{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/jms/jms43.htm","path":"jud/jms/jms43.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/jms/jms43.htm","text":"Jewish Magic and Superstition, by Joshua Trachtenberg, [1939]\nAfikomen\u2014a cake of unleavened bread eaten at the end of the Passover meal.\nAggada\u2014non-legal portion of Talmudic literature.\nAmora (pl. Amoraim)\u2014post-Mishnaic authorities cited in the Talmud (c. 220-500 C.E.).\nDibbuk\u2014spirit of deceased person which has entered body of living person.\nGaon (pl. Geonim)\u2014heads of Babylonian and Palestinian academies after the sixth century.\nGehinnom\u2014realm in which the wicked expiate their sins.\nGemara\u2014portion of the Talmud containing Amoraic commentary on the Mishna.\nGilgul\u2014transmigration of souls.\nHabdalah\u2014ritual marking the close of Sabbath and holidays.\nHalacha\u2014legal portion of Talmudic literature; legal tradition, generally.\nHazan\u2014precentor.\nHashba\u2018ah\u2014invocation.\nHoshana Rabbah\u2014seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles.\nJahrzeit\u2014annual commemoration of death.\nKaddish, more specifically, kaddish yatom\u2014prayer for mourners.\nKiddush\u2014blessing over wine at inception of Sabbath and holidays.\nKosher\u2014ritually pure.\nKeri\u2014seminal pollution.\nLag B\u2019omer\u2014thirty-third day in the counting of the Omer; 18th of Iyar.\nMalach\u2014angel.\nMazal\u2014star or constellation.\nMa\u1e93\u1e93ah\u2014unleavened bread.\nMazzik\u2014demon.\nMemuneh\u2014\"deputy\" angel.\nMezuzah (pl. Mezuzot)\u2014a Biblical inscription attached to the doorpost.\nMidrash\u2014commentary on the Bible, mainly of an Aggadic nature.\nMinyan\u2014minimum of ten men required to constitute a congregation.\nMishna\u2014the \"Oral Law\" forming basis of the Talmud; edited c. 220 C.E. by R. Judah HaNassi.\nRosh Hashana\u2014New Year.\nRua\u1e25\u2014spirit.\nSar\u2014prince.\nSeder\u2014Passover meal and service.\nSefirot\u2014the ten creative attributes of God, according to the Kabbalah.\nShechinah\u2014the divine Presence.\nShed\u2014demon.\nShema\u2018\u2014the verse beginning, \"Hear, O Israel\" (Deut. 6:4), and the prayer composed of Deut. 6:4-9, 11:13-21, Nu. 15:37-41.\nSukkot\u2014Feast of Tabernacles.\nTanna (pl. Tannaim)\u2014authorities cited in the Mishna and co\u00ebval writings.\nTargum\u2014Aramaic translation of the Bible.\nTefillin\u2014phylacteries.\nTekufah\u2014\"turning of the sun,\" i.e., the solstices and equinoxes.\nTorah\u2014the Pentateuch.\nYom Kippur\u2014Day of Atonement.","title":"Jewish Magic and Superstition: Glossary of Hebrew Terms","type":"page"}