Dictionary of Jewish Words: A JPS Guide

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Bar and Bat Mitzvah aliyah Banot Mitzvah B’nai Mitzvah candlelighting devar Torah haftarah hora l’chaim maftir maftir aliyah mazel tov parashah simcha tallit Torah beliefs and concepts, Jewish ahavatYisra’el Akedah avodah bikur holim brit chesbon ha-nefesh covenant derekh eretz emet emunah fence around the Torah gemilut hasadim hakhnasat orchim halakhah hiddur mitzvah hillul ha-Shem Kabbalah kavod kavod ha-met kibbutz galuyot kiddush ha-Shem lashon ha-ra ma’asim tovim Mashiach Mattan Torah menschlikhkeit Messianic Era minhag mitzvah nichum aveilim olam ha-ba pikuach nefesh rachmones ruach shalom bayit teshuvah tikun olam Torah mi-Sinai tzedakah tzeniut yetzer ha-ra yetzer ha-tov Yiddishkeit Bible—see texts, Jewish birth bris brit bat brit chayim brit milah circumcision Elijah’s Chair kvater kvaterin mohel naming pidyon ha-ben sandek shalom zachar simchat bat zocher ha-brit calendar, Jewish B.C.E. C.E. erev Jubilee months Adar Adar II Av Elul Heshvan Iyar Kislev Nisan Shevat Sivan Tammuz Tevet Tishrei shemitah 200 Category Lists Category Lists 201 conversion anusim apostate beit din Converso ger hatafat dam brit Jew by Choice Marrano mikveh tevilah death, afterlife alav ha-shalom burial hevrah kadishah kavod ha-met shomer taharah takhrikhim Gan Eden Gehenna Geihinnom gilgul mourning, customs keriah minyan nichum aveilim seudat hevrah mourning, periods aninut aveilut sheloshim shivah nefesh neshamah olam ha-ba prayers El Male Rachamim Kaddish Yizkor ruach Sheol shivah minyan unveiling yahrzeit yahrzeit candle zichrono livrachah divorce agunah get Eastern European Jewry Aleichem, Sholom Ashkenazim badchen dybbuk goldene medina golem heder kehillah klezmer landsman landsmanshaft pogrom shadchen shtetl ethnic groups Ashkenazim Falasha Galitzianer gentile Litvak Marrano Semite Sephardim expressions azoy Baruch ha-Shem b’tayvon canary farstay genug gevalt gezuntheit Gotenyu halevai hok a tchynick kine-ahora kol ha-kavod kol tov labreoot l’chaim lehitraot le-shanah ha-ba’ah be-Yerushalayim loch in kop mazel tov nu oy shayna punim shep nachas siman tov zissen Pesach family, names for abba bubbe ema kinder machetayneste machetunim machuten mishpachah saba safta zayde food boreka blintz borsht bread bagel bialy challah brisket cholent chopped liver chremslach dafina desserts babka hamantashen kamishbread kichel lekakh macaroon mandelbread mun rugelach shnecken sufganiyot tayglach falafel farfel flanken fried matzah gefilte fish gribenes haroset helzel hummus kasha kibbe kishka knaidel knish kreplach khreyn kugel latke lekvar levivot lokshen lox mandlen matzah matzah ball matzah brei matzah meal Nova prokas shav shmaltz shnapps shawarma or shwarma tahini tzimmes God, names for Adonai Adoshem Ein Sof Elohim G-d ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu ha-Shem sefirot Shaddai Shekhinah Tetragrammaton greetings chazak u baruch gemar hatimah tovim (good) yom tov gut Shabbos hag sameach le-shanah tovah tikatevu Shabbat shalom shalom shalom aleikhem shanah tovah yasher koach Hanukkah Antiochus IV, King dreidel Festival of Lights gelt Hanukkah hanukkiah Hasmoneans latke levivot Maccabee, Judah Maccabees “Maoz Tzur” menorah nes gadol hayah sham shamash sivivon sufganiyot Hasidism Baal Shem Tov haredim Hasidism Lubavitch movement rebbe Schneerson, Menachem Mendel tzadik ultra-Orthodox holidays, Jewish (see also specific listings) Asarah b’Tevet Fast of Esther (Ta’anit Esther) Fast of Gedaliah Hanukkah Lag ba-Omer Pesach Purim Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hodesh Shavuot Shivah Asar be-Tammuz Shushan Purim Simchat Torah Category Lists 202 Category Lists 203 Sukkot Tisha b’Av Tu b’Av Tu b’Shevat Yom ha-Atzmaut Yom ha-Shoah Yom ha-Zikaron Yom Kippur YomYerushalayim Holocaust “Ani Ma’amin” anti-Semitism concentration camp Final Solution ghetto Holocaust Kristallnacht Righteous Gentiles Shoah swastika Warsaw Ghetto YadVashem Yom ha-Shoah Israel aliyah dati geography Dead Sea Eilat Galilee, Sea of Gaza Golan/Golan Heights Haifa Jerusalem Judea Lake Kinneret Masada Negev occupied territories Qumran Samaria Sea of Gallilee Sinai Tel Aviv West Bank Yerushalayim “Hatikvah” hiloni Ivrit kibbutz Knesset Kotel Law of Return Maccabiah Games Masorti mission to Israel moshav people Begin, Menachem Ben Gurion, David Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer Dayan, Moshe Eban,Abba Falasha kibbutznik Meir, Golda Palestinian olim sabra shaliach Weizmann, Chaim yordim shekel State of Israel ulpan wars, military intifada Israel Defense Forces Six-Day War TZAHAL War of Independence Yom Kippur War Western Wall YadVashem Israel, names for Canaan EretzYisra’el Palestine Promised Land State of Israel Zion Jewish people, ancient sects Essenes Hasmoneans Karaite Pharisee Sadducee Samaritans Jewish people, communities amYisra’el Chosen People Diaspora galut Israelites kehillah klalYisra’el landsman Semite Judaica dreidel Elijah’s Cup hanukkiah ketubbah Kiddush Cup kippah menorah [18.119.132.223] Project MUSE (2024-04...