| Adam |
the first human creation |
| alos hashachar |
day break-when thr rays of
light are seen in the corners on the horizon |
| amah or amos |
cubit--18 to 24inches |
| amud |
the place where the cantor
stands--sometimes referring to the cantor himself |
| anos |
forced-not on your own free
will |
| bideeved |
if done already |
| bracha or brachos |
a blessing or blessings |
| baruch sheamar |
the blessing before pisukei
dzimra |
| bar mitzvah |
a thirteen year old male who
is then obligated in mitzvohs |
| bikurim |
the mitzvah of brining the
first fruits to the bais hamikdash as a korban |
| challah |
a part of a large dough is
given to a cohen |
| chazan |
cantor for a group |
| cohein gadol |
the highest priest |
| cubit |
amah |
| custom |
commonly done practice |
| damai |
the rabbis saw that some amai haretz were not taking off maaser,maaser sheni and trumas
maaser so they said if you take from them you must take off the tithes |
| David |
King of Yisrael-first in his
lineage |
| dibros |
commandments (as in the Ten
Commandments) |
| eved canaani |
a non-jewish slave |
| grains |
the five
species--wheat,barely,oats,rye,spelt |
| hamelech |
the king |
| hefker |
not belonging to anyone |
| hours |
jewish hours are calculated
by taking the differance betwen the sunrise and sunset and dividing by twelve or or the
night from sunset to dawn divided by twelve |
| kaddish |
a prayer only in public for
returning the glory of the lord |
| kav |
1/6 of a saah (approximately
2 liters) |
| kesubah |
a marriage contract |
| kiddush |
the blessing Friday evening
said on wine in honor of the Sabbath |
| kinyan agav or agav |
a way to possess
objects: claiming objects by taking ownership of a piece of land |
| leket |
fruit that falls in the
field that most go the poor |
| meduma |
when a tithe falls into
regular pile,it has it's own laws when it can be eaten |
| mincha |
a flour offering in the bais
hamikdash or the afternoon prayers |
| miakeiv |
must absolutely be done |
| maariv |
the evening services |
| maaser |
there are three types of
maaser (tithe) taken from fruit 1-maaser
rishone- 1/10 given to a levi
2-maaser sheini-1/10 brought to be eaten in Jerusalem
3-maaser ani- 1/10 that goes to a poor person
|
| michuyav |
obligated |
| midrash or medrash |
explanations on biblical
text usually aggadic by tanaim and later |
| mida or midos |
singular or plural of human
characteristics |
| mishna |
codes of law said by Tanaim
and written by Rebbe |
| netz |
sunrise |
| patur |
not obligated |
| peah |
the mitzvah to leave an end
of a field for the poor |
| pesukei dzimra |
sentences of song--said
before the blessings of shema |
| posuk or pesukim |
a sentence or sentences |
| pruzbal |
a contract that lets you
collect money after the seventh year |
| saah |
6 kavs |
| schichiv mara |
one who is dying from a
sickness |
| sefer torah |
scroll of the five books of
Moshe |
| shaliach tzibbur |
a messenger of a group
usually to pray |
| shemone esrei |
the prayer of eighteen
benedictions said three times aday |
| shikcha |
fruits that were forgotten
in the field that most go to the poor |
| shema |
commonly referred as the two
parshios said in the prayers starting from shema |
| talmud chacham |
a man knowledgeable in Torah
works |
| talis |
prayer shawl |
|
Tanaim |
the scholars of the second
temple |
|
Tamai |
a religious impurity
|
| tevah |
the way nature works |
| tithes |
look at trumah and maaser |
| trumah |
1/50 of a field given to the
cohein and then trumah maaser 1/10 given by the levi to the cohein |
| tzibbur |
a group of people usually at
least ten |
| Yishtabach |
the bracha at the end of
pesukie dzimra |
| yotze |
accomplished the mitzvah
that you had to do |
| zimun |
a group of at least three
men who ate a meal together |
