Tallit Bag - Velvet: Breastplate 12 Tribes

Tallit Bag - Velvet: Breastplate 12 Tribes
Item# HL2814
$30.00

Product Description

Tallit Bag - Velvet Breastplate. Dark Velvet Tallit Bag-Embroidered with the 12 stones of the High Priest's breastplate. This is a beautiful bag that matches several different colored tallits. Suitable also for framing for wall hanging, or teaching aid.

The Twelve Tribes The Israelites were divided along family lines, each called a shevet or mateh in Hebrew meaning literally a "staff" or "rod". The term is conventionally translated as "tribe" in English, although the divisions were not small isolated distinct ethnic groups in the modern sense of the term. Some English speaking Jewish groups view the pronunciation, English transcription and Hebrew spelling of the tribal names to be extremely important. The transcriptions and spellings are as follows: Reuben: ראובן, Standard Rə’uven, Tiberian Rəʾûḇēn Simeon: שמעון, Standard Šim’on, Tiberian Šimʿôn Levi: לוי, Standard Levi, Tiberian Lēwî Judah: יהודה, Standard Yəhuda, Tiberian Yəhûḏāh Dan: דן, Standard Dan, Tiberian Dān Naphtali: נפתלי, Standard Naftali, Tiberian Nap̄tālî Gad: גד, Standard Gad, Tiberian Gāḏ Asher: אשר, Standard Ašer, Tiberian ’Āšēr Issachar: יששכר, Standard Yissaḫar, Tiberian Yiśśâḵār Zebulun: זבולן, Standard Zəvúlun, Tiberian Zəḇûlun Joseph: יוסף, Standard Yosef, Tiberian Yôsēp̄, containing the tribes: • Manasseh: מנשה, Samaritan Manatch, Standard Mənašše, Tiberian Mənaššeh • Ephraim: אפרים, Samaritan Afrime, Standard Efráyim, Tiberian ’Ep̄ráyim/’Ep̄rāyim Benjamin: בנימין, Standard Binyamin, Tiberian Binyāmîn From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia