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The Third Temple (Hebrew: בית המקדש השלישי‎, Beit haMikdash haShlishi, literally: “The Holy Third House“) would be the third Temple in Jerusalem, after the rebuilt of the first (Solomon’s Temple) and Second Temple. It will be the Temple of the “One GOD” of Jewish people and mentioned in Holy Texts

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10 interesting facts that everyone should know about the Shema Prayer

The Shema (Hebrew: שְׁמַע‎ “Hear”) is the title of a prayer that serves as a centerpiece of the morning and evening Jewish prayer services. The first verse encapsulates the monotheistic essence of Judaism, and observant Jews consider the Shema to be the most important part of the prayer service. 1.

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Shemà שְׁמַע

Shema Yisrael (Shema Israel or Sh’ma Yisrael; Hebrew: שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל; “Hear, O Israel”) is a Jewish prayer (known simply as the Shema) considered the essence of Judaism. The first verse, “Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our GOD, the Lord is One” (Heb: שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל יְהוָה אֶחָֽד׃) is found in

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Misanthropy

Misanthropy is the general hatred, distrust or contempt of the human species or human nature. A misanthrope or misanthropist is someone who holds such views or feelings. The word’s origin is from the Greek words μῖσος (misos, “hatred”) and ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos, “man, human”). The condition is often confused with asociality.

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Abrahamic Religions: Similarity & Comparision

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Rabbi Akiva

Introduction Akiva ben Joseph (Hebrew: עקיבא בן יוסף‎; c. 40 – c. 137 CE), widely known as Rabbi Akiva (Hebrew: רבי עקיבא‎), was a tanna (the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah) of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century

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Holy Scriptures

Religious texts, also known as Scripture, Scriptures, Holy Writ, or Holy Books, are the Texts which various Religious traditions consider to be sacred, or central to their religious tradition. Many religions and spiritual movements believe that their sacred texts are divinely or supernaturally revealed or inspired. History of religious texts

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Judaism

Judaism (from Latin: Iudaismus, derived from Greek Ἰουδαϊσμός, originally from Hebrew יהודה, Yehudah, “Judah”; in Hebrew: יהדות, Yahadut, the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos) encompasses the religion, philosophy, culture and way of life of the Jewish people. Judaism is an ancient monotheistic religion, with the Torah as its foundational

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Historical certainty proves elusive at Jerusalem’s Holiest Place

Within Jerusalem’s holiest site, known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims, lies a historical question about what may be the world’s most contested piece of real estate. The question, which many books and scholarly treatises have never definitively answered, is where on the 37-acre

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Apocryphal Scriptures

Apocrypha are works, usually written works, that are of unknown authorship, or of doubtful authenticity, or spurious, or not considered to be within a particular canon. The word is properly treated as a plural, but in common usage is often singular. In the context of the Jewish and Christian Bibles,

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà Biblía, “the Books”) is a collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. There is no single canonical “Bible”: many Bibles have evolved, with overlapping and diverging contents. Various religious traditions have produced different recensions with different selections of Texts. These do

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Abrahamic Religions

Abrahamic religions are monotheistic religions of West Asian origin, emphasizing and tracing their common origin to Abraham (in Hebrew “Avraham” אַבְרָהָם, “Father of many” ; in Arabic “Ibrahim” ابراهيم), recognizing a spiritual tradition identified with him. They comprise one of the major divisions in comparative religion, along with Indian and

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