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Down: 1) neutral foods2) (completion) commentary on the Mishna4) small leather prayer boxes bound to the head and the arm during prayer6) mystical or magical Jewish traditions of the middle ages9) Broke off from the reform Jews. Between reform and othorodoxy. 12) A Spanish Jew known as Rambam, who wrote the Mishna Torah, or review of the law – he took the encyclopedic work of thousands of years of wisdom and recast it in one book. Still remained the main tool for teaching the law13) The weeklong feast of tabernacles (or booths) each fall18) Orthodox Jews who hold out against Western learning. Practice Kabbalah19) The “joyful day of the Torah” at the end of Sukkot week each fall. Marks the end of the yearly Torah reading cycle20)  Observance of the chief laws of the faith, and serious training of the young23) The biblical spring festival of Passover (unleavened bread)25) A way of life (including colorful German speech, a dress adapted from medieval gentility etc) 28) The eight day, not part of Sukkot, by marking its ending29) The Jewish New Year30) A small, 4 sided top which children play with at Hanukah32) Jewish skull cap worn by males for prayer and sacred occasions36) Family ceremony marking the end of the Sabbath39) made of the gemara and the mishna – the oral law43) term for nine armed Hanukah menorah44) The Hebrew bible, or Old Testament47) hut-like structure. Plural: Sukkot50) patched of easy Talmud between long stretches of law (parables, sermons and allegories)52)  The first five books of the bible Across: 3) (noun) the term to describe the Jewish “kosher” dietary laws.5) The ritual feast of Passover – means order7) a skilled circumciser8) The essence of Judaism is the Worship of God, the work of Moses is machinery. The common law is too out of date, and they adopted most western ways10) means “walk” or “way”, describes the body of Jewish law or practice11) The Biblical Day of Atonement, a solemn day of fasting14) literally “dedication”. Winter Feast of Dedication15) Biblical feast of weeks, early summer festival 50 days after Pessah 16) The ninth of Av – summer day of mourning destruction of the temple17) Ceremonial blessing and family meal Friday night to welcome the Sabbath21) Pharisee school of thought. More conservative, no healing arts on the Sabbath 22) term describing what is fit and proper24) Pharisee school of thought. More liberal, won out eventually26) similar ceremony for girls in Reform Judaism27) last day of Sukkot, “The great Hosannah”, petitioning for the rains.31) most sacred prayer in Judaism – repetition in Hebrew of Deuteronomy 6:4-933) Jewish meeting house/ place of worship/ house of assembly34) Covenant biblical circumcision for Jewish males35) Rosh Ha-Shannah, followed by Yom Kippur, 10 days later. Days of awe. 37) the Jewish Prayer shawl with colored bands or fringes38) The Jewish Sabbath, from Friday at Sundown until Saturday at sundown40) The Ready Table – a book written so that laymen could run through it once a month and keep the main heads of Jewish Practice in his mind. Now includes many present day commentaries.41) Ceremony where 13-year-old Jewish boys become sons of the commandment 42)  Jewish term for lamp with multiple arms45) Early Spring celebrations involving the reading of the story of Esther46) wrote the ready table48) a linen undershirt with fringes worn by some orthodox men49) Jewish term for ram’s horn blown on Roah Ha-Shannah and holy occasions51) The biblical hebrew term for fringe – the fringes of the Talit prayer shawl53) means doorpost, a small container with scriptural passages inside54) torn or un-kosher55) (review) legal decisions of a line of analysts and judges56) The special braided bread baked specially for the Sabbath meal
 

 

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