Gadol

Gadol or godol (גדול‎, plural: gedolim גדולים‎) (literally "big" or "great" in Hebrew) is used by religious Jews to refer to the most revered rabbis of...

alone, usually refers to the tallit gadol. There are different traditions regarding the age from which a tallit gadol is used, even within Orthodox Judaism...

HaMakhtesh HaGadol (Hebrew: הַמַּכְתֵּשׁ הַגָּדוֹל, lit. The Big Crater) or simply Makhtesh HaGadol or Makhtesh Gadol, is a makhtesh, a geological erosional...

Judaism, the High Priest of Israel (Hebrew: כהן גדול, romanized: Kohen Gadol, lit. 'great priest'; Aramaic: Kahana Rabba) was the head of the Israelite...

doubled); The qamatz sound of [a], known as Qamatz Gadol (Hebrew: קָמַץ גָּדוֹל [kaˈmats ɡaˈdol], "big qamatz") occurs in an "open syllable", i.e. any...

Zakef Gadol (Hebrew: זָקֵף גָּדוֹל‎, with variant English spellings) is a cantillation mark that is commonly found in the Torah and Haftarah. It is represented...

by months). Shabbat HaGadol ("Great Shabbat" שבת הגדול) is the Shabbat immediately before Passover. The first Shabbat HaGadol took place in Egypt on...

There are a number of honorifics in Judaism that vary depending on the status of, and the relationship to, the person to whom one is referring. Ḥasīd is...

in Jerusalem was standing (from Biblical times through 70 CE), the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) was mandated by the Torah to perform a complex set of special...

sometimes called the Great Jewish Revolt (Hebrew: המרד הגדול ha-Mered Ha-Gadol), or The Jewish War, was the first of three major rebellions by the Jews...

Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol (Persian: هارون کهن-گادل, born November 23, 1970) is a professor of neurological surgery in the department of neurosurgery at Indiana...

Eliezer ben Isaac ha-Gadol was a German rabbi of the eleventh century. He was a pupil of his cousin R. Simon ha-Gadol of Mainz and of R. Gershom Me'or...

Joan Kelly, also known as Joan Kelly-Gadol (March 29, 1928 – August 15, 1982) was a prominent American historian who wrote on the Italian Renaissance...

Peter Gadol (born April 15, 1964), is an American novelist, and educator. He is chair and professor of MFA writing program at Otis College of Art and...

Standard and Mispar Gadol Methods of Gematria; However, (mem sofit) final mem's value is 40 in the Standard Method and 600 in the Mispar Gadol method. The Standard...

etymology, they represent the Hebrew phrase נֵס גָּדוֹל הָיָה שָׁם (nes gadól hayáh sham, "a great miracle happened there"), referring to the miracle...

Sefer Mitzvot Gadol (Hebrew: ספר מצוות גדול; in english: "The Great Book of Commandments"; abbreviated: סמ"ג‎, "SeMaG") work of halakha by Moses ben Jacob...

Rabbi Abin (or Abun) ha-Gadol (the Great) (d. circa 970) was one of the most important French rabbis of the 10th century, flourishing at the same time...

Qaton/Gadol "Upright/erect", from their vertical shape, or from their grammatical function to separate a phrase whatever follows.:Zaqef Gadol = great...

further down. In Classical Hebrew transliteration, vowels can be long (gāḏōl), short (qāṭān) or ultra short (ḥăṭep̄), and are transliterated as such...