Expressions (A–Z)
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Four Holy Lands, Four Holy Cities
A literary epithet for the cities Jerusalem, Tiberias, Safed, and Hebron, where...
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Four sons: the wise, the wicked, the simple, and the one who does not know how to ask. The four types of sons (described in the Haggadah: clever, wicked, innocent and simpleton)
By analogy: four approaches or worldviews. Four types of people or perspectives...
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He does not possess even a trace of a mitzvah
He does not observe mitzvot at all. Has lost all connection to Judaism or tradit...
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He has no share in the World to Come
He will not merit to arrive and be in Paradise in the World to Come (the origina...
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I believe
See: "The Ani Maamin".
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Jewish mother, Yiddishe Mame
A term for an anxious or emotional mother.
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Judaism as Culture/ Judaism as a Civilization
Seeing the cultural richness in Jewish creation from a non-religious perspective...
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Judaism of Silence/ The Jews of Silence
A nickname for Jews in the Soviet Union during Soviet rule.
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Land of Israel
The birthplace of the Jewish people. The territories of the biblical kingdoms of...
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Lord of the Universe / Lord of the World
God (HaKadosh Baruch Hu). One of the titles describing God as King of the World....
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