The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (845 page)

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(bill of divorce)
:
Gethsemane
.
The garden to which Jesus went with his disciples after the
Last Supper
. It lies in the valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.
Getig
(materiality)
:
Ge’ul(l)ah
(Heb., ‘redemption’). Title of several Jewish prayers. The prayers invoke God, as ‘mighty Redeemer’ to regard Israel's affliction and deliver his people.
Gezerah
(Heb., ‘edict’). Command of several different kinds in Judaism. In general, they are commands of an unusual kind. A gezerah, once (legitimately) enacted, cannot be rescinded.
Ghaiba
(Arab., ‘absence’). The state of one who has been withdrawn by God from visible appearance on earth, although he is still living invisibly on earth. The clearest example is the Hidden Im
m (
al- Mahd
). It is also a
S
f
stage on the way to
fan
’, absent from self and present (
a
ra
) only to God.

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