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	Isaac Criner Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In addition to his uncle Joseph, Isaac was accompanied upon his return by his mother, Rebecca, whom he had brought from that part of North Carolina which later became Tennessee, where she had migrated from the German colonies in Pennsylvania.
		Isaac, of the Fourth Alabama Infantry, was killed from ambush at Meridianville.
		Isaac was unusually hospitable, he remembers a big man who once had been strong and robust and ready to "lick his weight in wild cats or Indians".
	home.comcast.net /~markwpullen/Pullen_Family/Isaac_Criner.htm (2751 words)

	Genesis 27 - Marsh Bible Commentary
		Isaac promised that this meal would be a prelude to receiving the blessing.
		Isaac reasoned that someone could try to disguise his voice, but would be unable to change his physical characteristics.
		Isaac was very upset when he figured out that he had been tricked.
	www.marshcommentary.com /commentary/gen027.htm (1222 words)

	Isaac
		Isaac, the second patriarch of Israel, son of Abraham and Sarah, and father of Jacob and Esau.
		Isaac was born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age, his name means "to laugh." After Isaac was weaned, his half brother Ishmael was banished with his Egyptian mother Hagar (Gen 21:8-20), as Isaac alone was designated as Abraham's heir.
		Isaac was forty years old at the time of his marriage to Rebekah, and she eventually bore him twins, Esau and Jacob (Gen 25:21-26).
	www.aboutbibleprophecy.com /p20.htm (206 words)

	Daily Bible Study - Isaac
		Isaac was the only son of Abraham and Sarah, and the father of Esau and Jacob, who God renamed Israel (see Children of Jacob).
		Isaac's birth came about from a miracle - Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born (Genesis 21:5), and Sarah, at age 90, had been unable to have children (Genesis 16:1, 17:17).
		At the age of 40, Isaac married Rebekah (Genesis 25:20).
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/isaac.htm (681 words)

	GENESIS 24-27: THE STORY OF ISAAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Isaac is told to have married Rebecca at the age of 40.
		Isaac's good luck with the wells, convinced Avimelech that Isaac is specially blessed, and he approached him asking for a truce and a contract of mutual assistance.
		Isaac, blind as he was, was fooled, and gave his blessing to Ya'acov believing he is giving it to Eso.
	www.tryagain.com /bible/gnss2427.htm (822 words)

	The St. Isaac of Nineveh ~ Gift of Tears Catholic
		Isaac is a 7th century saint of both the Eastern and Western traditions, and a known source of wisdom and inspiration.
		Isaac is best known for his writings on the exercises of asceticism as means to focusing on God.
		Isaac says, “But we are not accustomed to such an experience and finding it hard to endure, our body is suddenly overcome by a weeping mingled with joy.” It is in gratitude for this experience of God that we are named:
	www.giftoftears.com (862 words)

	Isaac and Jacob Chap
		Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, ‘The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.’ He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy, like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him" (Genesis 27:22).
		But when she heard that Isaac was going to bless Esau, she took matters into her own hands and devised a plan to trick Isaac, who was blind, into blessing Jacob instead.
		Isaac and Rebekah’s relationship was damaged, and Rebekah apparently never saw her favorite son again.
	www.wcg.org /lit/bible/law/genesis3.htm (1647 words)

	Isaac Asimov - Uncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Isaac Asimov was born into a robot family in the summer of 1812 in a galaxy far far below.
		Being summoned without a mother, Isaac became very bitter throughout life, which is related to his sub-par upbringing due to his father's learning disability.
		The Second Law of Isaac Asimov states that this goes double for Robert Heinlein and Arthur C Clarke, except where such mentioning conflicts with the first law.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Asimov (757 words)

	Isaac: Son of Promise \| A Type Or Shadow of Christ
		In accordance with the promise that God had made to Abraham and Sarah, Isaac, whose name means "laughter," was born to them when Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90 years old.
		In Genesis 22, Isaac accompanied his father to the land of Moriah not realizing that he was going there to be sacrificed.
		While living in Gerar, Isaac repeated the lie of his father telling the men of Gerar that Rebekah was his sister for, like Sarah, she was beautiful and he feared for his life.
	www.centervilleroad.com /articles/isaac.html (905 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Isaac said to Esau, "Tonight the angels were praising God so intensely that the gates of blessing have been opened." Now I am old and do not know when I will die.
		Isaac did not know that God had told Rebecca, "the greater one will serve the younger." (Genesis 25:23) Had he known this, he certainly would not have wished to bless Esau.
		Isaac also ordered Esau not to take any animals that appear to be herded together; it is possible that they have owners, and taking them would constitute robbery.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=1256 (2025 words)

	The Best Reviews: Caroline Roe, A Draught For A Dead Man Reviews
		This is the sixth volume in the Chronicles of Isaac of Girona, a recently-established (1998) series in the ever- burgeoning subgenre of historical mystery, which scarcely existed before the introduction of Brother Cadfael 25 years ago.
		Isaac, a blind Jewish physician, and his daughter and assistant, Raquel, are residents of Girona, in Read more...
		Isaac has been invited to Perpignan for two reasons: to attend a wedding of his friend Davi's son and to heal Arnau Marça, a Christian knight and patient of Davi's who was badly injured during an attack.
	thebestreviews.com /book3684 (218 words)

	Amazon.com: Consolation for an Exile (Chronicles of Isaac of Girona): Books: Caroline Roe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the spring of 1355, Isaac's comfortable household in Spain is shaken when his young Muslim apprentice, Yusuf Ibn Hasan, obeys a summons by a powerful relative, the emir of Granada, to return to Granada.
		Isaac believes that Raimon's nightmares may have a psychological root -- some suppressed memory from Raimon's past that has recently resurfaced and that is causing him a lot of discomfit.
		Although Isaac is blind, he is still able to be an excellent physician as he has an astute mind that allows him to conduct a homicide investigation.
	www.amazon.com /Consolation-Exile-Chronicles-Isaac-Girona/dp/0425198375 (1691 words)

	"Isaac and Jacob "
		The story of Isaac and Jacob depicted in this painting is based on Genesis Chapter 27, and recounts how Rebecca and her son Jacob deceived the old and blind Isaac.
		The deception was planned beforehand so that Isaac would not realise that Jacob had taken the place of his brother Esau.
		Isaac felt the arm and said: "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau", and blessed him.
	museoprado.mcu.es /icuadro_noviembre_2003.html (348 words)

	SparkNotes: The Kabbalah: Overview of Major Kabbalists (in chronological order)
		Isaac the Blind (1235–?) - An early kabbalist from Provence, in the south of France, he was one of the first scholars to devote his entire life’s work to Kabbalah.
		Isaac’s most important contribution to Kabbalah was the introduction of a style of meditation that concentrated on the sefirot, or the “ten aspects of God.” Isaac believed that a mind that attempted to meditate on the sefirot would ascend through heaven and eventually be united with God.
		Isaac Luria, a student of Cordovero’s for two to three years, later incorporated Cordovero’s ideas into his own theories, revolutionizing the teaching of Kabbalah.
	www.sparknotes.com /philosophy/kabbalah/characters.html (1125 words)

	Consolation for an Exile By Caroline Roe
		Consolation for an Exile is the eighth in the Chronicles of Isaac of Girona series.
		Isaac, a blind Jewish physician, is a highly educated sleuth who must use his wits and his other faculties to solve the medical mysteries that are set before him.
		These local intrigues are mirrored by Isaac's young assistant's own discovery of his roots and the Moorish court intrigues of the Alahambra in Granada.
	www.myshelf.com /mystery/05/consolationforanexile.htm (309 words)

	Isaac Woodard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isaac Woodard, often written Isaac Woodward, was an African American WWII veteran whose maiming hours after being discharged from the U.S. military sparked national outrage and had a profound impact on the growing civil rights movement in the United States.
		Woodard, born March 8, 1919, enlisted in 1943 and served in the Pacific Theater as a longshoreman.
		What did happen with certainty is the next morning when the sun came up, Sergeant Isaac Woodard was blind for life." [4] What was revealed is that during the course of the night in jail, Shull blinded Woodard.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Woodward (1455 words)

	Prayers of Isaac the Blind
		Eight centuries ago, Isaac the Blind, the great kabbalist rabbi of Provence, dictated a manuscript in which he asserted that all things and events in the universe are the product of combinations of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
		Isaac's lifelong devotion to his art is as striking as that of string quartets and klezmer musicians.
		Gershom Scholem, the pre-eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism, says that ‘Isaac and his disciples do not speak of ecstasy, of a unique act of stepping outside oneself in which human consciousness abolishes itself.
	saintpaulsunday.publicradio.org /features/0304_golijov/blind.shtml (417 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		That is the lesson of Isaac, Abraham’s son, himself the father of twin sons — Jacob and Esau.
		At the locus of it all is the blindness of Isaac.
		One midrash (rabbinic teaching) offers that Isaac is blinded by the smoke emanating from the idolatrous practices committed by those around him.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=2060 (556 words)

	The My Hero Project - Isaac Rosenberg
		Isaac Rosenberg was born in Bristol, England, on November 25, 1890.
		Isaac Rosenberg was a poet of the Great War.
		Langston Hughes was nicknamed the Poet Laureate of Harlem.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=irosenberg (726 words)

	Isaac the Blind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isaac knew about the Bahir, but was strongly influenced by the philosophy of Neo-Platonism.
		He considered the sefirot as having their origins in a hidden and infinite level deep within the Ayn Sof, or Divine Being.
		The most famous student of Isaac the Blind was Azriel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_the_Blind (322 words)

	Girona (Gerona), Spain A Once Grand Jewish City in Catalonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These adepts were disciples of Rabbi Isaac the Blind, two of whom were especially prolific: Rabbi Ezra ben Shelomo and his younger colleague, Rabbi Azriel.
		It was said these two mystics, and their disciples, laid the foundation for all future Kabbalistic speculation; for example, much of the terminology and basic ideas that prevailed in the Kabbalah for the next seven hundred years were formulated in Girona.
		Their teacher, Rabbi Isaac the Blind, for example, wrote them an angry letter demanding that Kabbalistic teachings be kept secret and protected from the public forum.
	isfsp.org /sages/girona.html (1780 words)

	Kabbalah
		Founder: Isaac the Blind (It is not known for sure that he was the original founder, but he is considered the Father of Kabbalah.
		Isaac the Blind was the first to name Jewish mysticism Kabbalah, and he formed a scholarly group based on the tradition.
		He developed a clear understanding of the main Kabbalistic teachings, and he, along with his student Rabbi Isaac Luria (the Ari), composed volumes of writings on their mystical interpretations.
	www.meta-religion.com /Esoterism/Kabbalah/kabbalah.htm (2559 words)

	Kabbalah and the Hermetic Tradition
		While many schools of kabbalah were, and some still are, exclusively Jewish in orientation, as time went on many were adapted to the Christian world as well as influenced by other schools of mystical and esoteric activity.
		Isaac the Blind, a pivotal figure in the study of early 13th century kabbalistic philosophy and ritual studied not only Jewish, but also early Greek, and Christian Gnostic writings, as well as the writing of a Sufi sect at Basra, the Brethren of Sincerity.
		Isaac the Blind was the leader of the influential Provencal schools of his day.
	www.hermetic.com /stavish/essays/kabbalah-hermetic.html (4108 words)

	Kronos Quartet + David Krakauer play Osvaldo Golijov / The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
		Isaac the Blind, the inspiration for the piece, was a Kabalist 800 years ago.
		The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind is a kind of epic, a history of Judaism.
		The movements sound like they are in three of the languages spoken in almost 6,000 years of Jewish history: the first in Aramaic; the second in Yiddish; and the third in Hebrew.
	www.klezmershack.com /bands/kronos/isaac/kronos.isaac.html (488 words)

	Reviews: Kahane Returns Leading Ironic Mahler Work
		You had to pity the poor musicians, however, who were mopping their brows once it was over.
		Before intermission, a reduced string orchestra opened the evening with a world premiere of Oswaldo Golijov's "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind," a chamber work that the composer recently rearranged for orchestra and clarinet.
		Dressed in an off-white jacket and a bright red shirt, the Argentinian composer spoke about the Jewish traditions underlying "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind," including its klezmer dances and prayer from the High Holidays.
	www.santarosasymphony.com /PressRoom_Reviews/KahaneMahler_042406.asp (551 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Sepher Yetzirah was subject to many >commentaries by Kabbalists, but it is not itself a Kabbalistic document; >it predates Isaac the Blind by ~1000 years.
		C in the school of Isaac >the Blind.
		Well, leaving aside for the moment the question of the transmission of the Tree from Assyria, there are cognate diagrams that predate Isaac the Blind.
	www.hollyfeld.org /heaven/Usenet/QBL/9502.glblqbl.lcm (508 words)

	Osvaldo Golijov
		'Blindness' is probably the secret of great string quartets, those who don't need their eyes to communicate among them, with the music, or the audience.
		My hommage to all of them and Isaac of Provence is this work for blind musicians, so they can play it by heart.
		Blindness, then, reminded me of how to compose music as it was in the beginning: An art that springs from and relies on our ability to sing and hear, with the power to build castles of sound in our memories."
	www.osvaldogolijov.com /wd23n.htm (555 words)

	4 Kabbalah Authors
		Isaac the Blind was one of the Hasidic Ashkenaz, those devoted to prayer, deeds of goodness, and the experience of G-d.
		Isaac the Blind describes Tohu as the Earth before emanation, and than Bohu as the spiritual state of the earth after emanation from G-d.
		Isaac bar Parnakh said: All of a man’s iniquities are engraved upon his bones.
	www.cc.utah.edu /~rfs4/jkm04.htm (9847 words)

	A Poultice For A Healer
		Isaac, the blind physician, the real hero of the book, is an intelligent, compassionate, genuinely good man so well-defined and understandable that one feels the author based his character on someone she knew and knew quite well.
		However, the relationship between Isaac's daughter and her betrothed, Daniel, seems strangely tepid; almost as if they'd been married for decades and were fondly complacent with each other.
		It inspires one who might be reading only the latest in a series, to go out and find the earlier books to learn more of the history of the characters.
	www.roundtablereviews.com /roundtable/Archives/roecaroline1203a.htm (461 words)

	DenverPost.com - Golijov plants seeds of hope as a composer
		Classical audiences in Colorado will be among the first in the country to have the opportunity to hear a newly orchestrated version of "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind" (1994), one of Golijov's best-known and most frequently performed works.
		Among the first works Golijov composed in the synthesized style for which he is known was "Isaac the Blind," originally written for klezmer clarinet and string quartet.
		It was inspired by the 13th-century writings of Isaac the Blind, a cabalist rabbi who asserted that all things in the universe are the product of combinations of the Hebrew alphabet's letters.
	origin.denverpost.com /headlines/ci_4520814 (1203 words)

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