History Judaism Vocab
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- Aliyah
- Reading from the Torah during services and is considered an honor
- Bar Mitzvah
- son of the commandment
- Brit Milah
- Circumcision
- Chanukkah
- An eight day holiday celebrating religious freedom
- Gemara
- Commentaries on the Mishna
- Halakhah
-
"Path that one walks"
Jewish law - Kaddish
-
"Holy"
Prayer for the dead - Kipah/Yarmulke
- Head covering
- Kosher
-
"proper" or "correct"
descrives food that is permissible to eat - Matzah
- Unleavened bread traditionally served during Passover
- Minyan
- Ten Jews who pray together
- Mishna
- Commentary on the Torah
- Mitzvah
- commandment
- Pesah
- Passover
- Rabbi
- religious teacher
- Rosh Hashana
- First day of the new year
- Shabbat
- Sabbath- a day of rest
- Shema
- Jewish prayer
- Shivah
-
"seven"
Seven day period of mourning after the burial of a close relative - Siddur
- prayer book
- Talmud
- Oral interpretaion of the Torah
- Tanakh
- Written Torah
- Tisha b'Av
- day of fast commemorating the destruction of the first and second Temples
- Torah
- First 5 books of the Bible
- Tzedakah
- righteousness
- Yom Kippur
- Day of Atonement
- Zionism
- a political movement to create and maintaim a Jewish state