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1. get, n.3 View full entry 1892
...Among the Jews, a written ‘bill of divorcement’ prepared according to a prescribed form; also, the divorce itself....
2. lamdan, n. View full entry 1907
...A person learned in Jewish law; a Talmudic scholar....
3. lulav, n. View full entry 1892
...(See quot. 1959.)...
4. Maggid, n. View full entry 1892
...A Jewish popular preacher, typically an itinerant one....
5. maror, n. View full entry 1893
...Bitter herbs eaten at the Passover Seder service as a reminder of the Israelites' captivity in Egypt....
6. melamed, n. View full entry 1892
...A teacher of elementary Hebrew in a cheder....
7. meshumad, n. View full entry 1892
...An apostate from Judaism....
8. Mizrach, n. View full entry 1892
...A plaque hung on the east wall of a room to indicate the direction of Jerusalem....
9. Sedra, n. View full entry 1907
...In Jewish sabbatical liturgy, one of the fifty-four sections of the Pentateuch read in the Synagogue at the Sabbath morning service. Cf. parashah...
10. Shavuoth, n. View full entry 1892
...= Pentecost1. Cf. feast of weeksweek2f....
11. shehecheyanu, n. View full entry 1892
...A Jewish benediction pronounced on the evening of a principal holy day and on new occasions of thanksgiving....
12. shiva(h, n. View full entry 1892
...A period of seven days' mourning for the dead, beginning immediately after the funeral; to sit shiva, to observe this period. Also attrib....
