Night Vocabulary

The Jewish mystical tradition

• Kaddish

• Cabbala

• Auschwitz

• Rabbi

A branch of Orthodox Judaism that maintains a lifestyle separate from the non-Jewish world (kind of like a denomination).

• Hasidic

• Sodom

• Talmud

• Torah

A prayer in Aramaic praising God, commonly associated with mourning practices.

• Cabbala

• Kaddish

• Torah

• Zohar

A religious teacher and person authorized to make decisions on issues of Jewish law. Also performs many of the same functions as a Protestant minister.

• Talmud

• Hasidic

• Rosh Hashanah

• Rabbi

The new year for the purpose of counting years.

• Sodom

• Rosh Hashanah

• Yom Kippur

• Torah

Jewish house of worship.

• Synagouge

• Church

• Mosque

• Steeple

(Book) The entire body of Jewish teachings.

• Talmud

• Torah

• Kaddish

• Yom Kippur

A day set aside for fasting, depriving oneself of pleasures, and repenting from the sins of the previous years.

• Rosh Hashanah

• Kwanza

• Yom Kippur

• Cabbala

Prejudice and hostility against Jewish people

• antisemitism

• annihilation

• annex

• inflammatory

The name for Hitler's ideal race

• Aryan

• Arian

• Areean

• Arial