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✡️Intro to Judaism
Key Terms

310 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Judaism exam

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1 Maccabees
1885 Pittsburgh Platform
2 Maccabees
613 mitzvot

A

Abraham
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Abrahamic Covenant
Acculturation
Aggadah
Aggadic interpretation
Aggadic literature
Aggadic midrash
Aguna
Al chet
Al Hanisim Prayer
Alhambra Decree
Amoraic Period
Amoraim
Amos
Ancient israelite history
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Arab-Israeli War
Arba'ah turim
Ark
Ark of the Covenant
Aron kodesh
Aryan Supremacy
Ashkenazi
Ashkenazi Customs
Assiah
Assyrian Empire
Atzei Hayyim
Atzilut
Avinu malkeinu

B

B'nai B'rith
B'tselem elohim
Baal Shem Tov
Babylonian Talmud
Balfour Declaration
Batei din
Bava Batra
Beit Din
Beit Hillel
Beit Shammai
Bene Israel of India
Berakhot
Beriah
Bet midrash
Biblical law
Bimah
Binding halakha
Binding of Isaac
Binyan av
Birkat hamazon
Blessing over food
Book of Exodus
Book of Ezra
Book of Job
Book of Joshua
Book of Judges
Book of Lamentations
Book of Samuel
Breaking the glass
British Mandate for Palestine

C

Central Conference of American Rabbis
Chabad-Lubavitch
Chessed Organizations
Chevra kadisha
Chuppah
Civil Law
Consuming blood
Counting of the Omer
Covenant of Abraham
Covenant with Abraham
Covenantal relationship