Bet Ha-Knesset

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Bet Ha-Knesset

• House of Meeting
• Synagogue
• Bet Tfilah or Bet Ha-Midrash

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Bimah

• Desk or platform
• To read Torah scrolls
• No prescribed position

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Mechitzah

• Divides men and women in Orthodox worship places
• Erzat nashim or court of women in the Temple is
  the origin

• Worshipping together was considered distracting

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Yizkor

• Tables of remembrance
• To recall the dead

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Menorah

• Isaiah 426

• Chanukah

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Aron Kodesh

• Holy Ark
• Houses Torah scrolls
• Parochet or curtain
• Usually tablets representing the commandments
• Ner tamid or eternal flame
• Congregation should face it and it should be east

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Star of David

• Interlocking triangles
• Magen David

• Became a Zionist symbol
• State of Israel

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Yarmulke or Kippa

• Skull cap
• Not required by law
• Respect for God
• From Roman times

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Shema

• Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD
  alone!
• Therefore, you shall love the LORD, your God,
  with all your heart, and with all your soul, and
  with all your strength. Take to heart these words
  which I enjoin on you today. Drill them into your
  children. Speak of them at home and abroad,
  whether you are busy or at rest. Bind them at
  your wrist as a sign and let them be as a pendant
  on your forehead. Write them on the doorposts of
  your houses and on your gates.

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Tefillin

• Leather pouches
• Small Torah scrolls inside
• Fulfill the commandment of the Shema

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Mezuzah

• Small Box
• v is on the front for the Shema
• Small torah scroll inside

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Numbers 1538-41

• The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites
  and tell them that they and their descendants
  must put tassels on the corners of their
  garments, fastening each corner tassel with a
  violet cord. When you use these tassels, let the
  sight of them remind you to keep all the
  commandments of the LORD, without going wantonly
  astray after the desires of your hearts and eyes.
  Thus you will remember to keep all my
  commandments and be holy to your God. I, the
  LORD, am your God who, as God, brought you out of
  Egypt that I, the LORD, may be your God."

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Tallit and Tallit Katan

• Tallit

• Tallit Katan

Tzittzit are the tassles or fringe
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Jewish Calendar

• Combines solar and lunar features
• Hodesh that which is renewed
• Lunar month is 29.5 days 2 months 59 354 days
  or 11 short of solar calendar

• Double the month of Adar in years 3, 6, 8, 11,
  14, 17, and 19 to keep seasons right
• Festivals on specific days on Jewish calendar
  (15-22 Nisan is Passover), but will vary on the
  solar calendar.

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What Year?

• Anno Mundi or from the creation of the world
• 3760 BCE
• 7th month or Tishrei

• 3760 2005 5765 AM at the New Year in October
  (often September) we go to 5766

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Rosh Hashanah

• Head of the Year or New Years Day
• 1st of Tishrei (Sept or Oct on our calendar)
• Focus is on God as creator

• Starts a 10 day period of penitence or yamim
  noraim (days of awe) or asseret ymey tshuvah
  (days of repentance)

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Yom Kippur

• Day of Atonement
• Holiest Day of the Year
• Tashlich or casting away sins
• Kittel or special robe

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Pesach

• Passover
• Zman cheiruteinu
• Chag ha-matzot
• Chag haaviv

• Seder or order on the first night
• Haggadah
• Matzot
• Karpas
• Haroset
• Maror
• Beitzah
• Zeroah

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Shavuot

• Pentecost or Festival of Weeks
• 50 days (7x71)
• Moses gets the Torah at Sinai

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Sukkot

• Feast of Booths or Tabernacles
• Wandering in Wilderness
• 3 walled structures
• Zman simchateinu or a time of rejoicing

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Kosher

• Kashrut right, fit, suitable
• Treyf or torn
• Leviticus 11 Deut 14

• Animals
• Must chew cud
• Must have cloven hooves
• Fish
• If they lack fins or scales, they are out
• Scales must be easily removable
• No scavengers

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More Guidelines

• Most birds are okay
• No insects
• Milk and eggs from unclean animals are also
  unclean

• No animals killed by other animals
• No animals with deflects or flaws
• Certain parts are to be avoided no suet, no blood

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Ritual Slaughter

• Shechitah
• Ritual slaughter
• shochet
• Draining the blood

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Meat and Dairy

• Exodus 2319 3426 and Deut 1421
• Cant boil meat and dairy together cant eat
  together
• Chok law with a reason beyond comprehension
  just do it

• Pareve or neutral