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Shem (; ; Sēm; Ge'ez: ሴም, Sēm; "renown; prosperity; name"; Arabic: Sām) was one of the sons of Noah in the Hebrew Bible as well as in Islamic literature. Genesis 10:21 refers to relative ages of Shem and his brother Japheth, but with sufficient ambiguity to have yielded different English translations. The verse is translated in the KJV as "Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.". However, the New American Standard Bible gives, "Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born."
Genesis 11:10 records that Shem was 100 years old at the birth of Arphaxad, two years after the flood; and that he lived for another 500 years after this, making his age at death 600 years.
The children of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram, in addition to daughters. Abraham, the patriarch of the Hebrews and Arabs, was one of the descendants of Arphaxad.
Islamic literature describes Shem as one of the believing sons of Noah. Some sources even identify Shem as a prophet in his own right and that he was the next prophet after his father. In one Muslim legend, Shem was one of the people that God made Jesus resurrect as a sign to the Children of Israel.
The 1st-century historian Flavius Josephus, among many others, recounted the tradition that these five sons were the progenitors of the nations of Elam, Assyria, Chaldea, Lydia, and Levantine, respectively.
The associated term Semitic is still a commonly used term for the Semitic languages, as a subset of the Afro-Asiatic languages, denoting the common linguistic heritage of Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ethiopic, Hebrew and Canaanite-Phoenician languages.
According to some Jewish traditions (e.g., B. Talmud Nedarim 32b; Genesis Rabbah 46:7; Genesis Rabbah 56:10; Leviticus Rabbah 25:6; Numbers Rabbah 4:8.), Shem is believed to have been Melchizedek, King of Salem whom Abraham is recorded to have met after the battle of the four kings.
Shem is mentioned in Genesis 5:32, 6:10; 7:13; 9:18,23,26-27; 10; 11:10; also in 1 Chronicles 1:4.
Shem is a biblical character, one of the sons of Noah.
Shem may also refer to:
- Shemhamphorasch, a name of God in the Kabbalah
- Hawks over Shem, a 1955 Conan the Barbarian novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
- Baal Shem, historical Jewish occupation, a healer and exorcist using Kabbalistic methods
- Samuel Shem (b. 1944), pen-name of American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman
- House of Shem, New Zealand reggae band that debuted in 2008
- Ohel Shem, Israeli high school in Ramat Gan
- Paraphrase of Shem, apocryphal Gnostic writing
Usage examples of "shem".
There is no doubt that, along with the Ari and the Baal Shem Tov, Abulafia is one of the great masters of Kabbalah.
But thinking he had nothing to lose, Shem Tov the Sephardi cleared his mind of extraneous thoughts, sat down with pen, paper, and ink, and started permutating the letters.
Praying with all his might, Shem Tov the Sephardi bravely continued permutating the letters of the highest Name of God, whereupon he was overcome by spiritual rapture of such intensity that he felt himself soaked from head to foot by a sudden rush of warm oil.
Eleazar, the Baal Shem Tov, or Master of the Holy Name, took the cosmology and practice of the Lurianic Kabbalah and made it accessible to the capacities of ordinary men.
Bal Shem Tov, is only acceptable to God if it flows from a joyous heart.
According to the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, only the individual himself can pierce the veil that hides God from man.
Baal Shem Tov hid his wisdom under a mantle of laziness and near idiocy.
May of 1734, the Baal Shem Tov descended from the mountains with his wife and announced to his brother-in-law that the time had come for him to reveal himself to the world.
In 1760 the Baal Shem Tov died, but not before he had brought the Kabbalah down from the angels and placed it securely in the physical hands of men.
Baal Shem Tov taught that to become one with prayer was to become one with God.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door and a messenger informed him that the Baal Shem Tov had something still further to say.
The Maggid suddenly felt the room grow warm and saw it filled with radiant light which only faded when the Baal Shem Tov stopped talking.
The generation of Hasidic masters who followed after the death of the Baal Shem Tov exerted harsh disciplines against distraction in the study hall, even going so far as to extract confessions from their disciples about their most intimate thoughts and to intrude on their marital duties.
The dour and guilty vision that characterized much of early nineteenth-century Hasidism was a far cry from the free and life-asserting proclamations of the Baal Shem Tov and the blissful singing of Levi of Berdichev.
Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid, three men in particular deserve special attention.