Keneset Yisrael

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 482 words | Copyright

Keneset Yisrael (Heb., ‘the community of Israel’). The totality of the Jewish community. In aggadic literature, ‘Keneset Yisrael’ is used as the personification of the Jewish people in the dialogue with God. The Keneset subsequently became the name for the Israeli parliament. Solomon Schechter proposed the use of the term, translated as ‘Catholic Israel’, to pick out those elements on which the consensus of the Jewish people is agreed.

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