The word #Eucharist comes from the Greek eucharistia (εὐχαριστία), meaning “thanksgiving” or “gratitude”, formed from eu- (“well”) and kharizesthai (“to show favor, give freely”).
In early #Christian use, eucharistia referred both to the act of giving thanks and specifically to the ritual meal commemorating the Last Supper.
The #Hebrew root is berekah, which also means “#blessing” or “#thanksgiving”.
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Exploring another branch of my maternal Scottish family tree, and finding a nephew of my 5xg-granny from Melrose who was a Professor of Hebrew, dying at North Leith in 1901. His dad, husband of my g..aunt, had been a schoolmaster at Galashiels in the early 1800s. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Scotland #Education #Hebrew #Languages
#ThursdayFiveList #WorkWork #Hebrew Edition:
הקליק - בין הקברים לפרברים
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljWOUWe4ri8
בלאגן - גברים מקצוענים
https://song.link/i/1468776597
סי היימן - לא עובדת בשביל אף אחד
https://song.link/i/1572479139
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits is of a banner hanging in the Old New Synagogue, in Prague.
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Today is the first day of the Hebrew month of Iyar, pronounced /ee-'yar/ 🌿
א' בְּאִיָּר
A month of healing, movement, and quiet renewal.
To me, Iyar isn’t about dramatic new beginnings —
it’s about steady, gentle growth.
Winter is behind us, spring is in full bloom,
And Iyar invites us to keep going…
Slowly but surely.
In Israel, this month holds some of the most powerful days —
Holocaust Remembrance Day, Memorial Day, and Independence Day —
Reminding us what it means to carry both grief and light at the same time.
Iyar is also known as a month of personal miracles.
A time to ask for healing —
Physical, emotional, or spiritual —
And trust that it’s already on its way, even if you can’t see it yet.
Wishing you a month of sweetness, strength, and renewal 💙
In Hebrew, we have a phrase:
זר לא יבין זאת —
"An outsider won't understand it."
And it's true.
If you haven’t walked the streets of Jerusalem...
If you haven’t experienced the energy of Tel Aviv...
If you haven’t felt the spirit of Haifa...
From our holiest places to our most innovative, cosmopolitan cities —
It’s hard to grasp just how multi-cultural, complex, and incredibly wonderful Israel really is.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI_ShxzNUMS/?igsh=MWloeG9menJzdXN0eA==
It’s not something you can fully explain.
You have to feel it.
You have to experience it.
Preferably in Hebrew 💙😃
Source: @eitanchitayat_words
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"Sacred #Jewish texts almost always refer to God using masculine imagery and grammar. God is routinely referred to with #male metaphors — Father, Lord, King — and with male pronouns. #Hebrew being a #gendered #language, references to God are nearly always conjugated with masculine verbs and pronouns. The standard formulation for a Jewish blessing, Barukh atah adonai (Blessed are you God), uses the male form of you (atah) and refers to God as melekh (king). Some texts even explicitly refer to God as a man, perhaps most famously Exodus 15:3: “God is a man of war.” This is true despite the fact that mainstream Jewish #theology does not believe God has a body or a #gender.
In recent decades, Jewish #feminists have argued that not only is this language inconsistent with the Jewish understanding of what God is (and is not), but it also reifies the second-class status #women have long occupied in Jewish life."
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/alternatives-to-masculine-god-language/
the passage continues with more descriptions of the traditional Galician Jewish wedding.. find it in English translation here p.322-25
https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Zhovkva1/files/Zolkiew.pdf
I can't read Hebrew, but here is the original of the Yizkor book which presumably contains it at some point:
https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yizkor-books/yzk-nybc314132/gelber-n-m-ben-shem-israel-sefer-z-olkiv-kiryah-nisgavah
Mothers on the sidelines, watching the Halloween party. Shafter migrant camp, California
#Shafter #California #E-PHIPI #Hebrew #F-PHPI #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
How do I get :inkscape: #Inkscape spell check languages installed on :nixos: #NixOS? For some reason it only sees #Hebrew, which I neither speak nor configured 😅
UPDATE: Opening it with hunspell, aspell or gspell available doesn't change anything. Still only Hebrew... 🤪
UPDATE: Needed to add `environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.hunspellDicts.de_DE ... ]`
Per chi fosse curioso: il sito del Vicariato di San Giacomo, la comunità cattoica di lingua ebraica in Israele.
Niente paura! Ci sono anche le traduzioni in altre lingue.
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