Gadol or godol (גדול, plural: gedolim גדולים) (literally "big" or "great" in Hebrew) is used by religious Jews to refer to the most revered rabbis of...
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Tallit (section Tallit gadol)
alone, usually refers to the tallit gadol. There are different traditions regarding the age from which a tallit gadol is used, even within Orthodox Judaism...
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HaMakhtesh HaGadol (Hebrew: הַמַּכְתֵּשׁ הַגָּדוֹל, lit. The Big Crater) or simply Makhtesh HaGadol or Makhtesh Gadol, is a makhtesh, a geological erosional...
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Kamatz (redirect from Kamatz gadol)
doubled); The qamatz sound of [a], known as Qamatz Gadol (Hebrew: קָמַץ גָּדוֹל [kaˈmats ɡaˈdol], "big qamatz") occurs in an "open syllable", i.e. any...
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High Priest of Israel (redirect from Cohen Gadol)
Judaism, the High Priest of Israel (Hebrew: כהן גדול, romanized: Kohen Gadol, lit. 'great priest'; Aramaic: Kahana Rabba) was the head of the Israelite...
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Zakef Gadol (Hebrew: זָקֵף גָּדוֹל, with variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark that is commonly found in the Torah and Haftarah. It is represented...
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Special Shabbat (redirect from Shabbat Ha-gadol)
by months). Shabbat HaGadol ("Great Shabbat" שבת הגדול) is the Shabbat immediately before Passover. The first Shabbat HaGadol took place in Egypt on...
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Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol is a professor of clinical neurological surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. In 2007, Cohen founded the Neurosurgical Atlas...
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Honorifics in Judaism (redirect from Gadol Hador)
There are a number of honorifics in Judaism that vary depending on the status of, and the relationship to, the person to whom one is referring. Ḥasīd is...
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in Jerusalem was standing (from Biblical times through 70 CE), the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) was mandated by the Torah to perform a complex set of special...
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