Hasidic

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Hasidic

• Adj of a sect of Jewish mystics that originated
  in Poland in the eighteenth century

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Samovars

• N metal urns with a spigot and an internal tube
  for heating water to make tea originated in
  Russia

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Earlocks

• N curls of hair grown long at the temples and
  hanging in front of the ears

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Rabbi

• N A scholar and teacher of the Jewish law,
  especially one who is ordained to lead a
  congregation

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Dynastic

• Adj of a succession of rulers who are members of
  the same family

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Shabbat

• N Jewish Sabbath, seventh day of the week, set
  aside for worship and rest

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Talmud

• N writings that make up Jewish civil and
  religious law

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Gentile

• N used as adj. Of or relating to the non-Jewish

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Skullcap

• N a small rimless cap worn indoors, usually for
  religious reasons in Judaism, also called
  yarmulke

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Semitic

• Adj of the peoples of southwestern Asia,
  especially the Jews and the Arabs

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tzitzit

• N the tassels at the corners of a Jewish prayer
  shawl

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Elijah the Prophet

• Hebrew prophet of the ninth century B.C.
  according to 2 kings21-13, Elijah did not die
  the death of a mortal but was taken up to heaven
  in a whirlwind

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apikorsim

• N heretics used here to show the contempt with
  which the Hasids view Jews who do not follow
  their rigorous codes of dress and religious study

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Mincha Service

• Jewish daily afternoon service

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shamashim

• N sextons of a synagogue in charge of maintenance

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shleppers

• N (Yiddish slang) ineffectual people

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tenets

• N principles or beliefs held to be true

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Torah

• N body of Jewish religious literature, including
  the scriptures and writings on religious and
  civil law

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Kosher

• Adj fit to eat according to Jewish dietary laws
  as set forth in Leviticus 11

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Abba

• N father also, a title of respect given to
  Jewish scholars

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tefillin

• N small cases holding copies of passages from
  Scripture. Members of certain Jewish sects fasten
  these cases, also known as phylacteries, to their
  foreheads and left arms during weekday morning
  prayers

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blatt

• N page of the Talmud

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Kiddushin

• N part of the Talmud that deals with the
  ceremony and rules concerning betrothal, or
  engagement

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maimonidean

• Adj of the 12th-century rabbi and philosopher
  Maimonides

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tzaddik

• N spiritual leader of a Hasidic community

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tallit

• N shawl worn by Jewish men over the head or
  shoulders during morning prayer

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Kaddish

• N Jewish hymn recited by mourners in praise of
  God

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shul

• N a synagogue

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ark

• A placed in a synagogue where the scrolls of the
  Torah are kept

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mitnaged

• N an opponent of Hasidism

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Nu

• (Hebrew) so? Well?

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Amalek

• Reference to the descendants of Amalek who made
  war against Israel, angering God

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gematriya

• Method of interpreting Biblical words based on
  the numerical values of their letters in Hebrew
  each letter has a specific numerical equivalent

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sephardic

• Adj of the Jews who originally lived in Spain
  but were expelled in 1492 and resettled in Turkey
  and North Africa

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Ashkenazic

• Adj of the eastern european jews

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goy

• N a gentile

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kashruth

• N dietary rules of Judaism

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Havdalah

• N jewish religious ceremony marking the end of
  the Sabbath or of a holiday

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zionism

• N a movement to establish a Jewish state

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pilpul

• N archaic method of Talmudic scholarship that
  was partly responsible for the rise of Hasidism
  in the 18th centurty Europe

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Bar mitzvah

• N ceremony celebrating a Jewish boy at age 13,
  the age of religious responsibility

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passover

• N Jewish holiday commemorating the deliverance
  of the ancient Hebrews from slavery in Egypt

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maskil

• Wise man a teacher