Abaye said: A Torah scholar who goes to betroth a woman should take an Am Haaretz (common folk, non-learned person) with him ...

It seems that Rabbi Yitzchak may have approached the disagreement with Rabbi Abba as if it were an abstract halachic debate rather than a personal dispute.

He changed his name to Akhenaten—Devoted to Aten—and he decided to move the capital to the site now known as Amarna. The king called his city Akhetaten, or Horizon of the Sun Disk, and soon ...

With the revolutionary zeal of a Lenin or Mao, Akhenaten swept away the old religion, replacing it with a monotheistic cult worship of the sun-disc Aten. He built a new capital city, Akhetaten ...

(Akhenaten was the "rebel" pharaoh who established the world's first monotheistic religion, based on a belief in the Aten, or sun disk.) Notice the meticulous carving of hair in this detail from ...

Egyptologist Jean Revez will tell us the story of Akhenaten’s reign, a one of a kind Pharaoh who revolutionized religious beliefs and art during his time. Under Akhenaton Egypt will experience a ...