Word: hebrews
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...would seem, therefore, to be of some significance . . . that the first letter of the alphabet is Alpha, the Hebrew Aleph, 'a Bull' . . . Scanning down through the other letters of the Hebrew alphabet which have names with recognized meanings in the Hebrew, we find that they also deal with ideas current in astrology-a house, a hand, an eye, a fish, a serpent . . . while, strangely enough, the last of all in the Hebrew is Taw, a 'mark,' a 'sacred symbol,' the Aramaic Tor, 'oryx' or 'ox,' the Arabic Thaw, the Greek...
...ceremonies which accompanied them." From these primitive astrological signs, the Chinese built up many of their own characters. Other civilizations apparently evolved a sort of shorthand which grew, in spite of cuneiform and hieroglyphics, into an alphabet. The very meanings of the symbols seem to bear this out. In Hebrew, for instance, the second letter of the alphabet. Beth, means "a house," or "a daughter." The second lunar symbol in Chinese means "a woman.""a daughter." The shape of the constellation on the ancient table and the letter Beth are similar, as is the Chinese primitive sign, fang, a derivative...
...Greece, the first letter of the alphabet was originally written Ψ, a bull's head resting on its side. In Hebrew, it was written Ψ. The astronomical sign for the constellation Taurus is Ψ which resembles the later Greek letter Ψ. The Chinese Luna zodiac sign for the same constellation was six stars Ψ, in the shape of a bull's head, while the sign of the Chinese Luna zodiac was Niu, the "ox" which in primitive form, resembled the head...
...with Reform a decade ago, one in every five is affiliated with Reform today, and the total membership is approximately 1,000,000 (Orthodox Judaism claims 2,000,000 members, Conservative, 2,000,000). This progress report was issued at the 43rd biennial Assembly of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in Los Angeles. Another major topic: Israel. What that country needs, said Rabbi Herbert Weiner (Temple Israel, South Orange, N.J.), is a relaxed form of Judaism like Reform. Rabbi Weiner urged a three-year experimental religious program there, including a "pilot" Reform synagogue in Haifa. Israelis, he said, should...
...King of Vagabonds." Actually, Al Segal might have been a rabbi had he not found a wider pulpit in print. He was just out of Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College when he got his job on the Post...