Claim

1. Many Arabic nomad tribes still claim they descended from Shem. (Web site)
2. According to R. Mazuz, Efodi and Shem Tov misunderstood Maimonides here, and if he was alluding to what they claim, he would have written fish, not frog. (Web site)

Father

1. Many legends are told about Eliezer, the father of the Baal Shem Tov. (Web site)

Medieval Europe

1. In Medieval Europe, all Asian peoples were thought of as descendants of Shem. (Web site)

Israelites

1. Of these, Shem, (probably the eldest, although the point is obscure), is destined to become the ancestor of God's chosen people, the Israelites.

Rashi

1. Subsequently, great rabbis such as Rashi, the Maharal of Prague, and the Baal Shem Tov were all considered to be from the Davidic line by Orthodox Judaism. (Web site)

Name

1. Many of the Jewish sages taught that the word translated "Name" (shem) powerfully refers to the character or reputation of the one who bears it. (Web site)
2. All subsequent leaders of Hasidism trace their lineage in direct descent from the Baal Shem (which means "master of the good Name [i.e., Name of God]". (Web site)

Baal Shem Tov

1. According to the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, Baal Shem Tov used to say, that God is all and all is God. (Web site)
2. Not many people with this title have been recorded (outside of the Baal Shem Tov, the Baal Shem of Michelstadt was one example) and none have it today.
3. The Baal Shem Tov witnessed Frank's public apostasy (shmad in Hebrew) to Christianity, which compounded Zevi's earlier apostasy to Islam.

G-D

1. Kabbala teaches -- and the Baal Shem Tov expounds on this teaching -- that we are never alone, G-d is always with us.

God

1. Adam was aware of the existence of God, as was Noah, and Shem and Ever.
2. The Greeks knew of the God of Shem because the Hebrews, a Semitic people, dwelt among them.
3. The Baal Shem Tov maintained that real service to God consists of prayer, rather than Torah study, because everyone can do the former, but not the latter.

Assyrians

1. It is significant that Asshur, father of the Assyrians, and Arphaxad, whose line Abraham descended from, both came from Shem. (Web site)

Son

1. The history of the kingdom of Lydia, settled heavily by the children of Lud, son of Shem, has been lost. (Web site)

Ham

1. In this way the power of Ham becomes harnessed in the service of the G-d of Shem. (Web site)
2. The children of Shem had in general Asia as their portion; Japhet had Europe; and Ham, Africa.

Canaan

1. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. (Web site)
2. As was shown, Shem lived 98 years before the flood, 502 years after the flood, and 75 years after Abraham entered Canaan.

Sons

1. And the world was so divided to the sons of Noah, that Shem occupied the East, Japhet the West, and Ham the intermediate parts. (Web site)
2. Jews and Arabs consider themselves to be sons of Shem (thus, Semites), although they dispute whether Isaac or Ishmael was the legitimate son of Abraham.
3. Udel, the only daughter of the Baal Shem Tov (in addition to his two sons), married one of her father's disciples, Rabbi Yechiel Ashkenazi. (Web site)

Descendants

1. The descendants of Shem include many sons of Joktan, son of Heber, and a number of the sons of Mash, son of Aram.
2. As already established, the Canaanites, although a forbidden lineage, were descendants of Ham, the brother of Shem who was a progenitor of the Israelites. (Web site)
3. The Canaanite slave had rebelled: the Canaanites were occupying the land destined for the descendants of Shem. (Web site)

Abraham

1. Rashi mentions that the Canaanites were seizing land from the sons of Shem in the days of Abraham.
2. According to one Jewish mythology and tradition, Jerusalem was founded by Shem and Ever, ancestors of Abraham. (Web site)
3. Six generations after Heber, Abram (Abraham) was born, so Abraham was both a Hebrew and a Semite, born of the line of Heber and Shem. (Web site)

Noah

1. In the book of Chronography, however, (the author) affirms and says that he was of the seed of Shem the son of Noah.
2. Elam (1) was a son of Shem, and grandson of Noah, the supposed ancestor of the Elamites. (Web site)
3. Incidently 'Adnan and Qhattan were brothers and the decendents of Sam (Shem in Hebrew and in the Bible) son of Nuh (Noah).

Jewish Tradition

1. According to one Jewish tradition, Jerusalem was founded by Shem and Eber, ancestors of Abraham.
2. In Jewish tradition, Canaan was the son of Ham who with his descendents had seized the land from the descendents of Shem according to the Book of Jubilees.

Melchizedek

1. In the biblical account, when first mentioned, Jerusalem (known as "Salem") is ruled by Melchizedek, an ally of Abraham (identified with Shem in legend).
2. According to Genesis 14:18, "Salem" was ruled by Melchizedek, a priest of God -- in some traditions, identical with Shem.

Shem

1. It derived its name apparently from Asshur, the son of Shem, (Genesis 10:22) who in later times was worshipped by the Assyrians as their chief god. (Web site)
2. In Genesis it was ruled by Melchizedek, regarded in Jewish tradition as being a priest of God and identical to Shem. (Web site)
3. According to the author of the tenth chapter of Genesis, the Assyrians are the descendants of Assur (Asshur) one of the sons of Sem (Shem -- Gen., x, 22). (Web site)

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