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Zedekiah. Zedekiah [a] ( / zɛdɪˈkaɪə /) was the twentieth and final King of Judah before the conquest of the kingdom by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon. His birth name was Mattaniah/Mattanyahu ( Hebrew: מַתַּנְיָהוּ, Mattanyāhū, "Gift of God "; Greek: Μαθθανίας; Latin: Matthanias ). After the siege of Jerusalem in 597 ...
The Jubilee ( Hebrew: יובל yōḇel; Yiddish: yoyvl) is the year that follows the passage of seven “weeks of years” (seven cycles of sabbatical years, or 49 total years). This fiftieth year [1] deals largely with land, property, and property rights. According to regulations found in the Book of Leviticus, certain indentured servants ...
The return to Zion ( Hebrew: שִׁיבָת צִיּוֹן or שבי ציון, Shivat Tzion or Shavei Tzion, lit. ' Zion returnees') is an event recorded in Ezra–Nehemiah of the Hebrew Bible, in which the Jews of the Kingdom of Judah —subjugated by the Neo-Babylonian Empire —were freed from the Babylonian captivity following the Persian ...
t. e. Laws and customs of the Land of Israel in Judaism are those Jewish laws that apply only to the Land of Israel. These include the commandments dependent on the Land ( Hebrew: מצוות התלויות בארץ; translit. Mitzvot Ha'teluyot Be'aretz ), as well as various customs.
The Eretz Israel Yeshiva or The Land of the Zvi Yeshiva ( Hebrew: ישיבת ארץ ישראל) was the chief Jewish talmudical academy and central legalistic body of the Jewish community in the Land of Israel during the middle of the ninth century, or even earlier, until its demise in the 11th century. During its existence, it competed with ...
According to the Book of Ezra, the Persian Cyrus the Great ended the Babylonian exile in 538 BCE, the year after he captured Babylon. The exile ended with the return under Zerubbabel the Prince (so-called because he was a descendant of the royal line of David) and Joshua the Priest (a descendant of the line of the former High Priests of the Temple) and their construction of the Second Temple ...
The Hebrew calendar ( Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי, romanized : HaLuah HaIvri ), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such as yahrzeits and the schedule of public ...
Of these, about 680,000 settled in Israel. Israel's Jewish population continued to grow at a very high rate for years, fed by waves of Jewish immigration from round the world, including the massive immigration wave of Soviet Jews, who arrived in Israel in the early 1990s, according to the Law of Return. Some 380,000 Jewish immigrants from the ...