Word: shem
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...fallen sparks of the eternal were trapped in every aspect of our mundane existence. It is every human's duty, through good works, prayer and mystical contemplation, to raise the sparks back up to the Godhead and repair the world. In the 18th century, the reformer Ba'al Shem Tov's populist twist on this once secret tradition--that every humble act can be a celebration of God's immanent presence--became the heart of his own ecstatic orthodoxy, Hasidism...
McKissic said that all humanity is descended from Noah and his three sons: Ham, Shem and Japheth. Ham and Japheth were ancestors of Africans and Europeans, while Shem's descendants became the Semites, he said...