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GLOSSARY OF HEBREW TERMS Ani ma'min ("I believe"): a traditional formula introducing a statement of belief. Avodah: this word signifies both work and prayer. Ba'at teshuva: see the introductory quotation to this book. It can only be rendered by a circumlocution, e.g.: "someone who refashions his soul." Plural: ba'alei teshuva. Be'emtsa: in the middle or diagonally. A term taken from the Maharal of Prague (16th century). Bereshit: "In the beginning," the opening words of the Bible. Brit: alliance, covenant. Boher: rabbinic student. Eretz Israel: the Land of Israel. Kashrut: dietary laws. Shabbat: Saturday, the sacred day of rest. Had Gadya: the poem ending the ritual of the Haggada on Seder night. Haganah: defense organization of the Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine. Haggadah: the text read at the Seder ceremony on Passover eve. Halutz: Zionist pioneer in Eretz Israel. Havdalah: ceremony ending the Sabbath. Kaddish: a prayer of sanctification said in memory of a deceased person. Kippur: a day of repentance and fasting held on the 10th of Tishri in the Jewish calendar. Kot Nidre: the prayer beginning the Yom Kippur service. Meforshim: the traditional commentators. Minha: the late afternoon prayers. Mitzva: commandment. Plural: mitzvot. 170 GLOSSARY Nazir: Nazarite. Person dedicated to God (see Numbers 6). Ne'ita: prayers ending the Yom Kippur service. Pesach: Passover. Plugto: point of controversy. Rav: rabbi. Rehem: womb. Rosh Hashana: the New Year. Seder: family celebration on Passover night commemorating the Exodus from Egypt. Shoa: the genocide of six million Jews under the Third Reich. This Hebrew term is very badly rendered by the usual translation, "Holocaust." Tallith: prayer shawl. Tefillin: phalacteries. Tishri: a month of the Jewish year, in autumn. Torah: the Pentateuch, the five books or Law of Moses. The oral Torah is the Talmud and the rabbinic literature including the Aggada and the Midrash . Tsaddik: a righteous man. Viddui: confession of sins on Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur: the day of kippur (see kippur). Zuz, plural zuzim: small coinage. ...

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