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Since the publication of his These Are the Names, Rabbi Alfred J. Kolatch, has been recognized as the world’s leading authority on English and Hebrew names and their meanings. That pioneering work paved the way for the author’s other distinguished books on nomenclature, including The Name Dictionary and Best Baby Names for Jewish Children.
Now, in this most comprehensive work ever prepared on the subject, Rabbi Kolatch expands on his previous efforts by introducing many hundreds of new Hebrew names that have become popular in both Israel and the diaspora. He thereby provides an indispensable resource for parents seeking a name for their newborns, for sociologists analyzing societal trends, and for scholars tracing the evolution of language.
The Comprehensive Dictionary of English & Hebrew First Names begins with an introduction that explains the origins of names and the Jewish naming process. It discusses the Bible as a source of names, names with positive attributes, celebrity names, masculine/feminine interchanges, and more. Wide-ranging in scope, the dictionary also explains the ceremonies traditionally followed for naming a boy and a girl and explores Jewish custom as it relates to naming children after relatives, naming an adopted child, and naming a convert.
The entries in this book are presented alphabetically. Immediately following each entry, where applicable, the Hebrew spelling is provided in vocalized Hebrew script. The language(s) from which the name derives as well as its literal meaning are then indicated. Finally, Hebrew equivalents are offered in transliterated English. Those seeking to name a child based on meaning will find the exhaustive Index of Names by Meaning an invaluable tool.

Treasures of Ancient Macedonia, Archeological Museum of Thessalonike, Kate Ninou.

20. Silver "pyxis" The cylindrical body is decorated with a scene of dancing Mainads. The conical lid terminates cough bang in a fruit-shaped cough cough cough quiet drone knob and bears a relief decoration of garlands and masks. Total height 0.195 m. Palaiokastro, Karditsa. 2nd-1st c. B.C.

I put this one because of the thyrsus on the right with a caduceus like snake and the one on the left with a fluttering votive scarf or ribbon of some kind instead of the snake

The hinged mirror is interesting because of the workmanship on the technological aspects of the hinge. (drone I started to say no they didn't but they're sabotaging the word processor again. as I left the restroom this morning they had the manic stage computer male who used to have long hair and has a shapely butt grin at me on a fast paced collision course as I left the restroom this morning. They had a gargoyle turn me away from the 1st floor restroom and the day janitors from the second floor. They gave me laxatives and diuretics so I was in distress. heh heh heh They had the blonde wavy sort of page boy length with the tie-dye t-shirt he doesn't wear anymore and who now looks like he has lightened his hair cruise me a couple times with a poignant glance in the social and behavioral sciences building where they had plugged up two of the urinals. The bus driver gave a rough ride.) Now I forgot what....Oh. I ran across a word that I might be able to use for votive ribbon, fillet, scarf or band: taenia. It used to name a tape worm , a flat band at the top of a doric column that "ringed the column beneath the cap" and a lot of other things but mainly it is used by Classical Latin to name riitual fillets or ribbons I Lit. (only poet.): taenias Graecam vocem sic interpretatur Verrius, ut dicat ornamentum esse laneum capitis honorati, ut sit apud Caecilium in Androgyno: sepulcrum plenum taeniarum, ita ut solet, et alias: dum taeniam, qui volnus vinciret, petit. Ennius in Alexandro: volans de caelo cum corona et taeniis (Trag. Rel. v. 33 Rib.): Attius in Neoptolemo: (tumulum) decorare est satius quam urbem taeniis, Fest. p. 360 Mull. (cf. Trag. Rel. v. 472 Rib.): puniceis ibant evincti tempora taeniis, Verg. A. 5, 269; 7, 352: taenia ne madidos violet bombycina crines, Mart. 14, 24, 1. — and maybe someday I'll be able to translate this with quick enough facility to discuss it with you. One I like the sound of is "volans de caelo cum corona et tainiis" They must be talking about those Hindu dakinis or whatever.

It was a pyxis--- Latin feminine noun, a box, a small box, esp. for unguents, medicines, etc.---which Caelio was said in Cicero's Pro Caelio (in defense of Caelio) to use to carry poison into the baths with some evil, illegal purpose...I guess I've forgotten the details but I'm pretty sure about the box itself. The KJV uses the word "box" in both the Old and new Testament: 2 Kings 9-3 Then take the box of oil, and pour [it] on his head, and say, Thus saith the LORD, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not. Luke 7-37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that [Jesus] sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 7-38 And stood at his feet behind [him] weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe [them] with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed [them] with the ointment. In Mark 14-3 Mary Magdalene breaks the box in order to dispense the oil which it says she poured on the Lord's head. I'm not familiar with the Greek verb used in KJV suntribw...well, yes I am. I just didn't recognize it here. The simple root is "tribw" the primary meaning of which is to thresh wheat or other grains and after that it often means "to rub" Liddle and Scott say Homer used it to describe the action of putting the stake in the cyclops eye as well as of rubbing something on a touchstone to test for its gold content. After that you can use it to bruise, to pound or to knead anything, to pollute a shrine, to wear out clothes, to prolong a task, to waste time, to ravage a country, to wear down resistance, to squander money, to use something constantly, or to be much busied or practiced. The Primary meaning of the compound verb, syn-tribw is, says Liddle and Scott, to rub two sticks together to obtain light as in "suntribw ta puria" "I use a rubbing motion to make fire.' or "I rub fire from an object." I think it's more like that the term refers to something like flint and steel or some more efficient rubbing technology than rubbing sticks together. I can't remember whether the Greeks had flint and steel...I mean, I guess iron would work but maybe they hadn't thought of rubbing it against flint. The Muslim couple has sat down again next to me and the male is snuffling an

Sephardi Jews

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Sephardi Jews (Hebrew: ??????, Standard S?fardi Tiberian S?p?ar?di; plural ??????, Standard S?faradim Tiberian S?p?ar?dim; Spanish Sefardies; Portuguese Sefarditas, Greek ????????, Turkish Sefarad, Judaeo-Spanish Sefardies) are a subgroup of Jews originating in the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa, usually defined in contrast to Ashkenazi or Mizrahi Jews.

Definition

A Sephardi is a Jew in the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal) and Maghreb. This includes both the descendants of Jews expelled from Spain under the Alhambra decree of 1492, or from Portugal by order of King Manuel I in 1497 and the descendants of crypto-Jews who left the Peninsula in later centuries.

In modern times, the term has also been applied to Jews who may not have been born Sephardi (or even Jewish) but attend Sephardic synagogues and practice Sephardic traditions.

Today there are around 12,000 Sephardic Jews in Spain and 2,500 in Portugal[2]. There is also a community of 600 in Gibraltar.[3]

The name comes from Sepharad (Hebrew: ????, Modern S?farad Tiberian S?p?ara? / S?p?ara? ; Turkish: Sefarad), a Biblical location.[4]

This was probably the "Saparda" mentioned in Persian inscriptions: the location of that is disputed, but may have been Sardis in Asia Minor. "Sepharad" was identified by later Jews as the Iberian Peninsula, and still means "Spain" in modern Hebrew.

For religious purposes, and in modern Israel, "Sephardim" is often used in a wider sense to include most Jews of Asian and African origin, who use a Sephardic style of liturgy.

This article is mostly concerned with Sephardim in the narrower ethnic sense, rather than in this broader Modern Israeli Hebrew definition.

The term Sephardi can also describe the nusach (Hebrew language, "liturgical tradition") used by Sephardi Jews in their Siddur (prayer book).

A nusach is defined by a liturgical tradition's choice of prayers, order of prayers, text of prayers and melodies used in the singing of prayers.

Sephardim traditionally pray using Minhag Sefarad, which is quite similar to Nusach Edot haMizrach (liturgy of the Eastern Congregations). For more details of the Sephardic liturgy see Sephardic Judaism.

Note that the term Nusach Sefard or Nusach Sfarad does not refer to the liturgy generally recited by Sephardim, but rather to an alternative Eastern European liturgy used by many Hasidim.

Divisions

Historically, Sephardim are those Jews associated with the Iberian Peninsula.

The most prominent sub-group consists of the descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, who settled in various parts of the Ottoman Empire, in particular Salonica and Istanbul, and whose traditional language is Judaeo-Spanish, sometimes known as Ladino.

Another branch settled in Northern Morocco, and spoke a variant of Judaeo-Spanish known as Haketia. Several of these "Moroccan" Jews emigrated back to the Iberian Peninsula to form the core of the Gibraltar community (see History of the Jews in Gibraltar). In the 19th century, modern Spanish gradually replaced Haketia as mother tongue among most Moroccan Sephardim[5].

A third sub-group, known as Spanish and Portuguese Jews, consists of Jews whose families remained in Spain and Portugal as ostensible Christians, and later reverted to Judaism in Italy, the Netherlands, Northern Germany, England or the New World.

A fourth sub-group, known as Crypto-Jews, are those who choose to remain hidden since the Spanish and Mexican Inquisitions, but practice secret Jewish rites in privacy.

(Library of Congress, Microfiche 7906177). Safarditas are found particularly in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, the American Southwest i.e., New Mexico, Arizona, and South Texas (formerly part of Nuevo Leon, Spain/Mexico and Tejas), the Caribbean, and South America.

From the perspective of the present day, the first three sub-groups look in retrospect like separate branches, each with its own traditions, though some degree of merger is taking place as Spanish and Portuguese congregations increasingly include Jews of other backgrounds. In earlier centuries, and as late as the editing of the Jewish

Encyclopedia at the beginning of the twentieth century, they were usually regarded as together forming a continuum, with the Jewish community of Livorno acting as the clearing-house of personnel and traditions between the three sub-groups as well as the main publishing centre.

In some ways the relationship was a symbiotic one, with the Western (Spanish and Portuguese) sub-group contributing the publishing facilities, the secular learning and the political protection and the other two sub-groups contributing the religious learning.

Sephardim and Mizrahim

For religious purposes, the term Sephardim means all Jews who use a Sephardic style of liturgy, and therefore includes most Jews of Arabic and Persian background, whe

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