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Cabbalah (_H._), Cabbulah (_c._), lit. tradition; mystic lore.
Calloh (_H._), bride, _fiancee_.
Chazan (_H._), cantor.
Chevrah (_H._), small congregation; a society.
Chine (_H._), playful humour; humorous anecdote.
Chocham (_H._), wise man.
Chomutz (_H._), leaven.
Chosan (_H._), bridegroom, _fiance_.
Chuppah (_H._), wedding canopy.
Cohen (_H._), priest.
Dayan (_H._), Rabbi who renders decisions.
Din (_H._), law, decision.
Droshes (_H._), sermons.
Epikouros (_H. from Gk._), heretic, scoffer; Epicurean.
Froom (_c. G._), pious.
Gelt (_c. G._), money.
Gematriyah (_Hebraicised Gk._), mystic, numerical interpretation of Scripture.
Gemorah (_H._), part of the Talmud.
Gonof (_H._), thief.
Goyah (_H._), non-Jewess.
Hagadah (_H._), narrative portion of the Talmud; Pa.s.sover-eve ritual.
Halachah (_H._), legal portion of the Talmud.
Havdalah (_H._), ceremony separating conclusion of Sabbath or Festival from the subsequent days of toil.
Imbeshreer (_c. G. ohne beschreien_), without bewitching; unbeshrewn.
Kaddish (_H._), prayer in praise of G.o.d; specially recited by male mourners.
Kehillah (_H._), congregation.
Kind, Kinder (_G._), child, children.
Kosher (_H._), ritually clean.
Kotzon (_H._), rich man.
Link (_G._), lit. left, _i.e._, not right; hence lax, not pious.
Longe Verachum (_G._ and _c. H._), lit. The long 'and He being merciful.' A long extra prayer, said on Mondays and Thursdays.
Lulov (_H._), palm-branch dressed with myrtle and willow, and used at the Feast of Tabernacles.
Maaseh (_H._), story, tale.
Machzor (_H._), Festival Prayer-Book.
Maggid (_H._), preacher.
Mazzoltov (_H._), Good luck, congratulations.
Megillah (_H._), lit. scroll. The Book of Esther.
Meshuggah, Meshuggene (H.), mad.
Meshumad (_H._), apostate.
Metsiah (_H._), lit. finding, cp. Fr. _trouvaille_; bargain.
Mezuzah (_H._), case containing a scroll, with Heb. verses (Deut. vi. 4-9, 13-21), affixed to every door-post.
Midrash (_H._), Biblical exposition.
Minchah (_H._), afternoon prayer.
Minyan (_H._), quorum of ten males over thirteen necessary for public wors.h.i.+p.
Mishpochah (_H._), family.
Mishnah, Mishnayis (_H._), collection of the Oral Law.
Missheberach (_H._), synagogal benediction.
Mitzvah (_H._), a commandment, _i.e._, a good deed.
Mizrach (_H._), East; a sacred picture hung on the east wall in the direction of Jerusalem, to which the face is turned in praying.
Narrischkeit (_c. G._), foolishness.
