We have already seen how the ancient Hebrew language is thoroughly ingrained with Hindu concepts and with the names of Hindu deities.  We have seen how the Sabean deities Shiva and Uma dominated the religious mind of the original Jews. The Sabbath, the Sabaoth, the pillars (masseva), the Shavu ot, and Feast of Trees, T'ub Shevat all refer back to the numerous variants of Shiva's name that exist in the Torah.  The Israelites as a people, a congregation, and a nation named themselves after Umma, the consort of Shiva, and there is little doubt that Amma and Em, the Hebrew variants for mother, are derived from the name of Umma.  Veneration to the name of Umma continued in Islam as is demonstrated by the fact that the followers of the Quran are called the Ummat.

    The names of some of the learning institutions of Judaism are derived from the Sabeanism and Jainism of original Judaism.  Although the Jains and the Brahmanic Hindus claim to be derived from separate traditions, these cultures intermingled and lived together side by side for literally millennia. While Jain monks were celibate, the Sabeans worshipped Shiva, whose life combined the austerities involved with separating one's self from the mainstream and living in the wilderness, mostly the mountains, along with being a householder bearing children.  Shiva as a dweller in the wilderness and not the city is what is important here. Shiva, who is the deity venerated in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, honors creation as it is, and does not support the invasion or excavation of the earth, for earth is the home of many creatures.
 

    The Yeshiva is an advanced or post-high school institution of learning. According to rabbinical tradition the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob studied the scriptures in Yeshivas, or the study houses of Shem and Ever. The Shiva root is obvious in Ye Shiva. And the Ye or Jah root is, as is seen on another page of this study, is derived from Sanskrit, and refers to Shiva as well as Vishnu or Krishna.

     One of Shiva's other names is Baal, which in its usages meant God, master or husband, and in its feminine Bala form, mistress.
 

    The Baal Teshuva Yeshiva are described as special Yeshivas.  Baal is a name of Deity among both the ancient Hindus and the ancient Hebrews.  In Hebrew Baal meant deity, master, husband, and in its feminine form mistress. Bala is usually the name of a female deity and also means girl among the Hindus.  And this carried over into the ancient Hebrew language as well. Baal and Bala were also worshipped among the Canaanites, who were worshippers of Kanaan, the Tamil Hindu name of Krishna, or Vishnu.

From  James Strong's "Hebrew/Chaldee Dictionary":

1166 ba'al: a primitive root meaning to be master; to marry; be husband, marry.

1167 ba'al: a master, hence a husband.

1168 Ba'al: a Phoenician deity.

1169 Ba'al Beriyth: Baal of the covenant. Baal Berith, a special deity of the Shechemites.

1171 Ba'al Gad: Baal of Fortune.

1172 Ba'alah, the feminine form of 1167: a mistress.

1191 Ba'alath: a modification of 1172, mistresship.

1176 Ba'al Zebuwb: Baal of the Fly. Baal Zebub, a special deity of the Ekronites.

1177 Ba'al Chanan: Possessor of grace. From 1167 and 2603.

1180 Ba'aliy: my master; a symbolical name for Jehovah.

1183 Bealyah: Jah is master.

1184 Baaley Jehuwdah: masters of Judah.

    Among the Hindus, Bala is another name of Sakti, aka Durga, Maya, Ummah and Mahadevi.  All these female deities are described as consorts of Shiva, but may simply be different names for the same consort..  In the Hebrew dictionary in James Strong's Concordance Bala is defined as mistress. This is a clumsy attempt to define the term consort, which is a morally neutral term, while mistress to many connotes immorality or promiscuity, which is foreign to the Hindu's notion that people like Shiva may have a legitimate intimate and spiritual companion.  For Hindu female deities do have power.  Bala also means to do away with, to destroy.  In the adventures of Shiva, or Siva, his consort is sometimes also referred to as Siva with a glyph signifying the feminine.  We learn from the discussions had between these divine consorts, discussions that are theological and moral dialogues, that they commonly consorted on the same mission, to care for all the creatures of creation.

   The term Baal means master (husband), deity, and sometimes idol in the Hebrew Dictionary.  The fact that the name Baaliy was once used as another form of Jehovah strongly indicates the original Hindu-Jewish acceptance of a pantheon with many representations of Deity.  The various meanings associated with the Baal words come in part from the fact that Baal means a deity, and that the name was given to designate numerous deities --some of whom were vegetation deities-- in different locations, such as Babylon, Syria, and Phoenicia.

1189 Ba'al Tsephown, from 1168 and 6828 (in the sense of cold) [according to others an English form of Typhon the destroyer]; Baal of winter; Baal-tsephon, a place in Egypt: --Baal-zephon.

    This is apparently an ancient Hebrew source of the word typhoon, just as harican in Hebrew is the likely source of hurricane. Shiva as Asani is the thunder God and associated with rain and storm.

OM VISNUBALLABHAYA NAMAHA is a chant to Shiva in which the names of Vishnu and Balla are invoked.
 

    The Baal Habayis are lay members of the Jewish community.
 

    The term Baal Teshuva refers to one who returns to the faith.
 

    Gaons are described as intellectual giants, and as heads of the Yeshivas.  Similarly, in the Jain culture Ganas were the heads of monastic Gana or Jain communities in ancient India. The Gan or Jan root, says Etan Levine, is interchangeable with Jah.  Among the Hindus this is also so. Ganadarna is a name of Vishnu or Krishna. And Ganesha is the deified son of Shiva.
 
 

    Even this 18th century movement emphasizing spiritualism, prayer and faith is derived from the root siddhis, meaning powers, capabilities, among Hindus.  From the Theosophical Glossary on line:

The Pali word Iddhi, is the synonym of the Sanskrit Siddhis, or psychic faculties, the abnormal powers in man. There are two kinds of iddhis. One group which embraces the lower, coarse, psychic and mental energies; the other is one which exacts the highest training of Spiritual powers. Says Krishna in Shrimad Bhagavat: "He who is engaged in the performance of yoga, who has subdued his senses and who has concentrated his mind in me (Krishna), such yogis all the Siddhis stand ready to serve."

    Gezera Shava refers to a method of literary criticism, by which the vague meaning of a passage is clarified by the another passage containing the same word. Shava contains the Shav root. As we have seen, the shav root is related to the Shab root and numerous words related to Sabeanism or Saba, i.e. Shiva.
 
 

    Tzaddik is a name for the rabbi who intercedes with God or interprets the law, the halacha.  It is derived from or relates to Zadok or Sadok, an ancient line of Jewish priests. The Zadduki or Sadduki are the sadducees, and the English word sadducees makes obvious what is only slightly hidden in the Hebrew language, that the Sadducees originally came from the vegetarian Saddhu tradition of Hinduism.
 

    It is possible that even the simple word Shul, from which our English word school is derived, comes from the Sabean tradition. Shu was the father of Seb (or Seba) in the Egyptian pantheon.  Pillars were erected to Shu just as they were and are to Shiva.
 

     Semicha refers to rabbinical ordination. Semicha may be read as Sem-Isha or Sem-Isa, meaning the Word (Shem) of Isa, or God.  Thus, the newly ordained rabbi is ideally to be a channel, or spokesperson for Deity. Isa is a name of Shiva and a root of numerous ancient Hebrew names. Jesus' name was translated as Issa among Tibetans, Hindus and Muslims.
 

     Chabura refers to a group of students who form seminars and meet weekly.  The Chab has reference to the Chaba or Shaba root, which refers to the number seven. Sheba means seven. Elisheba meant, according to Zechariah Sitchin, My God is Seven among the Canaanites. Eli means God, and Sheba, or Shiva, means seven.

     Thus, the word may be broken down into Chab, which has reference to Shiva, and ura, the latter of which means light, or enlightenment.  So the students meet every seven days, a typical Sabean cycle, to be enlightened about their deity.

     Most of the Jewish terms on this page were derived from The World of the Yeshiva by William B. Helmreich, The Free Press, Macmillan N.Y., 1982.