Yosef Zvi Rimon, the Glossary
Yosef Zvi Rimon (born January 18, 1968) is an Israeli Religious Zionist rabbi, author, lecturer and Posek who serves as rabbi of the Gush Etzion Regional Council and the Ashkenazi Synagogue of Alon Shvut Darom.[1]
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48 relations: Acharonim, Aharon Lichtenstein, Alon Shvut, Armored Corps (Israel), Ashkenazi Jews, Bachelor of Education, Beth midrash, Giv'at Shmuel, Gush Etzion, Gush Etzion Regional Council, Gush Katif, Haggadah, Halakha, Herzog College, Hesder, Israel, Israeli disengagement from Gaza, Israelis, Jerusalem, Jerusalem College of Technology, Jewish state, Kollel, London, Lone soldier, Machzor, Mechina, Migdal Oz (seminary), Mizrachi (religious Zionism), Moskowitz Prize for Zionism, Orthodox Judaism, Posek, Rabbi, Religious Zionism, Rishonim, Rosh yeshiva, Shiur, Shmita, Sifrei Kodesh, Sister school, Talmud, Tank, Tel Aviv, Television show, Yehuda Amital, Yeshivat HaHesder Yerucham, Yeshivat Har Etzion, Yom Kippur, 188th Armored Brigade (Israel).
- Academic staff of Jerusalem College of Technology
- Moskowitz Prize for Zionism laureates
- Orthodox rabbis
- People from Alon Shvut
Acharonim
In Jewish law and history, Acharonim (אחרונים Aḥaronim; sing., Aḥaron; lit. "last ones") are the leading rabbis and poskim (Jewish legal decisors) living from roughly the 16th century to the present, and more specifically since the writing of the Shulchan Aruch (Hebrew:, "Set Table", a code of Jewish law) in 1563 CE.
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Aharon Lichtenstein
Aharon Lichtenstein (May 23, 1933 – April 20, 2015) was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva who was an authority in Jewish law (Halakha). Yosef Zvi Rimon and Aharon Lichtenstein are Israeli Orthodox rabbis.
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Alon Shvut
Alon Shvut (אַלּוֹן שְׁבוּת) is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, established in June 1970 over lands confiscated from the nearby Palestinian town of Khirbet Beit Zakariyyah.
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Armored Corps (Israel)
The Israeli Armored Corps (חֵיל הַשִּׁרְיוֹן, Heil HaShiryon) is a corps of the Israel Defense Forces that, since 1998, has been subordinate to GOC Army Headquarters.
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Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews (translit,; Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.
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Bachelor of Education
A Bachelor of Education (B.Ed. or BEd) is an undergraduate academic degree which prepares students for work as a teacher in schools.
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Beth midrash
A beth midrash (בית מדרש, "House of Learning";: batei midrash), also beis medrash or beit midrash, is a hall dedicated for Torah study, often translated as a "study hall".
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Giv'at Shmuel
Giv'at Shmuel (Samuel's Hill) is a city in the Center District of Israel.
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Gush Etzion
Gush Etzion (גּוּשׁ עֶצְיוֹן, Etzion Bloc) is a cluster of Israeli settlements located in the Judaean Mountains, directly south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the West Bank.
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Gush Etzion Regional Council
The Gush Etzion Regional Council (מועצה אזורית גוש עציון, Mo'atza Azorit Gush Etzion) is a regional council in the northern Judean Hills, the northern part of the southern area of the West Bank, administering the settlements in the Gush Etzion region, as well as others nearby.
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Gush Katif
Gush Katif (lit) was a bloc of 17 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Haggadah
The Haggadah (הַגָּדָה, "telling"; plural: Haggadot) is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder.
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Halakha
Halakha (translit), also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, and halocho, is the collective body of Jewish religious laws that are derived from the Written and Oral Torah.
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Herzog College
Herzog College (מכללת הרצוג, Mikhlelet Herzog) is an Israeli teachers' college with campuses in Jerusalem, Alon Shvut and Migdal Oz.
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Hesder
Hesder (הסדר "arrangement"; also Yeshivat Hesder) is an Israeli yeshiva program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces, usually within a Religious Zionist framework.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
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Israeli disengagement from Gaza
In 2005, 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and four Israeli settlements in the West Bank were unilaterally dismantled.
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Israelis
Israelis (translit; translit) are the citizens and nationals of the State of Israel.
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
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Jerusalem College of Technology
The Jerusalem College of Technology - Lev Academic Center (JCT; המרכז האקדמי לב) is a private college in Israel, recognized by the Council for Higher Education, which specializes in providing high-level science and technology education to the Jewish community.
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Jewish state
In world politics, Jewish state is a characterization of Israel as the nation-state and sovereign homeland of the Jewish people.
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Kollel
A kollel (כולל,,, a "gathering" or "collection") is an institute for full-time, advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Lone soldier
A lone soldier (חַיָּל בּוֹדֵד, Ḥayal Boded) is a member of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who does not have support in Israel, either because they do not have immediate family in Israel or they are estranged from their family in Israel.
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Machzor
The machzor (מחזור, plural machzorim, and, respectively) is the prayer book which is used by Jews on the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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Mechina
A mechina kdam-tzvait (מכינה קדם צבאית; "pre-military preparatory", plural mechinot) is an autonomous unit of specialized educational institutions valuing non-formal education and pre-military training in Israel.
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Migdal Oz (seminary)
Stella K. Abraham Beit Midrash for Women, commonly known as Migdal Oz (בית מדרש לנשים מגדל עז), is an Orthodox Jewish institution of higher Torah study for women located in the Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion in the West Bank.
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Mizrachi (religious Zionism)
The Mizrachi (translit) is a religious Zionist organization founded in 1902 in Vilnius at a world conference of religious Zionists called by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaacov Reines.
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Moskowitz Prize for Zionism
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism, established by Irving and Cherna Moskowitz, is given for activity in realization of Zionism, as it is comprehended by the Moskowitzes.
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Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism.
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Posek
In Jewish law, a posek (פוסק, pl. poskim) is a legal scholar who determines the application of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah, in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists. Yosef Zvi Rimon and posek are authors of books on Jewish law.
Rabbi
A rabbi (רַבִּי|translit.
Religious Zionism
Religious Zionism (Tziyonut Datit) is an ideology that views Zionism as a fundamental component of Orthodox Judaism.
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Rishonim
Rishonim (the first ones; sing. ראשון, Rishon) were the leading rabbis and poskim who lived approximately during the 11th to 15th centuries, in the era before the writing of the Shulchan Aruch (שׁוּלחָן עָרוּך, "Set Table", a common printed code of Jewish law, 1563 CE) and following the Geonim (589–1038 CE).
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Rosh yeshiva
Rosh yeshiva (ראש ישיבה, pl. ראשי ישיבה,; Anglicized pl. rosh yeshivas) is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and the Torah, and halakha (Jewish law).
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Shiur
Shiur (lit. amount;: shiurim) is a lecture on any Torah topic – such as Gemara, Mishnah, Halakha (Jewish law), Tanakh (Bible) – usually in a yeshiva, although commonly in other settings.
Shmita
The sabbath year (shmita; שמיטה, literally "release"), also called the sabbatical year or shǝvi'it (literally "seventh"), or "Sabbath of The Land", is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah in the Land of Israel and is observed in Judaism.
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Sifrei Kodesh
Sifrei Kodesh (Holy books), commonly referred to as sefarim (books), or in its singular form, sefer, are books of Jewish religious literature and are viewed by religious Jews as sacred.
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Sister school
A sister school is usually a pair of schools, usually single-sex school, one with female students and the other with male students.
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Talmud
The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.
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Tank
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat.
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.
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Television show
A television show, TV program, or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is traditionally broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable.
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Yehuda Amital
Yehuda Amital (יהודה עמיטל, born Yehuda Klein; 31 October 1924 – 9 July 2010) was an Orthodox rabbi, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, and a member of the Israeli cabinet. Yosef Zvi Rimon and Yehuda Amital are Israeli Orthodox rabbis, Jewish military personnel and religious Zionist Orthodox rabbis.
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Yeshivat HaHesder Yerucham
Yeshiva Yerucham Yeshivat Hesder Yerucham is a hesder yeshiva located in the development town of Yeruham, Israel.
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Yeshivat Har Etzion
Yeshivat Har Etzion (YHE), commonly known in English as "Gush" and in Hebrew as "Yeshivat HaGush", is a hesder yeshiva located in Alon Shvut, in Gush Etzion.
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Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur (יוֹם כִּפּוּר) is the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
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188th Armored Brigade (Israel)
The 188th "Barak" (Lightning) Armored Brigade is an Israeli armoured brigade, subordinate to Israel's Northern Regional Command.
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See also
Academic staff of Jerusalem College of Technology
- Boris Mavashev
- Cyril Domb
- David Bannett
- Meier Schwarz
- Noah Dana-Picard
- Shlomo Eitan
- Yehuda (Leo) Levi
- Yosef Zvi Rimon
- Zalman Nechemia Goldberg
- Zeʼev Lev
Moskowitz Prize for Zionism laureates
- Aharon Davidi
- Binyamin Elon
- Caroline Glick
- Gabriel Barkay
- Hanan Porat
- Meir Dagan
- Moshe Arens
- Moshe Levinger
- Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
- Ran Ronen-Pekker
- Yehuda Harel
- Yehudah Glick
- Yigal Cohen-Orgad
- Yoel Schwartz
- Yosef Zvi Rimon
Orthodox rabbis
- Aaron Lopiansky
- Abraham Ragoler
- Abraham ben Gedaliah Tiktin
- Amnon Haramati
- Ari Berman
- Daniel Fridman (rabbi)
- Dov Koppelman
- Gedaliah Anemer
- Igud HaRabbonim
- James Kennard
- Joshua Berman
- Leib Weissberg
- Mashgiach ruchani
- Osher Weiss
- Rapoport-Bick (rabbinic dynasty)
- Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
- Shalom Berger
- Shimon Agassi
- Shlomo Moussaieff (rabbi)
- Shneur Odze
- Solomon Eger
- Yehuda Gershuni
- Yehuda Gilad (politician)
- Yosef Haim HaCohen
- Yosef Zvi Rimon
- Zera Shimshon
People from Alon Shvut
- Efrat Ungar
- Yosef Zvi Rimon