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CONTENTS Acknowledgments Preface Language LIFE CYCLE EVENTS Stages of Life LC-1 1 FIRST 16 YEARS OF LIFE Birth Circumcision Chair of Elijah Names (of children) Pidyon ha-Ben Adoption Bar Mitzvah Bat Mitzvah Confirmation MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE Concept of marriage LC-2 44 Marriage ceremony Bridal veil Huppah Wedding ring Ketubah Breaking a glass Shadchan Prohibited marriages Levirate marriage and Chalitzah Intermarriage Premarital sex Homosexuality Divorce Get Agunah DEATH Death and dying LC-3 118 Angel of death Taharah Chevra Kadisha Shroud Keriyah Funeral service and Burial El Malei Rachamim Coffin Cemetery Memorial or Headstone Mourning Aninut Shivah Sheloshim Yahrzeit Yizkor Suicide Cremation Autopsy Organ donation Afterlife/World to come SABBATH AND FESTIVALS SABBATH Overview SF1 199 Restrictions Customs Kindling the Sabbath lights Eshet Chayil (Woman of valor) Kiddush Challah Sabbath Meals Zemirot Liturgy Lechah Dodi Havdalah Spice box Special Sabbaths FESTIVALS Overview SF2 248 Hallel Machzor Jewish calendar Rosh Hodesh Birkat ha-Hodesh Kiddush Levanah High Holy Days Repentance (Teshuvah) Selichot Thirteen Attributes of Mercy Elul Rosh Hashanah (overview) Shofar Avinu Malkeinu Hineni Musaf Amidah U-netaneh Tokef Tashlich Ten Days of Repentance Yom Kippur (overview) SF3 319 Kaparos Kol Nidrei Confessionals (Vidui) Ki Anu Amecha Ki Hinei ka-Chomer Azazel Avodah Ne'ilah Fall Festivals Sukkot (overview) Sukkah Four species Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) Ushpizin Water-drawing Ceremony Hoshana Rabbah Shemini Atzeret Prayer for Rain Simchat Torah Winter Festivals Hanukkah (overview) Kindling the Chanukah lights Ma'oz Tzur Dreidel Tu b'Shevat Purim (overview) SP4 392 Archetypal characters in the Book of Esther Hamantashen Purimshpiel Spring Festivals Passover (overview) Chametz Fast of the firstborn Prayer for dew Song of Songs Seder Haggadah Four cups of wine Four questions Four children Dayenu Ten plagues Matzah Maror Charoset Afikoman Cup of Elijah Passover songs Maimuna Omer period Lag ba-Omer Yom ha-Shoah Yom ha-Zikaron Yom ha-Atzma'ut Yom Yerushalayim Shavuot (overview) Akdamut Summer observances and fast days 17th of Tammuz The Three Weeks Tisha b'Av Tu b'Av Tzom Gedaliah 10th of Tevet SYNAGOGUE AND PRAYERS SYNAGOGUE Overview SP1 486 Architecture Torah scrolls and ornaments Ark Bimah Ner tamid Mechitzah Rabbi Semichah Sermon Hazzan PRAYERS Overview SP2 551 Siddur Minyan Kippah (Yarmulke) Tallit Tefillin Brachot (Blessings, Benedictions) Amen Kaddish Daily and Sabbath Service Daily order of prayer (overview) SP3 628 Birchot ha-Shachar (Morning Blessings) Mah Tovu Pesukei de-Zimra Baruch she-Amar Ashrei Shirat ha-Yam (Song of the Sea) Nishmat Kol Chai Yishtabach Barchu Ahavah Rabbah/Ahavat Olam Shema Amidah Kedushah Ya'aleh v'Yavo Modim of the rabbis Priestly blessing (Birkat ha-Kohanim) Prayer for peace Tachanun Torah service Haftarah Av ha-Rachamim Yekum Purkan/Mi she-Berach Prayer for the government U'va le-Zion Go'el Ein Kelohenu Aleinu Psalm of the Day Yigdal Adon Olam Anim Zemirot Personal Prayers Modeh Ani SP4 718 Bedtime prayers Blessings before eating Birkat ha-Mazon (grace after meals) Shir ha-Ma'alot Shehecheyanu Tefillat ha-Derech Birkat ha-Gomel (thanksgiving blessing) BIBLE AND JEWISH LITERATURE Bible MISC 1 761 Ten Commandments Masoretic text Biblical commentary RABBINIC LITERATURE Mishnah Bariata and Tosefta Talmud Commentaries and Codes Midrash Thirteen Principles of Faith MITZVOT OVERVIEW Enumeration of the Mitzvot MISC 2 808 Rabbinic Commandments Reasons for Observance of the Mitzvot Performance of the Mitzvot PROPER BEHAVIOR AND ETHICAL LIVING Gemilut chasadim (acts of lovingkindness) Tzedakah (charity) Hachnasat or'chim (hospitality) Bikur cholim (visiting the sick) Pikuach nefesh (saving human life) Lashon ha-ra ([avoiding] gossip/"evil speech") Washing the hands Mikveh (ritual bath) Niddah (menstruating woman) Sha'atnez Jewish courts and Judges Business ethics Prohibition against lending at interest POTPOURRI SYMBOLS OF JEWS AND STATE OF ISRAEL Magen David (Star/Shield of David) MISC 3 902 Israeli flag Hatikvah Menorah Mezuzah MAGIC Amulet Evil eye Hamsa Popular superstitions OTHER TOPICS (alphabetical order) Beards Chosen People Conversion Dreams Excommunication Golem Heavenly bodies Sun Moon Stars Astrology Zodiac Kissing holy objects Kitel Messiah MISC 4 975 Mizrach Names of God Numbers Gematria Satan Shalom FOOD Overview MISC 5 1031 Dietary Laws (Kashrut) Seven Species Specific Foods Almond Apple Bagel Blintzes Bread Carob Challah Chickpeas Cholent Egg Fish Garlic Gefilte fish Lentil Meat Milk Onion and leek Salt Tzimmes PLANTS AND ANIMALS PLANTS Trees (overview) MISC 6 1098 Tree of Knowledge Tree of Life Specific Plants Acacia Cedar Cyprus Etrog Mandrake Myrtle Oak Palm Pine Rose Sabra Willow ANIMALS Cruelty to Animals Specific Animals Bear Bee Camel Cattle Chicken Deer/gazelle Dog Donkey Dove Goat Hare Horse Ibex Leopard Lion Locust/grasshopper Mouse Mythical creatures Nesher (eagle or vulture) Pig Quail Sheep Snake Wolf APPENDIX Torah and Haftarah Portions (Sabbath) APP 1170 Torah and Haftarah Portions (Festivals) Tractates of the Mishnah and Talmud Thirteen Rules of Rabbi Ishmael References Subject Index Category Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Judaism Encyclopedias