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yasher ko'ach
lit.=(go) straight, (as) strong: "Good
job! Keep up the good work!"
yente
gossipy one [n]
yerusha
inheritance; heritage
Yerushalayim
(Heb.) Jerusalem
yeshiva (pl. yeshivot)
Talmudic seminary
yeshiva boch'r seminary student
yeshuv Israeli town
yetzer tov/harah good/evil impulse
Yetziat Mitzrayim (Heb.) Exodus from Egypt
Yiddishkeit
Jewishness
yisrael member of
a tribe other than Levi; thus a member
of the nonpriest class
Yisrael (Heb.)
Israel
Yizkor communal
service for personal mourning
yom pron. "yome":
(Heb.) day
Yom HaAtzma'ut
Israel Independence Day
Yom HaShoah
Holocaust Memorial Day
Yom HaZikaron
Israel Memorial Day
Yom Kippur Day of
Atonement, in autumn
yom tov lit.=good
day: holiday
Yom Yerushalayim
Jerusalem Reunification Day
Yomim Nora'im
High Holidays, Rosh HaShanah & Yom
Kippur
yored (pl. yordim)
lit.=descender: emigrant from Israel
(considered impolite)
Yovel every 50th
yr.; see shmita (trans. Jubilee) |
