Judaism

• Avelut

  The mourning period days
• Yahweh

  The Lord
• Temple

  The centre of jewish faith and worship in jerusalem, where they want to return was destroyed in 70CE
• Messaih

  The annointed one who jews believe will bring in a new era or age for humankind
• messianic age

  a time when all people will live at peace and there will be justice in the world. Brought about by a messiah
• monotheist

  someone who believes in one god
• The decalogue

  the 10 commandments
• Shekinah

  the divine presence of god
• kosher

  allowed
• reform

  a more modern jew who believes the rules can be adapted for the world today
• covenant

  a promise/ agreement between two parties

  covenants were made between abraham//moses and god
• almighty

  refers to the jewish god: one, creator, judge and lawgiver
• maimondes

  jewish philosopher and rabbi who wrote the 13 principles of faith
• orthodox

  the more traditional and stricter jews, try to keep all 613 mitzvot
• Tenakh

  the complete jewish holy book starting with the torah
• Hashem

  meaning the name as jews dont always want to say gods name aloud
• pesach

  festival that remembers the jewish enslavement and escape from egypt, a celebration of the jews being freed
• ner tamid

  the everlasting light, a reminder of gods presence
• Bimah

  a raised platform in front of the ark from which the torah scrolls are read
• shema

  the jewish declaration of faith, from the torah
• Yom Kippur

  the jewish day of atonement
• Yeshiva

  the jewish place of worship and study
• shavuot

  festivals of weeks, celebrates the harvest and thanks god for the gift of the torah
• Ark

  a large cupboard where the torah scrolls are kept, facing jerusalem
• menorah

  7 branched candlesticks in the synagogue, a reminder of the temple
• sukkot

  festival of the huts. remembers the 40 years the jews lived in the dessert
• Gan eden

  the place for the righteous after death
• chuppah

  wedding canopy
• mitzvah

  a commandment of religious duty, 613 of them
• seder

  the passover meal with foods symbolising the escape from slavery
• brit milah

  circumscision of a jewish baby boy at 8 days old, part of the covenant with abraham
• yad

  pointer used to read torah scrolls
• rosh hashannah

  the festival celebrating the jewish new year
• rabbi

  jewish faith leader//teacher
• olam ha ba

  the world to come. a spiritual world
• talmud

  the spoken or oral jewish law
• gentiles

  non jews
• minyan

  a group of ten and more jewish men gathered to pray together
• gehinnom

  hell
• nevi'im

  books in the tenakh written by the prophets where jews learn about the messiah