The Four Sons, the Glossary
The Four Sons is a Midrash that appears in several places in the literature of the Sages and was established in the Passover Haggadah The Midrash details four types of sons: wise, wicked, simple, and one who does not know how to ask, about whom, according to the Midrash, the Torah spoke, in the commandment to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt, and divided the types of answers, suitable for each one of them.[1]
Table of Contents
15 relations: Afikoman, Chesed, Gevurah, Haggadah, Jerusalem Talmud, Kabbalah, Malkuth, Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael, Midrash, Naomi Shemer, Passover, Sefirot, The Exodus, Tiferet, Torah.
- Haggadah of Pesach
- Quartets
Afikoman
Afikoman (Mishnaic Hebrew: אֲפִיקִימוֹן ʾăpîqîmôn;So spelled and vocalized in de Rossi 138 (Parma A) and Kaufmann A50; also spelled אפיקמון in the Cambridge manuscript and by Joseph Ashkenazi (as cited by Adeni). Modern pronunciation: אֲפִיקוֹמָן ʾăpîqômān) based on Greek epikomon or epikomion, meaning "that which comes after" or "dessert"), a word originally having the connotation of "refreshments eaten after the meal", is now almost strictly associated with the half-piece of matzo which is broken in two during the early stages of the Passover Seder and set aside to be eaten as a dessert after the meal.
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Chesed
(חֶסֶד, also Romanized) is a Hebrew word that means 'kindness or love between people', specifically of the devotional piety of people towards God as well as of love or mercy of God towards humanity.
Gevurah
Gevurah or Geburah (Gəvūrā, Tiberian: Găḇūrā, lit. 'strength'), is the fifth sephirah in the kabbalistic Tree of Life, and it is the second of the emotive attributes of the sephirot.
Haggadah
The Haggadah (הַגָּדָה, "telling"; plural: Haggadot) is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. The Four Sons and Haggadah are Haggadah of Pesach.
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Jerusalem Talmud
The Jerusalem Talmud (translit, often for short) or Palestinian Talmud, also known as the Talmud of the Land of Israel, is a collection of rabbinic notes on the second-century Jewish oral tradition known as the Mishnah.
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Kabbalah
Kabbalah or Qabalah (קַבָּלָה|Qabbālā|reception, tradition) is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism.
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Malkuth
Malkuth (translit "kingdom"; Ashkenazi: Malkhus), Malkhut, Malkhuth, or Malchus, is the tenth of the sefirot in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael
The Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael (מְכִילְתָּא דְּרַבִּי יִשְׁמָעֵאל IPA, "a collection of rules of interpretation") is midrash halakha to the Book of Exodus.
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Midrash
Midrash (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. מִדְרָשׁ; מִדְרָשִׁים or midrashot) is expansive Jewish Biblical exegesis using a rabbinic mode of interpretation prominent in the Talmud.
Naomi Shemer
Naomi Shemer (נעמי שמר; July 13, 1930 – June 26, 2004) was a leading Israeli musician and songwriter, hailed as the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry." Her song "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" ("Jerusalem of Gold"), written in 1967, became an unofficial second anthem after Israel won the Six-Day War that year and reunited Jerusalem.
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Passover
Passover, also called Pesach, is a major Jewish holidayand one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals.
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Sefirot
Sefirot (translit, Tiberian), meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein Sof ("infinite space") reveals itself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain of higher metaphysical realms (Seder hishtalshelus).
The Exodus
The Exodus (Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm) is the founding myth of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy).
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Tiferet
Tiferet (תִּפְאֶרֶת Tip̄ʾereṯ, in pausa: תִּפְאָרֶת Tip̄ʾāreṯ, lit. 'beauty, glory, adornment') alternatively Tifaret, Tiphareth, Tifereth or Tiphereth, is the sixth sefira in the kabbalistic Tree of Life.
Torah
The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
See also
Haggadah of Pesach
- 1609 Venice Haggadah
- Amsterdam Haggadah
- Birds' Head Haggadah
- Echad Mi Yodea
- Golden Haggadah
- Ha Lachma Anya
- Haggadah
- L'Shana Haba'ah
- Maxwell House Haggadah
- Rylands Haggadah
- Sarajevo Haggadah
- Szyk Haggadah
- The Four Sons
- The Haggada of the Jewish Idea
- Washington Haggadah
Quartets
- Banana Boat Team
- Big Four (Central Pacific Railroad)
- Big Four (Najaf)
- Big Four (World War I)
- Big Four (debutantes)
- Big Four Conference
- Big Four career statistics
- Big Four of Maryland Thoroughbred racing
- Bonanza Kings
- Bridgewater Four
- Elemental
- Fifth Circuit Four
- Floksmenn
- Four Bandits
- Four Beauties
- Four Chaplains
- Four Great Men of Kokugaku
- Four Heavenly Kings
- Four Hitokiri of the Bakumatsu
- Four Holy Beasts
- Four Horsemen (American football)
- Four Horsemen (Supreme Court)
- Four Lords of the Warring States
- Four Masters of the Ming dynasty
- Four Masters of the Yuan dynasty
- Four Paragons of the Early Tang
- Four Sisters of Charity
- Four Wangs
- Gang of Four
- Gang of Four (Harlem)
- Gold Four
- Jersey Girls
- NEA Four
- Oarsome Foursome
- Quadrumvirs
- Quartet
- Quietly Confident Quartet
- Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
- The Big Four (Calgary)
- The Flying Culinary Circus
- The Four Greats
- The Four Musketeers (tennis)
- The Four Sons
- The Four Winds (Mesopotamian)
- The Hollow Men (comedy troupe)
- The Saint Patrick's Day Four
- The Tenderloins