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(Judaism) The sixth month of the civil year and the twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar, after Shevat and before Nisan.
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A Jewish woman who is trapped in a marriage from which she cannot escape, either because her husband has disappeared or because he will not grant her a gett.
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(Judaism) A prayer primarily consisting of nineteen blessings recited in a whisper while standing facing the site of the Temple in Jerusalem.
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(Judaism) A Jewish coming of age ceremony for boys.
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(Judaism) A ritual inspection or examination.
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(Judaism) A formula of blessing or thanksgiving.
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(Judaism) The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium.
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(Judaism) The Jewish ceremony of circumcision normally performed on the eighth day of life.
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(nonstandard) Alternative form of hagigah [A sacrificial offering at one of the three pilgrimage festivals: Passover, Shavuot (Pentecost), and Sukkot (Tabernacles).]
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Alternative form of hagigah [A sacrificial offering at one of the three pilgrimage festivals: Passover, Shavuot (Pentecost), and Sukkot (Tabernacles).]
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Alternative spelling of Hanukkah [(Judaism) An eight-day Jewish festival, starting on the 25th day of Kislev, which commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem after the victory of the Maccabees over the Greek Syrians.]
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Alternative form of hazzan [(Judaism) A Jewish cantor in a synagogue.]
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(Judaism) A ritual that is not commanded in the Torah but that is still considered mandatory.
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The act or ceremony of scrolling the Torah back up after reading it.
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(Judaism) A free-loan fund for Orthodox Jews.
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Alternative form of Havdalah [the Jewish ceremony that concludes the Sabbath or other Holy days.]
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(Judaism) The process of putting eating utensils into boiling water to kasher them.
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Alternative form of hagigah [A sacrificial offering at one of the three pilgrimage festivals: Passover, Shavuot (Pentecost), and Sukkot (Tabernacles).]
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(Judaism) A procession of people making circuit around something.
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Alternative form of Havdalah [the Jewish ceremony that concludes the Sabbath or other Holy days.]
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(Judaism) A voluntary Jewish offering lifted up before the Lord by the priest.
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A certification that a food product or establishment is kosher.
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Alternative spelling of kashrut [The Jewish dietary laws, stating which foods are fit to eat (kosher).]
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(Judaism) Heartfelt intent during prayer, as opposed to roteness.
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A prayer in Judaism, recited when entering a synagogue.
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(Judaism) A sacred Jewish pillar.
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Alternative spelling of menorah [(Judaism) A holy candelabrum with seven branches used in the Temple of Jerusalem.]
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(Judaism, of wine) cooked so as to render it unfit for idolatrous purposes, thereby making it permissible even in the event that it is subsequently handled by a gentile
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the first step in the bris, where the end of the upper foreskin is amputated (later followed by peria then circumcision then metzitza)
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(by extension) A Jewish prayer service.
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Alternative form of muktzeh [(Judaism) Of objects: restricted from being moved (and sometimes touched) during Shabbat and holidays.]
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Sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews.
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(Judaism) Either of the two small leather cases, containing biblical scrolls, worn by Jewish men at morning prayer; the tefilla.
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The mitzvah of publicizing the miracle of Purim or Hanukkah.
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person honoured at a Jewish brit milah by holding the baby boy in his lap as the mohel performs the circumcision
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Alternative spelling of Sanhedrin [(historical) An assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every major city in Israel.]
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Alternative form of shehitah [The ritual slaughter of mammals and birds according to Jewish dietary laws.]
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Alternative form of shehitah [The ritual slaughter of mammals and birds according to Jewish dietary laws.]
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(Judaism) to perform shechita, to ritually slaughter
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Alternative form of shechinah [(Judaism) the presence of God.]
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(Judaism) An ordeal of a woman drinking priest-cursed bitter liquid to determine if she has committed adultery.
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The portion of the tefillin which is worn on the head.
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(Judaism) heave offering
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(Judaism) to immerse (something, especially kitchenware) into a mikveh
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(religious) Not kosher.
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(Judaism) The prohibition in Jewish religious law against seclusion in a private area of a man and a woman who are not married to each other, so as to prevent adultery or promiscuity.
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(Jewish law) having fulfilled the requirements of a mitzvah
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(Judaism) A ceremony in which girls are named.
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