The Chosen Flashcards
Abba
Father
Yiddish
A language spoken by many Europe Jews and their descendants.
Apikorism
Jews who are not Hasid; a very negative term
Ark
An enclosure in a synagogue or temple for the scrolls of the Torah.
Blatt
A section of reading from the Talmud.
Caftan
A long garment like a jacket.
Challah
Type if bread
Gematriya
A mystical method of interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures based on the numerical value of the letters in words.
Goy
A non-Jew
Hasidic
A sect of Jewish mystics that originated in Poland in the 18th century.
Havdalah
A brief service at the end of Shabbat.
Jewish Orthodox
Strictly observing the traditions of Judaism as formulated in the Torah and Talmud.
Kabbalah
A book of Jewish mysticism.
Kaddish
A prayer for someone who has died.
Kosher
Food that is considered ok to eat by Jewish law.
Mitnaged
A sect which is opposed to Hasids.
Nu
“Good” “well” “continue”, similar to “so”
Phylacteries
A leather box that holds passages from the Torah, worn during prayers.
Rabbi
The Jewish religious leader.
Shabbat
The sabbath.
Shofar
A wind instrument made from a ram’s horn.
Shul
School
Tallit
A shawl for prayer.
Talmud
Collection of writing made up of 2 parts: Jewish civil law and religious law.
Tefillin
An assist and reminder used in Jewish prayer.
Torah
The first 5 books of the Old Testament.
Tzitzit
The fringes worn by orthodox Jewish men.
Yeshiva
A school for Talmudic studies (religious and secular).
Zionism
The political support for the creation and develop of a Jewish homeland in Israel.
