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Aggadah |
anecdotal or narrative material in the Talmud |
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Ashkenazim |
Jews of Central and Eastern European ancestry |
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Baal Shem Tov |
"Master of the good name" Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer—founder of Hasidism AKA "the Besht" |
"the Besht" (acronym) |
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bar mitzvah |
"son of the commandment" |
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bat mitzvah |
"daughter of the commandment" |
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b'nai mitzvah |
"children of the commandment" |
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bris |
Yiddish for the Hebrew "brit" |
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brit |
"treaty" or "covenant" Special relationship between God and the Jewish people |
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brit milah |
circumcision |
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Gaonim |
Senior rabbinical authorities in Mesopotamia under Persian and Muslim rule; Singular of "Gaon" |
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"Hazzan" |
Cantor |
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Gemarah |
the body of Aramaic commentary attached to the Hebrew text of the Mishnah |
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Haggadah |
liturgy for the ritual Passover dinner |
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Halakhah |
Material in the Talmud of a legal nature |
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Which two types of literature compose the Talmud? |
Aggadah and Halakhah |
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Haredim |
A rigorously observant subgroup of Orthodox Judaism |
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The Hasidism movement |
Significant part of Orthodox Judaism, founded by "the Besht"—an 18th-century mystic |
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"Hasidism" |
Pious ones |
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Haskalah |
Jewish Enlightenment |
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Tanakh |
Hebrew Bible |
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Shoah |
"Catastrophe" AKA Holocaust |
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"Holocaust" |
Burnt offering/sacrifice |
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Kabbalah |
The medieval Jewish mystical tradition whose central text is the Zohar |
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To whom was the writing of the Zohar attributed? |
Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai, a 2nd-century mystic and wonder-worker |
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Who actually wrote the Zohar? |
Moses of Leon (d. 1305) |
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Karaites |
"Scripturalists" An 8th-century anti-rabbinic movement that rejected the Talmud, taking only the Tanakh as authoritative |
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kippah |
"dome" or "cap" Skullcap (or yarmulke) that Jewish men wear |
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Ladino |
language composed mainly of old Spanish and Hebrew, spoken by some Sephardic Jews |
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Who was Isaac Luria? |
Influential Kabbalah scholar |
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Moses Maimonides |
One of the most famous Jewish philosophers and legal scholars of the Islamic age Rabbi Moses ben Maimon ("RMBM") |
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menorah |
seven-branched oil lamp that has been a Jewish symbol since ancient times |
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What came first the menorah or the six-pointed star? |
Menorah |
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How many branches does the Hanukkah menorah have? |
Nine |
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What is the hannukiah? |
The nine-branched Hanukkah menorah |
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Midrash |
Rabbinic commentary on scripture |
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Minyan |
the quorum of ten required for a prayer service |
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Mishnah |
The Oral Law parallel authority to the written Torah |
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When was the Mishnah written down and codified? |
Around 220 CE |
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From whom was the Mishnah inherited? |
Pharisees |
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To whom was the Mishnah ascribed? |
Moses |
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Mishneh torah |
topically arranged code of Jewish law written in the twelfth century by Maimonides |
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mitzvah |
commandment |
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Mizrahim |
Jews of Middle Eastern ancestry |
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Mohel
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a ritual circumciser |
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phylacteries |
English term for "tefillin" |
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Purim |
"lots" The holiday commemorating the escape of the Jews of Persia from an evil plot of a Persian official named Haman Esther's story |
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rabbi |
"teacher" |
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responsa |
Latin for "answers" |
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Rosh Hashanah |
New Year festival (usually Sep.) The day when God is said to open the Book of Life |
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Seder |
"Order" The ritual Passover dinner |
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Sephardim |
Jews of Spanish-Portuguese ancestry |
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Shavuot |
A one-day festival in late May/early June that celebrates the revelation of the Torah by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai "Festival of Weeks" |
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The Shema |
The oldest and most sacred fixed daily prayer in Judaism Deut. 6:4-9 "Hear, O Israel…" |
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"Shema" |
"Hear" |
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Simchat Bat |
"Joy of a daughter" Female equivalent to male "Bris" |
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Sukkot |
Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths) |
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tallit |
shawl with fringes at the corner, worn for prayer |
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tefillin |
Small black leather boxes, containing parchment scrolls from the Torah |
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Where are tefillin attached?
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Forehead and upper arm |
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Tetragrammaton |
"Four-letter" word YHWH |
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"tikkun olam" |
"Restoration of the world" |
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What is tikkun olam?
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Kabbalistic concept, introduced by Isaac Luria, that the world can be restored through prayer, study, meditation, and the observance of the commandments
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Tzaddik |
"Righteous person" Title conveying the Hasidic ideal for a teacher or spiritual leader |
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Yarmulke |
Yiddish word for kippah Skullcap |
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yeshiva |
traditional school for the study of the scriptures and Jewish law |
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Who was Sabbatai Zvi? |
A student of Lurianic Kabbalah who was declared the messiah in the year 1666 Given the choice between death and conversion to Islam, he chose to convert |
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Septuagint |
Latin for "seventy" Greek translation of the Tanakh |
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Tzedek |
Justice |
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Tzedakah |
Charity |
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