given_name moshe ben mordechai galante
Passover or Pesach ( from Hebrew " Pesah , Pesakh ", Assyrian ;      " piskha "), is ___MASK11___ important , biblically derived Jewish holiday . The Jewish people celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by God from slavery in Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of ___MASK56___ . It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible especially in the Book of Exodus , in which the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt . According to standard biblical chronology , this event would have taken place at about 1300 BCE ( AM 2450 ). Safed (" Tsfat ", Ashkenazi : " Tzfas ", Biblical : "  ' fath " " afad ") is a city in the Northern District of ___MASK60___ . Located at ___MASK11___ elevation of , Safed is the highest city in the Galilee and in ___MASK60___ . Due to its high elevation , Safed experiences warm summers and cold , often snowy , winters . Since the 16th century , Safed has been considered one of Judaism ' s Four Holy Cities , along with Jerusalem , Hebron and Tiberias ; since that time , the city has remained a center of Kabbalah , also known as Jewish mysticism . The Book of ___MASK74___ , also known in Hebrew as " the Scroll " (" Megillah "), is a book in the third section (" Ketuvim ", " Writings ") of the Jewish " Tanakh " ( the Hebrew Bible ) and in the Christian Old Testament . It relates the story of a Hebrew woman in Persia , born as Hadassah but known as ___MASK74___ , who becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people . The story forms the core of the Jewish festival of Purim , during which it is read aloud twice : once in the evening and again the following morning . ___MASK74___ is the only book in the Bible that does not explicitly mention God . The Exodus ( from Greek  " exodos ", " going out ") is the founding , or etiological , myth of ___MASK60___ ; its message is that the Israelites were delivered from slavery by Yahweh and therefore belong to him through the Mosaic covenant . It tells of the enslavement of the Israelites in Egypt following the death of Joseph , their departure under the leadership of ___MASK56___ , the revelations at Sinai ( including the Ten Commandments ), and their wanderings in the wilderness up to the borders of Canaan . The exodus story is told in the books of Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers , and Deuteronomy , and their overall intent was to demonstrate God ' s actions in history , to recall ___MASK60___ ' s bondage and salvation , and to demonstrate the fulfillment of ___MASK60___ ' s covenant . Psychology is the study of behavior and mind , embracing all aspects of conscious and unconscious experience as well as thought . It is ___MASK11___ academic discipline and a social science which seeks to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases . In this field , a professional or researcher is called a psychologist and can be classified as a social , behavioral , or cognitive scientist . Psychologists attempt to understand the role of mental functions in individual and social behavior , while also exploring the physiological and biological processes that underlie cognitive functions and behaviors . Psychologists explore behavior and mental processes , including perception , cognition , attention , emotion ( affect ), intelligence , phenomenology , motivation ( conation ), brain functioning , and personality . This extends to interaction between people , such as interpersonal relationships , including psychological resilience , family resilience , and other areas . Psychologists of diverse orientations also consider the unconscious mind . Psychologists employ empirical methods to infer causal and correlational relationships between psychosocial variables . In addition , or in opposition , to employing empirical and deductive methods , some  especially clinical and counseling psychologists  at times rely upon symbolic interpretation and other inductive techniques . Psychology has been described as a " hub science ", with psychological findings linking to research and perspectives from the social sciences , natural sciences , medicine , humanities , and philosophy . While psychological knowledge is often applied to the assessment and treatment of mental health problems , it is also directed towards understanding and solving problems in several spheres of human activity . By many accounts psychology ultimately aims to benefit society . The majority of psychologists are involved in some kind of therapeutic role , practicing in clinical , counseling , or school settings . Many do scientific research on a wide range of topics related to mental processes and behavior , and typically work in university psychology departments or teach in other academic settings ( e . g ., medical schools , hospitals ). Some are employed in industrial and organizational settings , or in other areas such as human development and aging , sports , health , and the media , as well as in forensic investigation and other aspects of law . The Four Holy Cities is the collective term in Jewish tradition applied to the cities of Jerusalem , Hebron , Safed and , later , Tiberias , the four main centers of Jewish life after the Ottoman conquest of ___MASK60___ . The " holy cities " concept dates to the 1640s , with Tiberias joining in 1740 , resulting from the creation of ___MASK11___ association between the cities for the collection of halukka ( funds for the needy ). The Tanakh ( or ; also " Tenakh ", " Tenak ", " Tanach ") or Mikra or Hebrew Bible is the canonical collection of Jewish texts , which is also a textual source for the ___MASK17___ Old Testament . These texts are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew , with some passages in Biblical Aramaic ( in the books of Daniel , ___MASK82___ and a few others ). The traditional Hebrew text is known as the Masoretic Text . The Tanakh consists of twenty - four books . ___MASK96___ ben Mordechai Galante ( Hebrew :      ) ( d . 1608 in Safed ) , was a 16th - century rabbi . He was a disciple of ___MASK38___ Caro , and was ordained by Caro when he was only twenty - two years old . He wrote sermons for a wedding , for Passover , and for a thanksgiving service , printed with the younger Obadiah Bertinoro ' s commentary on the Book of ___MASK74___ ( Venice , 1585 ) . He also wrote Mifta ha - Zohar , ___MASK11___ index of Biblical passages found in the Zohar and additions from old manuscripts ( ib . 1566 ) , Kehillat Ya ' aob , a cabalistic commentary on Ecclesiastes ( ib . 1577 - 78 ) , and responsa with additions by his son Jedidiah Galante ( ib . 1608 ) . Galilee ( transliteration " HaGalil " translit . " ___MASK22___ - Jall ") is a region in northern ___MASK60___ . Traditionally refers to the mountainous part and divided into Upper Galilee (" Galil Elyon ") and Lower Galilee (" Galil Tahton "). In the modern common usage , Galilee refers to all of the Israeli area that is beyond Mount Carmel to the northeast , extending from Dan to the north , at the base of Mount ___MASK24___ , along Mount Lebanon to the ridges of Mount Carmel and Mount Gilboa north of Jenin to the south , and from the Jordan Rift Valley to the east across the plains of the Jezreel Valley and Acre to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the coastal plain in the west , including Beth Shean ' s valley , Sea of Galilee ' s valley , and Hula Valley , although practically it usually does not include Haifa ' s immediate northern suburbs . By this definition it overlaps with much of the administrative Northern District of the country ( which also includes the Golan Heights and part of Menashe Heights but not Qiryat Tiv ' on ). Western Galilee (" Galil Ma ' aravi ") is a common term referring to the western part of the Upper Galilee and its shore , and usually also the northwestern part of the Lower Galilee , mostly overlapping with Acre sub district . Galilee Panhandle is a common term referring to the Israeli " panhandle " in the east that extends to the north , where Lebanon is to the west , and includes Hula Valley and Ramot Naftali mountains of the Upper Galilee . Historically , the part of Southern Lebanon south of the east - west section of the Litani River also belonged to the region of Galilee , but the present article mainly deals with the Israeli part of the region . Etymology . The region ' s Israelite name is from the Hebrew root " galil ", an ultimately unique word for " district ", and usually " circle ". The Hebrew form used in Isaiah 8 : 23 ( or 9 : 1 in different Biblical versions ) is in the construct state , "" g ' lil hagoyim "", meaning " Galilee of the Nations ", i . e . the part of Galilee inhabited by Gentiles at the time that the book was written . Judaism ( from , derived from Greek , originally from Hebrew , " Yehudah ", " Judah "; in Hebrew : , " Yahadut ", the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos ) encompasses the religion , philosophy , culture and way of life of the Jewish people . Judaism is ___MASK11___ ancient monotheistic religion , with the Torah as its foundational text ( part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible ), and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud . Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship that God established with the Children of Israel . With between 14 . 5 and 17 . 4 million adherents worldwide , Judaism is the tenth - largest religion in the world . Rabbinic literature , in its broadest sense , ___MASK6___ mean the entire spectrum of rabbinic writings throughout Jewish history . However , the term often refers specifically to literature from the Talmudic ___MASK27___ , as opposed to medieval and modern rabbinic writing , and thus corresponds with the Hebrew term Sifrut Hazal (" Literature [ of our ] sages ," where " Hazal " normally refers " only " to the sages of the Talmudic ___MASK27___ ). This more specific sense of " Rabbinic literature " referring to the Talmudim , Midrash , and related writings , but hardly ever to later texts  is how the term is generally intended when used in contemporary academic writing . On the other hand , the terms " meforshim " and " parshanim " ( commentaries / commentators ) almost always refer to later , post - Talmudic writers of Rabbinic glosses on Biblical and Talmudic texts . ___MASK74___ , born Hadassah , is the eponymous heroine of the Book of ___MASK74___ . ___MASK56___ (' ' '; " Moushe "; '; "" in both the Septuagint and the New Testament ) is a prophet in Abrahamic religions . According to the Hebrew Bible , he was a former Egyptian prince who later in life became a religious leader and lawgiver , to whom the authorship of the Torah , or acquisition of the Torah from Heaven is traditionally attributed . Also called " Moshe Rabbenu " in Hebrew (" lit ." " ___MASK56___ our Teacher "), he is the most important prophet in Judaism . He is also an important prophet in Christianity , Islam , Bahá ' í Faith as well as a number of other faiths . Hebrew Bible or Hebrew Scriptures is the term used by biblical scholars to refer to the " Tanakh ", the canonical collection of Jewish texts , which is the common textual source of several canonical editions of the ___MASK17___ Old Testament . They are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew , with some passages in Biblical Aramaic ( in the books of Daniel , ___MASK82___ and a few others ). Purim ( Hebrew : " Pûrîm " " lots ", from the word " pur ", related to Akkadian : " pru ") is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman , who was planning to kill all the Jews . This took place in the ancient Persian Empire . The story is recorded in the Biblical Book of ___MASK74___ (" Megillat Ester " in Hebrew ). Jerusalem , is a city located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea . One of the oldest cities in the world , Jerusalem was named as "" Urusalima "" on ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets , probably meaning " City of Shalem " after a Canaanite deity , during the early Canaanite period ( approximately 2400 BCE ). During the Israelite period , significant construction activity in Jerusalem began in the 9th century BCE ( Iron ___MASK53___ II ), and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative center of the Kingdom of Judah . It is considered a holy city in the three major Abrahamic religions of Judaism , Christianity and Islam . The Torah (" instruction , teaching "), or in Christianity , the Pentateuch (" five books "), is the central reference of the religious Judaic tradition . It has a range of meanings . It ___MASK6___ most specifically mean the first five books of the twenty - four books of the Tanakh , and it usually includes the rabbinic commentaries ('). The term " Torah " means instruction and offers a way of life for those who follow it ; it ___MASK6___ mean the continued narrative from Book of Genesis to the end of the Tanakh , and it ___MASK6___ even mean the totality of Jewish teaching , culture and practice . Common to all these meanings , Torah consists of the foundational narrative of Jewish peoplehood : their call into being by God , their trials and tribulations , and their covenant with their God , which involves following a way of life embodied in a ___MASK50___ of moral and religious obligations and civil laws ('). In monotheism , God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and principal object of ___MASK30___ . The concept of God as described by most theologians includes the attributes of omniscience ( infinite knowledge ), omnipotence ( unlimited power ), omnipresence ( present everywhere ), divine simplicity , and as having ___MASK11___ eternal and necessary existence . Many theologians also describe God as being omnibenevolent ( perfectly good ) and all loving . Ecclesiastes ( Greek :  , " Ekklsiasts ", , " Kohelet ", " Qoheleth ") is one of 24 books of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible , where it is classified as one of the " Ketuvim " ( or " Writings "). It is among the canonical Wisdom Books in the Old Testament of most denominations of Christianity . The title " Ecclesiastes " is a Latin transliteration of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Kohelet ( meaning " Gatherer ", but traditionally translated as " Teacher " or " Preacher "), the pseudonym used by the author of the book . Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people ( usually defined as ___MASK11___ ethnic , national , racial , or religious group ) in whole or in part . The hybrid word " genocide " is a combination of the Greek word " génos " (" race , people ") and the Latin suffix "- cide " (" act of killing "). The United Nations Genocide Convention defines genocide as " acts committed with intent to destroy , in whole or in part , a national , ethnic , racial or religious group ". In Judaism , a rabbi is a teacher of Torah . This title derives from the Hebrew word ' , meaning " ___MASK62___ Master " ( irregular plural ' ), which is the way a student would address a master of Torah . The word " master " "" literally means " great one ". Tiberias (" Tveria ", " Tabariyyah "; Ancient Greek :  , " Tiberias ") is ___MASK11___ Israeli city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee . Established around 20 CE , it was named in honour of Emperor Tiberius . In it had a population of . A pseudonym ( and ) or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose , which ___MASK6___ differ from their original or true name ( orthonym ). Pseudonyms include stage names and user names ( both called " screen names "), ring names , pen names , nicknames , aliases , superhero identities and code names , gamer identifications , and regnal names of emperors , popes , and other monarchs . Historically , they have often taken the form of anagrams , Graecisms , and Latinisations , although there ___MASK49___ ___MASK2___ other methods of choosing a pseudonym . The Book of Exodus or , simply , Exodus ( from , " éxodos ", meaning " going out " " Shm ", " Names ", the second word of the beginning of the text : " These ___MASK49___ the names of the sons of ___MASK60___ " ), is the second book of the Torah and the Hebrew Bible ( the Old Testament ). The Zohar ( lit . " Splendor " or " Radiance ") is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah . It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah ( the five books of ___MASK56___ ) and scriptural interpretations as well as material on mysticism , mythical cosmogony , and mystical psychology . The Zohar contains discussions of the nature of God , the origin and structure of the universe , the nature of souls , redemption , the relationship of Ego to Darkness and " true self " to " The Light of God ", and the relationship between the " universal energy " and man . Its scriptural exegesis can be considered an esoteric form of the Rabbinic literature known as Midrash , which elaborates on the Torah . In Judaism , the midrash ( pl . ') is the genre of rabbinic literature which contains early interpretations and commentaries on the Written Torah and Oral Torah ( spoken law and sermons ), as well as ___MASK16___ - legalistic rabbinic literature (') and occasionally the Jewish religious laws ('), which usually form a running commentary on specific passages in the Hebrew Scripture ('). Hebron is a Palestinian city located in the southern West Bank , south of Jerusalem . Nestled in the Judaean Mountains , it ___MASK55___ 930 meters ( 3 , 050 ft ) above sea level . It is the largest city in the West Bank , and the second largest in the Palestinian territories after Gaza , and home to 215 , 452 Palestinians ( 2016 ), and between 500 and 850 Jewish settlers concentrated in and around the old quarter . The city is divided into two sectors : H1 , controlled by the Palestinian Authority and H2 , roughly 20 % of the city , administered by Israel . All security arrangements and travel permits for local residents are coordinated between the Palestinian Authority and Israel via military administration of the West Bank ( COGAT ). The settlers are governed by their own municipal body , the Committee of the Jewish Community of Hebron . The city is venerated by Jews , Christians , and Muslims for its association with Abraham , containing the traditional burial site of the biblical Patriarchs and Matriarchs , within the Cave of the Patriarchs . In Judaism it is considered the second - holiest city after Jerusalem , while Islam regards it as one of the four holy cities . Academic study of Jewish mysticism , especially since ___MASK88___ Scholem ' s " Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism " ( 1941 ), distinguishes between different forms of mysticism across different eras of Jewish history . Of these , Kabbalah , which emerged in 12th - century Europe , is the most well known , but not the only typologic form , or the earliest to emerge . Among previous forms were Merkabah mysticism ( ___MASK32___ 100 BCE  1000 CE ), and Chassidei Ashkenaz ( early 13th century CE ) around the time of Kabbalistic emergence . ___MASK60___ , officially known as the State of ___MASK60___ , is a country in the Middle East , on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the ___MASK35___ Sea . It has land borders with Lebanon to the north , Syria to the northeast , ___MASK13___ on the east , the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west , respectively , and Egypt to the southwest . The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area . ___MASK60___ ' s financial and technology center is Tel Aviv , while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem , although the state ' s sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem is internationally unrecognized . The Israelites (" Bnei Yisra ' ___MASK10___ ") were a Semitic - speaking people of the ancient Near East , who inhabited a part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods . The ancient Israelites are considered to be ___MASK11___ outgrowth of the indigenous Canaanite populations that long inhabited the Southern Levant , Syria , ancient Israel and the Transjordan . Kabbalah ( literally " receiving / tradition ") is ___MASK11___ esoteric method , discipline , and school of thought that originated in Judaism . A traditional Kabbalist in Judaism is called a " Mekubbal ". The Old Testament is the first section of the ___MASK17___ Bible , based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible ( or Tanakh ), a collection of religious writings by ancient Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God . It is the counterpart to the New Testament , the second portion of the ___MASK17___ Bible . The Old Testament canon varies between ___MASK17___ Churches . Protestants have a version with 39 books . Catholics have a version with 46 books , and Eastern Orthodox , and Oriental Orthodox Churches choose the Old Testament version with 49 books .