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16 Cards in this Set
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Beit Din
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Rabbinical court made up of three Rabbis
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Celibacy
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Sexual Chastity - Not having sexual intercourse
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get
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A Writ (written bill) of divorce
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Halachah
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The Jewish legal tradition, grounded in the 613 commandments of the Torah
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Ketubah
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Jewish marriage contract
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Kiddushin
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Hebrew word for holiness/sanctification
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mikvah
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A Jewish ritual bath. The mikvah must contain a prescribed amount of "living water", usually rain or spring.
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mitzvah
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commandment
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mitzvot
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commandments
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Monogamy
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Marriage of one woman with one man
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Niddah
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The separation of a husband and wife during the woman's menstrual period. Also refers to a woman so separated. Also referred to as "family purity"
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Polygamy
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The condition of having more than one spouse. Poly-many, Gamos-marriage
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Talmud
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Collection of orat tradition in written form interpreting the Torah.
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Tenach
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Name for the Hebrew Bible. The written tradition
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Torah
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Teachings. First 5 books of the Tenach. sometimes used to refer to whole Tenach or even the entire body of Jewish religious literature.
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Yetzer ra
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'The evil impulse'
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