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| Jewish calendar started |
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3761 BC |
| A boy undergoes his Bar Mitzvah at (age) |
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| The wooden coffer that the Tables of the Law (i.e. the Ten Commandments) were kept in; lost in 586 BC when the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple of Solomon |
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Ark (of the Covenant) |
| Jewish New Year is celebrated at the first full moon after the |
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Autumn equinox |
| Canopy under which Jewish couples are married (symbolises their future home) |
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Chuppah |
| One of the basic principles of Jewish dietary laws (kashrut) is that meat must be kept separate from |
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Dairy products |
| Kashrut |
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Dietary laws |
| Prophet who will return to Earth to herald the coming of the Messiah |
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Elijah |
| Feast of Sukkot: English name |
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Feast of Tabernacles |
| Shavuot (May or June – approximately one month after Yom Ha'Atzmaut) |
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Festival of Weeks |
| Festival held in December, celebrating the recapture and dedication of the temple at Jerusalem in 160 BC; also known as the Festival of Light or the Feast of Dedication |
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Hanukkah |
| A mammal, in order to be kosher, must |
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Have cloven hooves |
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Chew the cud | |
| Yom Ha–Shoah (April or May) |
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Holocaust Day |
| Yom Ha'Atzmaut (approximately one week after Yom Ha–Shoah) |
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Independence Day |
| Adam's first wife (before God created Eve), according to the Talmud |
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Lilith |
| Rosh Hashanah |
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New Year |
| Seven–branched candlestick, used in worship – also appears on the emblem (coat of arms) of Israel; there is also an eight–branched version used at Hanukkah |
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Menorah |
| Rabbinical commentaries committed to writing in the Talmud |
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Mishna(h) |
| Festival at which Jesus was crucified; celebrates the destroying angel passing over the houses of the Israelites when he slew the first–born of the Egyptians |
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Passover (Pesach) |
| Small leather box worn by Jewish men during worship (containing biblical verses) |
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Phylactery (Heb. Tefillin) |
| Festival held in February or March, commemorating Esther saving the Jews from destruction during the Persian occupation (473 BC) |
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Purim |
| Two–day festival marking the start of the Jewish New Year |
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Rosh Hashanah |
| Yeshivah |
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School for Rabbis |
| Two compilations of ancient Jewish law and tradition, written in the early Christian era: Babylonian and Palestinian (Jerusalem) |
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Talmud |
| The book of the Mosaic law (the Pentateuch) |
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Torah (Thorah) |
| Food that is not kosher is |
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Treif (or tref) |
| Hebrew name for the Day of Atonement – 9 days after Rosh Hashanah, the holiest festival in the Jewish calendar |
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Yom Kippur |
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