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(Judaism) Synonym of bima
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The lectern on the bima.
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The vice-president of a Jewish Sanhedrin or rabbinical court (beit din).
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(Judaism, by extension) Boss, person in charge (of anything).
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Abbreviation of Baal-Shem-Tov. [Israel ben Eliezer, founder of the modern Hassidic movement of Judaism.]
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Alternative form of Hasid [A follower of Hasidism.]
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Alternative form of Hasid [A follower of Hasidism.]
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(Jewish law) One of the other types of eruv; an eruv tavshilin or eruv techumin.
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Alternative form of Gemara [(Judaism) Part of the Talmud, comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.]
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Alternative form of Haftarah [(Judaism) A selection from the books of Nevi'im and Ketuvim of the Tanach, usually corresponding to the week's parashah, publicly read in synagogue following the parashah.]
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Alternative form of Haggadist [One who interprets the Haggadah.]
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Alternative form of Aggadah [A homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical text in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash. A parable that demonstrates a point of the Law in the Talmud.]
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Alternative form of Halacha [A law or tradition by which Jews live. They are derived from the Torah and from later rabbinic literature.]
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Alternative spelling of Halacha [A law or tradition by which Jews live. They are derived from the Torah and from later rabbinic literature.]
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(Judaism) Alternative form of Hasidism [(Judaism) a Jewish movement founded in Poland in the 18th century by Baal-Shem-Tov]
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The national anthem of Israel, based on a 19th-century Jewish poem.
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Alternative spelling of Kabbalah
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(Judaism) Any Jewish community; especially, a secular Jewish communal organization, or the secular dimension of a religious one.
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Alternative form of Ma Nishtana [(Judaism) The four questions sung during Passover seder.]
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(Judaism) Alternative spelling of maggid [(Judaism) A teacher of the Torah in Eastern Europe.]
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(Judaism) Somebody who supervises the kashrut status of food in a restaurant.
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Alternative form of masoret [An unwritten tradition orally passed down as law by the Hebrews.]
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A partition in an Orthodox synagogue to divide men from women
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Alternative form of megillah [(Judaism) any of the Five Scrolls of the Hebrew Scriptures (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther)]
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(Judaism) A war commanded by a ruler rather than God.
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Alternative form of Mishna [The oldest part of the Talmud, rabbinical writings collected by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and published in 250 C.E. in Javneh (יבנה, in Israel).]
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Alternative spelling of Mishna [The oldest part of the Talmud, rabbinical writings collected by Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi and published in 250 C.E. in Javneh (יבנה, in Israel).]
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(Judaism) The person who performs the circumcision in a Jewish bris.
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(Judaism) Someone whom Halacha considers menstruant.
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A type of Ashkenazi Jewish worship song.
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Someone who makes an aliyah for a Torah-reading.
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(Judaism) A ceremony in which a firstborn son is redeemed by a kohen, in order to release him from his obligation from serving in the Temple.
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Alternative form of Qliphoth [Evil forces in the mystical teachings of Judaism (such as in the Kabballah).]
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Alternative form of Sabora (“Jewish rabbi”) [(chiefly in the plural) Any of the leading Jewish rabbis who completed the revision of the Babylonian Talmud in the 6th century C.E..]
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A sexton in a synagogue.
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(Judaism) An Ashkenazic synagogue.
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A member of the Tash Hassidic community
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Alternative form of Tosefta [A compilation of the Jewish oral law from the late 2nd century, the period of the Mishna.]
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Alternative form of Tosafot [(historical) Medieval commentaries on the Talmud, in the form of critical and explanatory glosses.]
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(Judaism) Any of various disfigurements of a person's skin, hair, clothing, or home understood as a kind of impurity requiring special rituals of atonement.
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