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

HaShem – The Name YKVK – Used instead of the
Tetragammaton

Haftarah – Readings from the Prophets

Halachah – Jewish religious law, based on and including Biblical law

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 – separated 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 Scholars

Tanach – Scriptures – Bible

Tehillim – 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

ha-Satan – the Adversary