Authors: Yoram Katz
The
Playground
(Google Earth 2013, Image Landsat,
Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO)
Northern
Israel
(Google Earth 2013, Data SIO, NOAA,
U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO, Image 2013© Digital Globe)
Acknowledgement
‘Tree of Life’ diagram (Ch. 33, 35) – based
on Friedhelm Wessel/CC-BY-SA-3.0
[i]
Bar Mitzvah
- thirteen years of age, when a young Jew is
considered an adult
[vi]
When
I sharpen my flashing sword
… Deuteronomy 32:41
[vii]
One Paris foot
= ~32.5 cm
[viii]
Hassidism
- A branch of Orthodox
Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through Jewish mysticism
[xii]
Tefillin
or
phylacteries - a set of
two small leather boxes containing inscribed parchment and equipped with
leather straps. It is worn by observant Jews during Morning Prayer.
[xiii]
“
Not unto us O Lord
, not unto us but unto thy name give glory.” - Psalm
115
[xv]
Pikuach
Neffesh
-
Lifesaving; Judaism allows waiving very strict commandments, if saving a life
is at stake.
[xvi]
In the battle of Abukir
, off the Egyptian coast in 1798, the British
destroyed the French navy.
[xx]
Sephardi Jews
are descendants of the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula before
their expulsion in 1492.