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Maps

Map of Acre – Marino Sanuto (1321)

 

 

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

Author’s Notes

[i]
Bar Mitzvah
- thirteen years of age, when a young Jew is
considered an adult

[ii]
Talmud
-
a canonical collection of ancient writings on Jewish law

[iv]
Saracen
- Muslim

[v]
Directory
-
France’s governing
council of five elected directors

[viii]
Hassidism
- A branch of Orthodox
Judaism that promotes spirituality and joy through Jewish mysticism

[ix]
Haredi
- God fearing

[x]
Torah

Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament

[xi]
Galley
- a ship propelled mostly by rowers

[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

[xiv]
A Cohen
is a member of the priestly caste and must avoid impure objects.

[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.

[xvii]
IDF
– Israel Defense Forces

[xviii]
Mitzvah
- a good deed done from religious duty

[xx]
Sephardi Jews
are descendants of the Jews who lived in the Iberian Peninsula before
their expulsion in 1492.

[xxi]
101
is
t
he emergency number of the Israeli
equivalent of the Red Cross.

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