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Enoch

Enoch (ēˈnək), in the Bible. 1 Son for whom Cain named the city he built. 2 Father of Methuselah. It was said of him that he walked with God—a phrase used also of Noah—and also that like Elijah he was translated to heaven. An alternate form is Henoch.

Enoch

traditionally seen as paragon of upright man. [O.T.: Genesis 5:21–24]

See: Righteousness

Enoch

Old Testament

1. the eldest son of Cain after whom the first city was named (Genesis 4:17)

2. the father of Methuselah: said to have walked with God and to have been taken by God at the end of his earthly life (Genesis 5:24)

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Sadan: mehkarim besifrut 'ivrit, 5 (2002): 347-77; Hanokh Bartov, Ani lo hatzbar hamitologi (I am not the mythological Sabra), Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1995, 75-83.

After the shooting: on Yoram Kaniuk's peripatetic Palmahnik

See: Hanokh Albeck (ed.), Midrash Bereshit Rabbati (Jerusalem: Mekitze Nirdamim, 1940), 209ff, a Midrash on Genesis, either composed by, or based on, the teachings of Moshe HaDarshan (c.

Letter to the editor

We see similar suffering in "My Father or Not" by Hanokh Bartov, (17) a short story that presents fatherhood as performance rather than as biology.

The politics of paternity and patrimony (1)

See Rishonim; Hanokh Albeck, Moed (Jerusalem: Mossad Bialik, 1952), pp.

How old is the Haggadah?

On this matter it is also stated: 'Any man who has no wife is not a complete person, as it says: 'He blessed them and called them Man' (Genesis 5:2) (Midrash Bereshit Rabbak, edited by Julius Theodor and Hanokh Albeck [Jerusalem, [1965.sup.2]], 17:2, pp.

Rachel Morpurgo

Zucker, in Sefer Hayovel L'rabi Hanokh Albeck (Jerusalem: Mossad Harav Kook, 1963), pp.

Jerusalem in Jewish law and custom: a preliminary typology

For example, the hasidic master, Gershon Hanokh Leiner of Radzyn affirms Ashkenazi's opinion.

The Golem, Zevi Ashkenazi, and reproductive biology

(15.) See the sources quoted by Hanokh Albeck in the notes to his edition of Sefer ha-Eshkol (Jerusalem, 1938), pp.