Jatimá továGreetings for the New Year which is spoken the night of Yom Kippur.
Kaddish/KadishAramaic Word meaning “saint.” In reality it is not strictly a prayer for the dead but it is a prayer for consecration and praising God, asking for His kingdom to arrive on earth.
Se aplica con carácter especial a los alimentos que, según la tradición religiosa, pueden ser consumidos.
KashrutThe collection of Jewish dietary laws.
KiddushAt home prayer for the sanctification of the Sabbath and holy days. It is recited over wine before dinner on the eve of the holy day.
Meretz An Israeli parliamentary group of the center left created in 1992 from the joining of three distinct political groups. The three parties making up Meretz support the Arab-Israeli peace efforts and reject religious coercion.
MikveRitual purification bath by immersion in “living water.”
MinyanThis is the name for the ten males which are necessary to be able to celebrate public liturgy.
Passover/PésajCommemoration of the exodus of Jews from Egypt. It is also known as the Feast of Salvation or the Feast of Spring for its correlation with the cycle of agriculture, or the Feast of Unleavened Bread for the unleavened bread which is consume don those days in memory of the bread which did not have time to raise and the Jews had to eat in exile. On the first Paschal night the Seder takes place, a festive family ceremony within the tradition.
Pirké AvotLiterally “Words of the Fathers.” It is one of the treatises (= doctrine), of great importance in Jewish liturgy whose contents if moral/religious.
RASHIAcronym of Rabbi Shlomo Ben Itshak (1040-1105), founder of an important school of exegetica (critical explanation) and commentator on most of the books of the Bible.
Sajén, sajenáIn Haquetiya, neighbor.
Shemá Israel‘Hear Israel’ is the prayer through antonomasia, one of the rubrics of the daily liturgy in Judaism and the approach to affirmation of the creed. It is recited two times per day on rising and on retiring at night.
SidurBook of Prayers.
SnogaIn Haquetiya, synogogue.
SucotFeast of the tabernacles. Celebration in which remembering the shacks where the Jews lived during the exodus from Egypt. Shacks are constructed on patios, terraces, gardens, community centers at the end of Kippur.
TalmudRabbinical work formed a group of commentaries on theTorah. It is a reading manual on the Torah in which, in parts, appear divergent opinions. Tam Rabbi Tam. Name by which a famous rabbi is known, Jacob Ben Meír (1100-1171).
Tishá be-AvThe Fast of Mourning, commemoration as much of the destruction of the temples of Jerusalem: the first in 586 BC by the Babylonians, and the second in 70 AD by the Romans –as well as other misfortunes occurring to the Jewish people in the diaspora: The expulsion from Castilla and Aragon (1492) and the Russian Pogroms (1903
YequeEpithet somewhat pejorative referring to the German immigrants who arrived in Palestine in the 1930s of the twentieth century.
Yom KipurDay of Atonement. Is the most solemn and respected of the Jewish High Holidays. The culmination of ten days of penitence which began on New Year’s Day, Rosh ha-Shaná. It is a day dedicated to prayer and repentance for the wrongs committed during the year, hoping for God’s forgiveness.
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