

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Nomos vs Physis

3,258

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Reshut HaYachid (Private Domain)

רשות היחיד

3,204

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Dina D'Malchuta Dina (The Law of the Land Is Law)

דינא דמלכותא דינא

3,200

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man)

אדם קדמון

3,182

texts

creationExplore →

Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah at Sinai)

מתן תורה

3,179

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Onah (Marital Intimacy Obligations)

עונה

3,164

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Mamzer (Issue of a Forbidden Union)

ממזר

3,157

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Nisuin (The Wedding Itself, Stage Two of Marriage)

נישואין

3,125

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Giyur (Conversion to Judaism)

גיור

3,116

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

Peshara (Halachic Compromise / Arbitration Settlement)

פשרה

3,085

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Sotah (The Wayward-Wife Trial)

סוטה

3,083

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Asiyah (World of Action)

עולם העשיה

3,080

texts

creationExplore →

Lo Kashya (No Contradiction)

לא קשיא

3,057

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Mikveh (Ritual Bath)

מקווה

3,046

texts

family taharahExplore →

First Principles & Axioms

3,044

texts

greek-epistemologyExplore →

Eruv (Shabbat Carrying Boundary)

עירוב

3,006

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Beriah (World of Creation)

עולם הבריאה

3,005

texts

creationExplore →

Tzitzit (Fringes)

ציצית

2,997

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Ger (Convert)

גר

2,993

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

Pleasure

2,990

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Taanit (Public Fast Days, general)

תענית

2,978

texts

festivalsExplore →

Netzach (Victory/Eternity)

נצח

2,959

texts

sefirotExplore →

Shevut (Rabbinic Shabbat Restrictions)

שבות

2,949

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Gezerah (Rabbinic Decree)

גזירה

2,947

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel

בית שמאי ובית הלל

2,916

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Chol HaMoed (Intermediate Festival Days, general)

חול המועד

2,914

texts

festivalsExplore →

Maaser Kesafim (Tithing Money)

מעשר כספים

2,914

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Hitbodedut (Secluded Prayer)

התבודדות

2,888

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

Essence

2,885

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Motion & Change

2,885

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

Basar V'Chalav (Meat and Milk)

בשר וחלב

2,877

texts

kashrutExplore →

Davar She'eino Mitkaven (Unintended Action)

דבר שאינו מתכוון

2,874

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

The Dichotomy of Control

2,827

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Bris Milah (Circumcision)

ברית מילה

2,826

texts

family taharahExplore →

The Polis

2,800

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Asmachta (Scriptural Hint)

אסמכתא

2,796

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Self-Sufficiency

2,784

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Arba Minim (Four Species)

ארבעת המינים

2,778

texts

sukkotExplore →

Theory of Forms

2,760

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Hod (Splendor/Gratitude)

הוד

2,704

texts

sefirotExplore →

Midrash Halacha (Halachic Midrash Genre)

מדרש הלכה

2,694

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Grace

2,681

texts

christian-soteriologyExplore →

Azamra (Finding the Good Point)

אזמרה

2,680

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

Sense-Perception

2,666

texts

greek-epistemologyExplore →

Simanim (Trachea + Esophagus in Shechitah)

סימני שחיטה

2,656

texts

kashrutExplore →

Love (Agape / Charity)

2,654

texts

christian-anthropology-ethicsExplore →

Ethos, Pathos, Logos

2,642

texts

greek-rhetoricExplore →

Chiddush (Novel Insight)

חידוש

2,635

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Tikkunim (Spiritual Repairs)

תיקונים

2,623

texts

practical kabbalahExplore →

Arvut (Surety / Guarantor Law)

ערבות

2,591

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Da'at Yachid (Minority Opinion)

דעת יחיד

2,583

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Parah Adumah (Red Heifer)

פרה אדומה

2,582

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Challah (Dough Offering)

חלה

2,566

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

Free Will

2,562

texts

christian-anthropology-ethicsExplore →

Mishnah (The Genre / Corpus)

משנה

2,556

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Minyan (Quorum of Ten)

מנין

2,554

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

The Common Good

2,553

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Matzah (Unleavened Bread)

מצה

2,546

texts

pesachExplore →

Simchat Yom Tov (Festival Joy as Halachic Obligation)

שמחת יום טוב

2,544

texts

festivalsExplore →

Immortality of the Soul

2,530

texts

greek-soulExplore →

Akeidat Yitzchak (Binding of Isaac)

עקידת יצחק

2,529

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Generation & Corruption

2,523

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

Conscience

2,516

texts

christian-anthropology-ethicsExplore →

Courage

2,505

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Mena Hani Milei (What is the Source)

מנא הני מילי

2,504

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Biur Chametz (Destroying Chametz)

ביעור חמץ

2,487

texts

pesachExplore →

Faith

2,476

texts

christian-soteriologyExplore →

Kashering (Purging Vessels)

הכשרת כלים

2,466

texts

kashrutExplore →

Bittul HaYesh (Self-Nullification)

ביטול היש

2,465

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

Achizah (Demonic Grip)

אחיזה

2,443

texts

cosmic struggleExplore →

The Cardinal Virtues

2,437

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Grama (Indirect Causation)

גרמא

2,422

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Geulah Shleima (Complete Redemption)

גאולה שלימה

2,420

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Bikkurim (First Fruits)

ביכורים

2,415

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

Fate (the Cosmic Chain of Causes)

2,410

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

Chiyuv / Petur (Liable / Exempt)

חייב / פטור

2,406

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Kevurah (Burial)

קבורה

2,406

texts

mourningExplore →

The Household & Economy

2,405

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Shofar (Ram's Horn)

שופר

2,386

texts

chagim otherExplore →

Reshimu (Residual Impression)

רשימו

2,384

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Tum'at Zav / Zavah (Discharge Impurity)

טומאת זב וזבה

2,383

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Tum'at Tzaraat (Spiritual Skin Affliction)

טומאת צרעת

2,382

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Pru U'Rvu (Be Fruitful and Multiply)

פרו ורבו

2,375

texts

family taharahExplore →

Friendship

2,370

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Tyranny

2,370

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Fate & Free Will

2,366

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Bishul / Ofeh (Cooking & Baking)

אופה / בישול

2,351

texts

shabbat melachahExplore →

Peah (Corner of the Field for the Poor)

פאה

2,338

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Socher (Renter)

שוכר

2,330

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Soul Roots (Shoresh HaNeshamot)

שורש הנשמות

2,306

texts

soulExplore →

Sho'el (Borrower)

שואל

2,299

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

The Gods

2,298

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Shaliach Tzibbur (Prayer Leader)

שליח ציבור

2,296

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Sevara (Logical Reasoning)

סברא

2,290

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

The Incarnation

2,286

texts

christian-christologyExplore →

Man the Political Animal

2,285

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Safek Safeika (Doubt within a Doubt)

ספק ספיקא

2,256

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

The Demiurge

2,252

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Substance

2,245

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Aspaklaria (Lens of Prophecy)

אספקלריה

2,228

texts

torah studyExplore →

Demonstration

2,200

texts

greek-epistemologyExplore →

Providence & the Problem of Evil

2,183

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Rosh Chodesh (New Moon)

ראש חודש

2,180

texts

rosh chodesh fastsExplore →

Natural Law

2,145

texts

christian-anthropology-ethicsExplore →

Demai (Doubtfully-Tithed Produce)

דמאי

2,140

texts

kashrutExplore →

Yetzirah (World of Formation)

עולם היצירה

2,127

texts

creationExplore →

Dam (Blood Prohibition)

דם

2,119

texts

kashrutExplore →

Rule of Faith

2,116

texts

christian-scripture-revelationExplore →

Yetzer HaRa / Yetzer HaTov (Evil and Good Inclination)

יצר הרע ויצר הטוב

2,108

texts

soulExplore →

Yayin Nesech (Idol-Libation Wine)

יין נסך

2,104

texts

kashrutExplore →

13 Hermeneutic Rules of R. Yishmael

י"ג מדות שהתורה נדרשת בהן

2,102

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

The Citizen

2,087

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Netilat Yadayim Shacharit (Morning Hand-Washing)

נטילת ידיים שחרית

2,087

texts

minhagimExplore →

Halacha LeMoshe MiSinai (Sinaitic Oral Law)

הלכה למשה מסיני

2,081

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Beraita (Tannaitic Statement Outside the Mishnah)

ברייתא

2,069

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Mei Chatas (Purification Waters)

מי חטאת

2,064

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Arakhin (Valuations of Pledges to the Temple)

ערכין

2,061

texts

temple korbanotExplore →

Torah She-baal Peh (The Oral Torah)

תורה שבעל פה

2,017

texts

torah studyExplore →

Kav (Line of Light)

קו

2,011

texts

creationExplore →

Bor (Pit Damage)

בור

2,010

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Kim Li ("I Hold Like" — Procedural Defense)

קים לי

2,006

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Sophistry

2,003

texts

greek-epistemologyExplore →

Apostolic Succession

1,990

texts

christian-ecclesiology-sacramentsExplore →

Being

1,960

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Birkot HaShachar (Morning Blessings)

ברכות השחר

1,947

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Heter Iska (Permissibility Structure for Interest)

היתר עסקא

1,942

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Liberty

1,931

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Myth & Allegory of the Gods

1,928

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Hefsek Taharah (Niddah Cessation Check)

הפסק טהרה

1,924

texts

family taharahExplore →

Bishul Akum (Food Cooked by a Non-Jew)

בישול עכו"ם

1,915

texts

kashrutExplore →

Katnut and Gadlut (Small and Great States)

קטנות וגדלות

1,890

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

Kiddush (Sanctification of Shabbat/Yom Tov over Wine)

קידוש

1,873

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Kavod Shabbat (Honoring Shabbat)

כבוד שבת

1,841

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Unity of the Virtues

1,840

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Taharat HaMishpacha (Family Purity)

טהרת המשפחה

1,832

texts

family taharahExplore →

Repentance (Metanoia)

1,831

texts

christian-soteriologyExplore →

The 13 Principles of Faith

י"ג עיקרי האמונה

1,825

texts

maimonidean philosophyExplore →

Chelev (Forbidden Fats)

חלב

1,821

texts

kashrutExplore →

Bar Mitzvah (Halachic Adulthood for Males)

בר מצוה

1,816

texts

family taharahExplore →

Megillat Esther (and its reading)

מגילת אסתר

1,809

texts

chagim otherExplore →

Chullin (Non-Sanctified, Profane Matter)

חולין

1,785

texts

kashrutExplore →

Melekhet Machshevet (Purposeful Labor on Shabbat)

מלאכת מחשבת

1,783

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Orlah (Forbidden Fruit of the First Three Years)

ערלה

1,774

texts

kashrutExplore →

Cherem (Ban / Excommunication)

חרם

1,772

texts

court procedureExplore →

Mav'ir (Kindling Fire)

מבעיר

1,766

texts

shabbat melachahExplore →

Amirah L'Nochri (Asking a Non-Jew to Perform Melachah)

אמירה לנכרי

1,761

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Mashiach (Messiah)

משיח

1,753

texts

maimonidean philosophyExplore →

Tzava'ah (Ethical Will and Death-bed Bequest)

צוואה

1,751

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Concupiscence

1,737

texts

christian-anthropology-ethicsExplore →

Birkot HaTorah (Torah Blessings)

ברכות התורה

1,726

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Schach (Sukkah Roof Covering)

סכך

1,726

texts

sukkotExplore →

Chagim (Festivals, umbrella)

חגים

1,720

texts

festivalsExplore →

Yovel (Jubilee Year)

יובל

1,714

texts

agricultural land lawExplore →

Ona'at Mamon (Financial Wronging)

אונאת ממון

1,684

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Apatheia

1,679

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Birkat Cohanim (The Priestly Blessing)

ברכת כהנים

1,668

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

The Honorable

1,659

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Natural Law

1,646

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

The Syllogism

1,645

texts

greek-epistemologyExplore →

Tannaim (Mishnaic Sages, ~10-220 CE)

תנאים

1,640

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Semichah (Rabbinic Ordination)

סמיכה

1,624

texts

courtExplore →

Pidyon HaBen (Redemption of Firstborn)

פדיון הבן

1,616

texts

family taharahExplore →

Ruach HaKodesh (Divine Inspiration)

רוח הקודש

1,606

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Bein HaShemashot (Twilight)

בין השמשות

1,587

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Maaseh Bereshit (The Account of Creation)

מעשה בראשית

1,580

texts

creationExplore →

Hachnasat Orchim (Hospitality)

הכנסת אורחים

1,576

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Transmigration

1,556

texts

greek-soulExplore →

Soul as Breath or Atoms

1,533

texts

greek-soulExplore →

The bodhisattva

1,530

texts

buddhist-mahayanaExplore →

Kotzer (Reaping)

קוצר

1,530

texts

shabbat melachahExplore →

Typology

1,528

texts

christian-scripture-revelationExplore →

The Criterion of Truth

1,528

texts

greek-epistemologyExplore →

The First Principle

1,526

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

Karmelit (Rabbinic Intermediate Domain)

כרמלית

1,520

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Shekalim (Half-Shekel Temple Tax)

שקלים

1,496

texts

temple korbanotExplore →

Torah She-bichtav (The Written Torah)

תורה שבכתב

1,491

texts

torah studyExplore →

The Ruling Faculty

1,480

texts

greek-soulExplore →

Sanctification

1,479

texts

christian-soteriologyExplore →

Dikduk (Hebrew Grammar)

דקדוק

1,461

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Shekhinah (Divine Indwelling Presence, Rabbinic)

שכינה

1,460

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Ever Min HaChai (Limb from a Living Animal)

אבר מן החי

1,457

texts

kashrutExplore →

Agunah (Chained Wife)

עגונה

1,455

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Non-Contradiction

1,451

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Zimun (Communal Call to Grace After Meals)

זימון

1,448

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Chatichah Naaseit Neveilah (The Piece Becomes Forbidden)

חתיכה נעשית נבילה

1,444

texts

kashrutExplore →

The Daimon

1,443

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Magnanimity

1,439

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Nusach HaTefillah (Liturgical Rite)

נוסח התפילה

1,431

texts

minhagimExplore →

Divine Providence

1,413

texts

christian-theology-properExplore →

Ataraxia

1,411

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Bechirah Chofshit (Free Will)

בחירה חופשית

1,408

texts

maimonidean philosophyExplore →

Seed-Principles

1,405

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

Iggulim and Yosher (Circles and Lines)

עיגולים ויושר

1,402

texts

creationExplore →

Yetzer HaTov (Good Inclination)

יצר הטוב

1,399

texts

soulExplore →

Chuk vs. Mishpat (Statute vs. Rational Law)

חוק ומשפט

1,389

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Regel (Foot — Trampling Damage)

רגל

1,377

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Amoraim (Talmudic Sages, ~220-500 CE)

אמוראים

1,375

texts

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Arei Miklat (Cities of Refuge)

ערי מקלט

1,363

texts

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Tohu (Chaos/Primordial Realm)

תוהו

1,354

texts

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Purim

פורים

1,346

texts

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Dharma (the teaching)

1,344

texts

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Chol HaMoed Sukkot

חול המועד סוכות

1,340

texts

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The Lawgiver

1,338

texts

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Churban Bayit Sheni (Destruction of the Second Temple)

חורבן בית שני

1,337

texts

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Galut Mitzrayim (Egyptian Exile)

גלות מצרים

1,327

texts

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Time

1,308

texts

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God as Cosmos (Pantheism)

1,304

texts

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The Pesach Seder

ליל הסדר

1,302

texts

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Original Sin

1,301

texts

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Dialectic

1,300

texts

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Imma (The Mother Partzuf)

אמא

1,299

texts

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Logos Christology

1,298

texts

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Active & Passive Intellect

1,297

texts

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Prognosis (Foretelling the Course of Disease)

1,288

texts

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Impression / Imagination

1,285

texts

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Minhag HaMakom (Local Custom)

מנהג המקום

1,281

texts

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Image of God

1,279

texts

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Sanhedrin

סנהדרין

1,264

texts

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Aninut (Pre-Burial Mourning State)

אנינות

1,259

texts

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Mincha (Afternoon Service)

מנחה

1,235

texts

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Viduy (Confession)

וידוי

1,234

texts

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Havdalah (Separation Ritual Ending Shabbat/Yom Tov)

הבדלה

1,233

texts

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Martyrdom

1,223

texts

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The Church as Body of Christ

1,219

texts

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Atik Yomin (The Ancient of Days)

עתיק יומין

1,218

texts

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Heresy

1,214

texts

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Mezuzah

מזוזה

1,213

texts

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Eser Makkot (The Ten Plagues)

עשר המכות

1,212

texts

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Apotheosis / The Divine Man

1,212

texts

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The Unmoved Mover

1,200

texts

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Bedikat Chametz (Searching for Chametz)

בדיקת חמץ

1,193

texts

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Bechira vs. Yediah (Free Will vs. Divine Foreknowledge)

בחירה וידיעה

1,192

texts

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Shacharit (Morning Service)

שחרית

1,192

texts

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The precepts / moral discipline

1,166

texts

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Asceticism

1,166

texts

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Ibaya Lehu (They Inquired)

איבעיא להו

1,162

texts

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Spiritual Warfare

1,160

texts

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Midah K'Neged Midah (Measure for Measure)

מדה כנגד מדה

1,159

texts

providenceExplore →

Oneg Shabbat (Joy of Shabbat)

עונג שבת

1,147

texts

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Makeh Bapatish (Final Hammer Blow)

מכה בפטיש

1,139

texts

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Chassidus and the Inner Life

חסידות

1,128

texts

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Lighting Chanukah Candles

הדלקת נרות חנוכה

1,125

texts

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Aggadah (Non-Halachic Talmudic Material)

אגדה

1,123

texts

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Ibbur (Soul Impregnation)

עיבור

1,118

texts

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Chanukah (Festival of Dedication)

חנוכה

1,117

texts

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Place & Space

1,110

texts

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Works of Mercy

1,107

texts

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Keriah (Tearing of Garments at Death)

קריעה

1,107

texts

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Emptiness

1,101

texts

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Musaf (Additional Service)

מוסף

1,096

texts

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Techiyat HaMetim (Resurrection)

תחיית המתים

1,096

texts

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Prayer

1,085

texts

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Divine Omnipotence

1,083

texts

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Last Judgment

1,082

texts

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Eternity of the World

1,074

texts

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The Topics / Commonplaces

1,072

texts

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Gid HaNasheh (Sciatic Nerve Prohibition)

גיד הנשה

1,069

texts

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Sefirat HaOmer (Counting of the Omer)

ספירת העומר

1,069

texts

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Baptism

1,065

texts

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Creation Out of Nothing

1,055

texts

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Tnaim (Engagement Conditions)

תנאים

1,039

texts

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Divine Omniscience

1,030

texts

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Pidyon Shevuyim (Redeeming Captives)

פדיון שבויים

1,027

texts

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Hachanah (Shabbat-to-Weekday Preparation Prohibition)

הכנה

1,025

texts

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The Holy Trinity

1,021

texts

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Shavuot (Festival of Weeks)

שבועות

1,020

texts

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Cheit HaMeraglim (Sin of the Spies)

חטא המרגלים

1,010

texts

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Tosefet Shabbat (Adding to Shabbat)

תוספת שבת

1,003

texts

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Nichum Aveilim (Consoling Mourners)

ניחום אבלים

1,001

texts

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Chalal (Vacated Space)

חלל

994

texts

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Hesped (Eulogy)

הספד

994

texts

mourningExplore →

Hallel (Psalms of Praise 113-118)

הלל

990

texts

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Things Preceding Creation (Aggadic)

שבעה דברים קדמו לעולם

989

texts

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Kotev (Writing)

כותב

980

texts

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Esh (Fire Damage)

אש

973

texts

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Borer (Selecting / Sorting)

בורר

971

texts

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Kingdom of God

967

texts

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Redemption

962

texts

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Tosefta (Supplementary Tannaitic Compilation)

תוספתא

954

texts

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Karma (action and its fruit)

953

texts

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Prosbol (Hillel's Loan-Preservation Document)

פרוזבול

953

texts

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Universals

950

texts

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Idolatry

948

texts

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Shivah Nekiyim (Seven Clean Days)

שבעה נקיים

948

texts

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Gehinom (Purgatory / Realm of Cleansing)

גיהנום

947

texts

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Nukva (The Feminine Counterpart of Zeir Anpin)

נוקבא דזעיר אנפין

946

texts

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Merit

943

texts

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The Regimes

941

texts

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Harchakot (Niddah Separations)

הרחקות

941

texts

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Cardinal Virtues

940

texts

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Ratio & Proportion

935

texts

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Bikur Cholim (Visiting the Sick)

ביקור חולים

933

texts

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Salvation (Soteria)

929

texts

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Eigel HaZahav (The Golden Calf)

עגל הזהב

918

texts

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Cosmic Mind (Nous)

916

texts

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Mechitzah (Synagogue Gender Partition)

מחיצה

908

texts

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Christian Sexual Ethics

906

texts

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Tziduk HaDin (Justification of Divine Judgment at Burial)

צידוק הדין

905

texts

mourningExplore →

Tisha B'Av (Ninth of Av)

תשעה באב

904

texts

rosh chodesh fastsExplore →

The Symposium

903

texts

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Shatnez (Wool-Linen Mixture in Garments)

שעטנז

899

texts

kashrutExplore →

Chiddush HaOlam (Creation vs. Eternity)

חידוש העולם

895

texts

maimonidean philosophyExplore →

Davar She'Yesh Lo Matirin (Eventually-Permitted Item)

דבר שיש לו מתירין

895

texts

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Kisui HaDam (Covering the Blood)

כיסוי הדם

891

texts

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The Three Genres of Oratory

882

texts

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Resurrection of Christ

881

texts

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The Human Soul

880

texts

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Eruv Tavshilin (Yom-Tov-to-Shabbat Cooking Eruv)

עירוב תבשילין

878

texts

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The Socratic Elenchus

876

texts

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Democracy

875

texts

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Boneh (Building)

בונה

870

texts

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Persecution of the Church

864

texts

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The Best Regime

858

texts

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Shochet (Slaughtering)

שוחט

854

texts

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The Fall

853

texts

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Dash (Threshing)

דש

850

texts

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Naaseh V'Nishma (We Will Do and We Will Hear)

נעשה ונשמע

843

texts

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Klal U'Prat (General and Specific)

כלל ופרט

842

texts

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Arianism

837

texts

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Shalosh Seudot (Three Shabbat Meals)

שלוש סעודות

834

texts

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Tolaim (Worm/Insect Inspection)

תולעים

834

texts

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Almsgiving

832

texts

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Justification

829

texts

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Consubstantiality (Homoousios)

816

texts

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Impulse & Assent

812

texts

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Ukimta (Forced Reinterpretation)

אוקימתא

812

texts

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Two Natures of Christ

811

texts

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Skepticism

796

texts

greek-epistemologyExplore →

Maariv / Arvit (Evening Service)

מעריב / ערבית

795

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Tashlumin (Making Up a Missed Prayer)

תשלומין

794

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

The Passion of Christ

793

texts

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Christ as Messiah

792

texts

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Equality

792

texts

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The Axiomatic-Deductive Method

792

texts

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The Holy / The Sacred

789

texts

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Yirat Shamayim (Fear of Heaven)

יראת שמים

781

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Temple and Sanctuary Cult

779

texts

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Resurrection of the Body

777

texts

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Stasis (Anatomy of Civil War)

777

texts

greek-historyExplore →

Full Humanity of Christ

774

texts

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The Cynic Ideal

769

texts

greek-ethicsExplore →

Hashgachah Klalit vs. Pratit (General vs. Particular Providence)

השגחה כללית ופרטית

765

texts

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Dependent origination

760

texts

buddhist-philosophyExplore →

Buddha-nature

758

texts

buddhist-mahayanaExplore →

Divine Attributes

758

texts

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Shen (Tooth — Eating Damage)

שן

756

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Mechirat Chametz (Sale of Chametz Before Pesach)

מכירת חמץ

754

texts

festivalsExplore →

Nesias Kapayim (Priestly Blessing)

נשיאת כפיים

754

texts

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Pesukei DeZimra (Verses of Praise)

פסוקי דזמרא

750

texts

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Tevilat Keilim (Immersing Vessels)

טבילת כלים

750

texts

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Chadash (New Grain Before the Omer)

חדש

747

texts

kashrutExplore →

Chol HaMoed Pesach

חול המועד פסח

743

texts

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Shehecheyanu (Blessing on New Occasions)

שהחיינו

741

texts

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Brit Bein HaBetarim (Covenant of the Pieces, the Event)

ברית בין הבתרים

735

texts

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Christ as the Second Adam

735

texts

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Four Cups of Wine (Arba Kosot)

ארבע כוסות

735

texts

pesachExplore →

Minhag Yisrael Torah (Custom of Israel is Torah)

מנהג ישראל תורה

730

texts

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Haggadah (The Pesach Narrative)

הגדה

728

texts

pesachExplore →

Miun (Minor's Marriage Refusal)

מיאון

725

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Bameh Madlikin (Friday-Night Mishnah Recitation)

במה מדליקין

720

texts

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Psik Reisha (Inevitable Consequence on Shabbat)

פסיק רישא

720

texts

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Tachanun (Supplication)

תחנון

719

texts

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Mitzvot Bein Adam L'Chavero (Interpersonal)

מצוות בין אדם לחברו

716

texts

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Christ the Mediator

715

texts

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Kaddish (Mourner's Prayer)

קדיש

714

texts

mourningExplore →

Abba (The Father Partzuf)

אבא

713

texts

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Virgin Birth

705

texts

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Tzurat HaPetach (Doorway-Form Eruv)

צורת הפתח

701

texts

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Lechem HaPanim (Showbread)

לחם הפנים

700

texts

temple korbanotExplore →

Acharonim (Later Authorities, ~1500-present)

אחרונים

696

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Animal Sacrifice (Thysia)

689

texts

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Shiva (Seven Days of Mourning)

שבעה

688

texts

minhagimExplore →

Shamor and Zachor (Guard and Remember)

שמור וזכור

683

texts

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Tochen (Grinding)

טוחן

682

texts

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Eved Ivri (Hebrew Bondsman)

עבד עברי

677

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Allegorical Interpretation

675

texts

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V'ahavta L'Reacha Kamocha (Love Your Neighbor)

ואהבת לרעך כמוך

674

texts

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Eternal Generation of the Son

672

texts

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Nolad (Newly-Existent on Shabbat)

נולד

667

texts

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Buddha (the awakened one)

665

texts

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The 13 Attributes of Mercy

י"ג מדות הרחמים

663

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Critical Days of Illness

650

texts

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Teiku (Unresolved Question)

תיקו

650

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Glatt / Chalak (Smooth-Lung Standard)

חלק

649

texts

kashrutExplore →

Gematria (Numerical Hermeneutic)

גימטריא

647

texts

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Celibacy and Consecrated Virginity

643

texts

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Lash (Kneading)

לש

643

texts

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Hatarat Nedarim (Annulment of Vows)

התרת נדרים

642

texts

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Kibbutz Galuyot (Ingathering of Exiles)

קיבוץ גלויות

640

texts

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Pidyon Peter Chamor (Redemption of Firstborn Donkey)

פדיון פטר חמור

633

texts

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Maaseh Merkavah (The Chariot Account)

מעשה מרכבה

619

texts

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Theological Virtues

616

texts

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Defilements

609

texts

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Kriat Yam Suf (Splitting of the Sea)

קריעת ים סוף

609

texts

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Nirvāṇa

607

texts

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Faith and Works

606

texts

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Wisdom

603

texts

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Non-self

600

texts

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Atheism & Impiety

600

texts

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Shome'a K'Oneh (Hearing is Like Reciting)

שומע כעונה

600

texts

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Mantra

598

texts

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Meditation (general)

598

texts

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Kosher (Tying)

קושר

598

texts

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Mechabeh (Extinguishing)

מכבה

594

texts

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Shloshim (Thirty-Day Mourning Period)

שלושים

591

texts

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Regeneration (New Birth)

587

texts

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Aseret Yemei Teshuvah (Ten Days of Repentance)

עשרת ימי תשובה

584

texts

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Pesach Sheni (Second Pesach)

פסח שני

582

texts

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Bat Mitzvah (Halachic Adulthood for Females)

בת מצוה

581

texts

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Flux

580

texts

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Shedim (Demons / Intermediate Spirits)

שדים

576

texts

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Nat Bar Nat (Twice-Removed Flavor)

נ"ט בר נ"ט

571

texts

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Love & Strife

570

texts

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The Delphic Oracle

565

texts

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Samael (The Accusing Angel)

סמאל

561

texts

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Seven Deadly Sins

558

texts

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Midrash Aggadah (Narrative-Homiletical Midrash)

מדרש אגדה

558

texts

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Kitniyot (Legumes on Pesach)

קטניות

557

texts

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Neta Revai (Fourth-Year Fruit)

נטע רבעי

557

texts

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Hell

555

texts

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Chan / Zen

552

texts

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Chuppah (Wedding Canopy)

חופה

551

texts

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Kisei HaKavod (Throne of Glory)

כסא הכבוד

551

texts

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Recollection

549

texts

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Halvaah (Loans / Lender-Borrower Law)

הלוואה

549

texts

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The Eucharist

548

texts

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Hypostatic Union

548

texts

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Yotzer Ohr (Morning Creation-of-Light Blessing)

יוצר אור

548

texts

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The perfections

543

texts

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Communion of Saints

542

texts

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Muktzeh Machmat Issur (Forbidden-Use Muktzeh)

מוקצה מחמת איסור

541

texts

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Shevuat Heset (Rabbinic Denial-Oath)

שבועת היסת

539

texts

court procedureExplore →

Geonim (Babylonian Academy Heads, ~589-1038)

גאונים

538

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Election

537

texts

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The two truths

534

texts

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The Four Noble Truths

533

texts

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Second Coming (Parousia)

533

texts

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Makom Petur (Exempt Area)

מקום פטור

533

texts

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Temple-Building & Sacred Architecture

533

texts

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Arich Anpin (The Long-Face)

אריך אנפין

528

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Divine Incomprehensibility

528

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The five aggregates

527

texts

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Atoms & the Void

524

texts

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Mekach Taut (Mistaken Purchase — Null Sale)

מקח טעות

524

texts

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Ministerial Priesthood

520

texts

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Gan Eden (Garden of Eden / Afterlife Paradise)

גן עדן

519

texts

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Votive Offering

516

texts

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The awakening mind

515

texts

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Gozez (Shearing)

גוזז

514

texts

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Shemini Atzeret

שמיני עצרת

512

texts

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Dhāraṇī (mnemonic formula)

509

texts

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Sinlessness of Christ

503

texts

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Penance and Confession

500

texts

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Metatron (Archangel)

מטטרון

496

texts

cosmic struggleExplore →

Tzad (Trapping)

צד

495

texts

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Indwelling of the Holy Spirit

491

texts

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Lilith (Feminine Adversarial Figure)

לילית

490

texts

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Mabul (The Flood)

מבול

486

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Schar V'Onesh (Reward and Punishment)

שכר ועונש

486

texts

maimonidean philosophyExplore →

Argument by Example

483

texts

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Muktzeh Machmat Gufo (Inherent Muktzeh)

מוקצה מחמת גופו

483

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Lishmah / Lo Lishmah

לשמה ולא לשמה

478

texts

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Intermediate State

476

texts

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Scripture and Tradition

476

texts

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Shalosh Regalim (Three Pilgrimage Festivals)

שלוש רגלים

474

texts

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Binyan Av (Paradigmatic Derivation)

בנין אב

473

texts

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Beatific Vision

473

texts

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Korach's Rebellion

קורח

473

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Gaavah (Arrogance / Pride)

גאוה

468

texts

mussarExplore →

Tefilat Geshem (Prayer for Rain)

תפילת גשם

468

texts

sukkotExplore →

Yom Tov Sheni Shel Galuyot (Second-Day Yom Tov in the Diaspora)

יום טוב שני של גלויות

468

texts

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Periēgēsis (Guided Description of Places)

466

texts

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Minhag Mevatel Halacha (Custom Overrides Law)

מנהג מבטל הלכה

464

texts

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Induction

462

texts

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Schism

458

texts

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Natural Slavery

453

texts

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Sheva Brachos (Seven Wedding Blessings)

שבע ברכות

453

texts

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Divine Immutability

452

texts

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Divine Simplicity

452

texts

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Divinity of the Holy Spirit

452

texts

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Bilam (Balaam)

בלעם

450

texts

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Tiyuvta (Decisive Refutation)

תיובתא

450

texts

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Choresh (Plowing)

חורש

446

texts

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Mussar Movement (R. Yisrael Salanter's 19c. Project)

תנועת המוסר

445

texts

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Terutz (Resolution of a Difficulty)

תירוץ

445

texts

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Birkot Kriat Shema (Blessings of the Shema)

ברכות קריאת שמע

440

texts

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Leviathan (The Cosmic Sea-Serpent / Eschatological Feast)

לויתן

439

texts

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Gog u'Magog (The Eschatological War)

גוג ומגוג

437

texts

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Pelagianism

436

texts

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Geometric Proof (QED)

435

texts

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Nesirah (The Sawing — Separation of Nukva)

נסירה

429

texts

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Sacrament (Mystery)

428

texts

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The perfection of wisdom

425

texts

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Tikkun HaOlam (Rabbinic Enactments for Society)

תיקון העולם

416

texts

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Yiush (Owner's Despair — Halachic Transfer of Lost Property)

ייאוש

416

texts

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Awakening (bodhi)

415

texts

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Charisms (Spiritual Gifts)

413

texts

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Communication of Idioms

412

texts

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Wholesome and unwholesome

403

texts

buddhist-foundationsExplore →

Gemara (Amoraic Talmudic Discussion)

גמרא

403

texts

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Gnosticism

400

texts

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Skillful means

397

texts

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Melaben (Bleaching / Laundering)

מלבן

396

texts

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Bittul B'Metziut (Absolute Nullification)

ביטול במציאות

391

texts

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Soter (Demolishing)

סותר

391

texts

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Remez (Allusion — 2nd Level of PaRDeS)

רמז

391

texts

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The arhat (worthy one)

390

texts

buddhist-foundationsExplore →

Levi (Levite Lineage)

שבט לוי

389

texts

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Monasticism

388

texts

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Kefiyat Get (Compelling a Divorce)

כפיית גט

388

texts

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Terumat Ma'aser (Tithe-of-the-Tithe)

תרומת מעשר

388

texts

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Synergism

383

texts

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Tychē as a Force in History

381

texts

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Christ the Lamb of God

378

texts

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Tawḥīd (Divine Oneness)

375

texts

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Aravot (Willow Branches as One of the 4 Species)

ערבות מצוה

374

texts

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Holy Orders (Ordination)

373

texts

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Predestination

372

texts

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Heavenly Session and Intercession

372

texts

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The Three Jewels

371

texts

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Excommunication & Penitential Discipline

367

texts

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Pre-existence of Christ

367

texts

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The bodhisattva vow

366

texts

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The Blessed, Indifferent Gods

365

texts

greek-theologyExplore →

Mortality of the Soul

365

texts

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Matnot Kehunah (Priestly Gifts)

מתנות כהונה

365

texts

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Suffering / unsatisfactoriness

363

texts

buddhist-foundationsExplore →

Terumah Gedolah (Major Heave-Offering)

תרומה גדולה

363

texts

agricultural land lawExplore →

Aether / The Fifth Element

360

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

Pas Akum (Bread of Non-Jews)

פת עכו"ם

359

texts

kashrutExplore →

The Spirit as Giver of Life and Sanctifier

357

texts

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Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit

356

texts

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Nubuwwa (Prophethood)

351

texts

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Insight meditation

348

texts

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Stasis (Rhetorical Issue-Theory)

348

texts

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Tevul Yom (One Immersed That Day)

טבול יום

348

texts

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The Olympic Games

347

texts

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Baruch Sheamar

ברוך שאמר

345

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

The theory of dharmas

345

texts

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Theotokos (God-bearer)

344

texts

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The Pure Land

343

texts

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Mind-only / cognition-only

342

texts

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The monastic code

342

texts

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The Social Contract

341

texts

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Kavod Hashem (Divine Glory)

כבוד השם

340

texts

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Literal/Historical Sense

337

texts

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Suspension of Judgment

336

texts

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Kavod HaBriot (Human Dignity)

כבוד הבריות

336

texts

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Teruah (Staccato Shofar Sound)

תרועה

336

texts

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Kablan (Independent Contractor)

קבלן

335

texts

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Zoreya (Sowing)

זורע

335

texts

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The Saṅgha (community)

334

texts

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Shichechah (Forgotten Sheaf)

שכחה

333

texts

agricultural land lawExplore →

Tafsīr (Qurʾānic Exegesis)

331

texts

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Hashra'at HaShechinah (Indwelling of the Divine Presence)

השראת השכינה

330

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Qadar (Divine Decree & Predestination)

330

texts

islamic-aqidaExplore →

Calm-abiding meditation

328

texts

buddhist-pathExplore →

Dikna (The Sacred Beard — 13 Tikkunei Dikna)

דיקנא

328

texts

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Sunna (Prophetic Practice)

328

texts

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Īmān (Faith)

326

texts

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Sechirut Poalim (Labor / Hiring Law)

שכירות פועלים

324

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Transfer / dedication of merit

323

texts

buddhist-cosmologyExplore →

Impermanence

322

texts

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Meein Shalosh / Al HaMichyah

מעין שלוש

321

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

First Council of Nicaea (325)

319

texts

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Adab (Proper Comportment / Ethical Refinement)

319

texts

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Ṣalāt (Ritual Prayer)

318

texts

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Nun Sha'arei Binah (Fifty Gates of Understanding)

חמישים שערי בינה

316

texts

sefirotExplore →

Lo Plug (Non-Distinction of the Rabbis)

לא פלוג

314

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

The Excluded Middle

313

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Teshuvah Me'ahavah (Repentance from Love)

תשובה מאהבה

313

texts

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Churban Bayit Rishon (Destruction of the First Temple)

חורבן בית ראשון

312

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Niyya (Intention)

312

texts

islamic-akhlaqExplore →

Perseverance of the Saints

311

texts

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Matanot LaEvyonim (Purim Gifts to the Poor)

מתנות לאביונים

311

texts

chagim otherExplore →

Tathāgata

309

texts

buddhist-foundationsExplore →

Oreig (Weaving)

אורג

308

texts

shabbat melachahExplore →

The Modes of Skepticism

307

texts

greek-epistemologyExplore →

ʿAdl (Divine Justice)

307

texts

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Monasticism / the going forth

306

texts

buddhist-practiceExplore →

Vicarious Atonement

306

texts

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Meditative absorption

302

texts

buddhist-pathExplore →

Heaven

302

texts

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Reconciliation

302

texts

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Iskafia and Is'hapcha (Suppression and Transformation)

אתכפיא ואתהפכא

301

texts

hasidic avodahExplore →

Ascension of Christ

300

texts

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Ashkenazi Minhag Tradition

מנהגי אשכנז

299

texts

minhagimExplore →

Eshet Ach (Brother's Wife)

אשת אח

299

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Ijmāʿ (Scholarly Consensus)

299

texts

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Ma'aser Ani (Tithe of the Poor)

מעשר עני

299

texts

agricultural land lawExplore →

Manichaeism

298

texts

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Rebirth

294

texts

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Becoming

294

texts

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To Prepon (Decorum / Fittingness)

294

texts

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Compassion

292

texts

buddhist-pathExplore →

The Plausible

291

texts

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The Nine Days (1-9 Av)

תשעת הימים

291

texts

minhagimExplore →

Chalipin (Barter / Halachic Exchange)

חליפין

289

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

The six realms of rebirth

288

texts

buddhist-cosmologyExplore →

Panim b'Panim / Achor b'Achor

פנים בפנים ואחור באחור

288

texts

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Sheva Brachos Week (Festive Meals)

שבעת ימי המשתה

288

texts

minhagimExplore →

Tekiah (Long Shofar Blast)

תקיעה

288

texts

chagim otherExplore →

Simchah shel Mitzvah (Joy in Divine Service)

שמחה של מצוה

287

texts

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Hazama (Witnesses Refuted via Alibi)

הזמה

286

texts

court procedureExplore →

Nezek (Loss of Bodily Value)

נזק

285

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Yichud Elyon (Upper Unification)

ייחוד עליון

284

texts

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Ṣifāt (Divine Attributes)

283

texts

islamic-aqidaExplore →

Shem Mem-Bet (42-Letter Name)

שם מ״ב

283

texts

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The three marks of existence

282

texts

buddhist-foundationsExplore →

Hero Cult

281

texts

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Sinat Chinam (Baseless Hatred)

שנאת חנם

281

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Recollection of the Buddha (nianfo)

280

texts

buddhist-practiceExplore →

Inspiration of Scripture

280

texts

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Karpas, Maror, Charoset (Seder Foods)

כרפס, מרור, חרוסת

279

texts

pesachExplore →

Metzitzah (Oral Suction Component of Brit Milah)

מציצה

279

texts

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Divine Kingship & the Mandate to Rule

278

texts

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Oto V'Et Beno (Slaughtering an Animal and Its Young)

אותו ואת בנו

278

texts

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Mit'asek (Unintentional Engagement)

מתעסק

277

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

The Apprehensive Impression

275

texts

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Parashat Zachor (Memory of Amalek)

פרשת זכור

275

texts

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Hekesh (Juxtaposition Derivation)

היקש

273

texts

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Ikhlāṣ (Sincerity of Intention)

273

texts

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Motzi-Matzah (Seder Steps 7-8: Bread + Matzah)

מוציא מצה

273

texts

pesachExplore →

Na'anuim (Lulav Shaking)

נענועים

273

texts

sukkotExplore →

Mishum Eivah (Rulings to Avoid Enmity)

משום איבה

272

texts

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Kasb (Acquisition of Acts)

271

texts

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Ma'aser Rishon (First Tithe)

מעשר ראשון

271

texts

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Me'ah Berakhot (Hundred Blessings Daily)

מאה ברכות

271

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Cheresh Shoteh V'Katan (Deaf-Mute, Mentally Incapacitated, Minor)

חרש שוטה וקטן

270

texts

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Enkōmion (Praise of a Subject)

270

texts

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Mukan / Hochanah (Yom Tov Preparation/Designation)

מוכן

269

texts

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Eved Kena'ani (Non-Jewish Bondsman)

עבד כנעני

268

texts

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Ma'aser Sheni (Second Tithe, Eaten in Jerusalem)

מעשר שני

268

texts

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Yaaleh V'Yavo (Festival/Rosh Chodesh Amidah Insertion)

יעלה ויבא

268

texts

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Leket (Gleanings)

לקט

267

texts

agricultural land lawExplore →

Mesirah (Informing on a Jew to a Non-Jewish Authority)

מסירה

267

texts

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Nefesh HaElokit (The Divine Soul)

נפש האלקית

267

texts

soulExplore →

Pesulei HaMukdashin (Disqualified Sanctified Animals)

פסולי המוקדשין

267

texts

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Tenaim (Engagement Contract Ceremony)

תנאים

267

texts

minhagimExplore →

Ahavat Hashem (Love of God)

אהבת השם

266

texts

mussarExplore →

Giving (dāna)

266

texts

buddhist-practiceExplore →

Bein HaMetzarim (The Three Weeks)

בין המצרים

264

texts

minhagimExplore →

Arba Mitot Beit Din (4 Court-Imposed Death Penalties)

ארבע מיתות

263

texts

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Ex Opere Operato

263

texts

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Canon of Scripture

262

texts

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Olam HaNikkudim (World of Points)

עולם הנקודים

262

texts

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Afikoman

אפיקומן

261

texts

pesachExplore →

Ben Sorer u'Moreh (The Wayward and Rebellious Son)

בן סורר ומורה

261

texts

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Taʾwīl (Esoteric/Allegorical Interpretation)

260

texts

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Mishkav U'Moshav (Bedding and Seating of a Tameh)

משכב ומושב

260

texts

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Divine Impassibility

258

texts

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Hakhchashah (Contradictory Testimony)

הכחשה

258

texts

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Lulav (Date-Palm Frond)

לולב

258

texts

sukkotExplore →

Shevu'at Shav (Vain Oath)

שבועת שוא

258

texts

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Borei Pri HaAdamah (Ground-Fruit Blessing)

בורא פרי האדמה

257

texts

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The Cycle of Constitutions

257

texts

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The Mixed Constitution

257

texts

greek-politicsExplore →

Keren v'Chomesh (Principal + Fifth)

קרן וחומש

257

texts

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Boshet (Embarrassment)

בושת

256

texts

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The six sense-bases

256

texts

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Perichoresis (Mutual Indwelling)

256

texts

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Ervah (Forbidden Sexual Relationship)

ערוה

255

texts

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Sekilah (Court-Imposed Stoning)

סקילה

255

texts

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Stam Mishnah (Anonymous Mishnaic Ruling)

סתם משנה

255

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Borei Pri HaGafen (Wine Blessing)

בורא פרי הגפן

254

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Contemplation

254

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Emet (Truth / Truthfulness)

אמת

254

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Goses (The Moribund / Actively Dying)

גוסס

254

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Bidʿa (Reprehensible Innovation)

254

texts

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Selichot (Pre-High-Holidays Penitential Prayers)

סליחות

254

texts

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Avak Ribbit (Dust of Interest — Rabbinic Prohibition)

אבק ריבית

253

texts

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Ijtihād (Independent Legal Reasoning)

253

texts

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Nedunya (Dowry)

נדוניא

253

texts

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Matzevah (Setting the Gravestone)

מצבה

252

texts

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Ochel Nefesh (Cooking on Yom Tov)

אוכל נפש

252

texts

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Hadlakat Nerot (Shabbat Candle Lighting)

הדלקת נרות שבת

251

texts

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Tanzīh (Divine Transcendence)

250

texts

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Tofer (Sewing)

תופר

250

texts

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Tzove'a (Dyeing)

צובע

250

texts

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Moser (Informer)

מוסר

250

texts

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Shutfut (Halachic Partnership)

שותפות

250

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Tza'ar (Pain)

צער

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Ecumenical Council

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Real Presence

249

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Ma'aser Behemah (Tithe of Livestock)

מעשר בהמה

249

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Moredet (Rebellious Wife — Halachic Status)

מורדת

249

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The round of rebirth

248

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Garmi (Direct Tortious Causation)

דינא דגרמי

248

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The Medical Aphorism

248

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Hagbahah (Lifting the Torah After Reading)

הגבהה

248

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Hereg (Sword/Decapitation)

הרג

248

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Ḥikma (Wisdom)

248

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Kufr (Unbelief)

248

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Hatra'ah (Forewarning Requirement)

התראה

247

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Drash (Homiletical Exposition — 3rd Level of PaRDeS)

דרש

246

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Over LaAsiyatan (Reciting the Blessing Before the Mitzvah)

עובר לעשייתן

246

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Shtar Chov (Debt Document)

שטר חוב

245

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Cosmic Conflagration (Ekpyrosis)

244

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Oath-Taking

244

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Asher Yatzar (Bathroom Blessing)

אשר יצר

243

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Shelamim (Peace-Offering)

שלמים

243

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Chenek (Strangulation)

חנק

242

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Marks of the Church

242

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Merit

242

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Etrog (Citron)

אתרוג

242

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Environmental Determinism (Climate Shapes Peoples)

242

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Hekdesh (Sanctified Property)

הקדש

242

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Qurʾān (as Source of Law)

242

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Mishnah Rishonah / Mishnah Acharonah

משנה ראשונה ומשנה אחרונה

242

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Beit Knesset (Synagogue — Sanctity, Design, Conduct)

בית הכנסת

241

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al-Amr bi-l-Maʿrūf (Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong)

241

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Recapitulation

240

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Rodef (The Pursuer)

רודף

240

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Asham (Guilt-Offering)

אשם

239

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Prayer and Hymn

239

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Shevet (Lost Wages)

שבת

239

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Z'hirut (Watchfulness)

זהירות

239

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Beinoni (The Intermediate Person — Tanya's Ideal)

בינוני

238

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Tawba (Repentance / Turning Back)

238

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Minchah (Flour-Offering)

מנחה

238

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Ribbit Ketzutzah (Biblically-Fixed Interest)

ריבית קצוצה

238

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Muʿtazila (Rationalist Theology)

237

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Shel Yad (Arm Tefillin)

של יד

237

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Waḥy (Revelation)

236

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Motzi Shem Ra (Defamation)

מוציא שם רע

236

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Qiyās (Analogical Reasoning)

235

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Shevarim (Three Broken Shofar Notes)

שברים

235

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Borei Pri HaEtz (Tree-Fruit Blessing)

בורא פרי העץ

234

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Imputed Righteousness

234

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Arbaim Seah (40 Seah — Minimum Mikveh Volume)

ארבעים סאה

233

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The four divine abodes

233

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Suchness

233

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Marriage (as Sacrament)

233

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Shel Rosh (Head Tefillin)

של ראש

233

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Funerary Rites and Mourning

232

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Taqwā (God-Consciousness / Piety)

232

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Notar (Sacrificial Meat Left Past Time)

נותר

232

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Zaken Mamre (The Rebellious Elder)

זקן ממרא

232

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Kaas (Anger)

כעס

231

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Mechatech (Cutting to Shape)

מחתך

231

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Kairos (The Opportune Moment)

230

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Kinyan Sudar (Chalipin — Acquisition by Exchange of Handkerchief)

קנין סודר

230

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Tzaddik V'Ra Lo (Theodicy)

צדיק ורע לו

230

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Avalokiteśvara (bodhisattva of compassion)

229

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Lechem Mishneh (Two Loaves for Shabbat/Yom Tov)

לחם משנה

229

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Yom HaDin (Day of Judgment)

יום הדין

229

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Antichrist

228

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The Enthymeme

228

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Netilat Yadayim (Washing Before Bread)

נטילת ידיים לסעודה

228

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The dharma-realm

227

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The Void

227

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Techelet (The Blue String)

תכלת

227

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Bittul Torah (Neglect of Torah Study)

ביטול תורה

226

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Ṭahāra (Ritual Purity)

226

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Azharot (Sephardic Shavuot 613-Mitzvot Piyut)

אזהרות

224

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Borei Minei Mezonot (Grain-Based Foods)

בורא מיני מזונות

223

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Maṇḍala

223

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The three bodies of a buddha

223

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Takfīr (Declaring a Muslim an Unbeliever)

223

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Musaf (Additional Festival Offerings)

מוסף קרבן

223

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Lo BaShamayim Hi (Tanur shel Achnai)

לא בשמים היא

222

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Christ as Head of the Church

221

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Faith / confidence

220

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Christian Pacifism / Nonviolence

220

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Memachek (Smoothing / Scraping)

ממחק

220

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Thōmata (Marvels & Wonders)

219

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HaMotzi MeChavero Alav HaRaya

המוציא מחבירו עליו הראיה

219

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al-Baʿth wa-l-Maʿād (Resurrection of the Body)

219

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Zechut Avot (Merit of the Patriarchs)

זכות אבות

219

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Bechor Behemah Tehorah (Firstborn of Pure Animals)

בכור בהמה טהורה

218

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Tazkiyat al-Nafs (Purification of the Soul)

218

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Klal Yisrael (The Collective Body of Israel)

כלל ישראל

218

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Dayyenu (Passover Haggadah Litany of Gratitude)

דיינו

217

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al-Asmāʾ al-Ḥusnā (The 99 Names of God)

217

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ʿIlm Allāh bi-l-Juzʾiyyāt (God's Knowledge of Particulars)

217

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Ṣaḥāba (Companions of the Prophet)

217

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Pigul (Sacrifice Disqualified by Improper Intent)

פיגול

217

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Aitia (Cause vs Pretext in History)

216

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The Boundless

216

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Zo"N (Ze'ir Anpin and Nukva)

זו״ן

216

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Going for refuge

215

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Borei Nefashot (Universal After-Blessing)

בורא נפשות

214

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Chevra Kadisha (Burial Society)

חברה קדישא

213

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Mashiach ben David (The Davidic Messiah)

משיח בן דוד

213

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Nefilat Apayim (Tachanun Posture)

נפילת אפים

213

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ʿIlm al-Kalām (Dialectical Theology)

212

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Tahdhīb al-Akhlāq (Refinement of Character / Mean Ethics)

212

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Keruvim (Cherubim)

כרובים

212

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Memutza (The Intermediary)

ממוצע

212

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Yemot HaMashiach (The Messianic Era)

ימות המשיח

212

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Seudat Purim (Purim Festive Meal)

סעודת פורים

211

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Tevunah (Sub-Partzuf of Imma)

תבונה

211

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Ahavat Yisrael (Love of Fellow Jews)

אהבת ישראל

210

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Knesset Yisrael (The Assembly of Israel)

כנסת ישראל

210

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Tena'ei Ketubah (Standard Ketubah Stipulations)

תנאי כתובה

210

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Aseret Maamarot (Ten Utterances of Creation)

עשרה מאמרות

209

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Abhidharma analysis

209

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Mindfulness

209

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Stream-entry

209

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Ekphrasis (Vivid Description)

209

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Imitation of Models (Literary Mimēsis)

209

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Duʿāʾ (Supplicatory Prayer)

209

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al-Waʿd wa-l-Waʿīd (The Promise and the Threat)

209

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Ignorance

208

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Ṣawm (Fasting of Ramaḍān)

208

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Yenika (Suckling — Klipot Drawing from Holiness)

יניקה

208

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Christus Victor (Atonement)

207

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Mashiach ben Yosef (The Forerunner Messiah)

משיח בן יוסף

207

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Neilah (Closing Prayer of Yom Kippur)

נעילה

207

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Rachel and Leah (The Two Nukvas)

רחל ולאה

207

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Ta'am K'Ikkar (Flavor Is Treated as Substance)

טעם כעיקר

207

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Baruch Hu uVaruch Shemo

ברוך הוא וברוך שמו

206

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The store-consciousness

206

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Cosmopolitanism

206

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Gulgalta (The Skull of Arich Anpin)

גולגלתא

206

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Machatzit HaShekel (Pre-Purim Half-Shekel)

מחצית השקל לפורים

206

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Machatzit HaShekel (Half-Shekel Annual Donation)

מחצית השקל

206

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Ofanim (Wheels — Merkavah Class)

אופנים

206

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Yisrael (Common Israelite Status)

ישראל

206

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Yud-Bet Chodesh (12-Month Mourning for a Parent)

שנים עשר חודש

206

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Hamshachah (Drawing-Down of Divine Light)

המשכה

205

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Qalb (The Heart and Its Diseases)

205

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Tashbīh (Anthropomorphism)

205

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Lamed-Bet Netivot Chochmah (32 Paths of Wisdom)

ל״ב נתיבות חכמה

205

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Seraphim (Fiery Angels)

שרפים

205

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Zivug (Sefirotic Union / Divine Coupling)

זיווג

205

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The ten bodhisattva stages

204

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Marcionism

204

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Hashpa'ah (Divine Influx / Flow)

השפעה

204

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Ṣabr (Patient Endurance)

204

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Takanot Rabbenu Gershom (The Cherem of R. Gershom)

תקנות רבנו גרשום

204

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Avot HaTum'ah (Primary Sources of Impurity)

אבות הטומאה

203

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Mudrā (ritual gesture)

203

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Muʿjiza (Evidentiary Miracle)

203

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Shukr (Gratitude)

203

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Mechirat Yosef (The Sale of Joseph)

מכירת יוסף

203

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Neshama Yeteira (Extra Shabbat Soul)

נשמה יתירה

203

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Parsa (The Dividing Curtain)

פרסא

203

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Ḥajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca)

202

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Israel Saba (Sub-Partzuf of Abba)

ישראל סבא

202

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Nefesh HaBehamit (The Animal Soul)

נפש הבהמית

202

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Ohr Makif (Encompassing Light)

אור מקיף

202

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Ohr Pnimi (Inner Light)

אור פנימי

202

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Alma D'Itkasya (The Concealed World)

עלמא דאתכסיא

201

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Mochin DeKatnut (Constricted Consciousness)

מוחין דקטנות

201

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Tzaar Baalei Chayim (Suffering of Living Creatures)

צער בעלי חיים

201

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Chalav Yisrael (Jewish-Supervised Milk)

חלב ישראל

200

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Nikāḥ (Marriage Contract)

200

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Mayin Nukvin / Mayin Dukhrin (Feminine and Masculine Waters)

מיין נוקבין

200

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Mochin DeGadlut (Expanded Consciousness)

מוחין דגדלות

200

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Or HaGanuz (The Hidden Primordial Light)

אור הגנוז

200

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Tzinorot (The Channels of Divine Influx)

צינורות

200

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Bar Metzra (Adjacent Neighbor's Right of First Refusal)

בר מצרא

199

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Hamtakat HaDinim (Sweetening of the Judgments)

המתקת הדינים

199

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Justification by Faith Alone

196

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Walāya (Sainthood / Divine Friendship)

196

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Shevu'at HaPikadon (Deposit Oath)

שבועת הפקדון

196

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Zakāt (Obligatory Almsgiving)

195

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The three truths

194

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Ḥalāl & Ḥarām (Lawful and Unlawful Foods)

194

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Tawakkul (Trust in God)

194

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Aššur, God of the Assyrian Empire

194

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Mitzvah HaBa'ah B'Aveirah (Mitzvah Through Sin)

מצוה הבאה בעבירה

193

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The koan / public case

192

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The three natures

192

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Jihād (as a Legal Category)

192

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Maʿrifa (Gnosis / Mystical Knowledge)

192

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The three poisons

191

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Subordinationism

191

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Libation (Sponde)

191

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Kriat Shema Al HaMita (Bedtime Shema)

קריאת שמע על המיטה

191

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Piyutim (Liturgical Poems Inserted in Tefillah)

פיוטים

191

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Papal Primacy

190

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Chazakat HaGuf (Bodily/Prior-Status Presumption)

חזקת הגוף

189

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Galgalim (The Celestial Spheres)

גלגלים

189

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Shahāda (Testimony of Faith)

189

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Siyāsa Sharʿiyya (Governance within the Law)

189

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Nestorianism

188

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Shafāʿa (Intercession)

188

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Ko're'a (Tearing)

קורע

188

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Minhag Avoteinu B'Yadeinu (Our Fathers' Custom in Our Hands)

מנהג אבותינו בידינו

188

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Pshat (Plain Sense — 1st Level of PaRDeS)

פשט

188

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The Great Vehicle

187

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Chayah (The 4th Soul-Level)

חיה

187

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al-Amr wa-l-Nahy (Command and Prohibition)

186

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Arba Parshiyot (Four Special Pre-Pesach Readings)

ארבע פרשיות

185

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Zuhd (Ascetic Renunciation)

185

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The twelve links

184

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Fasting

184

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New Heavens and New Earth

184

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Pirsumei Nisa (Publicizing the Miracle)

פרסומי ניסא

184

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Shalosh Imot (Three Mother Letters א מ ש)

ג' אמות

184

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Aspaklaria HaMe'ira (The Clear Lens — Mosaic Prophecy)

אספקלריא המאירה

183

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Buddha-field

183

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Nehar Dinur (The River of Fire)

נהר דינור

183

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Higher ordination

182

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Assurance of Salvation

182

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Maḥabba (Divine Love)

182

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Greek and Barbarian Polarity

181

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Migdal Bavel (Tower of Babel)

מגדל בבל

181

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Fiṭra (Innate Disposition)

180

texts

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Sababiyya (Natural Causation)

180

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Beitzah Shenoldah (Egg Laid on Yom Tov — Muktzeh)

ביצה שנולדה

179

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al-Aḥkām al-Taklīfiyya (The Five Legal Qualifications)

179

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Tallit Gadol (Prayer Shawl)

טלית גדול

179

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Bracha Aharona / Sephardic Birkat HaMazon Variants

ברכה אחרונה ספרדית

178

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Stam Yainam (Wine Handled by Non-Jews)

סתם יינם

178

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Dhikr (Remembrance of God)

177

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Ḥudūd (Fixed Scriptural Punishments)

177

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Manṭiq (Logic)

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Falsafa (Islamic Philosophy)

176

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Ruʾyat Allāh (The Beatific Vision)

176

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Fruit of the Spirit

175

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ʿIṣma (Infallibility of the Imams)

175

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Taʾwīl (Figurative Interpretation of Attributes)

175

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Masorah (Masoretic Tradition)

מסורה

175

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Dibrah Torah K'Lashon Bnei Adam

דברה תורה כלשון בני אדם

174

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Burhān (Demonstrative Proof)

174

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ʿIṣma (Infallibility of Prophets)

174

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Chaladah (Knife Hidden Under Skin)

חלדה

174

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Huayan / Kegon

173

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Progressive Revelation

173

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Waraʿ (Scrupulous Piety)

173

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Natural Teleology (The Final Cause)

172

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Nafs (The Lower Self / Ego-Soul)

172

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Shevu'at Bituy (Spoken Vow)

שבועת ביטוי

172

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Abortion in Halacha

הפלה

171

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Al HaNissim (Chanukah and Purim Amidah Addition)

על הנסים

171

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Generosity (as perfection)

171

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Yichud Tachton (Lower Unification)

ייחוד תחתון

171

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Imāma (The Imāmate)

170

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Farāʾiḍ (Inheritance Law)

169

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Sandalfon (Archangel)

סנדלפון

169

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Chayei Sha'ah (The Value of Fleeting/Momentary Life)

חיי שעה

168

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Ḥudūth al-ʿĀlam (Temporal Origination of the World)

168

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Riyāʾ (Ostentation / Hypocritical Display)

168

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Renunciation / going forth

167

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The Care of the Soul

167

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The Philosopher-King

167

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Isnād (Chain of Transmission)

167

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ʿIlm al-Rijāl (Science of Narrators)

166

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Ṭalāq (Divorce)

166

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Kesher Shel Tefillin (The Tefillin Knot)

קשר של תפילין

166

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Bimah (Torah-Reading Platform)

בימה

165

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Gods (devas)

165

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Chumash (The Five Books of Moses)

חמשה חומשי תורה

165

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ʿAql (Reason as a Source, Shīʿī)

165

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al-Ḥusn wa-l-Qubḥ (Moral Value of Acts)

165

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Priesthoods

164

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Iblīs / al-Shayṭān (The Devil)

164

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ʿIlla (Effective Cause)

164

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al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl (Impugnment and Vindication)

164

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Maṣlaḥa / Istiṣlāḥ (Public Welfare)

164

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Taqlīd (Following Legal Authority)

164

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Aleinu (Closing Prayer)

עלינו

163

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The Yogācāra (mind-only) school

163

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The Catechumenate

163

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Divine Eternity

163

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Iḥsān (Spiritual Excellence)

163

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Naskh (Legal Abrogation)

163

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Yaqīn (Certitude)

163

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Leshem Yichud (Declaration of Mystical Intent)

לשם יחוד

163

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Melachah She'eina Tzricha L'Gufa

מלאכה שאינה צריכה לגופה

163

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Tzarat Ervah (Rival Wife of a Forbidden Relative)

צרת ערוה

163

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Tiantai / Tendai

162

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Donatism

162

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Expiation and Propitiation

162

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General and Special Revelation

161

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Dayan (Judges and Their Qualifications)

דיינים

161

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Mishloach Manot (Purim Food Gifts)

משלוח מנות

161

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Shehakol Nihiyeh Bidvaro (Universal Default Blessing)

שהכל

161

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Craving / thirst

160

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Modalism (Sabellianism)

160

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Malāʾika (Angelology)

160

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Qiṣāṣ & Diya (Retaliation and Blood-Money)

160

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Magid (Seder Step 5: The Telling)

מגיד

160

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Hanachat Tefillin (Putting On Tefillin)

הנחת תפילין

159

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Olelot (Defective Grape Clusters)

עוללות

158

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The Middle Way school

157

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Development of Doctrine

157

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Ashrei (Psalm 145)

אשרי

156

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Monergism

156

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al-ʿAql al-Faʿʿāl (The Active Intellect)

156

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Nāsikh wa-Mansūkh (Abrogation)

156

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Apophatic (Negative) Theology

154

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Mafshit (Skinning)

מפשיט

154

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Kri U-Ktiv (Read-vs-Written Variants)

קרי וכתיב

153

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ʿAdhāb al-Qabr (Punishment of the Grave)

152

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al-Nafs (The Soul, Philosophical)

152

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Pilegesh (Concubine)

פילגש

152

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Theosis (Deification)

151

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Threefold Office (Prophet, Priest, King)

150

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Choice / Rational Decision

150

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Furūʿ al-Fiqh (Substantive Law)

150

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The bodhisattva precepts

149

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The four foundations of mindfulness

149

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Mutawātir vs. Āḥād (Mass- vs. Solitary-Transmission)

149

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Tajsīm (Corporealism)

149

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Kaddish Shalem (Full Kaddish)

קדיש שלם

149

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Kiddush Levana (Sanctification of the New Moon)

קידוש לבנה

149

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Infant Baptism

148

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Khalq al-Qurʾān (Createdness of the Qurʾān)

148

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Dam Tohar (Blood of Purity After Childbirth)

דם טוהר

147

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Bird-Omens (Ornithomancy)

147

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al-Jawhar wa-l-ʿAraḍ (Atoms and Accidents)

147

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Khawārij (The Khārijites)

147

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Birkat Aveilim (Mourners' Blessing)

ברכת אבלים

146

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Confession of faults

146

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Hoshana Rabbah (The Great Hoshana)

הושענא רבה

146

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Ashʿariyya (Ashʿarī School)

145

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Fitna (Civil War / Sedition)

145

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Jabr (Theological Determinism)

145

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Kil'ei Zera'im (Forbidden Seed Mixtures)

כלאי זרעים

145

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Mayim Sheuvim (Drawn Water — Invalid for Mikveh)

מים שאובים

145

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Procession of the Holy Spirit

144

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HaMotzi (Bread Blessing)

המוציא

144

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Kibr (Arrogance / Pride)

144

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Chayot HaKodesh (Holy Living Creatures)

חיות הקודש

143

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Docetism

143

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Infinite Worlds

143

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Guest-Friendship (Xenia)

143

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Hishtavut (Equanimity)

השתוות

143

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Kalām Nafsī (Inner Divine Speech)

143

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al-Ṭabīʿiyyāt (Natural Philosophy)

143

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Khilāfa (Caliphate as Institution)

142

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Māhiyya wa-Wujūd (Essence and Existence)

142

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Wājib wa-Mumkin al-Wujūd (Necessary and Contingent Existence)

142

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Darshinan Ta'ama DeKra (Interpreting Scripture's Reasons)

דרשינן טעמא דקרא

141

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Notarikon (Acronym Hermeneutic)

נוטריקון

141

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Arba Kosot (Four Cups of Wine)

ארבע כוסות

140

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Hoshanot (Sukkot Processions)

הושענות

140

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Ahl al-Bayt (People of the Prophet's House)

140

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Muktzeh Machmat Chesron Kis (Valuable-Item Muktzeh)

מוקצה מחמת חסרון כיס

139

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Kenosis (Self-Emptying)

138

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Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa (Higher Objectives of the Law)

138

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Prevenient Grace

137

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Hagbah and Gelilah (Lifting and Dressing the Torah)

הגבהה וגלילה

137

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al-ʿĀmm wa-l-Khāṣṣ (General and Particular)

137

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Madhhab (School of Law as Institution)

137

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Arba Parshiyot (The Four Tefillin Sections)

ארבע פרשיות שבתפילין

135

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The Noble Eightfold Path

135

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Histapkut (Contentment with One's Lot)

הסתפקות

135

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Toen v'Nitan (Plaintiff and Defendant Procedure)

טוען ונטען

135

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Dhimma & Jizya (Protected Non-Muslims, Legal)

134

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Saʿāda (Felicity/Happiness)

134

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Safek D'Oraita / Safek D'Rabbanan

ספק דאורייתא וספק דרבנן

134

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Simchat Torah

שמחת תורה

134

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Luṭf (Divine Grace)

133

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Tarti D'Sasrei (Internal Contradiction)

תרתי דסתרי

133

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Mocha Stimaa (The Concealed Brain of Arich)

מוחא סתימאה

132

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Savlanut (Patience / Forbearance)

סבלנות

132

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Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi Minhag (The Major Divide)

מנהג אשכנז וספרד

131

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Dream Divination and Incubation

131

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Hadasim (Myrtle Branches)

הדסים

131

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Arkān al-Īmān (The Six Articles of Faith)

131

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Murūʾa (Magnanimous Virtue / Manliness)

131

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The spiritual friend

130

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Divine Omnipresence

130

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Mortal and Venial Sin

130

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Ahl al-Ḥadīth / Atharī Creed

130

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Ḥilm (Forbearance / Equanimity)

130

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Ta'amei HaMikra (Cantillation/Trope)

טעמי המקרא

130

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The marks of a great being

129

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Alma D'Itgalya (The Revealed World)

עלמא דאתגליא

128

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Intercession of the Saints

127

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Indifferents & Preferred Indifferents

127

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Matir (Untying)

מתיר

127

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Meraked (Sifting)

מרקד

127

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Toveh (Spinning)

טווה

127

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The King as Shepherd of the People

127

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Ripui (Medical Costs)

ריפוי

127

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Birkat HaChodesh (Blessing the New Month)

ברכת החודש

126

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Source Criticism & Sifting Reports

126

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Ikvot Meshicha (Heels of the Messiah)

עקבות משיחא

126

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Bayʿ (Sale Contract)

126

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Iḥrām (Consecrated Pilgrim State)

126

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Tachrichim (White Burial Shrouds)

תכריכין

126

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Dionysiac / Bacchic Rites

125

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Tallit Katan (Daily Four-Cornered Garment)

טלית קטן

125

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Shiva Asar B'Tammuz (17th of Tammuz)

י"ז בתמוז

124

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Mīzān (The Balance of Deeds)

124

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Muḥkam & Mutashābih (Clear & Ambiguous Verses)

124

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Qidam al-ʿĀlam (Eternity of the World)

124

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Satisfaction Theory (Atonement)

123

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The Intelligible and the Sensible

123

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Living in Agreement with Nature

123

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Jumuʿa (Friday Congregational Prayer)

123

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Tawāḍuʿ (Humility)

123

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Tikkun Leil Shavuot (All-Night Shavuot Learning)

תיקון ליל שבועות

123

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Two Challot (Lechem Mishneh)

לחם משנה

123

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Tantric empowerment / initiation

122

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Just War

121

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al-Ḥadīth al-Muʿallal (Hidden-Defect Criticism)

121

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Iʿjāz (Inimitability of the Qurʾān)

121

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Qibla (Direction of Prayer)

121

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Wuḍūʾ (Ablution before Prayer)

121

texts

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Zoreh (Winnowing)

זורה

121

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Pnimiyut and Chitzoniyut

פנימיות וחיצוניות

121

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Apatheia (Dispassion)

120

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Ein Mikra Yotzei Midei Peshuto

אין מקרא יוצא מידי פשוטו

120

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Set Speeches in History

120

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Kaf HaKela (The Sling of the Soul)

כף הקלע

120

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Divination & the Reading of Omens

120

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Safek Brachot Le'Hakel (When in Doubt, Don't Bless)

ספק ברכות

120

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Yahrzeit (Anniversary of Death)

יאהרצייט

120

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Meditative cultivation

119

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Māra

119

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Charoset (Seder Spice Mixture)

חרוסת

119

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Khabar al-Wāḥid (The Solitary Report in Law)

119

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First Cause (Prime Mover)

118

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Pneumatomachianism (Macedonianism)

118

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Janāza (Funeral Rites)

118

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Kinnot (Tisha B'Av Elegies)

קינות

118

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Purification and Lustration (Katharsis)

117

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Mechusar Kippurim (One Awaiting Atonement-Korban)

מחוסר כפורים

117

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Ikar Ketubah (Base Ketubah Amount)

עיקר כתובה

116

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Ribā (Usury / Unlawful Increase)

116

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Karpas (Seder Step 3: Spring Vegetable)

כרפס

116

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Mochek-Letters (Erasing)

מוחק על מנת לכתוב

116

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Simchat Beit HaSho'eva (Water-Drawing Celebration)

שמחת בית השואבה

116

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The one vehicle

115

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Veneration of Relics

115

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Tum'at Kohanim (Priestly Impurity Prohibition)

טומאת כהנים

115

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Descent into Hades

114

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Moral Habituation and Settled Disposition

114

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Kashf (Unveiling)

114

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ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān (Sciences of the Qurʾān)

114

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Shenayim Mikra V'Echad Targum (Twice Scripture, Once Targum)

שנים מקרא ואחד תרגום

114

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Deity yoga

113

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Marriage Rites

113

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The One and the Many

113

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Ṣirāṭ (The Bridge)

113

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Exaltation and Name of Jesus

112

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Birkat HaGomel (Blessing After Deliverance)

ברכת הגומל

112

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Muṣṭalaḥ al-Ḥadīth (Technical Terminology of Hadith)

112

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Mashpia U'Mekabel (Giver and Receiver)

משפיע ומקבל

112

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Minhag Baghdad (Iraqi / Baghdadi Halachic Customs)

מנהג בגדאד

112

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Fasting & Abstinence Rules

111

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Awliyāʾ (Friends of God / Saints)

111

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al-Rukhṣa wa-l-ʿAzīma (Dispensation and Strict Rule)

111

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The stūpa / relic-mound

110

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Asbāb al-Nuzūl (Occasions of Revelation)

110

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Fatwā (Non-binding Legal Opinion)

110

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Ṭawāf (Circumambulation of the Kaʿba)

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The Voluntary and the Involuntary

109

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Taanit Esther (Fast of Esther)

תענית אסתר

109

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Wisdom and compassion united

108

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Nomoi (Customs of Peoples)

108

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Adhān (Call to Prayer)

108

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ʿĀda (Occasionalism / Customary Causation)

108

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Three-Judge Beit Din (Dinei Mamonot)

שלשה דיינים

108

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Tikkun Chatzot (Midnight Lament)

תיקון חצות

108

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ʿUrf (Custom)

107

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Tzror HaChaim (The Bundle of Life)

צרור החיים

107

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Acharit HaYamim (The End of Days)

אחרית הימים

106

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Aron Kodesh (The Holy Ark)

ארון הקודש

106

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First-Fruits Offering (Aparche)

106

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Hidden Hand of Hashem in Megillat Esther

הסתר פנים במגילת אסתר

106

texts

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Qirāʾāt (Canonical Variant Readings)

106

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Ṣaḥīḥ, Ḥasan, Ḍaʿīf (Grading of Reports)

106

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Taʿṭīl (Divestment of Attributes)

106

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Kedushat Shevi'it (Sanctity of Shemittah Produce)

קדושת שביעית

106

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Shulchan Orech (Seder Step 10: The Festive Meal)

שולחן עורך

106

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Tochachah (Rebuke)

תוכחה

106

texts

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Tu B'Shvat (New Year of the Trees)

ט"ו בשבט

106

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Prayer for the Dead

105

texts

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Gebrokts (Not Eating Wet Matzah)

שרויה

105

texts

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Magnitude vs. Number (Continuous and Discrete Quantity)

105

texts

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Hagramah (Cutting Outside the Permitted Zone)

הגרמה

105

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Malchuyot, Zichronot, Shofarot (Three Musaf Berakhot)

מלכויות זכרונות שופרות

105

texts

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The Hymn (Praise of God & King)

105

texts

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Council of Ephesus (431)

104

texts

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Reversal of Fortune (Peripeteia in History)

104

texts

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Fayḍ (Neoplatonic Emanation)

104

texts

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Hasagat Gevul (Encroachment)

השגת גבול

103

texts

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Kol Nidre (Annulment of Vows, Opening of Yom Kippur)

כל נדרי

103

texts

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M'amer (Binding Sheaves)

מעמר

103

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Shilu'ach HaKen (Sending the Mother Bird)

שילוח הקן

103

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bein adam lchaveroExplore →

The Spiritual Senses

102

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Masjid (Mosque / Place of Prostration)

102

texts

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Shūrā (Consultation in Succession)

102

texts

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Ziyāra (Visitation of Shrines & Graves)

102

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Tum'at Maga (Impurity via Touch)

טומאת מגע

102

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Aravot (Beating the Willows)

חיבוט ערבות

101

texts

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Get Me'useh (Coerced Get)

גט מעושה

101

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al-Fātiḥa (The Opening)

100

texts

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Muṣḥaf & the Collection of the Qurʾān (jamʿ al-Qurʾān)

100

texts

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Korech (Seder Step 9: Hillel's Sandwich)

כורך

100

texts

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Asarah Harugei Malchut (The Ten Martyrs)

עשרה הרוגי מלכות

99

texts

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Apollinarianism

99

texts

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Umma (The Community of Believers)

99

texts

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Ketoret (Incense Offering)

קטורת

99

texts

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Menapetz (Combing / Carding)

מנפץ

99

texts

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Achdut Hashem (Divine Unity)

אחדות השם

98

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The word of the Buddha

98

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Accident

98

texts

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Yedi'at Hashem (Knowledge of God)

ידיעת השם

98

texts

maimonidean philosophyExplore →

Eutychianism

97

texts

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Self-Mastery (Continence)

97

texts

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Ahl al-Ḥadīth wa-Ahl al-Raʾy (Traditionists vs Rationalists)

97

texts

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Taqiyya (Precautionary Dissimulation)

97

texts

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Inana / Ištar, Goddess of Love & War

97

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

Confirmation / Chrismation

96

texts

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Patience (as perfection)

95

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Elu v'Elu Divrei Elokim Chayim

אלו ואלו דברי אלהים חיים

95

texts

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Despotic Rule (Mastery)

94

texts

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Virtue Is Knowledge

94

texts

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Pesulei Sukkah (Disqualifications of the Sukkah)

פסולי סוכה

94

texts

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Relics

93

texts

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Conciliarity (Synodality)

93

texts

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Pascha / Easter Dating

93

texts

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Da Ma L'Maalah Mimcha (Know What Is Above You)

דע מה למעלה ממך

93

texts

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Klimata (Latitudinal Zones)

93

texts

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Rāshidūn (The Rightly-Guided Caliphate)

93

texts

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Ḥurūb al-Ridda (The Apostasy Wars)

93

texts

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The Uncreated Light

92

texts

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Elohai Neshamah (Morning Soul Blessing)

אלהי נשמה

92

texts

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The Gymnasium and Athletic Nudity

92

texts

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al-Ṣifāt al-Khabariyya (The Revealed Attributes)

92

texts

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Sīra (Prophetic Biography)

92

texts

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Tajallī (Divine Self-Disclosure)

92

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Akdamut Milin (Shavuot Aramaic Piyut)

אקדמות מלין

91

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Right effort

90

texts

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The threefold training

90

texts

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Chametz Nuksheh (Hardened/Inedible Chametz)

חמץ נוקשה

90

texts

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Aseity (Self-Existence of God)

90

texts

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Supplication (Hiketeia)

90

texts

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Ḥalāl Slaughter (Dhabīḥa) & Dietary Practice

90

texts

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al-Manṭūq wa-l-Mafhūm (Explicit and Implied Meaning)

90

texts

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Mawḍūʿ (Forged Hadith)

90

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Tzom Gedaliah (Fast of Gedaliah)

צום גדליה

90

texts

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The Eleusinian Mysteries

89

texts

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Ḥajj & ʿUmra (Pilgrimage Observance)

89

texts

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Melekhet Ochel Nefesh (Food-Prep Permitted on Yom Tov)

מלאכת אוכל נפש

89

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Tum'at Ohel (Tent-Roof Impurity from Corpses)

טומאת אהל

89

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Monarchy of the Father

88

texts

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Sulūk (Wayfaring of the Path)

88

texts

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Wuqūf at ʿArafa (The Standing at ʿArafāt)

88

texts

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Modeh Ani (First Words on Waking)

מודה אני

87

texts

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Torah Im Derech Eretz (Hirschian Worldview)

תורה עם דרך ארץ

87

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The universal monarch

86

texts

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No Salvation Outside the Church

86

texts

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Veneration of Saints

86

texts

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The Contemplative Life

86

texts

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Barzakh (The Intermediate Realm)

86

texts

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Khums (The One-Fifth Levy)

86

texts

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World-cycles / aeons

85

texts

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Chazakat Mamon (Presumption of Current Possession)

חזקת ממון

85

texts

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Fanāʾ (Annihilation in God)

85

texts

islamic-tasawwufExplore →

Theory of Prophecy (Philosophical Nubuwwa)

85

texts

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Mashiv HaRuach U'Morid HaGeshem / Morid HaTal

משיב הרוח ומוריד הגשם

85

texts

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The Sign of the Cross

84

texts

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Daily Tehillim Recitation

אמירת תהלים

84

texts

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Clerical Celibacy & Marriage Discipline

83

texts

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ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā (Festival of the Sacrifice)

83

texts

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Murāqaba (Watchfulness / Contemplative Vigilance)

83

texts

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Waḥdat al-Wujūd (Oneness of Being)

83

texts

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Me'abed (Tanning / Curing)

מעבד

83

texts

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Sandek (Holder at Brit Milah)

סנדק

83

texts

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Shiv'im Panim LaTorah (Seventy Faces)

שבעים פנים לתורה

83

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Eucharistic Sacrifice

82

texts

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Hijra (Emigration to Medina)

82

texts

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al-Uṣūl al-Khamsa (The Five Principles)

82

texts

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Meisach (Warping)

מיסך

82

texts

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Ransom Theory (Atonement)

81

texts

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Oikoumenē (The Inhabited World)

81

texts

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Thalassocracy (Sea Power)

81

texts

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al-ʿUqūl al-Mufāriqa (Separate Intellects)

81

texts

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Maqāmāt (Stations of the Path)

81

texts

islamic-tasawwufExplore →

Tafwīḍ (Consigning the Meaning to God)

81

texts

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Economic and Immanent Trinity

80

texts

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Qawl al-Ṣaḥābī (Opinion of a Companion)

80

texts

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Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming the Sabbath)

קבלת שבת

80

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Kaddish Yatom (Mourner's Kaddish)

קדיש יתום

80

texts

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Lefum Tza'ara Agra (The Reward Is Proportional to the Effort)

לפום צערא אגרא

80

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Mitzvot Bein Adam LaMakom (Between Person and God)

מצוות בין אדם למקום

80

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The thirty-seven aids to awakening

79

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The formless attainments

79

texts

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The Middle Way

79

texts

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Sunday (Lord's Day) Observance

79

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Iʿtikāf (Devotional Seclusion)

79

texts

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Waqf (Charitable Endowment)

79

texts

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Ma'ariv Aravim (Evening Creation Blessing of Shema)

מעריב ערבים

79

texts

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Nekamah u'Netirah (Revenge and Bearing a Grudge)

נקימה ונטירה

79

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Behemoth (Shor HaBar — The Wild Ox of the End of Days)

בהמות שור הבר

78

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Chevlei Mashiach (Birth-Pangs of the Messiah)

חבלי משיח

78

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Yichud Room (Post-Chuppah Seclusion)

חדר ייחוד

78

texts

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Apotropos (Guardian of Orphans)

אפוטרופוס

77

texts

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Ezrat Nashim (Women's Section in the Synagogue)

עזרת נשים

77

texts

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al-Faḍāʾil al-Arbaʿ (The Four Cardinal Virtues)

77

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Mursal (Missing-Companion Report)

77

texts

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al-Ṣaḥīḥān (The Two Ṣaḥīḥs)

77

texts

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Kippah / Yarmulke (Head Covering)

כיפה

77

texts

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Todah (Thanksgiving Offering)

תודה

77

texts

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Birkat HaMinim (Blessing Against Heretics)

ברכת המינים

76

texts

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The five hindrances

76

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Historiē (Inquiry / Eyewitness Research)

76

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Hidur Mitzvah (Beautification of the Mitzvah)

הידור מצוה

76

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Aḥwāl (Spiritual States)

76

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Munkar wa-Nakīr (The Questioning of the Grave)

76

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Incantation & Exorcism (the Āšipu's Craft)

76

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Loving-kindness

75

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Deification (Spiritual Ascent)

75

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Jinn (The Hidden Beings)

75

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Bal Yera'eh u'Val Yimatzeh

בל יראה ובל ימצא

74

texts

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The Three Impure Kelipot

שלוש קליפות הטמאות

74

texts

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Tu B'Av (15th of Av)

ט"ו באב

74

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The stages of the path

73

texts

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Concord / Civic Unity

73

texts

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al-Mahdī (The Awaited Guided One)

73

texts

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Kohen (Priestly Lineage)

כהן

73

texts

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Ma Nishtana (The Four Questions)

מה נשתנה

73

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Enlil & Divine Rulership

73

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Yeshivat Sukkah (Dwelling in the Sukkah)

ישיבת סוכה

73

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Shemittot (Cosmic Sabbatical Cycles)

שמיטות

73

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Olam HaBerudim (World of Variegated Lights)

עולם הברודים

72

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Particular Judgment

72

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Maghāzī (The Prophet's Military Campaigns)

72

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Means of valid knowledge

71

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Council of Chalcedon (451)

71

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Sadd al-Dharāʾiʿ (Blocking the Means)

71

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Simanim (Rosh Hashanah Symbolic Foods)

סימנים

71

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Chatzi Kaddish (Half-Kaddish)

חצי קדיש

70

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Ḥawḍ (The Prophet's Pool)

70

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Ijāra (Lease / Hire Contract)

70

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The ten courses of action

69

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The Problem of the Nile Flood

69

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Ḥijāb (Modest Dress)

69

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Muḥāsaba (Self-Examination)

69

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Mutʿa (Temporary Marriage)

69

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Walāya (Devotion to the ahl al-bayt)

69

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Safrut / STaM (Scribal Law)

הלכות סופרים

69

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Mystical Union with God

68

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Hashchatat Zera

השחתת זרע

68

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Dār al-Islām vs. Dār al-Ḥarb (Abodes of Islam/War)

68

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Istiḥsān (Juristic Preference)

68

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Istiṣḥāb (Presumption of Continuity)

68

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Celestial Science & Mathematical Astronomy

68

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Maggid (Angelic Mentor)

מגיד

67

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The monastic rule (Pātimokkha)

66

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Genus and Species

66

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Privation

66

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Battle of Badr

66

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Basmala (Bi-smi-llāh)

66

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Bilā Kayf (Without Asking How)

66

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Ghadīr Khumm (The Designation of ʿAlī)

66

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Tawallā wa-Tabarrā (Allegiance and Disavowal)

66

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Pargod (The Celestial Curtain)

פרגוד

66

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Partzuf Leah

פרצוף לאה

66

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Sfeika d'Yoma (The Doubtful Festival Day of the Diaspora)

ספיקא דיומא

66

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Tashlich (Casting Sins into Water)

תשליך

66

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Mindfulness of breathing

65

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Energy / diligence

65

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Cataphatic (Affirmative) Theology

65

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Natural vs Conventional Naming

65

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Gharar (Excessive Uncertainty)

65

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al-Insān al-Kāmil (The Perfect Human)

65

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Nanna / Sîn, the Moon-God

65

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Ye'ush Shelo Mida'at (Despair Without Awareness)

יאוש שלא מדעת

65

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Yishtabach

ישתבח

65

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Kingship

64

texts

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Nikāḥ (Marriage Customs)

64

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Kapparot (Pre-Yom Kippur Atonement Ritual)

כפרות

64

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Shabbat Mevarchim (Shabbat Blessing the New Month)

שבת מברכין

64

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Celestial buddhas and bodhisattvas

63

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Christian Burial

63

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Montanism

63

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Hakafot (Simchat Torah Torah-Scroll Circuits)

הקפות

63

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Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān (Virtues of the Qurʾān)

63

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Ittiḥād al-ʿĀqil wa-l-Maʿqūl (Identity of Knower and Known)

63

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The Twelve Imams (al-Aʾimma al-Ithnā ʿAshar)

63

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Ones (Liability for Rape/Seduction of an Unmarried Maiden)

אונס ומפתה

63

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Rachamim (Compassion)

רחמים

63

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The reality body

62

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Essence–Energies Distinction

62

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Reductio ad Absurdum (Proof by Contradiction)

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Maftir and Haftarah

מפטיר והפטרה

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Modim DeRabbanan

מודים דרבנן

62

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Korban Tamid (Daily Continual Offering)

קרבן תמיד

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Birkot HaMitzvot (Blessings Before Performing a Mitzvah)

ברכות המצוות

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The Argument from Design

61

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ʿĪd al-Fiṭr (Festival of Breaking the Fast)

61

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Laylat al-Qadr (The Night of Decree)

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Kinyan Kesef (Acquisition by Money)

קנין כסף

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Sephardi Minhag Tradition

מנהגי ספרד

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Gilgul Shevuah (Oath Extended to Cover Additional Claims)

גלגול שבועה

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Ribui u'Mi'ut (R. Akiva's Hermeneutic)

ריבוי ומיעוט

60

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Shogeg, Mezid, Onnes (Inadvertent, Intentional, Coerced)

שוגג מזיד ואונס

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Modern Conversion Standards (Geirut Contemporary)

גיור מודרני

59

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Gartel / Avnet (Hasidic Prayer Belt)

גארטל

59

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Heter Mechirah (Shmita Sale)

היתר מכירה

59

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Ghayba (Occultation of the Twelfth Imam)

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The rains retreat

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The seven factors of awakening

58

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Sacramental Confession (Practice & Frequency)

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Lectio Divina

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Distributive Justice (Proportional Equality)

58

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Nuzūl ʿĪsā (The Descent of Jesus)

58

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Medicine & Diagnosis (the Asû and the Sa-gig)

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Atah Chonantanu (Havdalah in Motzaei-Shabbat Maariv)

אתה חוננתנו

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Three Ways (Purgation, Illumination, Union)

57

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Contraception in Halacha

מניעת הריון

57

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Daas Torah (Authority of Torah-Sage Judgment)

דעת תורה

57

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Baqāʾ (Subsistence in God)

57

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Gharīb al-Qurʾān (Rare Qurʾānic Vocabulary)

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Himma (Spiritual Aspiration)

57

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Makkī & Madanī (Meccan/Medinan Division)

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Tosefet Ketubah (Voluntary Addition to Ketubah)

תוספת כתובה

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Asarah Nisyonot (Avraham's Ten Tests)

עשרה נסיונות

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Brit Avot (The Patriarchal Covenant)

ברית אבות

56

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Intrinsic nature

56

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Divine Office / Liturgy of the Hours

56

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Autopsy (Seeing for Oneself)

56

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The Non-Naturals (Six Manageable Factors of Health)

56

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Hatarat Nedarim (Talmudic Foundations)

התרת נדרים

56

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Kiddushei Kesef (Betrothal Via Money — The Ring)

קידושי כסף

56

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Mi Sheberach (Public Blessing Formula)

מי שברך

56

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Barchu (Call to Prayer)

ברכו

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Berich Shemei (Zoharic Prayer at Torah Removal)

בריך שמיה

55

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Dybbuk (Soul Attachment)

דיבוק

55

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Badāʾ (Divine Alteration of Decree)

55

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Matn (Text of the Report)

55

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al-Muṭlaq wa-l-Muqayyad (Unrestricted and Restricted)

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The Pythian Games

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ʿĀshūrāʾ Observance

54

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Ṭarīqa (The Sufi Path / Order)

54

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Uṣūl al-Dīn (Twelver Five Roots of Religion)

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Mesartet (Ruling Lines / Marking)

מסרטט

54

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Partzuf Yaakov

פרצוף יעקב

54

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The thirty-one planes of existence

53

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Get Al Tnai (Conditional Get)

גט על תנאי

53

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Division in Extreme & Mean Ratio

53

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Zaydī Imāmate Doctrine

53

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Kegavna (Friday-Night Zoharic Excerpt)

כגוונא

53

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Shabbat HaGadol (The Great Shabbat Before Pesach)

שבת הגדול

53

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Ashmedai (Asmodeus, King of the Demons)

אשמדאי

52

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Chazakah D'Rava (Categories of Halachic Presumption)

חזקות דרבא

52

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Transubstantiation

52

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Ein Mukdam u'Me'uchar BaTorah

אין מוקדם ומאוחר בתורה

52

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Participation

52

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al-Manzila bayn al-Manzilatayn (The Intermediate Position)

52

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Asarah B'Tevet (Tenth of Tevet)

עשרה בטבת

51

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The five spiritual faculties

51

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Prostration and offering

51

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The two obscurations

51

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The Isthmian Games

51

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Oligarchy (Rule of the Few)

51

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Freedom of Speech (Frank Speech)

51

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al-Kutub al-Sitta (The Six Canonical Collections)

51

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Kadesh (Seder Step 1: Kiddush)

קדש

51

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Birkat HaIlanot (Blessing on Blooming Trees in Nisan)

ברכת האילנות

50

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Non-abiding nirvāṇa

50

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Baptism in the Holy Spirit

50

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Geometric Construction (Problem and Ruler-and-Compass)

50

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al-Masīḥ al-Dajjāl (The Antichrist)

50

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Futūḥ (The Early Conquests)

50

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Foundation Rites & the Buried Record

50

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Arba Yesodot (Four Elements: Fire/Water/Air/Earth)

ארבע יסודות

49

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Avir Kadmon (Primordial Aether)

אויר קדמון

49

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Chalav Stam (Government-Supervised Milk)

חלב סתם

49

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Treatment by Opposites (Contraria Contrariis)

49

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Lag BaOmer (33rd Day of the Omer)

ל"ג בעומר

49

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Matzah Shemurah (Guarded Matzah for the Seder)

מצה שמורה

49

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Sacrifice & Feeding the Gods

49

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Shmurah Matzah

מצה שמורה

49

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Barech (Seder Step 12: Birkat HaMazon)

ברך

48

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Aporia (Philosophical Impasse)

48

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Hezek Re'iyah (Damage of Visual Intrusion)

היזק ראייה

48

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Ittiṣāl (Conjunction with the Intellect)

48

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Tajwīd (Rules of Recitation)

48

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Oseh Batei Nirin (Making Two Loops)

עושה שני בתי נירין

48

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Melaveh Malkah (Escorting the Queen)

מלוה מלכה

48

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Seudah HaMafseket (Pre-Fast Final Meal)

סעודה המפסקת

48

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Tikkun Rachel / Tikkun Leah (Lurianic Two-Stage Midnight Vigil)

תיקון רחל ותיקון לאה

48

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Chazakat Shalosh Shanim (3-Year Land Possession Establishes Title)

חזקת ג' שנים

47

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Dyothelitism (Two Wills of Christ)

47

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Priesthood of All Believers

47

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Marduk & Nabû, Gods of Babylon

47

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Derisah (Pressing the Knife Instead of Drawing It)

דרסה

47

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Vatikin (Sunrise Shacharit)

ותיקין

47

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Zayin Adar (Moshe's Yahrzeit)

ז' אדר

47

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The observance day

46

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Cheshbon HaNefesh (Spiritual Self-Accounting)

חשבון הנפש

46

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Yechidah (The 5th Soul-Level)

יחידה

46

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Mount Meru and the world-system

45

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Tantric commitments

45

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Pentecost

45

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State of Israel in Halacha

מדינת ישראל בהלכה

45

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Savoraim (Post-Amoraic Redactors, ~500-600 CE)

סבוראים

45

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Guru devotion

44

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First Council of Constantinople (381)

44

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Chance and Spontaneity in Nature

44

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Infinity / The Unlimited

44

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Ismāʿīlī Bāṭin (Esoteric Inner Truth)

44

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Khitān (Circumcision)

44

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Samāʿ (Spiritual Audition / Sufi Listening)

44

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Niggun (Hasidic Melody)

ניגון

44

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Pidyon HaBen Seudah (Redemption Meal)

סעודת פדיון הבן

44

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Tum'at Yadayim (Impurity of Hands)

טומאת ידים

44

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Momentariness

43

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Apocatastasis (Universal Restoration)

43

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Geneivat Da'at (Deception / Stealing the Mind)

גניבת דעת

43

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Aidōs (Shame / Sense of Honor)

43

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Levushim (Three Soul-Garments)

לבושים

43

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Bar Kochba Revolt

מרד בר כוכבא

42

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Veneration of Icons

42

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The Demagogue

42

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ISHSUT (Yisrael Sabba ve-Tevunah partzuf)

ישראל סבא ותבונה

42

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Filial piety

41

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The attainment of cessation

41

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Lent / The Great Fast

41

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Critique of Anthropomorphism

41

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Krasis (The Temperament)

41

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Pragmatic / Universal History

41

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HaKol Tzafui V'HaReshut Netunah (All Is Foreseen Yet Freedom Is Granted)

הכל צפוי והרשות נתונה

41

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Hasidic Minhag Tradition

מנהגי חסידות

41

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Seven Aḥruf (Seven Modes of Recitation)

41

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Potzeya (Separating Threads)

פוצע

41

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The Sacred Marriage (Inana & Dumuzi)

41

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Shir Shel Yom (Psalm of the Day)

שיר של יום

41

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The four noble persons

40

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Adoptionism

40

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Wajd (Ecstatic Finding)

40

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Ninurta, the Divine Warrior & Farmer

40

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Beit Din Shel Shiv'im V'Echad (Great Sanhedrin)

בית דין של שבעים ואחד

39

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The critical phrase (huatou)

39

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Visible and Invisible Church

39

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The Celestial Spheres (Geocentric World-System)

39

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The Nemean Games

39

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Desire / Appetition (Orexis)

39

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Zeno's Paradoxes

39

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Hijrī Calendar (The Lunar Year)

39

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Battle of Karbalāʾ & Martyrdom of Ḥusayn

39

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Murīd and Murshid (Disciple and Guide)

39

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Quṭb and Abdāl (The Hidden Saintly Hierarchy)

39

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Kil'ei Behemah / Harba'ah (Forbidden Animal Cross-Breeding)

כלאי בהמה

39

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Hungry ghosts

38

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Millennialism

38

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Pilgrimage

38

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The Self (Ātman)

38

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Shemittat Kesafim (Sabbatical-Year Debt Release)

שמיטת כספים

38

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Buddhist vegetarianism

37

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Mariology (Doctrine of Mary)

37

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A Possession for All Time

37

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God / The Lord (Īśvara)

37

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Ḥadīth Qudsī (Divine Saying)

37

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Siyum Masechet (Tractate Completion)

סיום מסכת

37

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Tekumat Medinat Yisrael (Founding of the State of Israel)

תקומת מדינת ישראל

37

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Tum'at Basar / Tum'at HaGuf (Impurity of Korban Meat / Eater)

טומאת בשר וטומאת הגוף

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Chronology and Synchronism

36

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Sameness and Difference

36

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Liberation (Mokṣa)

36

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ʿAqīqa (Birth Sacrifice)

36

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Shtikah (Silence as a Virtue)

שתיקה

36

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Zeh Neheneh v'Zeh Lo Chaser (Benefit Without the Other's Loss)

זה נהנה וזה לא חסר

36

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The intermediate state

35

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Penal Substitution (Atonement)

35

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Eleh Ezkerah (The Ten Martyrs Piyut)

אלה אזכרה

35

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The Path of Knowledge (Jñāna)

35

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Tasbīḥ / Misbaḥa (Prayer Beads & Dhikr)

35

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Tinok Shenishbah (Captive Infant)

תינוק שנשבה

35

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Am Segulah (Treasured Nation)

עם סגולה

34

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Equanimity

34

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Edim Zomemim (Plotting Witnesses)

עדים זוממים

34

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The Classification of Desires

34

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Ha'alat Nitzotzot (Elevation of Sparks)

העלאת ניצוצות

34

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Karma (Action and Its Fruit)

34

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Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq (Illuminationist Philosophy)

34

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Hebrew Naming

קריאת שם

34

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Atchalta DeGeula (Beginning of Redemption)

אתחלתא דגאולה

33

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Cholent / Chamin (Shabbat Slow-Cooked Stew)

חמין

33

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Hilcheta K'Batrai (Law Follows the Later Authorities)

הלכתא כבתראי

33

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Brahman (the Absolute)

33

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Tahāfut al-Falāsifa (Incoherence of the Philosophers)

33

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Stam v'Achar Kach Machloket

סתם ואחר כך מחלוקת

33

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'Who Is a Jew' / Conversion Standards

מיהו יהודי

33

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Birkat HaGomel (Thanksgiving Blessing)

ברכת הגומל

32

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Spiritual urgency

32

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Purgatory

32

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Eunomia (Good Order)

32

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The Panathenaia

32

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Kaddish DeRabbanan (Rabbis' Kaddish)

קדיש דרבנן

32

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HaSechel HaNikneh (Acquired Intellect / Rambam's Olam HaBa)

השכל הנקנה

32

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Birkat Banim (Parental Blessing of Children)

ברכת הבנים

31

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Sola Scriptura

31

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Ed Echad Ne'eman B'Issurin

עד אחד נאמן באיסורין

31

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The Hedonic Calculus

31

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Man the Measure (Homo Mensura)

31

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The Useful versus the Pleasurable in History

31

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Ḥadīth al-Thaqalayn (The Two Weighty Things)

31

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Tum'at Masa (Impurity via Carrying)

טומאת משא

31

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Shabbat Shuva (Shabbat of Repentance)

שבת שובה

31

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Ikkur (Tearing the Simanim Rather Than Cutting)

עיקור

31

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Shibud Nechasim (Lien on a Debtor's Property)

שעבוד נכסים

31

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Tikkun HaKlali (The Ten-Psalm General Rectification)

תיקון הכללי

31

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Amidah Standing Posture

עמידה

30

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The icchantika

30

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Ebionism

30

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The Liturgical Year

30

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The Inner Instrument (Antaḥkaraṇa: Manas, Buddhi, Ahaṅkāra)

30

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Vital Breath and the Five Winds (Prāṇa & the Vāyus)

30

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Founding of the Madhāhib (Schools of Law)

30

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Kiddushei Shtar (Betrothal Via Document)

קידושי שטר

30

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Religious Zionism

ציונות דתית

30

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The tetralemma

29

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Fourfold Sense of Scripture

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The Sphere of Being (Parmenidean Being)

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Prime Matter

29

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Hodaat Baal Din (Litigant's Admission)

הודאת בעל דין

29

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Seudat Havraah (Meal of Consolation)

סעודת הבראה

29

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Monothelitism

28

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Coction and Crisis (Pepsis)

28

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Ignorance (Avidyā)

28

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The Round of Rebirth (Saṃsāra)

28

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al-Qāʾim (The Riser / Awaited Mahdī)

28

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Rajʿa (Return Before the End)

28

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Kel Melech Yoshev (13 Attributes Liturgy)

א-ל מלך יושב

28

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Noi Sukkah (Decorating the Sukkah)

נוי סוכה

28

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Fate, Destiny & the Allotted Lot

28

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The Proverb

28

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The Pantheon & the Divine Assembly

28

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Talmud Torah Keneged Kulam (Torah Study Equals All Mitzvot)

תלמוד תורה כנגד כולם

28

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Tehiru (The Primordial Brightness)

טהירו

28

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The eight precepts

27

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The Two Principles: Active and Passive

27

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Sophistical Refutations (Fallacies)

27

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Metaphor

27

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Pederastic Mentorship

27

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Movements of the Mind (Citta-Vṛtti)

27

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Meditation (Dhyāna)

27

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Kittel (White Holiday Robe)

קיטל

27

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Divine Abandonment & the Fall of a Dynasty

27

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Demons & the Sources of Evil

27

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Averting the Portended Evil (Namburbi)

27

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Reishit Tzmichat Geulateinu (Beginning of the Sprouting of Redemption)

ראשית צמיחת גאולתינו

27

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Sichliyim Nivdalim (The Separate Intellects)

שכלים נבדלים

27

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Arba Avodot (Four Sacrificial Services)

ארבע עבודות

26

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Anhypostasis and Enhypostasis

26

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Feast Days of Saints

26

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The Five Canons of Rhetoric

26

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Negative Theology and the Ineffable First

26

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The Teacher (Guru)

26

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al-Madīna al-Fāḍila (The Virtuous City)

26

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Wilāyat al-Faqīh (Guardianship of the Jurist)

26

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V'hu Rachum / Extended Tachanun (Mon-Thurs)

והוא רחום

26

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The 'all-exists' doctrine

25

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The Divided Line and the Degrees of Cognition

25

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Figures of Speech and Thought

25

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al-Rasm al-ʿUthmānī (The ʿUthmānic Orthography)

25

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Yaʾjūj wa-Maʾjūj (Gog and Magog)

25

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Pidyon Nefesh (Petitionary Donation to a Rebbe)

פדיון נפש

25

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Siddur (The Prayer Book)

סידור התפילה

25

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Monastic Tonsure & Vows

24

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The Roman Household Cult (Lares and Penates)

24

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Panhellenism

24

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Latent Impressions and Tendencies (Saṃskāra & Vāsanā)

24

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Being-Consciousness-Bliss (Sat-Cit-Ānanda)

24

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Power / The Divine Feminine (Śakti)

24

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The wheel of life

23

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The ascetic practices

23

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The ten fetters

23

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Third Council of Constantinople (680–681)

23

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City Dionysia and the Dramatic Festivals

23

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The Swerve

23

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Impartiality and Truth-Telling (Without Favor)

23

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Memory

23

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Orphic Rites

23

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The Pillars of Heracles and the Limits of the World

23

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Signs and Inference

23

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Verbal Testimony (Śabda / Āgama)

23

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Austerity / Ascetic Heat (Tapas)

23

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Dispassion (Vairāgya)

23

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Enki / Ea, God of Wisdom & the Sweet Waters

23

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Priesthood & Temple Office

23

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Pre-Davening Mikvah

טבילה לפני תפילה

23

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Sinai vs Oker Harim (Two Types of Talmudic Genius)

סיני ועוקר הרים

23

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Annus Rachmana Patrei (The Torah Exempts the Coerced)

אונס רחמנא פטריה

22

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The four reliances

22

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The 'person' doctrine

22

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Coming-of-Age Rites (Ephebeia / Toga Virilis)

22

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Rotation of Office (Ruling and Being Ruled in Turn)

22

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The Self-Moving Soul

22

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Mantra (Sacred Sound)

22

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Kabbalat Panim (Pre-Chuppah Reception)

קבלת פנים

22

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Lecha Dodi

לכה דודי

22

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Ma'aseh Avot Siman LaBanim

מעשה אבות סימן לבנים

22

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Shevu'at Edut (Witnesses' Oath)

שבועת עדות

22

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Tum'at Keilim (Impurity of Vessels)

טומאת כלים

22

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Women's Ordination (Smicha / Rabbah / Maharat / Conservative)

סמיכה לנשים

22

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The three spheres of existence

21

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Second Council of Nicaea (787)

21

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Iconoclasm

21

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Regimen (Diet & Way of Life as Medicine)

21

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Mystery Cult and Initiation

21

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Progymnasmata (Rhetorical Exercises)

21

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Preconception

21

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Emission / Creation (Sṛṣṭi)

21

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Discernment (Viveka)

21

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Maot Chitim (Wheat Money for the Poor)

מעות חיטים

21

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Sambatyon (The Sabbath River)

סמבטיון

21

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Sa'ir LaAzazel (The Scapegoat)

שעיר לעזאזל

21

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Situmta (Acquisition by Commercial Custom)

סיטומתא

21

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Veneration of Icons & Holy Images

20

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Semi-Pelagianism

20

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Hanhagat HaMishpat (The Conduct of Justice)

הנהגת המשפט

20

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Nature and Spirit (Prakṛti & Puruṣa)

20

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Devotional Meditation (Upāsanā)

20

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Kivrei Tzaddikim (Visiting Graves of the Righteous)

קברי צדיקים

20

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The Letter-Prayer (Petition to a God)

20

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Rachtzah (Seder Step 6: Washing with Bracha)

רחצה

20

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The Kiss of Peace

19

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The Harmony of the Spheres

19

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Māyā

19

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The Three Strands (Guṇas: Sattva, Rajas, Tamas)

19

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Sacrifice / Offering (Yajña)

19

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Kvater and Kvaterin (Brit Honor)

קוואטר

19

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Nusach Edot HaMizrach (Eastern Sephardic Prayer Rite)

נוסח עדות המזרח

19

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Ana BeKoach (42-Letter Name Liturgy)

אנא בכח

18

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Right livelihood

18

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Vigils (Night Watches)

18

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Vesta, the Hearth Cult, and the Vestal Virgins

18

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Mered HaHashmonaim (The Hasmonean Revolt)

מרד החשמונאים

18

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Dharma (Right Order and Duty)

18

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Liberation While Living (Jīvanmukti)

18

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OM / The Praṇava (Auṃ)

18

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Means of Knowledge (Pramāṇa)

18

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Deep Sleep (Suṣupti)

18

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The Three Bodies (Sthūla, Sūkṣma, Kāraṇa Śarīra)

18

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Apparent vs Real Transformation (Vivarta & Pariṇāma)

18

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al-Daʿwa & Cyclical Prophetology (Ismāʿīlī)

18

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Māturīdiyya (Māturīdī School)

18

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Muṣannaf & Musnad (Topical and Companion Arrangements)

18

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The fivefold cosmic order

17

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Anointing of the Sick

17

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Blessing of Objects

17

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The Original Mixture (All Things Together)

17

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The Patron-Client Relationship

17

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The Four Yogas (Paths of Jñāna, Bhakti, Karma, Rāja)

17

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The Four Aims of Life (Puruṣārthas)

17

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The Path of Meditation (Rāja-Yoga / Aṣṭāṅga)

17

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Ma Tovu (Synagogue Entry Prayer)

מה טובו

17

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The Akītu (New Year Festival)

17

texts

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Utu / Šamaš, the Sun-God of Justice

17

texts

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Sachir Yom vs. Sachir Shanah (Day-Laborer vs. Year-Worker)

שכיר יום שכיר שנה

17

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Ushpizin (Mystical Sukkot Guests)

אושפיזין

17

texts

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Yachatz (Seder Step 4: Breaking the Middle Matzah)

יחץ

17

texts

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Baptism by Immersion vs. Affusion

16

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Miaphysitism (One Incarnate Nature)

16

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David and Batsheva (Repentance Narrative)

דוד ובת שבע

16

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El Male Rachamim (Memorial Prayer for the Departed)

אל מלא רחמים

16

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The Path of Action (Karma-Yoga)

16

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"Not This, Not This" (Neti-Neti)

16

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Perception (Pratyakṣa)

16

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Meditative Absorption (Samādhi)

16

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Tattva 15 — The Ego-Maker (Ahaṃkāra)

16

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The Two Levels of Reality (Pāramārthika & Vyāvahārika)

16

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Ibāḍiyya (Ibāḍī Islam)

16

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Umayyad & ʿAbbāsid Caliphates

16

texts

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Kabbalat HaYisurin (Acceptance of Suffering)

קבלת היסורין

16

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Kinyan Meshicha (Acquisition by Pulling)

קנין משיכה

16

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Yom Kippur Katan (Minor Yom Kippur, Erev Rosh Chodesh)

יום כיפור קטן

16

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Avodat Yom HaKippurim (Yom Kippur Temple Service)

עבודת יום הכיפורים

15

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Beit Din Shel Esrim V'Shalosh (Lesser Sanhedrin of 23)

בית דין של עשרים ושלשה

15

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The alms-round

15

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The natural order / cosmic law

15

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The Roman Triumph

15

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Devotion (Bhakti)

15

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The Five Afflictions (Kleśas)

15

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The Channels: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumnā (Nāḍī)

15

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The Witness (Sākṣin)

15

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Waking (Jāgrat)

15

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Tattva 12 — The Bound Self (Puruṣa)

15

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Tattva 34 — Fire (Tejas / Agni)

15

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The Thirty-Six Tattvas (Ṣaṭ-Triṃśat Tattva)

15

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Liturgical Lament & the Soothing of the God's Heart

15

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Sin, Pollution & the Anger of God

15

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The City & Its Patron God

15

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Mikra Bikkurim (Bikkurim Declaration)

מקרא ביכורים

15

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Yizkor (Memorial Prayer)

יזכור

15

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Birkat HaChama (Blessing on the Sun, Once in 28 Years)

ברכת החמה

14

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Moral Influence Theory (Atonement)

14

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Electricity on Shabbat

חשמל בשבת

14

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Anatomy & Dissection (Knowing the Parts)

14

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Augury and the Taking of Auspices

14

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Cosmic Sympathy

14

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Haruspicy (Entrail-Reading)

14

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The Mathematical Sciences (Quadrivium)

14

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The Sibyl and the Sibylline Books

14

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Body as Tomb (Sōma Sēma)

14

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Superimposition (Adhyāsa)

14

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The Golden Womb / Cosmic Egg (Hiraṇyagarbha & Brahmāṇḍa)

14

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Brahman With and Without Qualities (Saguṇa & Nirguṇa)

14

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The Subtle Body (Sūkṣma-Śarīra)

14

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Tattva 16 — The Mind (Manas)

14

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The Šuilla (Hand-Lifting Prayer)

14

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Nusach Ashkenaz (German-Polish-Litvish Liturgy)

נוסח אשכנז

14

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Ta'amim-Nekudot-Tagin-Otiyot (TaNTA)

טעמים נקודות תגין אותיות

14

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Tikkun Keriah (Yemenite Torah Reading)

תיקון קריאה תימני

14

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V'ten Tal U'Matar (Seasonal Request for Rain)

ותן טל ומטר לברכה

14

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Batim (Tefillin Boxes)

בתים של תפילין

13

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Breaking the Glass at the Wedding

שבירת הכוס

13

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Spiritual lineage / disposition

13

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Seated meditation (zazen)

13

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Baptismal Sponsors (Godparents)

13

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Deuterocanonical Books

13

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Last Rites / Anointing of the Sick

13

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Monarchianism

13

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Incommensurable Magnitudes

13

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The Receptacle (Khora)

13

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The Sublunary and Superlunary Realms

13

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Isolation (Kaivalya)

13

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Recognition (Pratyabhijñā)

13

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Power of Consciousness (Cit-Śakti)

13

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Faith / Trusting Conviction (Śraddhā)

13

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Dream (Svapna)

13

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The Three Worlds (Trailokya / Loka)

13

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Mawlid al-Nabī (Celebration of the Prophet's Birth)

13

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IVF, Surrogacy, and Halacha

הפריה חוץ-גופית ופונדקאות

13

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The Cult-Image & the God's Real Presence

13

texts

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Milui (Expansion of a Divine Name)

מילוי

13

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Peret (Fallen Grapes)

פרט

13

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Urchatz (Seder Step 2: Washing without Bracha)

ורחץ

13

texts

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Yahrzeit Candle

נר נשמה

13

texts

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Aufruf (Pre-Wedding Aliyah)

אויפרוף

12

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Badeken (Veiling the Bride)

באדעקען

12

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Berachot (Blessings)

ברכות

12

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Exclusion (theory of meaning)

12

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Chad Gadya / Echad Mi Yodea

חד גדיא

12

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Chatzi Hallel (Half-Hallel)

חצי הלל

12

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Christmas (Feast of the Nativity)

12

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Divine Kingship & the King as Guarantor of Ma'at

12

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Eshet Chayil (Friday-Night Recitation)

אשת חיל

12

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The Cosmic Vortex (Dinē)

12

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Measuring the Earth (Geodesy)

12

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The Śiva-Perceiver (Śiva-Pramātṛ)

12

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Tattva 36 — Earth (Pṛthivī)

12

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Stations and Stages of Life (Varṇa & Āśrama)

12

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Restraints and Observances (Yama & Niyama)

12

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Nusach Aram Tzova (Aleppo / Syrian Rite)

נוסח ארם צובה

12

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Nusach Sefard (Hasidic Adaptation)

נוסח ספרד

12

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Tzedakah Before Tefillah

צדקה לפני תפילה

12

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Tzimtzum Kifshuto vs. Lo Kifshuto (Literal vs. Non-literal Tzimtzum)

צמצום כפשוטו

12

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Bi'ur Shevi'it (Removal of Shemittah Produce)

ביעור שביעית

11

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Chabad-Lubavitch Movement

חב"ד

11

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Chassidut and Mitnagdut (Two Paths)

חסידות ומתנגדות

11

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Filioque

11

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The Indemonstrables (Stoic Propositional Logic)

11

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Hatavat Chalom (Amelioration of a Bad Dream)

הטבת חלום

11

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Posture (Āsana)

11

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The Embodied Perceiver (Sakala)

11

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Worship and the Image (Pūjā & Mūrti)

11

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The Pre-Existent Effect (Satkāryavāda)

11

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Hearing, Reflection, Meditation (Śravaṇa–Manana–Nididhyāsana)

11

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The Fourth (Turīya)

11

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Tattva 14 — Intellect (Buddhi)

11

texts

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Igud Lulav (Binding the Lulav)

אגד לולב

11

texts

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Enūma Eliš (the Babylonian Epic of Creation)

11

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myths-epicsExplore →

Law Collections & Royal Justice

11

texts

kingship-templeExplore →

The Tablet of Destinies & the Fixing of Fates

11

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cosmos-godsExplore →

Sacred Space & the Temple's Cosmic Center

11

texts

cult-prayerExplore →

Wisdom & Instruction (the Counsels of a Father)

11

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wisdom-fateExplore →

Shaveh Perutah (Minimum Value of Legal Consequence)

שווה פרוטה

11

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Shem Eheyeh (The Name 'I Will Be')

שם אהי"ה

11

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Shem Mah (The 45-Numerical-Value Expansion)

שם מ"ה

11

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Shem Shaday (Shaddai)

שם שד"י

11

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Tum'at Okhalin U'Mashkin (Impurity of Foods and Liquids)

טומאת אוכלין ומשקין

11

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Stealing/Hiding the Afikoman

אפיקומן

10

texts

minhagimExplore →

Olam HaAkudim (World of Bound Lights)

עולם האקודים

10

texts

creationExplore →

Liturgical chanting / recitation

10

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Annihilationism (Conditional Immortality)

10

texts

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Communion in Both Kinds

10

texts

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Da'at Elyon / Da'at Tachton

דעת עליון ודעת תחתון

10

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Even Shetiyah (The Foundation Stone)

אבן שתייה

10

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creationExplore →

The Great Year (Cosmic Cycle)

10

texts

greek-cosmologyExplore →

The Healing Power of Nature

10

texts

greek-medicineExplore →

Grace / Revealing (Anugraha)

10

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Withdrawal / Reabsorption (Saṃhāra)

10

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Sacred Beholding (Darśana)

10

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Repetition of the Name (Japa)

10

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Divine Play (Līlā)

10

texts

hindu-devotionExplore →

The Categories of the Real (Padārthas of Vaiśeṣika)

10

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Breath Control (Prāṇāyāma)

10

texts

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Tattva 32 — Space (Ākāśa)

10

texts

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Tattva 33 — Air (Vāyu)

10

texts

hindu-cosmosExplore →

The Three Impurities (Mala)

10

texts

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International Dateline / Halachic Time Zones

קו התאריך ההלכתי

10

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

al-Kutub al-Arbaʿa (The Shīʿī Four Books)

10

texts

islamic-hadithExplore →

Kel Malei Rachamim (Memorial Prayer)

אל מלא רחמים

10

texts

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Levayat HaMet (Escorting the Deceased)

לוויית המת

10

texts

mourningExplore →

An / Anu, the Sky-Father

10

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

The Dying God (Dumuzi / Tammuz)

10

texts

cult-prayerExplore →

Ereškigal & Nergal, Rulers of the Dead

10

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

Pidyon Ma'aser Sheni (Redemption of Second Tithe)

פדיון מעשר שני

10

texts

agricultural land lawExplore →

Shoah (The Holocaust)

שואה

10

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Unetanneh Tokef (High Holiday Piyut)

ונתנה תוקף

10

texts

chagim otherExplore →

Upsherin (First Haircut at Age 3)

חאלקה

10

texts

minhagimExplore →

Chakirot V'Drishot (Witness Interrogations)

חקירות ודרישות

9

texts

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The King as Horus, Son of Ra

9

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The Four Humours

9

texts

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The Scapegoat (Pharmakos)

9

texts

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The Sphericity of the Earth

9

texts

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The Three Styles (Grand, Middle, and Plain)

9

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Non-Violence (Ahiṃsā)

9

texts

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The Three Locks (Bandhas)

9

texts

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The Wheels of Subtle Energy (Cakras)

9

texts

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The Five Acts of God (Pañcakṛtya)

9

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Impurity of Individuality (Āṇava-Mala)

9

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Self-Surrender (Prapatti / Śaraṇāgati)

9

texts

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Vibration (Spanda)

9

texts

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Tattva 35 — Water (Ap / Jala)

9

texts

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Kiddushei Biah (Betrothal Via Sexual Union)

קידושי ביאה

9

texts

marriage divorceExplore →

Kil'ei Ilan / Harkavah (Forbidden Tree Grafting)

כלאי אילן

9

texts

agricultural land lawExplore →

Dreams & Divine Revelation

9

texts

death-unseenExplore →

Theodicy & the Righteous Sufferer

9

texts

wisdom-fateExplore →

Mezuzah Checking (Periodic Inspection)

בדיקת מזוזות

9

texts

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Shalom Zachor (Friday-Night After-Birth Gathering)

שלום זכר

9

texts

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Tzafun (Seder Step 11: Eating the Afikoman)

צפון

9

texts

pesachExplore →

Avinu Malkenu

אבינו מלכנו

8

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Genuflection & Prostration

8

texts

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Consecrated Virginity

8

texts

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Dan L'Kaf Zechut (Judging Favorably)

דן לכף זכות

8

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Tum'at Heset (Impurity via Displacement)

טומאת היסט

8

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

The Eight Limbs (Aṣṭāṅga-Yoga)

8

texts

hindu-liberationExplore →

The Point / Vital Essence (Bindu)

8

texts

hindu-cosmosExplore →

The Five Layers of the Self (Pañca-Kośa)

8

texts

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The Five Powers of Śiva (Pañca-Śakti)

8

texts

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The Inner Sound (Nāda)

8

texts

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The Holy Name (Nāma)

8

texts

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"That Thou Art" (Tat Tvam Asi)

8

texts

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The Ages of the World (Yugas & Kalpa)

8

texts

hindu-cosmosExplore →

Kinyan Chazakah (Acquisition by Demonstrating Ownership)

קנין חזקה

8

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Machine Matzah

מצות מכונה

8

texts

festivalsExplore →

The Anzû Epic (Theft of the Tablet of Destinies)

8

texts

myths-epicsExplore →

The Epic of Gilgameš (Standard Babylonian)

8

texts

myths-epicsExplore →

The List & the Ordering of the World

8

texts

death-unseenExplore →

The Combat Myth & the Exaltation of the City-God

8

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

Shelilat HaTo'arim (Negative Attribution)

שלילת התארים

8

texts

maimonidean philosophyExplore →

Nirtzah (Seder Step 15: Concluding Acceptance)

נרצה

8

texts

pesachExplore →

Organ Donation in Halacha

תרומת איברים

8

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

Purim Katan (Minor Purim, Adar I)

פורים קטן

8

texts

minhagimExplore →

Sereifah (Court-Imposed Burning)

שריפה

8

texts

court procedureExplore →

Shem Tzevaot (The Name of Hosts)

שם צבאו"ת

8

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Vach Nacht (Night-Watch Before Brit)

ליל שמורים

8

texts

minhagimExplore →

Yemenite Minhag Tradition (Baladi and Shami)

מנהגי תימן (בלדי ושאמי)

8

texts

minhagimExplore →

Brain Death and Halachic Death

מות מוחי

7

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

Holy Water

7

texts

christian-customsExplore →

Leavened vs. Unleavened Eucharistic Bread

7

texts

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Protestant Reformation

7

texts

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Modern City Eruv

עירוב עיר מודרנית

7

texts

shabbat institutionExplore →

Gerush Sefarad (The Spanish Expulsion of 1492)

גירוש ספרד

7

texts

hashkafahExplore →

The Antipodes and Inhabitable Zones

7

texts

greek-geographyExplore →

Curse Tablets (Defixiones)

7

texts

greek-customsExplore →

The Imperial Cult

7

texts

greek-customsExplore →

Pneuma (Vital Breath / Innate Spirit)

7

texts

greek-medicineExplore →

The Third Man Argument

7

texts

greek-metaphysicsExplore →

Hashkavah (Sephardic Memorial Prayer)

השכבה

7

texts

minhagimExplore →

Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment)

השכלה

7

texts

hashkafahExplore →

The Path of Devotion (Bhakti)

7

texts

hindu-liberationExplore →

Power of Will (Icchā-Śakti)

7

texts

hindu-devotionExplore →

Tattva 10 — Time (Kāla)

7

texts

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Tattva 7 — Limited Agency (Kalā)

7

texts

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Tattva 30 — Taste-Quality (Rasa)

7

texts

hindu-cosmosExplore →

Tattva 27 — Sound (Śabda)

7

texts

hindu-cosmosExplore →

The Three States and the Fourth (Avasthātraya & Turīya)

7

texts

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Sacred Crossing / Pilgrimage (Tīrtha)

7

texts

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Limiting Adjunct (Upādhi)

7

texts

hindu-selfExplore →

Audible Speech (Vaikharī)

7

texts

hindu-mindExplore →

IDF Service and Halacha

צה"ל והלכה

7

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

The Debate Poem (Disputation)

7

texts

wisdom-fateExplore →

The ME (Divine Offices of Civilization)

7

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

Scribal Culture & the Tablet-House (Eduba)

7

texts

kingship-templeExplore →

The Ziggurat (Stepped Temple-Tower)

7

texts

kingship-templeExplore →

Naarah and Bogeret (Halachic Stages of a Female Minor's Majority)

נערה ובוגרת

7

texts

family taharahExplore →

Nusach HaArizal (Chabad/Kabbalist Rite)

נוסח האריז״ל

7

texts

minhagimExplore →

Shem Av (The 72-Numerical-Value Expansion)

שם ע"ב

7

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Shem Ban (The 52-Numerical-Value Expansion)

שם ב"ן

7

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Shem Elokim (The Name of Judgment)

שם אלהי"ם

7

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Tum'at Terumah (Impurity of Heave-Offering)

טומאת תרומה

7

texts

tumah taharahExplore →

Shemoneh Madreigot Tzedakah (Rambam's Eight Levels of Charity)

שמונה מדרגות צדקה

7

texts

bein adam lchaveroExplore →

Apples in Honey (Rosh Hashanah)

תפוח בדבש

6

texts

minhagimExplore →

Daily Birkat Kohanim (Sephardic vs Ashkenazi Frequency)

ברכת כהנים יומית

6

texts

minhagimExplore →

Just sitting

6

texts

buddhist-practiceExplore →

Papal Infallibility

6

texts

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The Four Archangels (Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel)

ארבעת המלאכים: מיכאל, גבריאל, רפאל, אוריאל

6

texts

cosmic struggleExplore →

The Sublime

6

texts

greek-rhetoricExplore →

Henna Ceremony (Pre-Wedding)

חינה

6

texts

minhagimExplore →

Inference (Anumāna)

6

texts

hindu-mindExplore →

The Coiled Power (Kuṇḍalinī)

6

texts

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Yogic Seals (Mudrā)

6

texts

hindu-liberationExplore →

Grace / Blessed Offering (Prasāda)

6

texts

hindu-devotionExplore →

Hilula (Yahrzeit Celebration of a Tzaddik)

הילולא

6

texts

minhagimExplore →

Kedushah (Holiness — Mesillat Yesharim Final Rung)

קדושה

6

texts

mussarExplore →

Modern Kosher Certification (Hashgachah)

השגחת כשרות מודרנית

6

texts

kashrutExplore →

The City-Lament (Mourning a Fallen City)

6

texts

death-unseenExplore →

The Creation of Humankind

6

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

Friendship & the Loss of a Companion

6

texts

wisdom-fateExplore →

The Mother-Goddess & the Birth of Life

6

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

The Netherworld (Land of No Return)

6

texts

death-unseenExplore →

Secular Zionism

ציונות חילונית

6

texts

hashkafahExplore →

Shem ע"ב (72-Letter Name)

שם ע"ב של ע"ב אותיות

6

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Shem Adnut (The Name Adonai)

שם אדנו"ת

6

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Shem Sag (The 63-Numerical-Value Expansion)

שם ס"ג

6

texts

divine essenceExplore →

Brit Yitzchak (Eve-of-Brit Learning Vigil)

ברית יצחק

5

texts

minhagimExplore →

Pilgrimage

5

texts

buddhist-practiceExplore →

Liturgical Incense

5

texts

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Inerrancy / Infallibility of Scripture

5

texts

christian-scripture-revelationExplore →

Ma'at as Ethical & Social Order

5

texts

wisdom-scribalExplore →

Farbrengen (Hasidic Gathering)

פארברענגען

5

texts

minhagimExplore →

Atticism vs. Asianism

5

texts

greek-rhetoricExplore →

The Method of Exhaustion

5

texts

greek-mathematicsExplore →

The Encircling Ocean

5

texts

greek-geographyExplore →

The Pulse (Diagnostic Pulse Theory)

5

texts

greek-medicineExplore →

The Unseen Potency of Ritual (Apūrva)

5

texts

hindu-cosmosExplore →

The Five States of Awareness (Trika)

5

texts

hindu-selfExplore →

The Four Levels of Speech (Vāc)

5

texts

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The Food Sheath (Annamaya-Kośa)

5

texts

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Breath Retention (Kumbhaka)

5

texts

hindu-liberationExplore →

Impurity of Differentiation (Māyīya-Mala)

5

texts

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Tattva 29 — Form (Rūpa)

5

texts

hindu-cosmosExplore →

Tattva 28 — Touch-Quality (Sparśa)

5

texts

hindu-cosmosExplore →

Italian Minhag Tradition (Nusach Italki)

מנהגי איטליה (נוסח איטלקי)

5

texts

minhagimExplore →

Kabbalah vs. Philosophy (The Medieval Debate)

קבלה מול פילוסופיה

5

texts

practical kabbalahExplore →

Kapparot with Money (Sephardic Preference)

כפרות בכסף

5

texts

minhagimExplore →

Sephardic Seder Plate (Ke'arah) Arrangement

קערה ספרדית

5

texts

minhagimExplore →

Kvitel (Petitionary Note to a Rebbe)

קוויטל

5

texts

minhagimExplore →

Mar'ot (Niddah Blood Colors)

מראות דמים

5

texts

family taharahExplore →

Creation of the World (Cosmogony)

5

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

Retzuot (Tefillin Straps)

רצועות

5

texts

tefillah ritualExplore →

Viduy Ma'aser (Tithe Declaration)

וידוי מעשרות

5

texts

agricultural land lawExplore →

The bardo

4

texts

buddhist-cosmologyExplore →

The Prāsaṅgika–Svātantrika distinction

4

texts

buddhist-philosophyExplore →

Giving and taking

4

texts

buddhist-practiceExplore →

Chinuch L'Tefillin (Pre-Bar-Mitzvah Tefillin Training)

חינוך תפילין

4

texts

minhagimExplore →

Filioque Controversy

4

texts

christian-councils-heresiesExplore →

Ma'at — Truth, Order & Justice

4

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

Osiris as Lord of the Dead & Resurrection

4

texts

death-afterlifeExplore →

Ra & the Sun

4

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

The Royal Titulary — the Fivefold Name

4

texts

kingship-dynastyExplore →

Same-Sex Marriage / Homosexuality (Modern Halachic Discourse)

נישואי אותו מין בהלכה

4

texts

family taharahExplore →

Common Sense

4

texts

greek-soulExplore →

The Natural Faculties (Powers of the Body)

4

texts

greek-medicineExplore →

The Saturnalia

4

texts

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Hagbahah & Gelilah (Lifting & Wrapping the Torah)

הגבהה וגלילה

4

texts

minhagimExplore →

Hashkamat HaBoker (Pre-Dawn Rising)

השכמת הבוקר

4

texts

minhagimExplore →

Maintenance (Sthiti)

4

texts

hindu-devotionExplore →

Cosmic Order (Ṛta)

4

texts

hindu-cosmosExplore →

The Six Schools (Ṣaḍ-Darśana)

4

texts

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Power of Bliss (Ānanda-Śakti)

4

texts

hindu-devotionExplore →

Power of Knowing (Jñāna-Śakti)

4

texts

hindu-devotionExplore →

Tattva 19 — Sight (Cakṣus)

4

texts

hindu-cosmosExplore →

Tattva 31 — Smell-Quality (Gandha)

4

texts

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Tattva 6 — Māyā (The Veil)

4

texts

hindu-cosmosExplore →

Tattva 1 — Śiva (Pure Consciousness)

4

texts

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Tattva 5 — Pure Wisdom (Śuddhavidyā)

4

texts

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Hoda'ah / Hakarat HaTov (Gratitude)

הודאה / הכרת הטוב

4

texts

mussarExplore →

Ikarim, Shorashim, Anafim (Albo's Roots and Branches)

עיקרים שרשים וענפים

4

texts

maimonidean philosophyExplore →

Marjaʿiyya (Source of Emulation)

4

texts

islamic-shiaExplore →

Kos shel Eliyahu (Cup of Elijah)

כוס של אליהו

4

texts

minhagimExplore →

Kreplach (Filled Dumplings Custom)

קרעפלאך

4

texts

minhagimExplore →

Maoz Tzur (Chanukah Hymn)

מעוז צור

4

texts

chagim otherExplore →

Mitzvot Tzrichot Kavanah (Do Mitzvot Require Intent?)

מצוות צריכות כוונה

4

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Nusach Baladi (Yemenite Maimonidean Rite)

נוסח בלאדי

4

texts

minhagimExplore →

Pitum HaKetoret (Incense Recitation)

פיטום הקטרת

4

texts

minhagimExplore →

Sheva Mitzvot Bnei Noach (Seven Noahide Laws)

שבע מצוות בני נח

4

texts

torah mitzvotExplore →

Tefillin of Rabbeinu Tam

תפילין דרבנו תם

4

texts

minhagimExplore →

Tznius (Modesty as a General Character Trait)

צניעות

4

texts

mussarExplore →

Auctioning Aliyot

מכירת מצוות

3

texts

minhagimExplore →

Baladi vs Shami Nusach (Yemenite Liturgical Schools)

בלדי ושאמי

3

texts

minhagimExplore →

Wise attention

3

texts

buddhist-pathExplore →

Bukharian Jewish Customs

מנהגי בוכרה

3

texts

minhagimExplore →

Bushah (Sense of Shame)

בושה

3

texts

mussarExplore →

Chanukah Gelt

דמי חנוכה

3

texts

minhagimExplore →

Liturgical Candles & Lamps

3

texts

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Hesychasm

3

texts

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The Jesus Prayer

3

texts

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Chukot HaGoyim (Statutes of the Nations)

חוקות הגויים

3

texts

yoreh deahExplore →

Daf Yomi (Daily Talmud Page)

דף יומי

3

texts

minhagimExplore →

The Heliopolitan Ennead & Cosmogony

3

texts

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Ethiopian (Beta Israel) Customs

מנהגי ביתא ישראל

3

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Genetic Testing (Pre-marital Screening + BRCA)

בדיקות גנטיות בהלכה

3

texts

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The Constancy of Human Nature in History

3

texts

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Emanation (Procession)

3

texts

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Hanhagat HaYichud (The Conduct of Unity)

הנהגת הייחוד

3

texts

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Divine Descent (Avatāra)

3

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The Mental Sheath (Manomaya-Kośa)

3

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The Vital Sheath (Prāṇamaya-Kośa)

3

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The Great-Lord-of-Mantra Perceiver (Mantra-Maheśvara)

3

texts

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Power of Action (Kriyā-Śakti)

3

texts

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The Burst of Meaning (Sphoṭa)

3

texts

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Tattva 21 — Smell (Ghrāṇa)

3

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Tattva 23 — Grasping (Pāṇi)

3

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Tattva 20 — Taste (Rasana)

3

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Tattva 17 — Hearing (Śrotra)

3

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Supreme Speech (Parā-Vāc)

3

texts

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Internet, Smartphone, and AI in Halacha

אינטרנט והלכה

3

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Kiddush in Shul (Communal Shabbat Refreshment)

קידוש בית הכנסת

3

texts

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Klaf and Dyo (Parchment and Ink for Holy Writing)

קלף ודיו

3

texts

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Lithuanian (Litvish) Minhag Tradition

מנהגי ליטא

3

texts

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Malkot on Erev Yom Kippur

מלקות ערב יום כפור

3

texts

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Romaine Lettuce for Maror

חסה למרור

3

texts

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Descent to the Underworld

3

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The Quest for Immortality & Its Limit

3

texts

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Metaltelin and Karka (Movables vs. Real Property)

מטלטלין וקרקע

3

texts

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Mi Sheberach LaCholim (Public Prayer for the Sick)

מי שברך לחולים

3

texts

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Mikveh Erev Shabbat (Pre-Shabbat Immersion)

מקוה ערב שבת

3

texts

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Mikveh Kallah (Bridal Immersion)

מקוה כלה

3

texts

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Mishnayot L'Iluy Nishmat (Mishnah Study for the Soul)

משניות לעילוי נשמה

3

texts

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Avoiding Nuts on Rosh Hashanah

אגוזים בראש השנה

3

texts

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Nusach Shami (Yemenite-Sephardic Hybrid)

נוסח שאמי

3

texts

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Sufganiyot, Latkes, Sambusek (Oily Foods)

לביבות וסופגניות

3

texts

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Persian-Iranian Mizrachi Customs

מנהג פרס

3

texts

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Reconstructionist Judaism

יהדות רקונסטרוקציוניסטית

3

texts

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Daily Birkat Kohanim (Sephardi Practice)

ברכת כהנים יומית

3

texts

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Eating Dairy on Shavuot

מאכלי חלב בשבועות

3

texts

minhagimExplore →

Shesh Kefulot / Shtim-Esrei Peshutot (Seven Doubles + Twelve Simples)

שש כפולות, י״ב פשוטות

3

texts

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No Haircut Until Shloshim

תספורת אבל

3

texts

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Sigd (Beta Israel Mountain Festival)

סיגד

3

texts

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Simanim B'Aveidah (Identifying Marks on Lost Objects)

סימנים באבידה

3

texts

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Sitting on Ground until Chatzot on Tisha B'Av

ישיבה על הקרקע

3

texts

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Sofer STaM (Scribe of Sifrei Torah, Tefillin, Mezuzot)

סופר סת״ם

3

texts

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Taanit Bechorot (Fast of the Firstborn)

תענית בכורות

3

texts

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Taanit Chatan v'Kallah (Wedding-Day Fast)

תענית חתן וכלה

3

texts

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Taharah (Ritual Washing of the Deceased)

טהרת המת

3

texts

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Tefillin Shimusha Rabba

תפילין שמושא רבה

3

texts

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No Haircut Three Weeks (Ashk) / Nine Days (Seph)

תספורת בין המצרים

3

texts

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No Music in Three Weeks

שמיעת מוזיקה בין המצרים

3

texts

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Tikkun Leil Hoshana Rabbah (Seventh-Night Vigil)

תיקון ליל הושענא רבה

3

texts

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Tisch (Rebbe's Public Table)

טיש

3

texts

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Torah U'Madda (Torah and Secular Knowledge)

תורה ומדע

3

texts

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Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)

יום השואה

3

texts

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Zeved HaBat (Sephardic Baby-Girl Naming)

זבד הבת

3

texts

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Bakashot (Pre-Dawn Sephardi Piyutim)

בקשות

2

texts

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Breslov Movement

ברסלב

2

texts

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Mind training

2

texts

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The Sautrantika school

2

texts

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Chamesh Inuyim (Five Yom Kippur Afflictions)

חמש עינויים

2

texts

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Chitas (Chabad Daily Study Cycle)

חת"ת

2

texts

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The Dark Night of the Soul

2

texts

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Ember Days

2

texts

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Palm Sunday / Blessing of Palms

2

texts

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Chuppah Under the Stars

חופה תחת השמים

2

texts

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Cloning (Halachic Status of Cloned Humans / Animals)

שיבוט בהלכה

2

texts

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The Aten & Akhenaten's Solar Religion

2

texts

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The Ba — Soul / Personality

2

texts

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Heka — Magic & Ritual Power

2

texts

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The Osiris Myth

2

texts

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The Pyramid Texts

2

texts

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Sebayt — the Instruction Genre

2

texts

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The Solar Cycle — Day-Barque & Night Journey

2

texts

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The Two Lands & Unification

2

texts

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The Lupercalia

2

texts

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The Bliss Sheath (Ānandamaya-Kośa)

2

texts

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The Intuitive Sheath (Vijñānamaya-Kośa)

2

texts

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The Mantra-Perceiver (Mantra)

2

texts

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The Insightful Perceiver (Vijñānākala)

2

texts

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Tattva 24 — Locomotion (Pāda)

2

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Tattva 25 — Excretion (Pāyu)

2

texts

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Tattva 9 — Limited Desire (Rāga)

2

texts

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Tattva 3 — Sadāśiva

2

texts

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Tattva 2 — Śakti (Divine Power)

2

texts

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Tattva 18 — Touch (Tvak)

2

texts

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Tattva 26 — Generation (Upastha)

2

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Tattva 22 — Speech (Vāk)

2

texts

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Tattva 8 — Limited Knowledge (Vidyā)

2

texts

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Daily Duchaning (Sephardic / Israel Practice)

ברכת כהנים יומי

2

texts

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Fable & the Wisdom of Animals

2

texts

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The Heroic King of Epic (Uruk Cycle)

2

texts

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The Sumerian King List & Dynastic Legitimacy

2

texts

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The Flood (Deluge)

2

texts

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Mitzvot Sichliyot vs Shimiyot (Rational vs Revealed)

מצוות שכליות ושמעיות

2

texts

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Shehiyah (Pausing Mid-Slaughter)

שהיה

2

texts

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Theology After the Shoah

תאולוגיה אחרי השואה

2

texts

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Shtreimel / Spodik (Hasidic Shabbat Fur Hat)

שטריימל

2

texts

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Simchat Bat (Ashkenazi Baby-Girl Celebration)

שמחת בת

2

texts

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Sulam Yaakov (Jacob's Ladder)

סולם יעקב

2

texts

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Breaking the Plate at Tenaim

שבירת הצלחת

2

texts

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Toldot HaTum'ah (Secondary Impurity)

תולדות הטומאה

2

texts

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Yom HaAtzmaut Hallel (Israel Independence Day)

הלל יום העצמאות

2

texts

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Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)

יום ירושלים

2

texts

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The 614th Commandment (Fackenheim)

המצוה התרי״ד

1

texts

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Apotiki (Designated Property as Lien)

אפותיקי

1

texts

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Bedikah (Internal Examination Cloth)

בדיקה

1

texts

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Chazakah (Legal Presumption — General)

חזקה

1

texts

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Council of Trent (1545–1563)

1

texts

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East–West Schism (1054)

1

texts

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Liturgical Processions

1

texts

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Aerial Toll Houses

1

texts

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Conservative / Masorti Judaism

יהדות קונסרבטיבית / מסורתית

1

texts

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The Akh — Transfigured Spirit

1

texts

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The Instruction of Amenemope

1

texts

wisdom-scribalExplore →

Anubis — Embalmer & Guardian of the Dead

1

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

Coronation & Accession of the King

1

texts

kingship-dynastyExplore →

Creation & the First Mound

1

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

The Destruction of Mankind

1

texts

myths-legendsExplore →

The Distant Goddess & the Eye of Ra

1

texts

myths-legendsExplore →

Djet & Neheh — Two Eternities

1

texts

wisdom-scribalExplore →

The Duat — the Underworld

1

texts

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The Eloquent Peasant & the Plea for Justice

1

texts

wisdom-scribalExplore →

The Field of Reeds (Blessed Afterlife)

1

texts

death-afterlifeExplore →

The Four Sons of Horus & the Canopic Equipment

1

texts

death-afterlifeExplore →

Isfet — Chaos & Disorder

1

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

The Journey Through the Duat

1

texts

myths-legendsExplore →

The Ka — Life-Force

1

texts

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Mummification & the Preserved Body

1

texts

death-afterlifeExplore →

The Opening of the Mouth

1

texts

death-afterlifeExplore →

The Temple Cult — Feeding the Gods

1

texts

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Fish/Lamb Head on Rosh Hashanah

ראש דג

1

texts

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Mithraism (Roman Mysteries of Mithras)

1

texts

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Hakamat Matzevah (Unveiling the Tombstone)

הקמת מצבה

1

texts

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Heter Me'ah Rabbanim (Permit of 100 Rabbis)

היתר מאה רבנים

1

texts

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Concealment (Tirodhāna / Vilaya)

1

texts

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Impurity of Action (Kārma-Mala)

1

texts

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The Lord-of-Mantra Perceiver (Mantreśvara)

1

texts

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The Perceiver in the Void (Pralayākala)

1

texts

hindu-selfExplore →

The Seven Perceivers (Sapta-Pramātṛ)

1

texts

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Beyond the Fourth (Turyātīta)

1

texts

hindu-selfExplore →

Tattva 4 — Īśvara

1

texts

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Tattva 11 — Limitation / Necessity (Niyati)

1

texts

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Tattva 13 — Primal Nature (Prakṛti)

1

texts

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Inner Speech (Madhyamā)

1

texts

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Hoil (Since — Retroactive Justification)

הואיל

1

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Kavua (The Fixed-in-Place Doubt That Is Treated as a 50-50)

קבוע

1

texts

talmudic methodExplore →

Ketz HaYamin (The Appointed End / Calculating the End)

קץ הימין חישוב הקץ

1

texts

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Mashkon (Pledge / Security for a Loan)

משכון

1

texts

choshen mishpatExplore →

Adapa & the South Wind (the Sage Who Lost Immortality)

1

texts

myths-epicsExplore →

Care of the Dead (the Kispu Offering)

1

texts

death-unseenExplore →

Dilmun, the Pure Land

1

texts

cosmos-godsExplore →

Erra & Išum (the Poem of the Plague-God's Rampage)

1

texts

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The Flood-Hero Granted Eternal Life

1

texts

death-unseenExplore →

Pessimism & the Vanity of Life

1

texts

wisdom-fateExplore →

Satire, Humor & the School Joke

1

texts

wisdom-fateExplore →

The Stream of Tradition (Canonical Learning)

1

texts

kingship-templeExplore →

Modern Orthodoxy

אורתודוקסיה מודרנית

1

texts

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Reform Judaism

יהדות רפורמית

1

texts

hashkafahExplore →

VaYechulu (Witness Recitation of Creation)

ויכלו

1

texts

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Yehi Ratzonim (Symbolic Foods of Rosh Hashanah)

יהי רצונים

1

texts

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Yoledet (Postpartum Ritual Status)

יולדת

1

texts

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Akedah (Binding) — alias

עקדה

0

texts

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Mahzor Aram Tzova (Aleppine High-Holiday Liturgy)

מחזור ארם צובה

0

texts

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Bar Mitzvah Derashah (Talmudic Discourse by the Initiate)

0

texts

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Sephardic Havdalah Besamim Practice

בשמים ספרדי

0

texts

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The preliminary practices

0

texts

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Charedi (Ultra-Orthodox)

חרדי

0

texts

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Adoption (Filial Adoption)

0

texts

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Advent

0

texts

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Advent Calendar

0

texts

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Advent Wreath

0

texts

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Angels & the Celestial Hierarchy

0

texts

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Ashes / Ash Wednesday

0

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Beatific Vision

0

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Blessing of Throats (St Blaise)

0

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Candlemas (Feast of the Presentation)

0

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Christingle

0

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Christmas Tree

0

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Churching of Women

0

texts

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Corpus Christi Procession

0

texts

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Second Council of Constantinople (553)

0

texts

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Almsgiving

0

texts

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Easter Vigil & Paschal Candle

0

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Epiphany House Blessing (Chalking the Door)

0

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Glossolalia (Speaking in Tongues)

0

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The Jesus Prayer & Prayer Rope

0

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Lammas / Loaf-Mass (Harvest Blessing)

0

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Liturgical Colors & Vestment Seasons

0

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Mandatum / Foot-Washing on Maundy Thursday

0

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Nativity Scene (Crèche)

0

texts

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Penance

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The Rapture

0

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Veneration of Relics

0

texts

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Rogation Days

0

texts

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The Rosary

0

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The Septuagint (LXX)

0

texts

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Stations of the Cross

0

texts

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The Angelus

0

texts

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Coplas (Ladino Devotional Poetry)

קופלאס

0

texts

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Amun(-Ra) — the Hidden God

0

texts

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Ankh — the Sign of Life

0

texts

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The Nightly Combat with Apophis

0

texts

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The Book of the Dead (Spells for Going Forth by Day)

0

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Hathor — Love, Joy & the Sky

0

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The Heart (Ib) — Seat of Thought & Conscience

0

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The Hermopolitan Ogdoad

0

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The Contendings of Horus & Seth

0

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The House of Life (Per-Ankh)

0

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Isis — Magic & Divine Protection

0

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Isis and the Secret Name of Ra

0

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King-Lists & Annals — Egypt's Native Chronology

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Medu-Netjer — Hieroglyphs as 'the God's Words'

0

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Memphite Theology — Ptah Creates by Word

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Nun — the Primeval Waters

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Personal Piety & the Approachable God

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Ptah — the Craftsman-Creator of Memphis

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The Royal Ka

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The Scribe & the Prestige of Writing

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The Sed Festival (Royal Jubilee)

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Seth (Sutekh) — God of Disorder & Defender of the Sun

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The Shadow & the Name — Two More Parts of the Person

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The Tale of Sinuhe (Exile & Return)

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Thoth & the Invention of Writing

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The Weighing of the Heart (Judgment)

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Ancestor Masks (Imagines)

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Hachnasat Sefer Torah (Torah Scroll Dedication Procession)

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Hakafot Shniyot (Second Simchat Torah Circuits on Motzaei Shemini Atzeret)

0

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Hakham Bashi (Ottoman Chief Rabbinate)

חכם באשי

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Half-Hallel on Rosh Chodesh

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Hatarat Klalot (Annulment of Curses)

התרת קללות

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Henna Ceremony (Mizrachi-Yemenite-Persian pre-wedding)

חינה

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The Nine Forms of Devotion (Navadhā Bhakti)

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Visionary Speech (Paśyantī)

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NaRaNCHaY — Five Levels of the Soul

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Kol Nidre Melody (MiSinai Chant)

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Korbanot (Daily Recitation of the Sacrificial Order)

קרבנות

0

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Leil Shimurim (Seder Night — Night of Divine Protection)

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Mashgiach (Kashrut Supervisor)

משגיח כשרות

0

texts

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Matrilineal Descent (Jewish Status Follows the Mother)

הַוָּלָד הוֹלֵךְ אַחַר הָאֵם

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Megillat Rut on Shavuot (Public Reading of Ruth)

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Atra-ḫasīs (the Babylonian Flood & Creation Epic)

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What a God Is (the Divine, the Personal God)

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Enmerkar & the Lord of Aratta (the Invention of Writing)

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Etana (the King Who Flew to Heaven)

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The Lugalbanda Epics (the Hero in the Mountains)

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The Structure of the Cosmos & Its Waters

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The 'Noise' of Humanity & Divine Displeasure

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Mimouna (Post-Pesach Moroccan Celebration)

מימונה

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Mishmar Leil Shabbat (Sephardic All-Night Friday Learning)

משמר ליל שבת

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Mishmara (Maghrebi All-Night Study Vigil for the Deceased)

משמרה

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Noche de Novia (Ladino Henna Night)

ליל הכלה

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Omer Mourning Period — Community Variant Customs

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Pegam (Spiritual Blemish / Damage to the Worlds)

פגם

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Pizmonim (Aleppine-Syrian Maqam Tradition)

פזמונים

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Public Chanting of Eichah on Tisha B'Av Night

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Purim Masquerade (Costumes and Masks)

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Purim Spiel (Purim Theatrical Performance)

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Rishon LeTzion (Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael)

ראשון לציון

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Rosh Chodesh as Women's Holiday

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Seder Bakkashot (Aleppine Friday Pre-Dawn Cycle)

סדר בקשות

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Seder Tu BiShvat (30-Fruit Lurianic Seder)

סדר ט"ו בשבט

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Seudah Mafseket with Egg Dipped in Ash (Pre-Tisha B'Av Mourner's Meal)

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Seudat Yitro (Tunisian-Djerban Children's Feast)

סעודת יתרו

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Shadarim (Emissaries from Eretz Yisrael)

שד"רים

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Shavuot Greenery and Floral Synagogue Decoration

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Shir HaShirim on Erev Shabbat (Kabbalistic Weekly Recitation)

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Shir Shel Aliyah (Yemenite-Persian Aliyah Songs)

שיר של עליה

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Surrogacy (Halachic Maternity of Surrogate vs Genetic Mother)

פונדקאות בהלכה

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Tefillat Geshem / Tal (Seasonal Rain and Dew Liturgy)

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Tevel (Untithed Produce)

טבל

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Tiklal (Yemenite Siddur)

תכלאל

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Tzidduk HaDin (Graveside Justification of Divine Decree)

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Yichud HaShem (Unification of the Divine Name)

יחוד השם

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Zemirot (Shabbat Table Songs)

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