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Glossary & Translation of Hebrew Words Used

Asur - Forbidden
BaMidbar - Numbers
Bat Yisrael - Daughter of Israel
Beit HaMikdash - The Holy Temple
Benei Yisrael - Children of Israel
Bereishit - Genesis
Bimah - Torah Reading Platform
Chas veShalom - G-d Forbid!
Chavah - Eve
Chazal - our sages of the Mishna, Tosefta and Talmud era's
Dat Yehudit - Fitting Jewish Behavior
Devarim - Deuteronomy
Divrei HaYamim - Chronicles
Ervah - Nakedness
Etrog [Etrogim] - Citron - a citrus fruit
G-d - used instead of El-him
Gan Eden - Garden of Eden
Gemara - Analysis of and Commentary on the Mishnah
ha-Satan - the Adversary
Haftarah - Readings from the Prophets
Halachah - Jewish religious law, based on and including Biblical law
HaShem - The Name YKVK - Used instead of the Tetragammaton
Hoshana Rabbah - 7th Day of Sukkot
Kedushah - Holiness
Klal Yisrael - All if Israel
Kreplech - small dumplings filled with meat
Mashiach - Messiah - Anointed One
Melachim Alef - 1 Kings
Melachim Bet - 2 Kings
Minhag - custom
Mishlei - Proverbs
Muktzeh - seperated items that may not be moved during Shabbat or Yom Tov
Navi - Prophet
Neshamah - A level of soul
Pesach - Passover
Poskim - Halachic Decisors
Pritzut - Licentiousness
Rosh Chodesh - New Moon
Rosh HaShanah - Head of the Year - New Year
Segulah - Remedy or Protection
Shacharit - Morning Service
Shemot - Exodus
Shir HaShirim - Song of Songs
Shlomo - Solomon
Shmuel - Samuel
Siddur - Jewish Prayer Book
Sukkot - Huts (a Yom Tov - Festival)
Taharah - Ritually Pure; Purity
Talmidei Chachamim - Torah Scolars
Tanach - Scriptures - Bible
Tihillim - Psalms
Tikkun - rectification; healing
Tzniut - Modesty
Urim and Tumim - were inside the breastplate and dispensed judgment.
VaYikra - Leviticus
Yechezkel - Ezekiel
Yeshayahu - Isaiah
Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement
Zohar - "Radiance" - the Kabbalistic Tree of Life - a deeper insight of the Torah