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Rachel
Rachel () was a Biblical figure, the favorite of Jacob's two wives, and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the twelve progenitors of the tribes of Israel. Rachel's father was Laban. Her older sister was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt Rebecca was Jacob's mother.
Zohar
The Zohar (, 'Splendor' or 'Radiance') is a foundational work of Kabbalistic literature. It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah and scriptural interpretations as well as material on mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology. The Zohar contains discussions of the nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, redemption, the relationship of ego to darkness and "true self" to "the light of God".
Leah
Leah () appears in the Hebrew Bible as one of the two wives of the Biblical patriarch Jacob. Leah was Jacob's first wife, and the older sister of his second (and favored) wife Rachel. She is the mother of Jacob's first son Reuben. She has three more sons, namely Simeon, Levi and Judah, but does not bear another son until Rachel offers her a night with Jacob in exchange for some mandrake root (, ''dûdâ'îm''). Leah gives birth to two more sons after this, Issachar and Zebulun, and to Jacob's only daughter, Dinah.
Shalom
thumb|right|250px|Shalom in Hebrew
Zephaniah
thumb|250px|A 17th century icon of Zephaniah
Daniel
male given name
El'ad
'''El'ad''' () is a city in the Central District of Israel. In the 1990s, it was built for a Haredi population and to a lesser extent, it was also built for a Religious Zionist Jewish population. Located about east of Tel Aviv on Route 444 between Rosh HaAyin and Shoham, it had a population of in .
David
male given name
Immanuel
thumb|Christ Emmanuel, Christian icon with [[riza by Simon Ushakov, 1668. According to the Gospel of Matthew, Immanuel refers to Jesus Christ.]] Immanuel or Emmanuel (, "God [is] with us"; Koine Greek: ) is a Hebrew name that appears in the Book of Isaiah (7:14) as a sign that God will protect the House of David.
Michael
male given name
Benjamin
male given name
Tobias
thumb|upright=0.85|Tobias and the Angel, by [[Filippino Lippi]]
Ariel
unisex given name
Jordan
name
Manuel
male given name
Jonas
name: given name and surname
Levi
male given name
Yeshua
thumb|"Yeshua" ישוע , a Hebrew name written with the letters yod-shin-vav-`ayin of the Hebrew alphabet.|class=skin-invert-image Yeshua () was a common alternative form of the name Yehoshua () in later books of the Hebrew Bible and among Jewish people of the Second Temple period. The name corresponds to the Greek spelling (), from which, through the Latin /, comes the English spelling Jesus, with J as the /dʒ/ sound.
Judith
female given name
Noam
Noam () is a Hebrew name that means "gentleness", "pleasantness" or "peacefulness". It started as the male version of ''Na'omi'' (English: "Naomi" or "Noémie"), but today is a very common Hebrew name for people of any gender. The common name day is 7 December.
Tamar
female given name
Isaak
male given name
Hulda
female given name
Joshua
male given name
Hebrew name
name of Hebrew-language origin
Oholah and Oholibah
pejorative personifications given by the prophet Ezekiel to Samaria and Jerusalem in respectively
Yeshu
Yeshu (Hebrew: Yēšū)) thumb|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Ajron Bach-Yeshu (noun) is the name of possibly one individual or numerous separate individuals mentioned in rabbinic literature. The name is thought by some to refer to Jesus when used in the Talmud. The name Yeshu is also used in other sources before and after the completion of the Babylonian Talmud. It is also the modern Israeli spelling of Jesus.
Eldar
Eldar is a masculine given name and surname of various origins.
Naomi
female given name
Obadiah
male given name
Abdiel
Abdiel ( "Servant of El") is a biblical name which has been used as the name for a number of notable people. The name has the same meaning as Obadiah and is cognate with the Arabic name Abdullah. Abdiel is mentioned a single time in the Bible, in 1 Chronicles 5:15: "Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of the house of their fathers."
Ze'ev
'''Ze'ev' (, Zeév''), also spelled Zeev or Zev, is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning wolf. Diminutive forms of the name are Zevik and Ze'evik.
Eliel
Eliel is a Hebrew name. It can be translated to English as "My God is God".
Kenan
male given name