Adam Gimbel (1817–1896) was the founder of the Gimbel Brothers Company .
31-1107: Gimbel may refer to: People [ edit ] Adam Gimbel (1817–1896), American businessman and founder of the Gimbels department store Bernard Gimbel (1885–1966), American businessman who served as president of the Gimbels department store Bruce Alva Gimbel (1913–1980), American businessman who served as president of the Gimbels department store Elinor S. Gimbel (1896–1983), American progressive leader and women's rights activist Howard Gimbel (born 1934), Canadian ophthalmologist Norman Gimbel (1927–2018), American lyricist Peter Gimbel (1927–1987), American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist Richard Gimbel (1898–1970), American businessman, war veteran, and curator Roger Gimbel (1925–2011), American television producer Sophie Gimbel (1898–1981), American fashion designer Thom Gimbel (born 1959), American musician Other [ edit ] Gimbels , American department store See also [ edit ] Gimbal ,
62-519: A "collection of collections" relating to a pattern of life that lasted for more than a millennium. It is an example of Biblical wisdom literature and raises questions about values, moral behavior, the meaning of human life, and right conduct, and its theological foundation is that "the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom." Wisdom is personified and praised for her role in creation; God acquired her before all else and gave order to chaos through her. As humans have life and prosperity by conforming to
93-486: A pivoted support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis Johnny Gimble (1926–2015), American country musician and fiddler Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gimbel&oldid=1199013279 " Category : Surnames Adam Gimbel Gimbel was born to a Jewish family in Bavaria in 1817 where he worked in the local baron's vineyard. In May 1835, he immigrated to
124-536: A store in Danville, Illinois . In 1887, Gimbel sold his store in Vincennes and moved to Milwaukee , where a large German population lived, upon the surveillance and recommendation of his son Jacob. They purchased a four-story store at the corner of Wisconsin and Grand from local merchant John Plankinton. The Gimbels store was the largest dry goods vendor in the city, with its own elevator and 40–75 salespeople. In 1894,
155-486: A student or child, dramatic personifications of both Wisdom and Folly, and the "words of the wise" sayings, which are longer than the Solomonic "sayings" but shorter and more diverse than the "instructions." The first section ( chapters 1–9 ) comprises an initial invitation to young men to take up the course of wisdom, ten "instructions", and five poems on personified Woman Wisdom. Verses 1:1-7 constitute an introduction to
186-487: A transmissible human craft, until with 30:1–14, the "words of Agur," we return once more to the idea that God alone possesses wisdom. "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom" (Proverbs 9:10 – the phrase implies submission to God's will). Wisdom is praised for her role in creation ("God by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding, he established the heavens" – Proverbs 3:19). God acquired her before all else, and through her, he gave order to chaos ("When [God] established
217-500: A wife of noble character. It is impossible to offer precise dates for the sayings in Proverbs, a "collection of collections" relating to a pattern of life which lasted for more than a millennium. The phrase conventionally used for the title is taken from chapter 1:1, mishley shelomoh , Proverbs of Solomon (the phrase is repeated at 10:1 and 25:1), and is likely more concerned with labeling the material than ascribing authorship. The book
248-503: Is an anthology made up of six discrete units. The Proverbs of Solomon section, chapters 1–9, was probably the last to be composed, in the Persian or Hellenistic periods. This section has parallels to prior cuneiform writings. The second, chapters 10–22:16, carries the superscription "the proverbs of Solomon", which may have encouraged its inclusion in the Hebrew canon. The third unit, 22:17–24:22,
279-619: Is as close as biblical literature comes to Greek philosophy, of which it was a contemporary; it shares with the Greeks an inquiry into values and reflections on the human condition, although there is no discussion of ontology , epistemology , metaphysics , and the other abstract issues raised by the Greeks. The rabbinic college almost excluded the Book of Proverbs from the Bible in the late first century. They did this because of its contradictions (the result of
310-458: Is headed "bend your ear and hear the words of the wise". A large part of this section is a recasting of a second-millennium BCE Egyptian work, the Instruction of Amenemope , and may have reached the Hebrew author(s) through an Aramaic translation. Chapter 24:23 begins a new section and source with the declaration, "these too are from the wise". The next section at chapter 25:1 has a superscription to
341-452: Is merely silly or playful (though see the words of Agur for a "fool" who has wisdom and could be seen as playful). For the most part, Proverbs offers a simplistic view of life with few grey areas: a life lived according to the rules brings reward, and life in violation of them is certain to bring disaster. In contrast, Job and Ecclesiastes appear to be direct contradictions of the simplicities of Proverbs, each in its own way all but dismissing
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#1732858433391372-696: The Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament traditionally ascribed to King Solomon and his students. When translated into Greek and Latin, the title took on different forms: in the Greek Septuagint (LXX), it became Παροιμίαι ( Paroimiai , "Proverbs"); in the Latin Vulgate , the title was Proverbia —from which the English name is derived. Proverbs is not merely an anthology but
403-580: The United States paying his fare by working as a ship's hand. Arriving in New Orleans , he worked two years as a dock worker. Noticing the itinerant peddlers who moved up and down the river peddling their goods, he saved his earnings and purchased an inventory of needles, thread, and cloth and headed north in July 1837. He printed listings of his goods and nailed them to trees along his route. After five years, he
434-408: The "Palace of Trade". The store sold all kinds of goods including nails, gunpowder, harnesses, shawls, shoes, cloth, and pelts, and did not negotiate prices, the common practice at the time. Native Americans were particularly attracted to the standardized prices as they were often charged higher prices when negotiating. Gimbel used the motto "Fairness and Equality to All Patrons." In 1869, he opened
465-570: The Colossians calls Jesus "...image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation...", while the Gospel of John identifies him with the creative word ("In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God"). In the 4th century, when Christianity was caught up in heresies and still developing the creeds which would define its beliefs, Proverbs 8:22 was used both to support and refute
496-747: The Gimbel Brothers Company, as it was then known, expanded to Philadelphia, buying a dry goods store, the Granville Haines store (originally built and operated by Cooper and Conard). Gimbel believed that the manufacturer should sell direct to the retailer to keep prices low and cut out the middleman; in Philadelphia, he opened his own manufacturing facility. In 1847, he married Fridolyn Kahn-Weiler; they had fourteen children, eleven of whom lived to adulthood. His seven sons, Jacob, Ellis, Isaac, Charles, Louis, Daniel, and Benedict, all worked in
527-519: The Lord!"), wisdom appeals to human reason and observation. The pre-Exilic (i.e. pre-586 BC) Old Testament allowed no equals to YHWH in heaven, despite the continued existence of an assembly of subordinate servant-deities . The post-Exilic writers of the Wisdom tradition developed the idea that Wisdom existed before creation and was used by God to create the universe: "Present from the beginning, Wisdom assumes
558-619: The assumptions of the "wise". Noteworthy also is the fact that the "mighty acts of God" ( the Exodus , the giving of the Torah at Sinai, the Covenant between God and Israel, etc.) which make up Israel's history are completely or almost completely absent from Proverbs and the other Wisdom books: in contrast to the other books of the Hebrew Bible, which appeal to divine revelation for their authority ("Thus says
589-447: The book's origins as not just an anthology but an anthology of anthologies). The reader is told, for example, both to "not answer a fool according to his folly," according to 26:4, and to "answer a fool according to his folly", as 26:5 advises. More pervasively, the recurring theme of the initial unit (chapters 1–9) is that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but the following units are much less theological, presenting wisdom as
620-671: The claims of the Arians . The Arians, assuming that Christ could be equated with the "Wisdom of God" (1 Corinthians 1:24), argued that the Son, like Wisdom, was "created", and therefore subordinate to the Creator; their opponents, who argued that the relevant Hebrew word should be translated as "begot", won the debate, and the Nicene Creed declared that the Son was "begotten, not made", meaning that God and Christ were consubstantial . Online translations of
651-412: The collections as follows: "Proverb" is a translation of the Hebrew word mashal , but "mashal" has a wider range of meanings than the short, catchy saying implied by the English word. Thus, roughly half the book is made up of "sayings" of this type, while the other half consists of longer poetic units of various types. These include "instructions" formulated as advice from a teacher or parent addressed to
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#1732858433391682-403: The effect that the following proverbs were transcribed "by the men of Hezekiah", indicating at face value that they were collected in the reign of Hezekiah in the late 8th century BCE. Chapters 30 and 31 (the "words of Agur," the "words of Lemuel," and the description of the ideal woman) are a set of appendices, quite different in style and emphasis from the previous chapters. The "wisdom" genre
713-498: The family business. Every family business meeting was opened by a reading from the Book of Proverbs . Gimbel died on June 28, 1896. He is buried in Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Philadelphia. Book of Proverbs The Book of Proverbs ( Hebrew : מִשְלֵי , Mišlê ; Greek : Παροιμίαι ; Latin : Liber Proverbiorum , "Proverbs (of Solomon)") is a book in the third section (called Ketuvim ) of
744-510: The heavens… when he drew a circle on the face of the Deeps … when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him" – Proverbs 8:27–31). Since humans have life and prosperity by conforming to the order of creation, seeking wisdom is the essence and goal of the religious life. Wisdom, or the wise person, is compared and contrasted with foolishness or the fool, meaning one who is lacking in wisdom and uninterested in instruction, not one who
775-463: The order of creation, seeking wisdom is the essence and goal of life. The book of Proverbs is divided into sections: the initial invitation to acquire wisdom, another section focused mainly on contrasting the wise and the fool, and the third being moral discourses on various topics. Chapters 25–29 discuss justice, the wicked, and the rich and poor; chapter 30 introduces the " sayings of Agur " on creation and divine power. The superscriptions divide
806-431: The other examples of the biblical wisdom tradition – Job and Ecclesiastes and some other writings – Proverbs raises questions of values, moral behavior, the meaning of human life, and righteous conduct. The three retain an ongoing relevance for both religious and secular readers, Job and Ecclesiastes through the boldness of their dissent from received tradition, Proverbs in its worldliness and satiric shrewdness. Wisdom
837-450: The role of master builder while God establishes the heavens, restricts the chaotic waters, and shapes the mountains and fields." Borrowing ideas from Greek philosophers who held that reason bound the universe together, the Wisdom tradition taught that God's Wisdom, Word and Spirit were the ground of cosmic unity. Christianity in turn adopted these ideas and applied them to Jesus: the Epistle to
868-411: The whole of this section. Proverbs 10:1–22:16, with 375 sayings, consists of two parts, the first part (10–14) contrasting the wise man and the fool (or the righteous and the wicked), the second (15–22:16) addressing wise and foolish speech. Verse 22:17 opens ‘the words of the wise’, until verse 24:22, with short moral discourses on various subjects. An additional section of sayings which "also belong to
899-404: The wise" follows in verses 24:23-34. Chapters 25–29, attributed to the editorial activity of "the men of Hezekiah ", contrast the just and the wicked and broach the topic of rich and poor. Chapter 30:1-4, the "sayings of Agur", introduces creation, divine power, and human ignorance. Chapter 31, "the sayings of King Lemuel — an inspired utterance his mother taught him", describes a virtuous woman,
930-509: Was able to purchase a horse and carriage and increase the variety of goods he carried. In 1842, he arrived at Vincennes, Indiana near where the Wabash River joined the Ohio River . It was a bustling town, and he sold out his entire inventory in one week. Gimbel decided to stay in town and at first rented a room from a local dentist and then purchased a house for his retail store, naming it
961-430: Was widespread throughout the ancient Near East , and reading Proverbs alongside the examples recovered from Egypt and Mesopotamia reveals the common ground shared by international wisdom. The wisdom literature of Israel may have been developed in the family, the royal court, and houses of learning and instruction; nevertheless, the overwhelming impression is of instruction within the family in small villages. Along with