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121impute something to something — imˈpute sth to sb/sth derived (formal) to say, often unfairly, that sb is responsible for sth or has a particular quality Syn: ↑attribute • I denied the motives that my employer was imputing to me. Main entry: ↑ …
122BLACK DEATH — BLACK DEATH, epidemic of various contagious diseases, bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic, all caused by the same bacillus, pasteurella pestis, a combination of which raged throughout Europe between 1348 and 1350. (See Map: Black Death). It was… …
123CONTRACT — (Heb. חוֹזֶה, ḥozeh), in general law theory a legally binding agreement between two or more parties, in terms of which one party undertakes for the benefit of the other to perform or refrain from a certain act. As such, contract is the main… …
124ISAIAH — (Heb. יְשַׁעְיָה ,יְשַׁעְיָהוּ Salvation of YHWH ), one of the eight books (as the Rabbis and the Masorah count them) of the Nevi im, or Prophets, the second division of the Hebrew canon (see bible , Canon). INTRODUCTION Outside the Book of… …
125KORAḤ, YIḤYE (Yaḥya) BEN SHALOM — (1840–1881), scholar and kabbalist, in Sanʾa , yemen . Koraḥ s works are concerned with masorah, the Targum Onkelos, grammar, explanations on the Pentateuch, and exegesis on Yemenite poetry. In two fields, those of Targum Onkelos and Yemenite… …
126MICHAEL II° — MICHAEL II°, Byzantine emperor (820–29) to whom strong Judaizing leanings were ascribed, partly because of his iconoclasm. A tenth century chronicler states that Michael relieved Jews of financial burdens and that he loved Jews above all mortals… …
