The First Iraelites
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Israelites: a member of the ancient Hebrew nation, especially in the period from the Exodus to the Babylonian Captivity ( circa 12th to 6th centuries BC).
Monotheism: the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
Abraham: Abraham, birthname Abram, is the first of the three biblical patriarchs. His story, told in chapters 11 through 25 of the Book of Genesis, plays a prominent role as an example of faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Jacob: He is the son of Isaac and Rebecca, the grandson of Abraham, Sarah and of Bethuel, and the younger twin brother of Esau. Jacob had twelve sons and at least one daughter, by his two wives, Leah and Rachel, and by their handmaidens Bilhah and Zilpah.
12 Tribes: Jacob's twelve sons (in order of birth), Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph and Benjamin, become the ancestors of twelve tribes, with the exception of Joseph, whose two sons Mannasseh and Ephraim, who were adopted by Jacob, become tribal eponyms (Genesis 48).
Canaan: part of ancient Palestine between Jordan River & the Mediterranean —sometimes used to refer to all of ancient Palestine.
Hebrew: a member of an ancient people living in what is now Israel and Palestine and, according to biblical tradition, descended from the patriarch Jacob, grandson of Abraham. After the Exodus ( circa 1300 BC) they established the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and their scriptures and traditions form the basis of the Jewish religion.
Covenant: An agreement
Moses: Moses is a prophet in Abrahamic religions. According to the Hebrew Biorble, he was a former Egyptian prince who later in life became a religious leader and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed.
Passover: the major Jewish spring festival that commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery, lasting seven or eight days from the 15th day of Nisan.
Mount Sinai: (mownt ssi' nay i) Mountain in the south central part of a peninsula in the northwestern end of Arabia. God made many significant revelations of Himself and His purposes to Israel there. The meaning of the name is unclear; but it probably means “shining” and was likely derived from the word sin , a Babylonian moon god. The suggestion that it means “clayey” does not in any way fit the nature of the terrain.
Torah: Torah was Mosses sister
Jericho: Jericho is a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate. In 2007, it had a population of 18,346.
10 Commandment: The Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue, are a set of commandments which the Bible describes as being given to the Israelites by God at biblical Mount Sinai. The Ten Commandments appear twice in the Hebrew Bible, first at Exodus 20:1–17, and then at Deuteronomy 5:4–21.
Rule of Law: The rule of law is the legal principle that law should govern a nation, as opposed to being governed by arbitrary decisions of individual government officials.
The Promise land: a place or situation in which someone expects to find great happiness.
Deborah: Deborah was a prophet of the God of the Israelites, the fourth Judge of pre-monarchic Israel, counselor, warrior, and the wife of Lapidoth.
Phoenicians: Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastline of modern Syria and Lebanon.
Alphabet: The twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet are the building blocks of creation. This section of our website contains excerpts from Harav Ginsburgh’s classic book.
Canaanites: a member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Palestine and Phoenicia from about 3000 b.c. — Canaanite adjective.