Galut

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Galut is the Hebrew term for the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical scattering of Jews and the spiritual-historical condition associated with it.

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Surface form Occurrences
Exile of Israel 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hebrew term
Jewish religious concept
theological concept in Judaism
alternativeSpelling Galus
Golus
associatedWith Palestine
surface form: Land of Israel
connectedTo hope for messianic redemption
yearning for Jerusalem
contrastedWith Golus
surface form: Geulah

redemption
discussedBy Talmudic sages
medieval rabbis
modern Jewish theologians
hasAspect historical condition of exile
physical scattering of Jews
spiritual estrangement
hasCategory Jewish eschatology
Jewish history
Jewish law and custom
hasDimension cultural displacement
political exile
religious trial
hasLanguage Hebrew
hasMeaning Jewish dispersion
Jewish exile
influences Jewish fast days
Jewish identity in the Diaspora
Jewish liturgy
Jewish prayer for return to Zion
interpretedAs divine punishment in some Jewish sources
stage before redemption
test of faith in Jewish thought
isCentralTo Jewish historical consciousness
Jewish theology of exile and redemption
linkedToEvent Babylonian exile
Roman exile of the Jews
destruction of the First Temple
destruction of the Second Temple
refersTo dispersion of Jews among the nations
exile of the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland
spiritual condition of exile in Jewish thought
relatedConcept Churban
Diaspora
Tikkun Olam
transliteration Galut
usedIn medieval Jewish philosophy
modern Jewish thought
rabbinic literature

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Shekhinah associatedWith Galut
this entity surface form: Exile of Israel