Judaism Vocabulary--definitions

"a scroll of parchment containing the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures"

• Torah

• Synagogue

• Kosher

• Atonement

"a building or place of meeting for worship and religious instruction in the Jewish faith"

• Synagogue

• Yom Kippur

• Torah

• Shabbat

"foods that follow or obey dietary laws in the Jewish faith"

• Kosher

• Atonement

• Fast

• Yom Kippur

"a person trained in Jewish law, ritual, and tradition and ordained for leadership of a Jewish congregation"

• Rabbi

• Yom Kippur

• Shabbat

• Atonement

"something that you do to shows that you are sorry for something bad or wrong that you did; making amends or making up for something you did wrong"

• Atonement/Atone

• Yom Kippur

• Fast

• Shabbat

"when a person does not eat or drink for a period of time, especially as a religious observance"

• Fast

• Kippah

• Shabbat

• Atone/Atonement

"the holiest day of the Jewish year, observed by fasting and prayer for the atonement (making up for/showing you are sorry for) of sins you have committed"

• Yom Kippur

• Shabbat

• Atone/Atonement

• Kippah

"the day of rest and worship based on the belief that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown)"

• Shabbat

• Yom KIppur

• Fast

• Atone/Atonement

"an important prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (who is believed to have received the 10 Commandments from God and led the Jewish people out of slavery in Egypt to the promised land)"

• Moses

• Yom Kippur

• Jesus

• Torah

"the cloth skullcap or yarmulke traditionally worn by male Jews"

• Kippah

• Yom Kippur

• Synagogue

• Rabbi