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Am ha-aretz
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( sing. : “people of the land”) Term used in the Bible to refer to the masses of the Jewish people. In talmudic times it was applied to common people who did not observe rabbinic regulations and eventually came to mean an ignorant person. ... log in or subscribe to read full text
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