Vocabulary+Terms

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1) Sedar - The Seder is a way for each participant to relive the Exodus as a personal spiritual event. The Seder is of a religious nature with a carefully prescribed ritual that makes the dinner quite unlike family dinners held on civil holidays . The ritual is laid out in the haggadah, a book that is followed during the Seder. This website explains the entire event: []

2) Bris- // Judaism // ritual circumcision o fmale babies, usually at eight days old, regarded as the formal entry of the child to the Jewish community.

3) Yarhzeit - //Judaism// the anniversary of the death of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse observed by lighting a memorial lamp or candle the night before and reciting the Kaddish at the evening service of the day before and at the morning and afternoon services of the day itself.

4) Yarmulke - A cap worn by Jewish males, especially during religious holidays and religious studies.

5) Afikoman - A piece of matzoh broken from the center of the three matzoh set before the leader of the Sedar.

6) Motzoh - A thin, brittle piece of unleavened bread, usually eaten during passover.

7) Shadchan - A Jewish marriage broker.

8) Schnorrers - Slang term for a beggar.

9) Shul - A Synagogue

10) Shtetl - A small Jewish town in eastern Europe.

11) Mishigaas - Slang for foolishness

12) Yeshivah - An Orthodox Jewish school for the religious and secular education of children of elementary age.

13) Klezmer - A Jewish folk musician

14) Sonderkommando - During WWII times, a grup of prisoners that were selected to collect and dispose of the belongings and the bodies of other dead prisoners.

15) Badchan - A joker or clown that traditionaly entertains before Jewish weddings.