URJ Online Communications Master Word List MASTER WORD LIST, Ashamnu (prayer) REFORMJUDAISM.org Ashkenazi, Ashkenazim Revised 02-12-15 Ashkenazic Ashrei (prayer) Acharei Mot (parashah) atzei chayim acknowledgment atzeret Adar (month) aufruf Adar I (month) Av (month) Adar II (month) Avadim (tractate) “Adir Hu” (song) avanah Adon Olam aveirah Adonai Avinu Malkeinu (prayer) Adonai Melech Avinu shebashamayim Adonai Tz’vaot (the God of heaven’s hosts [Rev. avodah Plaut translation] Avodah Zarah (tractate) afikoman avon aggadah, aggadot Avot (tractate) aggadic Avot D’Rabbi Natan (tractate) agunah Avot V’Imahot (prayer) ahavah ayin (letter) Ahavah Rabbah (prayer) Ahavat Olam (prayer) baal korei Akeidah Baal Shem Tov Akiva baal t’shuvah Al Cheit (prayer) Babylonian Empire aleph (letter) Babylonian exile alef-bet Babylonian Talmud Aleinu (prayer) baby naming, baby-naming ceremony Al HaNisim (prayer) badchan aliyah, aliyot Balak (parashah) A.M. (SMALL CAPS) bal tashchit am baraita, baraitot Amidah Bar’chu Amora, Amoraim bareich amoraic Bar Kochba am s’gulah bar mitzvah Am Yisrael Baruch atah Adonai, Eloheinu Melech haolam, Angel of Death asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu Ani Maamin (prayer) Baruch She-Amar (prayer) aninut Baruch Shem anti-Semitism Baruch SheNatan (prayer) Arachin (tractate) bashert, basherte aravah bat arbaah minim bat mitzvah arba kanfot Bava Batra (tractate) Arba Parashiyot Bava Kama (tractate) ark (synagogue) Bava M’tzia (tractate) ark (Noah’s) Bavli Ark of the Covenant, the Ark bayit (house) Aron HaB’rit Bayit (the Temple) Aron HaKodesh B.C.E. (SMALL CAPS) Aseret HaDib’rot b’chol l’vavcha Aseret HaD’varim B’chorot (tractate) Aseret Y’mei T’shuvah B’chukotai (parashah) asham (sacrifice) b’dikat chameitz bedeken 1 URJ Online Communications Master Word List 2 beit (house of) b’rit milah beit din b’rit olam Beit HaMikdash (the Temple) b’riut Beit Hillel, Beit Shammai b’ruchah at beit k’neset b’samim beit midrash B’shalach (parashah) beit t’filah b’tzelem Elohim beitzah (egg) bubbe Beitzah (tractate) bubbemeises ben the Burning Bush Ben-Gurion, David Ben Sira candlelighting blessings bet (letter) catalog Beth Hatefutsoth CCAR Responsa Committee B’haalot’cha (parashah) C.E. (SMALL CAPS) B’har (parashah) Central Europe Bible “Chad Gadya” (song) biblical Chabad bikur cholim chadash Bikurim (tractate) chaf bimah chag binah Chagall Windows the Binding of Isaac Chag HaAsif birchot hamitzvot Chag HaAviv birchot hanehenin Chag HaMatzot birchot hapratiyot Chag HaPesach Birkat Eirusin (prayer) Chag HaSukkot Birkat HaGomeil Chagigah (tractate) Birkat HaMazon (prayer) chai Birkat Kohanim (prayer) chalilah Birkat Nisuin (prayer) chalitzah Birkat Shalom (prayer) challah (sacrifice) biur chameitz challah, challot (bread) Blessing after Meals (prayer) Challah (tractate) b’midbar chalutzim B’midbar (parashah) Chameish M’gillot B’midbar Rabbah chametz B’nai B’rith Chamishah-Asar BiSh’vat B’nai B’rak Chamor b’nai mitzvah charoset B’nai Yisrael Chasid, Chasidim b’not mitzvah chasidav Bo (parashah) Chasidic Book of Exodus Chasidism Book of Life chatan boshet chatan B’reishit brachah, brachot chatan Torah B’rachot (tractate) chatat the Bratzlaver Rebbe chatimah b’reishit Chatzi Kaddish B’reishit (parashah) chaver B’reishit Rabbah chavurah, chavurot b’riah Chayei Sarah (parashah) bris chayim b’rit chazak, chazak, v’nitchazeik b’rit hachayim chazan URJ Online Communications Master Word List 3 chazanut divine (adj.) cheder the Divine (God) cheit the Divine Name (God) cherem the Divine Presence (God) cherubim divrei Torah chesed D’mai (tractate) Chesed (s’firah) Documentary Hypothesis chesed shel emet d’rash Cheshvan (month) dreidel chet (letter) D’TZACH, ADASH, B’ACHAV chevrah kadisha D’varim (parashah) chevruta D’varim Rabbah Children of Israel d’var Torah, divrei Torah chilul HaShem d’veikut chochmah chodesh earth Chodesh HaAviv Eastern Europe chol hamo-eid East European Chol HaMo-eid Sukkot echad the Chosen People “Echad Mi Yodei-a” (song) chug eco-kashrut Chukat (parashah) Eduyot (tractate) Chulin (tractate) Eichah (Lamentations) Chumash Eichah Rabbah chuppah Eikev (parashah) chutzpah Ein Adir classical Reform Judaism Ein Kamocha the codes Ein Keiloheinu the commentaries Ein Sof confirmand eirusin confirmation eiruv Conservative Judaism Eiruvin (tractate) Converso Eishet Chayil counting of the Omer eitz covenant Eitz Chayim Hi creation (generic), the Creation el (to) cup of Elijah El (God) cup of Miriam Elijah’s cup Eliyahu HaNavi (the prophet) daat “Eliyahu HaNavi” (the song) dageish El Malei Rachamim (prayer) dalet (letter) Elohai N’shamah (prayer) dam Elohai N’tzor (prayer) dam b’rit Eloheinu darshan Elohim daven El Shaddai Dayan ha-emet Elul (month) Day of Atonement e-mail Days of Awe Emancipation “Dayenu” (song) emet decision making Emor (parashah) Derech Eretz Rabbah (tractate) emunah Derech Eretz Zuta (tractate) the Enlightenment a diaspora, the Diaspora Ephraim din Eretz Yisrael Din (s’firah) erev URJ Online Communications Master Word List 4 Erev Shabbat, Erev Yom Kippur Guide of the Perplexed Eser Makot G’ulah (prayer) eternal light gut yontif (Yiddish) etrog G’vurah (s’firah) the Evil Eye G’vurot (prayer) exilarch the Exodus (from Egypt) Haazinu (parashah) Habakkuk family education hachnasat orchim festival, the Festivals hadas, hadasim firstborn haftarah, haftarot the First Temple Haggadah, Haggadot Five Books of Moses hakafah, hakafot the Five M’gillot Hakotel fleishig halachah the Flood (from Noach) halachic the Four Questions Half Kaddish Full Kaddish hallel (praise) Hallel (prayers) Gadlu Hallel HaGadol (prayer) gadol Hallelujah (English translation) galut hal’luyah (transliteration) Gan Eden HaMakom (God) gaon, gaonim, geonic hamantaschen Garden of Eden Hamavdil (prayer) Geihinom HaMotzi (prayer) gelt Hanukkah Gemara hanukkat habayit genizah hanukkiyah gentile han’viah geonic haolam ger, gerim HaRachaman (God) the Gerer Rebbe HaShem (God) Gerim (tractate) Hashkiveinu (prayer) get, gittin Haskalah (the movement, the Enlightenment) ghetto, but Warsaw Ghetto “HaTikvah” (song) gibur “Hava Nagila” (song) gimel (letter) havdalah (separation) Gittin (tractate) Havdalah (service) giyoret, giyorot hayom g’lilah heaven g’mar chatimah tovah Hebrew school g’matria Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of g’milut chasadim Religion (HUC-JIR) [en-dash for spelled out; godlike hyphen for abbreviation] godliness hei (letter) godly hell the God of heaven’s hosts (Rev. Plaut) hespeid God’s name hidur mitzvah go-eil hidur p’nei zakein Golden Calf hifil golem High Holidays goy (nation) High Priest grager Hilchot T’shuvah the Great Hallel Hillel the Great Kaddish Hillel sandwich URJ Online Communications Master Word List 5 “Hinei Mah Tov” (song) kallah, kallot Historical Prophets Kallah (tractate) hitpa-eil Kallah Rabbati (tractate) Hod (s’firah) kaparot Hodaah karpas the Holiness Code kashrut the Holy Ark katan the Holy Land kavanah the Holy of Holies kavod the Holy One (God) k’doshim the Holy One, blessed be He K’doshim (parashah) hora k’dushah Horayot (tractate) K’dushah (the prayer) Hoshana Rabbah (holiday) K’dushat HaShem (prayer) hoshanot K’dushat HaYom (prayer) hoshiah na Keilim (tractate) House of David kein House of Hillel kein y’hi ratzon House of Israel kesef House of Judah Keter (s’firah) House of Shammai ketubah, ketubot keva intermarriage (not mixed marriage) kever avot intermarried (not mixed married) k’hilah, k’hilot ish “Ki Anu Amecha” (song) ishah kibud av va-eim Ivrit kibud hameit Iyar (month) kibud z’keinim Iyov (Book of Job) kibbutz kibbutznik Jerusalem Talmud Kiddush (prayer, reception) Jerusalem Targum kiddush HaShem the Jewish Federation Kiddush L’Yom Shabbat (prayer) Jewish Renewal Movement kiddushin Jews-by-choice Kiddushin (tractate) Jubilee year Kil’ayim (tractate) Judah (southern kingdom) “Ki Lo Na-eh” (song) Judea (after Babylonian exile) “Ki MiTziyon” (song) judgment Kingdom of Israel Kingdom of Judah Kabbalah Kinim (tractate) Kabbalat Shabbat (service) kinot kabbalism kinyan kabbalistic kinyan sudar kabbalists kippah, kippot Kaddish Kislev (month) Kaddish D’Rabanan (prayer) Ki Tavo (parashah) Kaddish L’Hitchad’ta (prayer) Ki Teitzei (parashah) Kaddish Shaleim (prayer) kitel Kaddish Titkabeil (prayer) Ki Tisa (parashah) Kaddish Yatom (prayer) Kitzur Shulchan Aruch kadeish k’laf kadosh K’lal Yisrael kaf (letter) klezmer, klezmorim kaf sofit (letter) Knesset kal Kodashim (tractate) URJ Online Communications Master Word List 6 kodesh l’shanah habaah birushalayim Kodesh HaKodashim l’shanah tovah tikateivu kohein, kohanim (priest) Lubavitcher Kohein Gadol lulav Kohelet (Book of Ecclesiastes) Lurianic Kabbalah Kohelet Rabbah kol Maariv (Evening Service) Kol Nidre Maariv Aravim (prayer) Korach (parashah) maaseh korban Maaseh B’reishit kosher Maaseh Merkavah kos Miryam Maaseir Sheini (tracate) k’ra maasim tovim k’rei Maas’rot (tractate) k’riah Maccabees K’ritot (tractate) macher k’tiv Machshirin (tractate) K’tubot (tractate) machzor K’tuvim (Writings—Bible) Machzor Vitry k’vod hameit Magen David kuf (letter) Magen David Adom kugel Magid (section of Haggadah) Kutim (tractate) Mah Nishtanah kvater, kvaterin Mah Tovu kvell Major Prophets Makot (tractate) l’Adonai malach Lag BaOmer Malchut (s’firah) lailah Malchuyot (section of machzor) lamed (letter) mamzer, mamzerim lamed-vav tzaddik mamzeret, mamzerot Land of Israel, the Land Manasseh lashon hara manna lashon hatov “Maoz Tzur” (song) Later Prophets maror latke Marrano lay leader Masada layperson, laypeople masechtot L’chah Dodi Mas-ei (parashah) l’chayim mashal,