Holocaust Terms Crossword
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
 
 
Down: 1)  —two small leather boxes containing four excerpts from the Bible. One box is strapped to an arm and the other to the forehead during weekday morning prayers. Tefilin help religious Jews focus their entire being on God as they recite their weekday morning prayers. 2) Jewish mysticism. Followers believe that every aspect of the Torah has hidden meanings that link the spiritual world to everyday life.3) a Jewish holiday that is celebrated for eight days each spring to recall the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt where they were held in slavery. 4) the Jewish Day of Atonement, a fast day devoted to prayer. It marks the end of the ten most solemn days in the Jewish calendar, which begins with Rosh Hashanah. 6) the belief that Jews must once more become a nation with a land of their own in Palestine. 11) from a word that means study or learning. A collection of rabbinical teachings and commentaries on the Torah, the Five Books of Moses 13) Jewish house of prayer.15) a Jewish reform movement inspired by the cabbala that spread through Eastern Europe in the 1700s. For Hasidic Jews, the divine presence is everywhere, in everything. They therefore try to live a life of total dedication to God. 16) a prayer Jews recite in memory of a loved one. The prayer praises and reaffirms a belief in one God Across: 5) a caretaker or “man of all work” in a synagogue.7) biblical figure who questioned why the just must suffer while the wicked flourish.8) Book of Splendor; a commentary on the Five Books of Moses and the major work of the kabbalah. 9) the Jewish holiday that commemorates the revelation of the Law on Mount Sinai. It is celebrated about seven weeks after Passover. 10) Jewish scholar who lived in the twelfth century. 12) territory assigned to the British in 1920 by the terms of the post-World War I treaty with Turkey, the former ruler of the area. British control ended in 1948 when the territory was divided into the State of Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan. 14) It was the center of Jewish worship in ancient times. Today Jews recall its destruction in their daily prayers. 17) Jewish New Year.18) the savior and deliverer of the Jewish people.
 

 

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