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Judaism
A religion of Children of Israel, Jewish people.
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11th Grade
12/05/2015

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Judaism
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A religion of children of Israel, Jewish people.
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Torah
Definition
Torah is the broadest sense, it is the entire body of Jewish teachings.
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Messiah
Definition
Anglicization of the Hebrew, someone who is called upon by G-d to put an end to all evil in the world.
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Rabi
Definition
Religious teacher and person authorized to make decisisons having to do with the Jewish law.
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Sabbath

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A day to rest and for god.
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Yom Kippur
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A day for fasting, depriving, oneself of pleasures, and repenting from the sins from years before.
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Hanukkah
Definition
A Jewish festival.
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Synagogue
Definition
Meaning assembly. The most accpeted term for a jewish house of worship.
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Jerusalem
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The holiest city in Judaism
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Shtibil
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A little house or little room, a place used for communal Jewish prayer.
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Beadle
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A ceremonial officer of a church, college, or similar institution.
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Zohar
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The chief text of the Jewish Kabbalah
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Shavuot
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A major Jewish fesitval helf on the 6th of Sivan after the second day of Passover.
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Fascism
Definition
An authoritarian and nationalistic right wing system of government and social organization.
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Talmud
Definition
The collection of Jewish law and tradition
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Anti-Semitism
Definition
Discrimination agaisnt or prejudice agaisnt Jews.
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Ghettos
Definition
A section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area.
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Liberation
Definition
Gaining equal rights or ful social or economic oppertunites for a particular group
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Pogroms
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An organized massacre, known mostly for Jews.
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Shekhinab
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The presence of God on earth or a sign of his presence.
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Emaciate
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To make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh
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Kaballah
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A system of esoteric theosophy and theurgy developed by rabbis
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