• Amram Qorah (27 May 1871 – 3 October 1952) (Hebrew: עמרם קורח; עמראן קירח) was the last Chief Rabbi in Yemen, assuming this role in 1934, after the death...
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  • Jerusalem 1983, pp. 212;256; 278 (ISBN 965-235-011-7). Goitein, citing Amram Qorah, says that the title was strictly reserved unto those who had procured...
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    Al-Naddaf (1866–1940) Yosef Qafih (1917–2000) Yiḥyah Qafiḥ (1850–1931) Amram Qorah (1871–1952) Mordechai Sharabi (1908–1994) Maharitz (Yihya Salah) (1713–1805)...
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    Qorah, Amram (1954). Sa'arat Teman (in Hebrew) (1 ed.). Jerusalem. OCLC 233330667.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Qorah,...
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  • to change over to the Spanish-rite. Concerning this troublesome time, Amram Qorah writes: "Then were those Rabbis awakened who had always prayed in the...
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    former members had mostly perished in the famine of 1905. He appointed Amram Qaruḥ (Qoraḥ) and Hayim Mishreqi. The Rabbi, following the practice of the early...
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    Korah (redirect from Qorah)
    Korah (Hebrew: קֹרַח‎ Qōraḥ; Arabic: قارون Qārūn), son of Izhar, is an individual who appears in the Biblical Book of Numbers of the Old Testament (Hebrew...
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    section 34: כל עמא יפלגון מצוה = "let every person distribute charity." Amram Qorah, Sa’arat Teiman, Jerusalem 1988, p. 113; in 1954 edition, p. 132 (in...
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    notable of which being that of the last Chief Rabbi of Yemen, Rabbi Amram Qorah. By a comparative study, the Yemenite tradition in plene and defective...
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  • were fully grown." One more account is dated to 1850. Jewish scholar Amram Qorah recalls a story about his orphaned father, who was hidden by a Jewish...
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  • and נקדישך. Amram Gaon (1971) Sefer Ha-Zohar (with Ha-Sulam commentary), vol. 8 (P. Pinḥas), section # 569), London 1975, p. 219. Qorah, A. (1987), p...
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    failures of the school, according to Yemen's last Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Amram Qorah, was that by teaching the Turkish language, their study of Hebrew suffered...
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    Teman”, the Jewish life in Yemen, eclipsing even the renowned works of Amram Qorah and ethnographer, Yaakov Sapir. He published several works of Yemenite...
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  • 173 Iraqi ha-Cohen, Yosef, ed. (1999), pp. 34-36 So explained by Rabbi Amram Qorah, in his commentary, Alamoth Shir, on the Diwan, although T. Carmi, in...
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  • perhaps the most renowned of his liturgical poems. Yemenite Jewish poetry Amram Qorah, Saʻarath Teiman, Jerusalem 1987, p. 5 Called also maḥbereth, or “word...
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    Zekhor Le’Avraham (ed. Uzziel Alnaddaf), Jerusalem 1992, p. 55 (Hebrew). Amram Qorah, Sa'arath Teman, Jerusalem 1988, pp. 30, 44–45. A town situated four-hours'...
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    of the Yemen 1800–1914, Philadelphia 1991, p. 84. ISBN 3-7186-5041-X Amram Qorah, Sa'arat Teiman, Jerusalem 1988, pp. 53–55 (Hebrew). Shelomo Dov Goitein...
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  • Playfair, A History of Arabia Felix or Yemen. Bombay 1859, p. 152. Amram Qorah, Sa'arat Teman, Jerusalem 1988, p. 30. Caesar E, Farah, The Sultan's...
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  • نُوح Noach / Noah Nóaḥ נוֹחַ Noah Νῶε Qarūn / Qūraḥ قارون / قورح Kórakh Qōraḥ קֹרַח Korah Rāḥīl راحيل Rakhél Raḥel רָחֵל Rachel Ραχήλ Ṣafnīyā صفنيا Tzfanya...
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    defense of the tradition of eating grasshoppers in Yemen was Rabbi Yihye Qoraḥ (1840–1881), one of the last of Yemen’s sages. (Original Hebrew: (עמ' 85)...
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    Korach or Korah (Hebrew: קֹרַח Qoraḥ—the name "Korah," which in turn means baldness, ice, hail, or frost, the second word, and the first distinctive word...
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  • the preface to the Tiklāl Qadmonim copied by the Yemenite scribe Shalom Qorah in 1938, he notes: "Be apprised that the Baladi-rite prayer books (Arabic...
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