5-23-2015-INTERESTING WORDS OF JUDAISM


"REMARKS"

THE GENTILE CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE BEEN ADOPTED INTO ISRAEL THROUGH THE GRACE OF YAH'WEH, AND FAITH IN JESUS, YAH'SHUA, SHOULD HAVE SOME CONNECTION TO THEIR VOCABULARY AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS AND OF COURSE THEIR, AND NOW OUR YAH'WEH.  SO THE FOLLOWING WORDS OF JUDAISM WILL ENLIGHTEN THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW AND RESPECT ISRAEL AND THEIR LEGACY. THIS IS A MUST LEARNING FOR THE SERIOUS SAINT WITH THE RELATIONSHIP THEY SHARE WITH ISRAEL IN WHOLE AND NOT THE PART.

SINCE WE TWO, ISRAEL AND GENTILES ARE NOW ONE, BY, AND THROUGH FAITH, WE SHOULD LEARN EACH OTHERS LANGUAGES SO AS TO MELT INTO ONE THE COMMUNICATION OF LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING.  YOU WILL BE ENCUMBERED TO EMBRACE THE ISRAELITE'S AND JEWS WHEN PRONOUNCING THESE NAMES AND LEARNING THEM.

THEREFORE THE FOLLOWING WORDS ARE GIVEN TO ENLIGHTEN EVERYONES VOCABULARY.

*THE FOLLOWING IS COPIED FROM THE WEBSITE FROM religionfacts.com  AND WE THANK THEM.


  1. "ADONAI"=(HEBREW, LORD), ONE OF THE MOST COMMON JEWISH NAMES FOR ELOHIM USED ESPECIALLY IN PRAYER.
  2. "aggadah"=(HEBREW, DISCOURSE OR TELLING). NON-LEGAL MATERIAL IN THE TALMUD AND MIDRASH, INCLUDING STORIES, AND LEDGENDS, AND THEOLOGY, AND SERMONS.
  3. ALEF-BET=(HEBREW, A-B) THE HEBREW ALPHABET.
  4. ALEINU= CLOSING PRAYER OF EVERY SYNAGOGUE SERVICE, PROCLAIMING YAHWEHS SOVEREIGNTY.
  5. aliyah= (HEBREW, GOING UP). TO MAKE AN ALIYAH IS TO BE CALLED UP TO RECITE THE BLESSING BEFORE THE TORAH  READING.
  6. amudah= SMALL DESK IN A SYNAGOGUE FROM WHICH THE TORAH IS READ.
  7. ARAMAIC= SEMITIC LANGUAGE CLOSELY RELATED TO HEBREW. WAS ONCE THE COMMON LANGUAGE OF THE JEWISH WORLD-THE BABYLONIAN AND PALESTINIAN TALMUDS WERE BOTH WRITTEN IN ARAMAIC- BUT IS NO LONGER SPOKEN.
  8. ark= (ACRONYM FOR HEBREW ARON HAKODESH,"HOLY CHEST"). CABINET IN THE SYNAGOGUE THAT HOLDS THE TORAH SCROLLS, USUALLY LOCATED AT THE FRONT OF THE SANCTUARY. 
  9. ASHKENAZI= JEWS FROM EASTERN AND NORTHERN EUROPE AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, TO BE DISTINGUISHED FROM SEPHARDIC JEWS.
  10. bar mitzvah= (HEBREW, SON OF COMMANDMENT). A BOY WHO HAS REACHED THE AGE OF 13 AND IS THEREAFTER EXPECTED TO OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS. TERM ALSO USED FOR THE CEREMONY TO MARK THIS OCCASION.
  11. bat-mitzvah=(HEBREW, DAUGHTER OF THE COMMANDMENT). A GIRL WHO HAS REACHED THE AGE OF 12 AND IS THEREAFTER EXPECTED TO OBEY THE COMMANDMENTS. TERM ALSO USED FOR THE CEREMONY MARKING THE OCCASION.
  12. beit knesset= (HEBREW, HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY). THE SYNAGOGUE.
  13. beit tefilah= (HEBREW, HOUSE OF PRAYER). THE SYNAGOGUE.
  14. beit midrash= (HEBREW, HOUSE OF STUDY). A PLACE DESIGNATED FOR THE STUDY OF SACRED TEXTS, USUALLY A PART OF THE SYNAGOGUE.
  15. ben= HEBREW, SON OF-ARAMAIC BAR, OR IBN). SON OF. USED IN TRADITIONAL NAMES; RABBI MOSES ben MAIMON IS MOSES, THE SON OF MAIMON.
  16. bet-din= (HEBREW, HOUSE OF JUDGMENT). A RABBINAL COURT CONVENED TO RESOLVE BUSINESS DISPUTES, GRANT DIVORCES, DETERMINE WHETHER A PROSPECTIVE CONVERT IS READY FOR CONVERSION, ETC.
  17. bris= (HEBREW, COVENANT). THE SPECIAL COVENANT BETWEEN ELOHIM AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
  18. brit milah= (HEBREW, COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION). THE RITUAL OF CIRCUMCISION PERFORMED ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF A BOYS LIFE.
  19. CE= COMMON ERA OR CHRISTIAN ERA. DESIGNATION OF YEARS USED BY JEWS AND OTHERS WHO WISH TO AVOID AFFIRMATION OF FAITH EMBEDDED IN AD(LATIN ANNO DOMINI, IN THE YEAR OF OUR ADONAI).
  20. chanukkiah= NINE BRANCH CANDLESTICK USED ON HANUKKAH. MORE COMMONLY, THOUGH NOT ACCURATELY, CALLED THE MENORAH.
  21. chutzpah= ARROGANCE, GUTS, PRESUMPTION. GENERALLY MEANT POSITIVELY.
  22. chukkim= COMMANDMENTS THAT HAVE NO KNOW REASON BEHIND THEM.
  23. chuppah= (HEBREW, canopy). ALSO SPELLED HUPPA. CANOPY UNDER WHICH THE JEWISH MARRIAGE CEREMONY TAKES PLACE, REPRESENTING THE MARRIAGE CHAMBER OF THE COUPLE'S NEW HOME. THE TERM IS ALSO USED COLLOQUIALLY FOR THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY AS A WHOLE.
  24. COUNTING OF THE OMER= (HEBREW, SEFIRAT HA OMER). THE COUNTING OF DAYS BETWEEN PASSOVER AND SHAVOUT.
  25. DAF YOMI= (HEBREW, THE DAILY PAGE). PROGRAM OF STUDYING ONE PAGE OF THE TALMUD PER DAY. 
  26. DIASPORA=JEWS LIVING OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL.
  27. DOCUMENTARY HYPOTHESIS= THE MODERN SCHOLARLY HYPOTHESIS THAT THE TORAH WAS WRITTEN BY FOUR DISTINCT AUTHORS, IDENTIFIED AS J (FOR JEHOVAH), E (FOR ELOHIM), P (FOR PRIESTLY), AND D (FOR DEUTERONOMIST). A FIFTH BELIEVED TO BE THE EDITOR OF THE OTHER AUTHORS WORK, IS KNOWN AS THE "REDACTOR".
  28. GAON= (HEBREW EMINENCE , EXCELLENCE). TITLE GIVEN TO THE HEAD OF THE BABYLONIAN ACADEMY AND LATER TO DISTINGUISHED TALMUD SCHOLARS IN THE 6TH TO THE 12TH CENTURIES.
  29. GEMARA= (HEBREW, COMPLETION). COMMENTARY ON THE MISHNAH. THE GEMARA AND THE MISHNAH CONSTITUTE THE TALMUD.
  30. get= DIVORCE DECREE GRANTED BY A BET-DIN.
  31. gezeirah= RABBINIC LAW DESIGNED TO PREVENT ACCIDENTAL VIOLATION OF A MITZVAH.
  32. gilgul= (HEBREW, TRANSMIGRATION). THE JEWISH DOCTRINE OF THE TRANSMIGRATION (REINCARNATION) OF SOULS, TAUGHT BY THE FOUNDER OF KARAISM AND FOUND ALSO IN KABBALISTIC WRITINGS.
  33. goy= (HEBREW, "NATION"; YIDDISH, "GENTILE") NON-JEW. SOMETIMES USED PEJORATIVLEY, BUT THE WORD ITSELF IS NOT.
  34. haftarah= PORTION OF THE PROPHETS READ IN THE SYNAGOGUE SERVICES.
  35. halakhah= (HEBREW, "THE WALK"). JEWISH LAW. CONSISTS OF 613 mitzvot (COMMANDMENTS) OF THE TORAH PLUS RABBINIC LAW AND CUSTOM.
  36. HALLEL= PSALMS 113-118, RECITED AT THE END OF MORNING SERVICE ON FESTIVAL DAYS.
  37. HANUKKAH= (HEBREW, "DEDICATION). ALSO SPELLED CHANUKAH. AN EIGHT DAY HOLIDAY BEGINNING 25 OF KISLEV (MID DECEMBER) THAT COMMEMORATES THE REVOLT OF THE MACCABEES IN 164 BCE AND THE MIRACULOUS OIL THAT BURNED FOR EIGHT DAYS.
  38. HASHEM= (HEBREW, "THE NAME". ELOHIM. USED ESPECIALLY BY ORTHODOX JEWS TO AVOID SAYING A NAME OF YAHWEH.
  39. HASHKIVEINU= EVENING PRAYER FOR ELOHIMS PROTECTION WHILE SLEEPING.
  40. hechsher=(HEBREW). THE SEAL OF APPROVAL ON KOSHER FOODS.
  41. KADDISH= PRAYER PROCLAIMING THE GREATNESS OF YAHWEH. USED AS A MOURNERS PRAYER: BUT ALSO AT OTHER POINTS IN THE LITURGY.
  42. kasher= (HEBREW, "FIT"). FIT FOR RITUAL USE. ALSO A VERB MEANING "TO MAKE A FOOD OR OBJECT FIT FOR RITUAL USE".
  43. kashrut= (HEBREW, "FITNESS"). JEWISH DIETARY LAWS.
  44. kedusha= (HEBREW, "HOLINESS").  HOLINESS.
  45. kippah= (HEBREW, (YIDDISH YARMULKE".) DISC LIKE HEAD COVERING.
  46. KOL NIDRE= (HEBREW, "ALL VOWS".) FAMOUS HYMN SUNG DURING YOM KIPPUR RELEASING JEWS OF ALL RELIGIOUS VOWS MADE IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
  47. kosher= ANGLICIZED FORM OF KASHER 
  48. lashon kodesh= (HEBREW, "THE HOLY TONGUE".) 
  49. l'chaim= (HEBREW, "TO LIFE".) A JEWISH TOAST.
  50. lulav= INTERWOVEN BRANCHES OF PALM, WILLOW, AND MYRTLE USED IN THE SUKKOT CELEBRATION.
  51. mashgiach= (HEBREW) RABBI TRAINED TO CERTIFY FOODS AS KOSHER.
  52. matzah= (HEBREW, "UNLEAVENED BREAD'.) ALSO SPELLED MATZO, OR MAZZAH. UNLEAVENED (NON-YEAST) BREAD USED DURING PASSOVER BASED ON EXODUS 12: 39, IN WHICH THE ISRAELITES FLED EGYPT WITH ONLY UNLEAVENED BREAD BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT WAIT FOR THE DOUGH TO RISE. CALLED THE BREAD OF AFFLICTION BASED ON DEUTERONOMY 16: 3.
  53. mazel tov= (HEBREW, "GOOD PLANETARY INFLUENCES".) GOOD LUCK. USUALLY SAID AT THE END OF A WEDDING OR UPON HEARING GOOD NEWS.
  54. menorah= (HEBREW, "CANDELABRUM".) A SEVEN BRANCH CANDLESTICK. PART OF THE FURNISHINGS OF THE TABERNACLE IN THE WILDERNESS AND THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM. IN 1948 IT BECAME THE OFFICIAL SYMBOL OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. OFTEN USED TO REFER TO THE CHANUKKIAH.
  55. mezuzah= (HEBREW, "DOORPOST".) SMALL PARCHMENT OF TORAH VERSES PLACED ON THE DOOR POSTS OF JEWISH HOMES IN OBEDIENCE TO DEUTERONOMY 6:9.
  56. MIDRASH= (FROM HEBREW DERASH, "SERMON".) STORIES, SERMONS, PARABLES, AND OTHER MATERIAL  EXPLAINING THE TALMUD.
  57. mikva= BODY OF NATURAL WATER FOR RITUAL CLEANSING.
  58. minyan= QUOTA OF TEN ADULT JEWS REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN PRAYERS AND OBSERVANCES.
  59. MISHNAH= (HEBREW, "A TEACHING THAT IS REPEATED".) RABBINIC COMMENTARY ON THE TORAH AND PART OF THE TALMUD. CODIFIED  C.200 CE BY JUDAH HA-NASI.
  60. MISHNEH TORAH= (HEBREW, REPETITION OF TORAH"). THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY. OR MORE COMMONLY THYE CODE OF MAIMONIDES.
  61. mizvot= (HEBREW, THE COMMANDMENTS"). COMMANDMENTS, RELIGIOUS ACTIONS (SINGULAR MITZVAH). SOMETIMES USED MORE GENERALLY TO REFER TO ANY GOOD DEED.
  62. mohel= THE PERSON WHO PERFORMS THE RITUAL OF CIRCUMCISION. MUST BE AN OBSERVANT JEW TRAINED IN THE APPLICABLE JEWISH LAW AND TECHNIQUE.
  63. NEVI IM= (HEBREW, PROPHETS). SECOND SECTION OF THE TANAKH CONTAINING THE WRITINGS OF THE PROPHETS AND HISTORY COVERING ROUGHLY 700 YEARS AFTER MOSES.
  64. OLAM HA-BA= THE WORLD TO COME-THE JEWISH AFTERLIFE.
  65. ORAL TORAH= THE MISHNAH. ACCORDING TO TRADITIONAL JEWS, PART OF THE TORAH RECEIVED BY MOSES AT SINAI BUT NOT WRITTEN DOWN UNTIL C. 200 CE AS THE MISHNAH.
  66. pareve= (YIDDISH, NEUTRAL"). KOSHER FOODS THAT CONTAIN NO MEAT OR DAIRY AND THEREFORE MAY BE EATEN WITH EITHER. 
  67. PURIM= (HEBREW,LOTS"). FESTIVE HOLIDAY IN THE EARLY SPRING CELEBRATING THE STORY OF ESTHER ND MORDECAI WITH COSTUME PARTIES AND PLAYS.
  68. rabbi= (hebrew, teacher"). JEWISH SPIRITUAL LEADER.
  69. RAMBAM= ACROSTIC FOR RABBI MOSES BEN MAIMON
  70. sandek= THE JEWISH GODFATHER, THE MAN WHO HOLDS THE BABY BOY DURING CIRCUMCISION.
  71. SECOND TEMPLE= THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM THAT WAS REBUILT IN 516 BCE AFTER THE BABYLONIAN EXILE AND DESTROYED BY THE ROMANS IN 70 CE.
  72. SEPARDIC= JEWS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AND SPAIN AND THEIR DESCENDANTS.
  73. se'udat mitzvot= A FESTIVE MEAL FOLLOWING THE FULFILLMENT OF A MITZVOT, SUCH AS CIRCUMCISION.
  74. shalom= HELLO, GOODBY, OR PEACE.
  75. shekhinah= THE PRESENCE OF ELOHIM; THE HOLY SPIRIT. IN KABBALISTIC THOUGHT, THE FEMININE ASPECT OF ELOHIM.
  76. SHEMOT= (HEBREW NAMES.) THE HEBREW NAME FOR EXODUS, THE SECOND BOOK OF THE TORAH.
  77. SHEOL= GRAVE; WORLD OF THE DEAD.
  78. shochet= KOSHER BUTCHER.
  79. siddur= (HEBREW, ORDER). PRAYER BOOK USED IN JEWISH LITURGY.
  80. simcha= (HEBREW, REJOICING). ANY JEWISH CELEBRATION.
  81. SUKKOT= (HEBREW, BOOTHS). EIGHT DAY AUTUMN FESTIVAL COMMENARATING THE EXODUS AND CELEBRATING THE HARVEST.
  82. TALMUD= (HEBREW, TEACHING). THE ORAL TORAH MADE UP OF THE MISNAH AND THE GEMARA.
  83. TANAK= (HEBREW, ACRONYM FOR TORAH, NEVI'IM AND KETUVIM). THE JEWISH BIBLE.
  84. taryag mitzvot= (HEBREW, 613 COMMANDMENTS). THE 613 COMMANDMENTS GIVEN IN THE TORAH AND ENUMERATED BY MAIMONIDES.
  85. terayfa= (HEBREW. TORN). FOOD THAT IS NOT KOSHER AND MAY NOT BE EATEN. ALSO SPELLED TREYF OR TREIF.
  86. teshuvah= (HEBREW, TURNING). REPENTANCE, SELF EVALUATION.
  87. TIKKUN OLAN= THE HEALING OF THE WORLD; WORLD PEACE, SOCIAL JUSTICE.
  88. TORAH= (HEBREW, LAW). THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE JEWISH BIBLE. ALSO KNOWN AS THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES OR THE PENTATEUCH.
  89.  treyf= (HEBREW, TORN). FOOD THAT IS NOT KOSHER; PROHIBITED. ALSO SPELLED TERAYFA OR TEIF.
  90. yad= (HEBREW, HAND). POINTER USED TO READ THE TORAH, USUALLY IN THE SHAPE OF A HAND WITH A POINTED FINGER.
  91. yahrzeit= (YIDDISH, ANNIVERSARY). ANNIVERSARY OF A LOVED ONES DEATH. 
  92. yarmulke= (YIDDISH, HEBREW KIPPAH). MALE HEAD COVERING.
  93. yetzer hara= THE HUMAN INCLINATION TOWARDS EVIL.
  94. yetzer hatov=THE HUMAN INCLINATION TOWARDS GOOD.
  95. YHWH= (HEBREW, I AM OR I WILL BE). SACRED NAME OF ELOHIM AS REVEALED TO MOSES. ALSO KNOWN AS THE TETRAGRAMMATON. IT IS CONSIDERED TOO HOLY TO BE PRONOUNCED AND IS USUALLY REPLACED BY ADONAI IN TORAH READINGS. 
  96. YIDDISH= THE LANGUAGE OF EAST EUROPEAN JEWS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS; A COMBINATION OF MIDDLE HIGH GERMAN, HEBREW AND POLISH.
  97. ZEALOTS= MEMBERS OF A HISTORICAL JEWISH MOVEMENT CHARACTERIZED BY ARMED REBELLION AGAINST ROMAN RULERS.
  98. ZIONISM= A MODERN POLITICAL MOVEMENT WITH THE AIM OF CREATING A JEWISH STATE.
  99. ZOHAR= THE MAJOR TEXT OF THE KABBALAH MOVEMENT.