Expressions (A–Z)

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  Forward Command Group, HQ

  A group of commanders that manages the activity of soldiers in war or in trainin...

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  Foster home

  A family that cares for children who were removed from their homes by order of t...

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• Foundation of the Ascent/ Yesud Hama'alah (a settlement in Israel)

  One of the first settlements in the Upper Galilee in the modern era ("ma'alah" m...

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  foundation stone

  Figuratively: a basic and essential foundation.

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  Four Corners

  A term for tzitzit. Tallit katan (small fringed garment).

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  Four Cubits

  See: "Four Cubits."

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  four cubits in the ground

  By extension: dead and buried

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  four cubits of halacha, four cubits of Jewish law

  By extension: the world of halacha (Jewish law) alone, without foreign influence...

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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 Horsemen of the Apocalypse

  Figuratively: omens of great disasters that are about to come.

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