• Look up herem in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Herem may refer to: Herem (censure), expulsion from the Jewish community Herem (war or property), a belief...
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    Herem (Hebrew: חֵרֶם ḥērem) is the highest ecclesiastical censure in the Jewish community. It is the total exclusion of a person from the Jewish community...
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    Herem or cherem (Hebrew: חרם, ḥērem), as used in the Tanakh, means something given over to the Lord, or under a ban, and sometimes refers to things or...
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    Martin Herem (born 17 December 1973) is an Estonian general and was the Commander of the Estonian Defence Forces from 2018 to 2024. Herem entered into...
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  • Gershom ben Judah, (c. 960–1040) best known as Rabbeinu Gershom (Hebrew: רבנו גרשום, "Our teacher Gershom") and also commonly known to scholars of Rabbinic...
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    Armand Marc, Count of Montmorin de Saint Herem (13 October 1745 – 2 September 1792) was a French statesman. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs and the...
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  • In the Tanakh, the term herem (Hebrew חֵרֶם ḥêrem) is used, among other meanings, for an object or real property to be devoted to God, with God authorizing...
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  • Louis Victoire Lux de Montmorin-Saint-Hérem (1762–1792) was a French military man who was impaled to death during the September Massacres of the French...
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  • meaning something offered to a divinity, to render the Hebrew word חרם (herem). The word appears in verses such as Leviticus 27:28 to refer to things...
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  • preparatory to rebuilding, or a preparation for final destruction under the herem ritual. Various Hittite and Assyrian texts speak of ceremonially strewing...
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  • "set aside", thus being the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew concept חרם (ḥērem) and the concept of sacer (cf. sacred) in Roman law and religion. In Islamic...
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    the Semitic root ḥrm, which means "taboo" or "consecrated", as in Hebrew ḥerem (in several contexts: property, priestly gift and censure), and in the Arabic...
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    of the foreign practice of ḥērem from its source in the surrounding Near Eastern nations.": 396  The early usage of herem indicates that the Israelites...
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    such a person in propounding these views. Convention (norm) Deviationism Herem Heterodoxy Mores Norm (social) Prohairesis Religious offense Schism Sin...
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    incest. The Polish rabbis attempted to place the "Sabbatean heresy" in herem at the assembly at Lwów (now Lviv in Ukraine) in 1722. Still, they could...
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  • excluded from Jewish society at age 23, when the local synagogue issued a herem against him. A number of his books were published posthumously, and shortly...
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    prioritized a spiritual interpretation of the Bible, he did not deny that the herem passages described historical events. Paul Copan argues that the cherem...
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    women and children – that amounts to genocide." This practice was known as herem, as described in Deuteronomy 20:17, which entailed no treaties with the...
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    Torah community leaders, which included Aboab de Fonseca, issued a writ of herem against the 23-year-old Spinoza. Spinoza's censure was the harshest ever...
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  • fortunate enough to spy it, or hear its soulful howl. According to artist Herem, Gonakadet myth is found among the Tsimshian, Tlingit and Haida peoples...
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    Other peaks of local prominence include Girhimitin, Hazrat Muqadriyoun and Herem Hajhir.[citation needed] The name "Hajhir" (Soqotri: هَجْهِر), sometimes...
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    be found in "bound forms" like Bethel's Anat-Bethel, Ashim-Bethel, "and Herem-Bethel from the archives of Elephantine." In one Egyptian story, the sun...
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  • adjective sacer both overlaps and also contrasts with the Hebrew concept of ḥērem,[citation needed], "cursed, prohibited." That which is cherem, such as spoil...
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  • purity of the religion preserved. Monroe, Lauren A. S. (1 June 2011). "Herem Ideology and the politics of Destruction: Josiah's Reform in Deuteronomistic...
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    families; Declaration of public fast days; Initiating or abrogating the ban (herem); Appointment of judges to Jewish courts in the Land of Israel; Regulation...
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    of the rabbinate of Barcelona, he pronounced the ban of excommunication (ḥerem) over all who studied physics or metaphysics before the completion of their...
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    occupation, the rabbis of Odessa ceremonially anathematized (pronounced herem against) Trotsky, Zinoviev, and other Bolshevik leaders of Jewish descent...
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  • [citation needed] The divine name is found in composite forms Ashim-Bethel and Herem-Bethel in the archives of Elephantine, while Anat-Bethel appears as an epithet...
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  • Hellenic polytheism - Hellenistic religion - Henotheism - Herem (censure) - Herem (priestly gift) - Herem (war or property) - Heresy - Hermeticism - Hermoea...
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    diplomat died in Fontainebleau in 1939. Louis Victoire Lux de Montmorin-Saint-Hérem (1762–1792), French military man Napoleon Napoleon III Pope Pius VII, lived...
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