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