The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2003 page)

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n.
Rif
(acronym):
see
ALFASI
.
Righteous gentiles
(Heb.,
asidei ’um
t ha‘ol
m
). Gentiles who keep the
Noachide laws
. They will have a share in the world to come (‘Olam ha-Ba) when the
messiah
comes. More specifically, the term is used of those gentiles who risked their lives to save Jews during the
Holocaust
. There is an Avenue of the Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust Memorial, Yad Vashem, in
Jerusalem
.
Right-hand tantrism:

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