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was the genodice of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany. Two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust were killed. The persecution and genocide were carried out in stages
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holocaust
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o the Hebrew term applied to a Jewish religious or civil court of law. The bet din, literally translated as "house of judgement," originated during the period of the Second Temple, and was known as the Sanhedrin.
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bet din
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sanctification and “refers to the benediction in which the Sabbath is declared holy
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kiddush
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abstract noun referring to dietary laws.
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kashrut
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a Hebrew word meaning division. “The ceremony [is] performed at the termination of the Sabbaths and festivals to mark the distinction between sacred day and the ordinary days of the week.
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havdalah
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• This is a Hebrew word meaning to “set aside.” It refers to the prohibition of handling certain objects related to work on the Sabbath.
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muktzeh
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• This Hebrew word comes from shahat, meaning to slaughter. It has to do with the method of killing animals for food in a merciful way
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shehitah
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compassion
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Rahamanut
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A boy is named at the circumcision; The Hebrew word for covenant
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brit
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• In this Torah portion, God describes to Moses many ethical and ritual laws aimed to help people live lives of holiness. The laws described include some of those recorded in the Ten Commandments, such as respecting one's parents, keeping the Sabbath, and not stealing. God also introduces laws about farming and about belief in supernatural beings.
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kedoshim
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According to Orthodox tradition, marital relations are to be avoided not only during menstruation but for seven days afterwards, and then they are to be resumed only after the wife’s immersion in a specially constructed ritual bat, ... (the word means `gathering,’ as in a gathering of water,”
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mikveh
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redemption of the son’ - takes places on the thirty-first day after the birth. only applies to a male who is his mother’s first child”
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Pidyon ha-ben
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This is a legal document which requires the husband to support his wife in case of divorce
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ketubah
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is a malicious, or benevolent[1] possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.[2]
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dybbuk
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is traditionally the third section of all Amidah recitations. In the silent Amidah it is a short prayer,
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kedushan
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Canopy during weddings
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huppah
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from the Hebrew tahor “pure,” is a purification rite in which a corpse is bathed and cleansed. The dead body is then wrapped in a tallit (prayer shawl). The purification rites are carried out by the Hevra Kaddishah “Holy Society.”
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taharah
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the Jewish Enlightenment, was a movement among European Jews in the 18th-19th centuries that advocated adopting enlightenment values, pressing for betterintegration into European society, and increasing education in secular studies, Hebrew language, and Jewish history. Haskalah in this sense marked the beginning of the wider engagement of European Jews with the secular world,
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haskalah
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• Leaders of the Haskalah movement, the European Jewish enlightenment between the 1770s and 1880s, who sought to reeducate Jews so that they could fit into modern society; they established schools and published works of cultural importance
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maskilim
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Jewish ethical, educational and cultural movement that developed in 19th century Eastern Europe, particularly among Orthodox Lithuanian Jews; made significant contributions to Jewish ethics.
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musar
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