Concepts
The central ideas of Jewish thought — from tzimtzum and sefirot to shabbat, shechitah, and devekut. Each concept page traces the idea’s development across centuries with key passages and a layered explanation.
2594 concepts · 2,979,018 corpus discussions
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Malkhut / Shekhinah (Sovereignty, the 10th Sefirah)
מלכות
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Partzufim (Divine Countenances)
פרצופים
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Tikkun (Rectification)
תיקון
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Kinyan (Modes of Halachic Acquisition)
קנין
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Devekut (Cleaving to God)
דבקות
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Sefirot (Divine Emanations)
ספירות
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Dinei Mamonot (Monetary Law)
דיני ממונות
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Form & Matter
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Hashgachah (Divine Providence)
השגחה
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Shem Havayah (The Tetragrammaton)
שם הויה
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Hitlabshut (Enclothement)
התלבשות
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Tzaddik (The Righteous One)
צדיק
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D'Oraita / D'Rabbanan (Biblical vs Rabbinic Law)
דאורייתא / דרבנן
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Ze'ir Anpin (The Small Face)
זעיר אנפין
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Tumah and Taharah (Ritual Impurity and Purity, umbrella)
טומאה וטהרה
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Kodashim (Sanctified Items, Temple Offerings)
קדשים
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Edut (Testimony)
עדות
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Shabbat (The Sabbath)
שבת
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Actuality & Potentiality
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Virtue
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Middat HaDin (Attribute of Justice)
מידת הדין
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Yetzer HaRa (Evil Inclination)
יצר הרע
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Logos (Reason / Cosmic Principle)
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Nitzotzot (Holy Sparks)
ניצוצות
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Gevurah (Judgment/Strength)
גבורה
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Kiddushin (Betrothal / Marriage Sanctification)
קידושין
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Chochmah (Wisdom)
חכמה
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Kelipot (Husks/Shells)
קליפות
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Muchzak (Possessor in Monetary Law)
מוחזק
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Middat HaRachamim (Attribute of Mercy)
מידת הרחמים
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Binah (Understanding)
בינה
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Talmudic Method (Sugya Structure and Argumentation)
דרך הלימוד התלמודי
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Yichudim (Divine Unifications)
ייחודים
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Ahavah / Yirah (Love / Awe of God)
אהבה / יראה
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Avodah Zarah (Idolatry)
עבודה זרה
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Sod (Secret/Mystical Level)
סוד
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Sitra Achra (The Other Side)
סטרא אחרא
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Neshamah (Soul)
נשמה
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Get (Bill of Divorce)
גט
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Chesed (Lovingkindness)
חסד
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The Telos / Final End
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Practical Wisdom
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Ohr (Divine Light)
אור
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Hashgachah Pratit (Particular Providence)
השגחה פרטית
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The Four Causes
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Birur (Refinement/Clarification)
בירור
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Shechitah (Ritual Slaughter)
שחיטה
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Shtar (Written Legal Document)
שטר
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Moach-Lev (Mind-Heart)
מוח-לב
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Nedarim (Vows, general)
נדרים
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Machshava (Divine Thought)
מחשבה
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Seder Hishtalshelut (Chain of Emanation)
סדר השתלשלות
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Kashrut (Jewish Dietary Law, umbrella)
כשרות
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Beit HaMikdash (The Temple in Jerusalem)
בית המקדש
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Mechilah (Waiver of a Monetary Claim)
מחילה
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Issurei Bi'ah (Forbidden Sexual Relations)
איסורי ביאה
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Duty
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Providence
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The Good
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Simcha (Joy in Divine Service)
שמחה
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Ketubah (Marriage Contract)
כתובה
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PaRDeS (Four Levels of Interpretation)
פרדס
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Beit Din (Rabbinic Court)
בית דין
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Shevuah (Oath)
שבועה
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Korban (Sacrificial Offering, generic)
קרבן
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Nezikin (Damages)
נזיקין
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Talmud Torah (Torah Study)
תלמוד תורה
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Terumah and Maaser (Priestly Tithes)
תרומה ומעשרות
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Neshamah Levels (Soul Hierarchy)
מדרגות הנשמה
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Ratzon (Divine Will)
רצון
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Merkavah (The Divine Chariot)
מרכבה
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Heseter Panim (Hiding of the Face)
הסתר פנים
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Safek (Halachic Doubt)
ספק
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Tiferet (Beauty/Harmony)
תפארת
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Yerushah (Inheritance Law)
ירושה
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Derech Eretz (Proper Conduct)
דרך ארץ
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Mochin (Higher Consciousness)
מוחין
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Geulah (Redemption)
גאולה
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Ohr Yashar (Direct Light)
אור ישר
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Modeh BeMiktzat (Partial Admission)
מודה במקצת
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Da'at (Knowledge)
דעת
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Nistar/Nigleh (Hidden/Revealed Torah)
נסתר / נגלה
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Treifah (18 Categories of Fatal Defects)
טריפה - י"ח טרפיות
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Nature
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Chazakah (Legal Presumption)
חזקה
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Yesod (Foundation)
יסוד
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Galut (Exile)
גלות
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Yibum (Levirate Marriage)
יבום
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Pesach (Festival of Passover, umbrella)
פסח
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The One
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The Ten Divine Names
עשרה שמות הקדושים
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Yom Tov (Festival Day, Halachic Institution)
יום טוב
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Justice in the City
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Kavanot HaTefillah (Mystical Intentions of Prayer)
כוונות התפילה
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Shomrim (Bailees)
שומרים
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Oikeiōsis (Appropriation)
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Olamot (Worlds)
עולמות
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Chatat (Sin Offering)
חטאת
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Dinei Nefashot (Capital Cases)
דיני נפשות
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Melachah (Forbidden Creative Labor)
מלאכה
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Adam Rishon (Primordial Adam)
אדם הראשון
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Gezel (Robbery)
גזל
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De'ot (Character Traits and Their Refinement)
דעות
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Hitbonenut (Contemplation)
התבוננות
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Lashon HaRa (Evil Speech)
לשון הרע
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Justice
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Machloket (Halachic Disagreement Framework)
מחלוקת
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Atzmut (Divine Essence)
עצמות
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Likeness to God
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Chillul HaShem (Profaning the Name)
חילול השם
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The Passions
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Niddah (Menstrual Purity)
נדה
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Nevuah (Prophecy)
נבואה
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Definition
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Hechalot (Heavenly Palaces)
היכלות
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Shaliach Amana / Shlichut (Agency)
שליחות
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Hotza'ah (Carrying Between Domains)
הוצאה
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Avodah b'Gashmiyut (Service in Materiality)
עבודה בגשמיות
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Emunah (Faith / Belief)
אמונה
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Ta'amei HaMitzvot (Reasons for the Commandments)
טעמי המצוות
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Piety
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Keter (Crown)
כתר
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Reshuyot (Shabbat Domains)
רשויות שבת
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Birkot HaNehenin (Blessings on Enjoyment)
ברכות הנהנין
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Mai Ta'ama (What is the Reason)
מאי טעמא
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Derash (Homiletical Interpretation)
דרש
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Korban Pesach (The Pesach Sacrifice)
קרבן פסח
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Four Worlds (Atzilut, Beriah, Yetzirah, Asiyah)
ארבע עולמות
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Faction & Civil Strife
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The Rule of Law
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Atzilut (World of Emanation)
עולם האצילות
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Hubris & Nemesis
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Tum'at Met (Corpse Impurity)
טומאת מת
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Ratzo VaShov (Running and Returning)
רצוא ושוב
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Kapparah (Atonement, theological concept)
כפרה
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Lifnim Mishurat HaDin (Beyond the Strict Letter of the Law)
לפנים משורת הדין
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Tevilah (Immersion)
טבילה
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Brit (Covenant)
ברית
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Minhag (Custom)
מנהג
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Batel BeShishim (Nullification in 60×)
בטל בשישים
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Yehareg V'Al Ya'avor (Martyrdom Laws)
ייהרג ואל יעבור
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Shomer Chinam (Unpaid Bailee)
שומר חינם
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Eudaimonia
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Chametz (Leaven)
חמץ
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Faculties of the Soul
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Chalitzah (Release from Yibum)
חליצה
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HaShem and Elokim (The Two Names)
ה׳ ואלה׳ים
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Olah (Burnt Offering)
עולה
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The Cosmos
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Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
יום הכיפורים
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Tzelem Elokim (Divine Image)
צלם אלוקים
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Migo (Since-Argument in Witness Law)
מיגו
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Memaleh Kol Almin (Filling All Worlds)
ממלא כל עלמין
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Ona'at Devarim (Verbal Wronging)
אונאת דברים
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Pikuach Nefesh (Saving Life)
פיקוח נפש
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Bitul (Self-Nullification)
ביטול
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Gemilut Chasadim (Acts of Loving-Kindness)
גמילות חסדים
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Muktzeh (Shabbat-Prohibited Handling)
מוקצה
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Rebbe-Chasid Relationship
רבי-חסיד
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The Divine
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Sugya (Talmudic Discussion Unit)
סוגיא
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Intellect
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Peshat and Derash (Plain and Homiletical Reading)
פשט ודרש
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Shevirat HaKelim (Shattering of the Vessels)
שבירת הכלים
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Shemitah / Sheviit (Sabbatical Year)
שמיטה
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The World-Soul
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Klipat Nogah (Translucent Shell)
קליפת נוגה
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The Tripartite Soul
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Tzedakah (Charity / Righteousness)
צדקה
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Karet (Excision, Divine Cutting-Off)
כרת
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Tzimtzum (Divine Contraction)
צמצום
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Rhetoric
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Moach Shalit al HaLev (Mind Rules the Heart)
מוח שליט על הלב
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Bedikat HaRe'ah / Bedikas HaRe'ah (Lung Examination)
בדיקת הריאה
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Nazir (The Nazirite Vow)
נזיר
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Ribbit (Interest / Usury)
ריבית
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Chinuch (Education of Children)
חינוך
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The Commonwealth
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The Golden Mean
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Shomer Sachar (Paid Bailee)
שומר שכר
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Ein Sof (The Infinite)
אין סוף
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Yichud Hashem (Active Unification of the Name)
ייחוד השם
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Rishonim (Early Medieval Authorities, ~1038-1500)
ראשונים
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Yetziat Mitzrayim (The Exodus from Egypt)
יציאת מצרים
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Keren (Horn — Intentional Damage by Animal)
קרן
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Kibud Av V'Eim (Honoring Parents)
כיבוד אב ואם
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Kriat Shema (Recitation of Shema)
קריאת שמע
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Hitlahavut (Burning Enthusiasm)
התלהבות
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The Four Elements
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Weakness of Will
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Tzaraat (Biblical 'Leprosy', Ritual Affliction)
צרעת
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Sukkah (Booth)
סוכה
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Taarovet (Forbidden Mixtures)
תערובת
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Treifah and Nevelah (Non-Kosher Carcass)
טריפה ונבילה
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Chumra and Kula (Stringency and Leniency)
חומרא וקולא
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Hashavat Aveidah (Returning Lost Objects)
השבת אבדה
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Tefillin (Phylacteries)
תפילין
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Shalom Bayit (Domestic Peace)
שלום בית
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The Sage
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Tum'at Niddah (Menstrual Impurity)
טומאת נדה
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Kilayim (Forbidden Mixtures in Agriculture)
כלאים
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Hashkafah (Worldview / Jewish Theology)
השקפה
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Lifnei Iver (Before the Blind)
לפני עוור
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Bechor (Firstborn Status)
בכור
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Soul as Form of the Body
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Kiddush HaShem (Sanctifying the Name)
קידוש השם
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Geneivah (Theft / Stealing)
גניבה
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Marit Ayin (Appearance to the Onlooker)
מראית עין
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Takanah (Rabbinic Enactment)
תקנה
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Ohr Chozer (Returning Light)
אור חוזר
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Aveilut (Mourning Laws)
אבילות
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Knowledge vs Opinion
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Sefer Torah Laws (Scribing the Torah Scroll)
הלכות ספר תורה
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The Categories
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Eruv Chatzerot (Shared Courtyard Eruv)
עירוב חצירות
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Gilgul (Reincarnation)
גלגול
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Malkos (Lashes)
מלקות
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Kibud Rabbo (Honoring One's Torah Teacher)
כיבוד רבו
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Birkat HaMazon (Grace After Meals)
ברכת המזון
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Memshalah (Divine Sovereignty)
ממשלה
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Divination
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Rov (Majority Principle)
רוב
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Peshat (Plain-Sense Reading)
פשט
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Gezerah Shavah (Analogy by Wording)
גזירה שווה
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Meilah (Misappropriation of Sanctified Property)
מעילה
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Number & Harmony
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Ketamim (Stain Laws of Niddah)
כתמים
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Kushya (Talmudic Difficulty/Objection)
קושיא
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Eruv Techumin (Travel-Boundary Eruv)
עירוב תחומין
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Shemoneh Esrei (The Amidah)
שמונה עשרה
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Keriat HaTorah (Public Torah Reading)
קריאת התורה
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Parshanut (Tanach Commentary Genre)
פרשנות
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Temperance
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Empire & Power
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Melichah (Salting Meat to Remove Blood)
מליחה
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Moral Progress
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Erusin (Betrothal Stage of Marriage)
אירוסין
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Ohr Ein Sof (Infinite Light)
אור אין סוף
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Sovev Kol Almin (Encompassing All Worlds)
סובב כל עלמין
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Rosh Hashanah
ראש השנה
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The Soul
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Reshut HaRabim (Public Domain)
רשות הרבים
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Kal V'Chomer (A Fortiori)
קל וחומר
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Avot V'Toldot HaTum'ah (Tum'ah Categories)
אבות ותולדות הטומאה
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Nomos vs Physis
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Reshut HaYachid (Private Domain)
רשות היחיד
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Dina D'Malchuta Dina (The Law of the Land Is Law)
דינא דמלכותא דינא
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Adam Kadmon (Primordial Man)
אדם קדמון
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Matan Torah (The Giving of the Torah at Sinai)
מתן תורה
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Onah (Marital Intimacy Obligations)
עונה
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Mamzer (Issue of a Forbidden Union)
ממזר
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Nisuin (The Wedding Itself, Stage Two of Marriage)
נישואין
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Giyur (Conversion to Judaism)
גיור
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Peshara (Halachic Compromise / Arbitration Settlement)
פשרה
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Sotah (The Wayward-Wife Trial)
סוטה
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Asiyah (World of Action)
עולם העשיה
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Lo Kashya (No Contradiction)
לא קשיא
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Mikveh (Ritual Bath)
מקווה
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First Principles & Axioms
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Eruv (Shabbat Carrying Boundary)
עירוב
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Beriah (World of Creation)
עולם הבריאה
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Tzitzit (Fringes)
ציצית
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Ger (Convert)
גר
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Pleasure
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Taanit (Public Fast Days, general)
תענית
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Netzach (Victory/Eternity)
נצח
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Shevut (Rabbinic Shabbat Restrictions)
שבות
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Gezerah (Rabbinic Decree)
גזירה
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Beit Shammai and Beit Hillel
בית שמאי ובית הלל
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Chol HaMoed (Intermediate Festival Days, general)
חול המועד
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Maaser Kesafim (Tithing Money)
מעשר כספים
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Hitbodedut (Secluded Prayer)
התבודדות
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Essence
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Motion & Change
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Basar V'Chalav (Meat and Milk)
בשר וחלב
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Davar She'eino Mitkaven (Unintended Action)
דבר שאינו מתכוון
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The Dichotomy of Control
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Bris Milah (Circumcision)
ברית מילה
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The Polis
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Asmachta (Scriptural Hint)
אסמכתא
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Self-Sufficiency
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Arba Minim (Four Species)
ארבעת המינים
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Theory of Forms
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Hod (Splendor/Gratitude)
הוד
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Midrash Halacha (Halachic Midrash Genre)
מדרש הלכה
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Grace
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Azamra (Finding the Good Point)
אזמרה
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Sense-Perception
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Simanim (Trachea + Esophagus in Shechitah)
סימני שחיטה
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Love (Agape / Charity)
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Ethos, Pathos, Logos
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Chiddush (Novel Insight)
חידוש
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Tikkunim (Spiritual Repairs)
תיקונים
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Arvut (Surety / Guarantor Law)
ערבות
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Da'at Yachid (Minority Opinion)
דעת יחיד
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Parah Adumah (Red Heifer)
פרה אדומה
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Challah (Dough Offering)
חלה
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Free Will
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Mishnah (The Genre / Corpus)
משנה
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Minyan (Quorum of Ten)
מנין
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The Common Good
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Matzah (Unleavened Bread)
מצה
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Simchat Yom Tov (Festival Joy as Halachic Obligation)
שמחת יום טוב
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Immortality of the Soul
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Akeidat Yitzchak (Binding of Isaac)
עקידת יצחק
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Generation & Corruption
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Conscience
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Courage
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Mena Hani Milei (What is the Source)
מנא הני מילי
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Biur Chametz (Destroying Chametz)
ביעור חמץ
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Faith
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Kashering (Purging Vessels)
הכשרת כלים
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Bittul HaYesh (Self-Nullification)
ביטול היש
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Achizah (Demonic Grip)
אחיזה
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The Cardinal Virtues
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Grama (Indirect Causation)
גרמא
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Geulah Shleima (Complete Redemption)
גאולה שלימה
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Bikkurim (First Fruits)
ביכורים
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Fate (the Cosmic Chain of Causes)
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Chiyuv / Petur (Liable / Exempt)
חייב / פטור
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Kevurah (Burial)
קבורה
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The Household & Economy
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Shofar (Ram's Horn)
שופר
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Reshimu (Residual Impression)
רשימו
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Tum'at Zav / Zavah (Discharge Impurity)
טומאת זב וזבה
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Tum'at Tzaraat (Spiritual Skin Affliction)
טומאת צרעת
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Pru U'Rvu (Be Fruitful and Multiply)
פרו ורבו
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Friendship
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Tyranny
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Fate & Free Will
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Bishul / Ofeh (Cooking & Baking)
אופה / בישול
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Peah (Corner of the Field for the Poor)
פאה
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Socher (Renter)
שוכר
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Soul Roots (Shoresh HaNeshamot)
שורש הנשמות
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Sho'el (Borrower)
שואל
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The Gods
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Shaliach Tzibbur (Prayer Leader)
שליח ציבור
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Sevara (Logical Reasoning)
סברא
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The Incarnation
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Man the Political Animal
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Safek Safeika (Doubt within a Doubt)
ספק ספיקא
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The Demiurge
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Substance
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Aspaklaria (Lens of Prophecy)
אספקלריה
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Demonstration
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Providence & the Problem of Evil
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Rosh Chodesh (New Moon)
ראש חודש
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Natural Law
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Demai (Doubtfully-Tithed Produce)
דמאי
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Yetzirah (World of Formation)
עולם היצירה
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Dam (Blood Prohibition)
דם
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Rule of Faith
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Yetzer HaRa / Yetzer HaTov (Evil and Good Inclination)
יצר הרע ויצר הטוב
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Yayin Nesech (Idol-Libation Wine)
יין נסך
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13 Hermeneutic Rules of R. Yishmael
י"ג מדות שהתורה נדרשת בהן
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The Citizen
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Netilat Yadayim Shacharit (Morning Hand-Washing)
נטילת ידיים שחרית
texts
Halacha LeMoshe MiSinai (Sinaitic Oral Law)
הלכה למשה מסיני
texts
Beraita (Tannaitic Statement Outside the Mishnah)
ברייתא
texts
Mei Chatas (Purification Waters)
מי חטאת
texts
Arakhin (Valuations of Pledges to the Temple)
ערכין
texts
Torah She-baal Peh (The Oral Torah)
תורה שבעל פה
texts
Kav (Line of Light)
קו
texts
Bor (Pit Damage)
בור
texts
Kim Li ("I Hold Like" — Procedural Defense)
קים לי
texts
Sophistry
texts
Apostolic Succession
texts
Being
texts
Birkot HaShachar (Morning Blessings)
ברכות השחר
texts
Heter Iska (Permissibility Structure for Interest)
היתר עסקא
texts
Liberty
texts
Myth & Allegory of the Gods
texts
Hefsek Taharah (Niddah Cessation Check)
הפסק טהרה
texts
Bishul Akum (Food Cooked by a Non-Jew)
בישול עכו"ם
texts
Katnut and Gadlut (Small and Great States)
קטנות וגדלות
texts
Kiddush (Sanctification of Shabbat/Yom Tov over Wine)
קידוש
texts
Kavod Shabbat (Honoring Shabbat)
כבוד שבת
texts
Unity of the Virtues
texts
Taharat HaMishpacha (Family Purity)
טהרת המשפחה
texts
Repentance (Metanoia)
texts
The 13 Principles of Faith
י"ג עיקרי האמונה
texts
Chelev (Forbidden Fats)
חלב
texts
Bar Mitzvah (Halachic Adulthood for Males)
בר מצוה
texts
Megillat Esther (and its reading)
מגילת אסתר
texts
Chullin (Non-Sanctified, Profane Matter)
חולין
texts
Melekhet Machshevet (Purposeful Labor on Shabbat)
מלאכת מחשבת
texts
Orlah (Forbidden Fruit of the First Three Years)
ערלה
texts
Cherem (Ban / Excommunication)
חרם
texts
Mav'ir (Kindling Fire)
מבעיר
texts
Amirah L'Nochri (Asking a Non-Jew to Perform Melachah)
אמירה לנכרי
texts
Mashiach (Messiah)
משיח
texts
Tzava'ah (Ethical Will and Death-bed Bequest)
צוואה
texts
Concupiscence
texts
Birkot HaTorah (Torah Blessings)
ברכות התורה
texts
Schach (Sukkah Roof Covering)
סכך
texts
Chagim (Festivals, umbrella)
חגים
texts
Yovel (Jubilee Year)
יובל
texts
Ona'at Mamon (Financial Wronging)
אונאת ממון
texts
Apatheia
texts
Birkat Cohanim (The Priestly Blessing)
ברכת כהנים
texts
The Honorable
texts
Natural Law
texts
The Syllogism
texts
Tannaim (Mishnaic Sages, ~10-220 CE)
תנאים
texts
Semichah (Rabbinic Ordination)
סמיכה
texts
Pidyon HaBen (Redemption of Firstborn)
פדיון הבן
texts
Ruach HaKodesh (Divine Inspiration)
רוח הקודש
texts
Bein HaShemashot (Twilight)
בין השמשות
texts
Maaseh Bereshit (The Account of Creation)
מעשה בראשית
texts
Hachnasat Orchim (Hospitality)
הכנסת אורחים
texts
Transmigration
texts
Soul as Breath or Atoms
texts
The bodhisattva
texts
Kotzer (Reaping)
קוצר
texts
Typology
texts
The Criterion of Truth
texts
The First Principle
texts
Karmelit (Rabbinic Intermediate Domain)
כרמלית
texts
Shekalim (Half-Shekel Temple Tax)
שקלים
texts
Torah She-bichtav (The Written Torah)
תורה שבכתב
texts
The Ruling Faculty
texts
Sanctification
texts
Dikduk (Hebrew Grammar)
דקדוק
texts
Shekhinah (Divine Indwelling Presence, Rabbinic)
שכינה
texts
Ever Min HaChai (Limb from a Living Animal)
אבר מן החי
texts
Agunah (Chained Wife)
עגונה
texts
Non-Contradiction
texts
Zimun (Communal Call to Grace After Meals)
זימון
texts
Chatichah Naaseit Neveilah (The Piece Becomes Forbidden)
חתיכה נעשית נבילה
texts
The Daimon
texts
Magnanimity
texts
Nusach HaTefillah (Liturgical Rite)
נוסח התפילה
texts
Divine Providence
texts
Ataraxia
texts
Bechirah Chofshit (Free Will)
בחירה חופשית
texts
Seed-Principles
texts
Iggulim and Yosher (Circles and Lines)
עיגולים ויושר
texts
Yetzer HaTov (Good Inclination)
יצר הטוב
texts
Chuk vs. Mishpat (Statute vs. Rational Law)
חוק ומשפט
texts
Regel (Foot — Trampling Damage)
רגל
texts
Amoraim (Talmudic Sages, ~220-500 CE)
אמוראים
texts
Arei Miklat (Cities of Refuge)
ערי מקלט
texts
Tohu (Chaos/Primordial Realm)
תוהו
texts
Purim
פורים
texts
Dharma (the teaching)
texts
Chol HaMoed Sukkot
חול המועד סוכות
texts
The Lawgiver
texts
Churban Bayit Sheni (Destruction of the Second Temple)
חורבן בית שני
texts
Galut Mitzrayim (Egyptian Exile)
גלות מצרים
texts
Time
texts
God as Cosmos (Pantheism)
texts
The Pesach Seder
ליל הסדר
texts
Original Sin
texts
Dialectic
texts
Imma (The Mother Partzuf)
אמא
texts
Logos Christology
texts
Active & Passive Intellect
texts
Prognosis (Foretelling the Course of Disease)
texts
Impression / Imagination
texts
Minhag HaMakom (Local Custom)
מנהג המקום
texts
Image of God
texts
Sanhedrin
סנהדרין
texts
Aninut (Pre-Burial Mourning State)
אנינות
texts
Mincha (Afternoon Service)
מנחה
texts
Viduy (Confession)
וידוי
texts
Havdalah (Separation Ritual Ending Shabbat/Yom Tov)
הבדלה
texts
Martyrdom
texts
The Church as Body of Christ
texts
Atik Yomin (The Ancient of Days)
עתיק יומין
texts
Heresy
texts
Mezuzah
מזוזה
texts
Eser Makkot (The Ten Plagues)
עשר המכות
texts
Apotheosis / The Divine Man
texts
The Unmoved Mover
texts
Bedikat Chametz (Searching for Chametz)
בדיקת חמץ
texts
Bechira vs. Yediah (Free Will vs. Divine Foreknowledge)
בחירה וידיעה
texts
Shacharit (Morning Service)
שחרית
texts
The precepts / moral discipline
texts
Asceticism
texts
Ibaya Lehu (They Inquired)
איבעיא להו
texts
Spiritual Warfare
texts
Midah K'Neged Midah (Measure for Measure)
מדה כנגד מדה
texts
Oneg Shabbat (Joy of Shabbat)
עונג שבת
texts
Makeh Bapatish (Final Hammer Blow)
מכה בפטיש
texts
Chassidus and the Inner Life
חסידות
texts
Lighting Chanukah Candles
הדלקת נרות חנוכה
texts
Aggadah (Non-Halachic Talmudic Material)
אגדה
texts
Ibbur (Soul Impregnation)
עיבור
texts
Chanukah (Festival of Dedication)
חנוכה
texts
Place & Space
texts
Works of Mercy
texts
Keriah (Tearing of Garments at Death)
קריעה
texts
Emptiness
texts
Musaf (Additional Service)
מוסף
texts
Techiyat HaMetim (Resurrection)
תחיית המתים
texts
Prayer
texts
Divine Omnipotence
texts
Last Judgment
texts
Eternity of the World
texts
The Topics / Commonplaces
texts
Gid HaNasheh (Sciatic Nerve Prohibition)
גיד הנשה
texts
Sefirat HaOmer (Counting of the Omer)
ספירת העומר
texts
Baptism
texts
Creation Out of Nothing
texts
Tnaim (Engagement Conditions)
תנאים
texts
Divine Omniscience
texts
Pidyon Shevuyim (Redeeming Captives)
פדיון שבויים
texts
Hachanah (Shabbat-to-Weekday Preparation Prohibition)
הכנה
texts
The Holy Trinity
texts
Shavuot (Festival of Weeks)
שבועות
texts
Cheit HaMeraglim (Sin of the Spies)
חטא המרגלים
texts
Tosefet Shabbat (Adding to Shabbat)
תוספת שבת
texts
Nichum Aveilim (Consoling Mourners)
ניחום אבלים
texts
Chalal (Vacated Space)
חלל
texts
Hesped (Eulogy)
הספד
texts
Hallel (Psalms of Praise 113-118)
הלל
texts
Things Preceding Creation (Aggadic)
שבעה דברים קדמו לעולם
texts
Kotev (Writing)
כותב
texts
Esh (Fire Damage)
אש
texts
Borer (Selecting / Sorting)
בורר
texts
Kingdom of God
texts
Redemption
texts
Tosefta (Supplementary Tannaitic Compilation)
תוספתא
texts
Karma (action and its fruit)
texts
Prosbol (Hillel's Loan-Preservation Document)
פרוזבול
texts
Universals
texts
Idolatry
texts
Shivah Nekiyim (Seven Clean Days)
שבעה נקיים
texts
Gehinom (Purgatory / Realm of Cleansing)
גיהנום
texts
Nukva (The Feminine Counterpart of Zeir Anpin)
נוקבא דזעיר אנפין
texts
Merit
texts
The Regimes
texts
Harchakot (Niddah Separations)
הרחקות
texts
Cardinal Virtues
texts
Ratio & Proportion
texts
Bikur Cholim (Visiting the Sick)
ביקור חולים
texts
Salvation (Soteria)
texts
Eigel HaZahav (The Golden Calf)
עגל הזהב
texts
Cosmic Mind (Nous)
texts
Mechitzah (Synagogue Gender Partition)
מחיצה
texts
Christian Sexual Ethics
texts
Tziduk HaDin (Justification of Divine Judgment at Burial)
צידוק הדין
texts
Tisha B'Av (Ninth of Av)
תשעה באב
texts
The Symposium
texts
Shatnez (Wool-Linen Mixture in Garments)
שעטנז
texts
Chiddush HaOlam (Creation vs. Eternity)
חידוש העולם
texts
Davar She'Yesh Lo Matirin (Eventually-Permitted Item)
דבר שיש לו מתירין
texts
Kisui HaDam (Covering the Blood)
כיסוי הדם
texts
The Three Genres of Oratory
texts
Resurrection of Christ
texts
The Human Soul
texts
Eruv Tavshilin (Yom-Tov-to-Shabbat Cooking Eruv)
עירוב תבשילין
texts
The Socratic Elenchus
texts
Democracy
texts
Boneh (Building)
בונה
texts
Persecution of the Church
texts
The Best Regime
texts
Shochet (Slaughtering)
שוחט
texts
The Fall
texts
Dash (Threshing)
דש
texts
Naaseh V'Nishma (We Will Do and We Will Hear)
נעשה ונשמע
texts
Klal U'Prat (General and Specific)
כלל ופרט
texts
Arianism
texts
Shalosh Seudot (Three Shabbat Meals)
שלוש סעודות
texts
Tolaim (Worm/Insect Inspection)
תולעים
texts
Almsgiving
texts
Justification
texts
Consubstantiality (Homoousios)
texts
Impulse & Assent
texts
Ukimta (Forced Reinterpretation)
אוקימתא
texts
Two Natures of Christ
texts
Skepticism
texts
Maariv / Arvit (Evening Service)
מעריב / ערבית
texts
Tashlumin (Making Up a Missed Prayer)
תשלומין
texts
The Passion of Christ
texts
Christ as Messiah
texts
Equality
texts
The Axiomatic-Deductive Method
texts
The Holy / The Sacred
texts
Yirat Shamayim (Fear of Heaven)
יראת שמים
texts
Temple and Sanctuary Cult
texts
Resurrection of the Body
texts
Stasis (Anatomy of Civil War)
texts
Full Humanity of Christ
texts
The Cynic Ideal
texts
Hashgachah Klalit vs. Pratit (General vs. Particular Providence)
השגחה כללית ופרטית
texts
Dependent origination
texts
Buddha-nature
texts
Divine Attributes
texts
Shen (Tooth — Eating Damage)
שן
texts
Mechirat Chametz (Sale of Chametz Before Pesach)
מכירת חמץ
texts
Nesias Kapayim (Priestly Blessing)
נשיאת כפיים
texts
Pesukei DeZimra (Verses of Praise)
פסוקי דזמרא
texts
Tevilat Keilim (Immersing Vessels)
טבילת כלים
texts
Chadash (New Grain Before the Omer)
חדש
texts
Chol HaMoed Pesach
חול המועד פסח
texts
Shehecheyanu (Blessing on New Occasions)
שהחיינו
texts
Brit Bein HaBetarim (Covenant of the Pieces, the Event)
ברית בין הבתרים
texts
Christ as the Second Adam
texts
Four Cups of Wine (Arba Kosot)
ארבע כוסות
texts
Minhag Yisrael Torah (Custom of Israel is Torah)
מנהג ישראל תורה
texts
Haggadah (The Pesach Narrative)
הגדה
texts
Miun (Minor's Marriage Refusal)
מיאון
texts
Bameh Madlikin (Friday-Night Mishnah Recitation)
במה מדליקין
texts
Psik Reisha (Inevitable Consequence on Shabbat)
פסיק רישא
texts
Tachanun (Supplication)
תחנון
texts
Mitzvot Bein Adam L'Chavero (Interpersonal)
מצוות בין אדם לחברו
texts
Christ the Mediator
texts
Kaddish (Mourner's Prayer)
קדיש
texts
Abba (The Father Partzuf)
אבא
texts
Virgin Birth
texts
Tzurat HaPetach (Doorway-Form Eruv)
צורת הפתח
texts
Lechem HaPanim (Showbread)
לחם הפנים
texts
Acharonim (Later Authorities, ~1500-present)
אחרונים
texts
Animal Sacrifice (Thysia)
texts
Shiva (Seven Days of Mourning)
שבעה
texts
Shamor and Zachor (Guard and Remember)
שמור וזכור
texts
Tochen (Grinding)
טוחן
texts
Eved Ivri (Hebrew Bondsman)
עבד עברי
texts
Allegorical Interpretation
texts
V'ahavta L'Reacha Kamocha (Love Your Neighbor)
ואהבת לרעך כמוך
texts
Eternal Generation of the Son
texts
Nolad (Newly-Existent on Shabbat)
נולד
texts
Buddha (the awakened one)
texts
The 13 Attributes of Mercy
י"ג מדות הרחמים
texts
Critical Days of Illness
texts
Teiku (Unresolved Question)
תיקו
texts
Glatt / Chalak (Smooth-Lung Standard)
חלק
texts
Gematria (Numerical Hermeneutic)
גימטריא
texts
Celibacy and Consecrated Virginity
texts
Lash (Kneading)
לש
texts
Hatarat Nedarim (Annulment of Vows)
התרת נדרים
texts
Kibbutz Galuyot (Ingathering of Exiles)
קיבוץ גלויות
texts
Pidyon Peter Chamor (Redemption of Firstborn Donkey)
פדיון פטר חמור
texts
Maaseh Merkavah (The Chariot Account)
מעשה מרכבה
texts
Theological Virtues
texts
Defilements
texts
Kriat Yam Suf (Splitting of the Sea)
קריעת ים סוף
texts
Nirvāṇa
texts
Faith and Works
texts
Wisdom
texts
Non-self
texts
Atheism & Impiety
texts
Shome'a K'Oneh (Hearing is Like Reciting)
שומע כעונה
texts
Mantra
texts
Meditation (general)
texts
Kosher (Tying)
קושר
texts
Mechabeh (Extinguishing)
מכבה
texts
Shloshim (Thirty-Day Mourning Period)
שלושים
texts
Regeneration (New Birth)
texts
Aseret Yemei Teshuvah (Ten Days of Repentance)
עשרת ימי תשובה
texts
Pesach Sheni (Second Pesach)
פסח שני
texts
Bat Mitzvah (Halachic Adulthood for Females)
בת מצוה
texts
Flux
texts
Shedim (Demons / Intermediate Spirits)
שדים
texts
Nat Bar Nat (Twice-Removed Flavor)
נ"ט בר נ"ט
texts
Love & Strife
texts
The Delphic Oracle
texts
Samael (The Accusing Angel)
סמאל
texts
Seven Deadly Sins
texts
Midrash Aggadah (Narrative-Homiletical Midrash)
מדרש אגדה
texts
Kitniyot (Legumes on Pesach)
קטניות
texts
Neta Revai (Fourth-Year Fruit)
נטע רבעי
texts
Hell
texts
Chan / Zen
texts
Chuppah (Wedding Canopy)
חופה
texts
Kisei HaKavod (Throne of Glory)
כסא הכבוד
texts
Recollection
texts
Halvaah (Loans / Lender-Borrower Law)
הלוואה
texts
The Eucharist
texts
Hypostatic Union
texts
Yotzer Ohr (Morning Creation-of-Light Blessing)
יוצר אור
texts
The perfections
texts
Communion of Saints
texts
Muktzeh Machmat Issur (Forbidden-Use Muktzeh)
מוקצה מחמת איסור
texts
Shevuat Heset (Rabbinic Denial-Oath)
שבועת היסת
texts
Geonim (Babylonian Academy Heads, ~589-1038)
גאונים
texts
Election
texts
The two truths
texts
The Four Noble Truths
texts
Second Coming (Parousia)
texts
Makom Petur (Exempt Area)
מקום פטור
texts
Temple-Building & Sacred Architecture
texts
Arich Anpin (The Long-Face)
אריך אנפין
texts
Divine Incomprehensibility
texts
The five aggregates
texts
Atoms & the Void
texts
Mekach Taut (Mistaken Purchase — Null Sale)
מקח טעות
texts
Ministerial Priesthood
texts
Gan Eden (Garden of Eden / Afterlife Paradise)
גן עדן
texts
Votive Offering
texts
The awakening mind
texts
Gozez (Shearing)
גוזז
texts
Shemini Atzeret
שמיני עצרת
texts
Dhāraṇī (mnemonic formula)
texts
Sinlessness of Christ
texts
Penance and Confession
texts
Metatron (Archangel)
מטטרון
texts
Tzad (Trapping)
צד
texts
Indwelling of the Holy Spirit
texts
Lilith (Feminine Adversarial Figure)
לילית
texts
Mabul (The Flood)
מבול
texts
Schar V'Onesh (Reward and Punishment)
שכר ועונש
texts
Argument by Example
texts
Muktzeh Machmat Gufo (Inherent Muktzeh)
מוקצה מחמת גופו
texts
Lishmah / Lo Lishmah
לשמה ולא לשמה
texts
Intermediate State
texts
Scripture and Tradition
texts
Shalosh Regalim (Three Pilgrimage Festivals)
שלוש רגלים
texts
Binyan Av (Paradigmatic Derivation)
בנין אב
texts
Beatific Vision
texts
Korach's Rebellion
קורח
texts
Gaavah (Arrogance / Pride)
גאוה
texts
Tefilat Geshem (Prayer for Rain)
תפילת גשם
texts
Yom Tov Sheni Shel Galuyot (Second-Day Yom Tov in the Diaspora)
יום טוב שני של גלויות
texts
Periēgēsis (Guided Description of Places)
texts
Minhag Mevatel Halacha (Custom Overrides Law)
מנהג מבטל הלכה
texts
Induction
texts
Schism
texts
Natural Slavery
texts
Sheva Brachos (Seven Wedding Blessings)
שבע ברכות
texts
Divine Immutability
texts
Divine Simplicity
texts
Divinity of the Holy Spirit
texts
Bilam (Balaam)
בלעם
texts
Tiyuvta (Decisive Refutation)
תיובתא
texts
Choresh (Plowing)
חורש
texts
Mussar Movement (R. Yisrael Salanter's 19c. Project)
תנועת המוסר
texts
Terutz (Resolution of a Difficulty)
תירוץ
texts
Birkot Kriat Shema (Blessings of the Shema)
ברכות קריאת שמע
texts
Leviathan (The Cosmic Sea-Serpent / Eschatological Feast)
לויתן
texts
Gog u'Magog (The Eschatological War)
גוג ומגוג
texts
Pelagianism
texts
Geometric Proof (QED)
texts
Nesirah (The Sawing — Separation of Nukva)
נסירה
texts
Sacrament (Mystery)
texts
The perfection of wisdom
texts
Tikkun HaOlam (Rabbinic Enactments for Society)
תיקון העולם
texts
Yiush (Owner's Despair — Halachic Transfer of Lost Property)
ייאוש
texts
Awakening (bodhi)
texts
Charisms (Spiritual Gifts)
texts
Communication of Idioms
texts
Wholesome and unwholesome
texts
Gemara (Amoraic Talmudic Discussion)
גמרא
texts
Gnosticism
texts
Skillful means
texts
Melaben (Bleaching / Laundering)
מלבן
texts
Bittul B'Metziut (Absolute Nullification)
ביטול במציאות
texts
Soter (Demolishing)
סותר
texts
Remez (Allusion — 2nd Level of PaRDeS)
רמז
texts
The arhat (worthy one)
texts
Levi (Levite Lineage)
שבט לוי
texts
Monasticism
texts
Kefiyat Get (Compelling a Divorce)
כפיית גט
texts
Terumat Ma'aser (Tithe-of-the-Tithe)
תרומת מעשר
texts
Synergism
texts
Tychē as a Force in History
texts
Christ the Lamb of God
texts
Tawḥīd (Divine Oneness)
texts
Aravot (Willow Branches as One of the 4 Species)
ערבות מצוה
texts
Holy Orders (Ordination)
texts
Predestination
texts
Heavenly Session and Intercession
texts
The Three Jewels
texts
Excommunication & Penitential Discipline
texts
Pre-existence of Christ
texts
The bodhisattva vow
texts
The Blessed, Indifferent Gods
texts
Mortality of the Soul
texts
Matnot Kehunah (Priestly Gifts)
מתנות כהונה
texts
Suffering / unsatisfactoriness
texts
Terumah Gedolah (Major Heave-Offering)
תרומה גדולה
texts
Aether / The Fifth Element
texts
Pas Akum (Bread of Non-Jews)
פת עכו"ם
texts
The Spirit as Giver of Life and Sanctifier
texts
Blasphemy Against the Holy Spirit
texts
Nubuwwa (Prophethood)
texts
Insight meditation
texts
Stasis (Rhetorical Issue-Theory)
texts
Tevul Yom (One Immersed That Day)
טבול יום
texts
The Olympic Games
texts
Baruch Sheamar
ברוך שאמר
texts
The theory of dharmas
texts
Theotokos (God-bearer)
texts
The Pure Land
texts
Mind-only / cognition-only
texts
The monastic code
texts
The Social Contract
texts
Kavod Hashem (Divine Glory)
כבוד השם
texts
Literal/Historical Sense
texts
Suspension of Judgment
texts
Kavod HaBriot (Human Dignity)
כבוד הבריות
texts
Teruah (Staccato Shofar Sound)
תרועה
texts
Kablan (Independent Contractor)
קבלן
texts
Zoreya (Sowing)
זורע
texts
The Saṅgha (community)
texts
Shichechah (Forgotten Sheaf)
שכחה
texts
Tafsīr (Qurʾānic Exegesis)
texts
Hashra'at HaShechinah (Indwelling of the Divine Presence)
השראת השכינה
texts
Qadar (Divine Decree & Predestination)
texts
Calm-abiding meditation
texts
Dikna (The Sacred Beard — 13 Tikkunei Dikna)
דיקנא
texts
Sunna (Prophetic Practice)
texts
Īmān (Faith)
texts
Sechirut Poalim (Labor / Hiring Law)
שכירות פועלים
texts
Transfer / dedication of merit
texts
Impermanence
texts
Meein Shalosh / Al HaMichyah
מעין שלוש
texts
First Council of Nicaea (325)
texts
Adab (Proper Comportment / Ethical Refinement)
texts
Ṣalāt (Ritual Prayer)
texts
Nun Sha'arei Binah (Fifty Gates of Understanding)
חמישים שערי בינה
texts
Lo Plug (Non-Distinction of the Rabbis)
לא פלוג
texts
The Excluded Middle
texts
Teshuvah Me'ahavah (Repentance from Love)
תשובה מאהבה
texts
Churban Bayit Rishon (Destruction of the First Temple)
חורבן בית ראשון
texts
Niyya (Intention)
texts
Perseverance of the Saints
texts
Matanot LaEvyonim (Purim Gifts to the Poor)
מתנות לאביונים
texts
Tathāgata
texts
Oreig (Weaving)
אורג
texts
The Modes of Skepticism
texts
ʿAdl (Divine Justice)
texts
Monasticism / the going forth
texts
Vicarious Atonement
texts
Meditative absorption
texts
Heaven
texts
Reconciliation
texts
Iskafia and Is'hapcha (Suppression and Transformation)
אתכפיא ואתהפכא
texts
Ascension of Christ
texts
Ashkenazi Minhag Tradition
מנהגי אשכנז
texts
Eshet Ach (Brother's Wife)
אשת אח
texts
Ijmāʿ (Scholarly Consensus)
texts
Ma'aser Ani (Tithe of the Poor)
מעשר עני
texts
Manichaeism
texts
Rebirth
texts
Becoming
texts
To Prepon (Decorum / Fittingness)
texts
Compassion
texts
The Plausible
texts
The Nine Days (1-9 Av)
תשעת הימים
texts
Chalipin (Barter / Halachic Exchange)
חליפין
texts
The six realms of rebirth
texts
Panim b'Panim / Achor b'Achor
פנים בפנים ואחור באחור
texts
Sheva Brachos Week (Festive Meals)
שבעת ימי המשתה
texts
Tekiah (Long Shofar Blast)
תקיעה
texts
Simchah shel Mitzvah (Joy in Divine Service)
שמחה של מצוה
texts
Hazama (Witnesses Refuted via Alibi)
הזמה
texts
Nezek (Loss of Bodily Value)
נזק
texts
Yichud Elyon (Upper Unification)
ייחוד עליון
texts
Ṣifāt (Divine Attributes)
texts
Shem Mem-Bet (42-Letter Name)
שם מ״ב
texts
The three marks of existence
texts
Hero Cult
texts
Sinat Chinam (Baseless Hatred)
שנאת חנם
texts
Recollection of the Buddha (nianfo)
texts
Inspiration of Scripture
texts
Karpas, Maror, Charoset (Seder Foods)
כרפס, מרור, חרוסת
texts
Metzitzah (Oral Suction Component of Brit Milah)
מציצה
texts
Divine Kingship & the Mandate to Rule
texts
Oto V'Et Beno (Slaughtering an Animal and Its Young)
אותו ואת בנו
texts
Mit'asek (Unintentional Engagement)
מתעסק
texts
The Apprehensive Impression
texts
Parashat Zachor (Memory of Amalek)
פרשת זכור
texts
Hekesh (Juxtaposition Derivation)
היקש
texts
Ikhlāṣ (Sincerity of Intention)
texts
Motzi-Matzah (Seder Steps 7-8: Bread + Matzah)
מוציא מצה
texts
Na'anuim (Lulav Shaking)
נענועים
texts
Mishum Eivah (Rulings to Avoid Enmity)
משום איבה
texts
Kasb (Acquisition of Acts)
texts
Ma'aser Rishon (First Tithe)
מעשר ראשון
texts
Me'ah Berakhot (Hundred Blessings Daily)
מאה ברכות
texts
Cheresh Shoteh V'Katan (Deaf-Mute, Mentally Incapacitated, Minor)
חרש שוטה וקטן
texts
Enkōmion (Praise of a Subject)
texts
Mukan / Hochanah (Yom Tov Preparation/Designation)
מוכן
texts
Eved Kena'ani (Non-Jewish Bondsman)
עבד כנעני
texts
Ma'aser Sheni (Second Tithe, Eaten in Jerusalem)
מעשר שני
texts
Yaaleh V'Yavo (Festival/Rosh Chodesh Amidah Insertion)
יעלה ויבא
texts
Leket (Gleanings)
לקט
texts
Mesirah (Informing on a Jew to a Non-Jewish Authority)
מסירה
texts
Nefesh HaElokit (The Divine Soul)
נפש האלקית
texts
Pesulei HaMukdashin (Disqualified Sanctified Animals)
פסולי המוקדשין
texts
Tenaim (Engagement Contract Ceremony)
תנאים
texts
Ahavat Hashem (Love of God)
אהבת השם
texts
Giving (dāna)
texts
Bein HaMetzarim (The Three Weeks)
בין המצרים
texts
Arba Mitot Beit Din (4 Court-Imposed Death Penalties)
ארבע מיתות
texts
Ex Opere Operato
texts
Canon of Scripture
texts
Olam HaNikkudim (World of Points)
עולם הנקודים
texts
Afikoman
אפיקומן
texts
Ben Sorer u'Moreh (The Wayward and Rebellious Son)
בן סורר ומורה
texts
Taʾwīl (Esoteric/Allegorical Interpretation)
texts
Mishkav U'Moshav (Bedding and Seating of a Tameh)
משכב ומושב
texts
Divine Impassibility
texts
Hakhchashah (Contradictory Testimony)
הכחשה
texts
Lulav (Date-Palm Frond)
לולב
texts
Shevu'at Shav (Vain Oath)
שבועת שוא
texts
Borei Pri HaAdamah (Ground-Fruit Blessing)
בורא פרי האדמה
texts
The Cycle of Constitutions
texts
The Mixed Constitution
texts
Keren v'Chomesh (Principal + Fifth)
קרן וחומש
texts
Boshet (Embarrassment)
בושת
texts
The six sense-bases
texts
Perichoresis (Mutual Indwelling)
texts
Ervah (Forbidden Sexual Relationship)
ערוה
texts
Sekilah (Court-Imposed Stoning)
סקילה
texts
Stam Mishnah (Anonymous Mishnaic Ruling)
סתם משנה
texts
Borei Pri HaGafen (Wine Blessing)
בורא פרי הגפן
texts
Contemplation
texts
Emet (Truth / Truthfulness)
אמת
texts
Goses (The Moribund / Actively Dying)
גוסס
texts
Bidʿa (Reprehensible Innovation)
texts
Selichot (Pre-High-Holidays Penitential Prayers)
סליחות
texts
Avak Ribbit (Dust of Interest — Rabbinic Prohibition)
אבק ריבית
texts
Ijtihād (Independent Legal Reasoning)
texts
Nedunya (Dowry)
נדוניא
texts
Matzevah (Setting the Gravestone)
מצבה
texts
Ochel Nefesh (Cooking on Yom Tov)
אוכל נפש
texts
Hadlakat Nerot (Shabbat Candle Lighting)
הדלקת נרות שבת
texts
Tanzīh (Divine Transcendence)
texts
Tofer (Sewing)
תופר
texts
Tzove'a (Dyeing)
צובע
texts
Moser (Informer)
מוסר
texts
Shutfut (Halachic Partnership)
שותפות
texts
Tza'ar (Pain)
צער
texts
Ecumenical Council
texts
Real Presence
texts
Ma'aser Behemah (Tithe of Livestock)
מעשר בהמה
texts
Moredet (Rebellious Wife — Halachic Status)
מורדת
texts
The round of rebirth
texts
Garmi (Direct Tortious Causation)
דינא דגרמי
texts
The Medical Aphorism
texts
Hagbahah (Lifting the Torah After Reading)
הגבהה
texts
Hereg (Sword/Decapitation)
הרג
texts
Ḥikma (Wisdom)
texts
Kufr (Unbelief)
texts
Hatra'ah (Forewarning Requirement)
התראה
texts
Drash (Homiletical Exposition — 3rd Level of PaRDeS)
דרש
texts
Over LaAsiyatan (Reciting the Blessing Before the Mitzvah)
עובר לעשייתן
texts
Shtar Chov (Debt Document)
שטר חוב
texts
Cosmic Conflagration (Ekpyrosis)
texts
Oath-Taking
texts
Asher Yatzar (Bathroom Blessing)
אשר יצר
texts
Shelamim (Peace-Offering)
שלמים
texts
Chenek (Strangulation)
חנק
texts
Marks of the Church
texts
Merit
texts
Etrog (Citron)
אתרוג
texts
Environmental Determinism (Climate Shapes Peoples)
texts
Hekdesh (Sanctified Property)
הקדש
texts
Qurʾān (as Source of Law)
texts
Mishnah Rishonah / Mishnah Acharonah
משנה ראשונה ומשנה אחרונה
texts
Beit Knesset (Synagogue — Sanctity, Design, Conduct)
בית הכנסת
texts
al-Amr bi-l-Maʿrūf (Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong)
texts
Recapitulation
texts
Rodef (The Pursuer)
רודף
texts
Asham (Guilt-Offering)
אשם
texts
Prayer and Hymn
texts
Shevet (Lost Wages)
שבת
texts
Z'hirut (Watchfulness)
זהירות
texts
Beinoni (The Intermediate Person — Tanya's Ideal)
בינוני
texts
Tawba (Repentance / Turning Back)
texts
Minchah (Flour-Offering)
מנחה
texts
Ribbit Ketzutzah (Biblically-Fixed Interest)
ריבית קצוצה
texts
Muʿtazila (Rationalist Theology)
texts
Shel Yad (Arm Tefillin)
של יד
texts
Waḥy (Revelation)
texts
Motzi Shem Ra (Defamation)
מוציא שם רע
texts
Qiyās (Analogical Reasoning)
texts
Shevarim (Three Broken Shofar Notes)
שברים
texts
Borei Pri HaEtz (Tree-Fruit Blessing)
בורא פרי העץ
texts
Imputed Righteousness
texts
Arbaim Seah (40 Seah — Minimum Mikveh Volume)
ארבעים סאה
texts
The four divine abodes
texts
Suchness
texts
Marriage (as Sacrament)
texts
Shel Rosh (Head Tefillin)
של ראש
texts
Funerary Rites and Mourning
texts
Taqwā (God-Consciousness / Piety)
texts
Notar (Sacrificial Meat Left Past Time)
נותר
texts
Zaken Mamre (The Rebellious Elder)
זקן ממרא
texts
Kaas (Anger)
כעס
texts
Mechatech (Cutting to Shape)
מחתך
texts
Kairos (The Opportune Moment)
texts
Kinyan Sudar (Chalipin — Acquisition by Exchange of Handkerchief)
קנין סודר
texts
Tzaddik V'Ra Lo (Theodicy)
צדיק ורע לו
texts
Avalokiteśvara (bodhisattva of compassion)
texts
Lechem Mishneh (Two Loaves for Shabbat/Yom Tov)
לחם משנה
texts
Yom HaDin (Day of Judgment)
יום הדין
texts
Antichrist
texts
The Enthymeme
texts
Netilat Yadayim (Washing Before Bread)
נטילת ידיים לסעודה
texts
The dharma-realm
texts
The Void
texts
Techelet (The Blue String)
תכלת
texts
Bittul Torah (Neglect of Torah Study)
ביטול תורה
texts
Ṭahāra (Ritual Purity)
texts
Azharot (Sephardic Shavuot 613-Mitzvot Piyut)
אזהרות
texts
Borei Minei Mezonot (Grain-Based Foods)
בורא מיני מזונות
texts
Maṇḍala
texts
The three bodies of a buddha
texts
Takfīr (Declaring a Muslim an Unbeliever)
texts
Musaf (Additional Festival Offerings)
מוסף קרבן
texts
Lo BaShamayim Hi (Tanur shel Achnai)
לא בשמים היא
texts
Christ as Head of the Church
texts
Faith / confidence
texts
Christian Pacifism / Nonviolence
texts
Memachek (Smoothing / Scraping)
ממחק
texts
Thōmata (Marvels & Wonders)
texts
HaMotzi MeChavero Alav HaRaya
המוציא מחבירו עליו הראיה
texts
al-Baʿth wa-l-Maʿād (Resurrection of the Body)
texts
Zechut Avot (Merit of the Patriarchs)
זכות אבות
texts
Bechor Behemah Tehorah (Firstborn of Pure Animals)
בכור בהמה טהורה
texts
Tazkiyat al-Nafs (Purification of the Soul)
texts
Klal Yisrael (The Collective Body of Israel)
כלל ישראל
texts
Dayyenu (Passover Haggadah Litany of Gratitude)
דיינו
texts
al-Asmāʾ al-Ḥusnā (The 99 Names of God)
texts
ʿIlm Allāh bi-l-Juzʾiyyāt (God's Knowledge of Particulars)
texts
Ṣaḥāba (Companions of the Prophet)
texts
Pigul (Sacrifice Disqualified by Improper Intent)
פיגול
texts
Aitia (Cause vs Pretext in History)
texts
The Boundless
texts
Zo"N (Ze'ir Anpin and Nukva)
זו״ן
texts
Going for refuge
texts
Borei Nefashot (Universal After-Blessing)
בורא נפשות
texts
Chevra Kadisha (Burial Society)
חברה קדישא
texts
Mashiach ben David (The Davidic Messiah)
משיח בן דוד
texts
Nefilat Apayim (Tachanun Posture)
נפילת אפים
texts
ʿIlm al-Kalām (Dialectical Theology)
texts
Tahdhīb al-Akhlāq (Refinement of Character / Mean Ethics)
texts
Keruvim (Cherubim)
כרובים
texts
Memutza (The Intermediary)
ממוצע
texts
Yemot HaMashiach (The Messianic Era)
ימות המשיח
texts
Seudat Purim (Purim Festive Meal)
סעודת פורים
texts
Tevunah (Sub-Partzuf of Imma)
תבונה
texts
Ahavat Yisrael (Love of Fellow Jews)
אהבת ישראל
texts
Knesset Yisrael (The Assembly of Israel)
כנסת ישראל
texts
Tena'ei Ketubah (Standard Ketubah Stipulations)
תנאי כתובה
texts
Aseret Maamarot (Ten Utterances of Creation)
עשרה מאמרות
texts
Abhidharma analysis
texts
Mindfulness
texts
Stream-entry
texts
Ekphrasis (Vivid Description)
texts
Imitation of Models (Literary Mimēsis)
texts
Duʿāʾ (Supplicatory Prayer)
texts
al-Waʿd wa-l-Waʿīd (The Promise and the Threat)
texts
Ignorance
texts
Ṣawm (Fasting of Ramaḍān)
texts
Yenika (Suckling — Klipot Drawing from Holiness)
יניקה
texts
Christus Victor (Atonement)
texts
Mashiach ben Yosef (The Forerunner Messiah)
משיח בן יוסף
texts
Neilah (Closing Prayer of Yom Kippur)
נעילה
texts
Rachel and Leah (The Two Nukvas)
רחל ולאה
texts
Ta'am K'Ikkar (Flavor Is Treated as Substance)
טעם כעיקר
texts
Baruch Hu uVaruch Shemo
ברוך הוא וברוך שמו
texts
The store-consciousness
texts
Cosmopolitanism
texts
Gulgalta (The Skull of Arich Anpin)
גולגלתא
texts
Machatzit HaShekel (Pre-Purim Half-Shekel)
מחצית השקל לפורים
texts
Machatzit HaShekel (Half-Shekel Annual Donation)
מחצית השקל
texts
Ofanim (Wheels — Merkavah Class)
אופנים
texts
Yisrael (Common Israelite Status)
ישראל
texts
Yud-Bet Chodesh (12-Month Mourning for a Parent)
שנים עשר חודש
texts
Hamshachah (Drawing-Down of Divine Light)
המשכה
texts
Qalb (The Heart and Its Diseases)
texts
Tashbīh (Anthropomorphism)
texts
Lamed-Bet Netivot Chochmah (32 Paths of Wisdom)
ל״ב נתיבות חכמה
texts
Seraphim (Fiery Angels)
שרפים
texts
Zivug (Sefirotic Union / Divine Coupling)
זיווג
texts
The ten bodhisattva stages
texts
Marcionism
texts
Hashpa'ah (Divine Influx / Flow)
השפעה
texts
Ṣabr (Patient Endurance)
texts
Takanot Rabbenu Gershom (The Cherem of R. Gershom)
תקנות רבנו גרשום
texts
Avot HaTum'ah (Primary Sources of Impurity)
אבות הטומאה
texts
Mudrā (ritual gesture)
texts
Muʿjiza (Evidentiary Miracle)
texts
Shukr (Gratitude)
texts
Mechirat Yosef (The Sale of Joseph)
מכירת יוסף
texts
Neshama Yeteira (Extra Shabbat Soul)
נשמה יתירה
texts
Parsa (The Dividing Curtain)
פרסא
texts
Ḥajj (Pilgrimage to Mecca)
texts
Israel Saba (Sub-Partzuf of Abba)
ישראל סבא
texts
Nefesh HaBehamit (The Animal Soul)
נפש הבהמית
texts
Ohr Makif (Encompassing Light)
אור מקיף
texts
Ohr Pnimi (Inner Light)
אור פנימי
texts
Alma D'Itkasya (The Concealed World)
עלמא דאתכסיא
texts
Mochin DeKatnut (Constricted Consciousness)
מוחין דקטנות
texts
Tzaar Baalei Chayim (Suffering of Living Creatures)
צער בעלי חיים
texts
Chalav Yisrael (Jewish-Supervised Milk)
חלב ישראל
texts
Nikāḥ (Marriage Contract)
texts
Mayin Nukvin / Mayin Dukhrin (Feminine and Masculine Waters)
מיין נוקבין
texts
Mochin DeGadlut (Expanded Consciousness)
מוחין דגדלות
texts
Or HaGanuz (The Hidden Primordial Light)
אור הגנוז
texts
Tzinorot (The Channels of Divine Influx)
צינורות
texts
Bar Metzra (Adjacent Neighbor's Right of First Refusal)
בר מצרא
texts
Hamtakat HaDinim (Sweetening of the Judgments)
המתקת הדינים
texts
Justification by Faith Alone
texts
Walāya (Sainthood / Divine Friendship)
texts
Shevu'at HaPikadon (Deposit Oath)
שבועת הפקדון
texts
Zakāt (Obligatory Almsgiving)
texts
The three truths
texts
Ḥalāl & Ḥarām (Lawful and Unlawful Foods)
texts
Tawakkul (Trust in God)
texts
Aššur, God of the Assyrian Empire
texts
Mitzvah HaBa'ah B'Aveirah (Mitzvah Through Sin)
מצוה הבאה בעבירה
texts
The koan / public case
texts
The three natures
texts
Jihād (as a Legal Category)
texts
Maʿrifa (Gnosis / Mystical Knowledge)
texts
The three poisons
texts
Subordinationism
texts
Libation (Sponde)
texts
Kriat Shema Al HaMita (Bedtime Shema)
קריאת שמע על המיטה
texts
Piyutim (Liturgical Poems Inserted in Tefillah)
פיוטים
texts
Papal Primacy
texts
Chazakat HaGuf (Bodily/Prior-Status Presumption)
חזקת הגוף
texts
Galgalim (The Celestial Spheres)
גלגלים
texts
Shahāda (Testimony of Faith)
texts
Siyāsa Sharʿiyya (Governance within the Law)
texts
Nestorianism
texts
Shafāʿa (Intercession)
texts
Ko're'a (Tearing)
קורע
texts
Minhag Avoteinu B'Yadeinu (Our Fathers' Custom in Our Hands)
מנהג אבותינו בידינו
texts
Pshat (Plain Sense — 1st Level of PaRDeS)
פשט
texts
The Great Vehicle
texts
Chayah (The 4th Soul-Level)
חיה
texts
al-Amr wa-l-Nahy (Command and Prohibition)
texts
Arba Parshiyot (Four Special Pre-Pesach Readings)
ארבע פרשיות
texts
Zuhd (Ascetic Renunciation)
texts
The twelve links
texts
Fasting
texts
New Heavens and New Earth
texts
Pirsumei Nisa (Publicizing the Miracle)
פרסומי ניסא
texts
Shalosh Imot (Three Mother Letters א מ ש)
ג' אמות
texts
Aspaklaria HaMe'ira (The Clear Lens — Mosaic Prophecy)
אספקלריא המאירה
texts
Buddha-field
texts
Nehar Dinur (The River of Fire)
נהר דינור
texts
Higher ordination
texts
Assurance of Salvation
texts
Maḥabba (Divine Love)
texts
Greek and Barbarian Polarity
texts
Migdal Bavel (Tower of Babel)
מגדל בבל
texts
Fiṭra (Innate Disposition)
texts
Sababiyya (Natural Causation)
texts
Beitzah Shenoldah (Egg Laid on Yom Tov — Muktzeh)
ביצה שנולדה
texts
al-Aḥkām al-Taklīfiyya (The Five Legal Qualifications)
texts
Tallit Gadol (Prayer Shawl)
טלית גדול
texts
Bracha Aharona / Sephardic Birkat HaMazon Variants
ברכה אחרונה ספרדית
texts
Stam Yainam (Wine Handled by Non-Jews)
סתם יינם
texts
Dhikr (Remembrance of God)
texts
Ḥudūd (Fixed Scriptural Punishments)
texts
Manṭiq (Logic)
texts
Falsafa (Islamic Philosophy)
texts
Ruʾyat Allāh (The Beatific Vision)
texts
Fruit of the Spirit
texts
ʿIṣma (Infallibility of the Imams)
texts
Taʾwīl (Figurative Interpretation of Attributes)
texts
Masorah (Masoretic Tradition)
מסורה
texts
Dibrah Torah K'Lashon Bnei Adam
דברה תורה כלשון בני אדם
texts
Burhān (Demonstrative Proof)
texts
ʿIṣma (Infallibility of Prophets)
texts
Chaladah (Knife Hidden Under Skin)
חלדה
texts
Huayan / Kegon
texts
Progressive Revelation
texts
Waraʿ (Scrupulous Piety)
texts
Natural Teleology (The Final Cause)
texts
Nafs (The Lower Self / Ego-Soul)
texts
Shevu'at Bituy (Spoken Vow)
שבועת ביטוי
texts
Abortion in Halacha
הפלה
texts
Al HaNissim (Chanukah and Purim Amidah Addition)
על הנסים
texts
Generosity (as perfection)
texts
Yichud Tachton (Lower Unification)
ייחוד תחתון
texts
Imāma (The Imāmate)
texts
Farāʾiḍ (Inheritance Law)
texts
Sandalfon (Archangel)
סנדלפון
texts
Chayei Sha'ah (The Value of Fleeting/Momentary Life)
חיי שעה
texts
Ḥudūth al-ʿĀlam (Temporal Origination of the World)
texts
Riyāʾ (Ostentation / Hypocritical Display)
texts
Renunciation / going forth
texts
The Care of the Soul
texts
The Philosopher-King
texts
Isnād (Chain of Transmission)
texts
ʿIlm al-Rijāl (Science of Narrators)
texts
Ṭalāq (Divorce)
texts
Kesher Shel Tefillin (The Tefillin Knot)
קשר של תפילין
texts
Bimah (Torah-Reading Platform)
בימה
texts
Gods (devas)
texts
Chumash (The Five Books of Moses)
חמשה חומשי תורה
texts
ʿAql (Reason as a Source, Shīʿī)
texts
al-Ḥusn wa-l-Qubḥ (Moral Value of Acts)
texts
Priesthoods
texts
Iblīs / al-Shayṭān (The Devil)
texts
ʿIlla (Effective Cause)
texts
al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl (Impugnment and Vindication)
texts
Maṣlaḥa / Istiṣlāḥ (Public Welfare)
texts
Taqlīd (Following Legal Authority)
texts
Aleinu (Closing Prayer)
עלינו
texts
The Yogācāra (mind-only) school
texts
The Catechumenate
texts
Divine Eternity
texts
Iḥsān (Spiritual Excellence)
texts
Naskh (Legal Abrogation)
texts
Yaqīn (Certitude)
texts
Leshem Yichud (Declaration of Mystical Intent)
לשם יחוד
texts
Melachah She'eina Tzricha L'Gufa
מלאכה שאינה צריכה לגופה
texts
Tzarat Ervah (Rival Wife of a Forbidden Relative)
צרת ערוה
texts
Tiantai / Tendai
texts
Donatism
texts
Expiation and Propitiation
texts
General and Special Revelation
texts
Dayan (Judges and Their Qualifications)
דיינים
texts
Mishloach Manot (Purim Food Gifts)
משלוח מנות
texts
Shehakol Nihiyeh Bidvaro (Universal Default Blessing)
שהכל
texts
Craving / thirst
texts
Modalism (Sabellianism)
texts
Malāʾika (Angelology)
texts
Qiṣāṣ & Diya (Retaliation and Blood-Money)
texts
Magid (Seder Step 5: The Telling)
מגיד
texts
Hanachat Tefillin (Putting On Tefillin)
הנחת תפילין
texts
Olelot (Defective Grape Clusters)
עוללות
texts
The Middle Way school
texts
Development of Doctrine
texts
Ashrei (Psalm 145)
אשרי
texts
Monergism
texts
al-ʿAql al-Faʿʿāl (The Active Intellect)
texts
Nāsikh wa-Mansūkh (Abrogation)
texts
Apophatic (Negative) Theology
texts
Mafshit (Skinning)
מפשיט
texts
Kri U-Ktiv (Read-vs-Written Variants)
קרי וכתיב
texts
ʿAdhāb al-Qabr (Punishment of the Grave)
texts
al-Nafs (The Soul, Philosophical)
texts
Pilegesh (Concubine)
פילגש
texts
Theosis (Deification)
texts
Threefold Office (Prophet, Priest, King)
texts
Choice / Rational Decision
texts
Furūʿ al-Fiqh (Substantive Law)
texts
The bodhisattva precepts
texts
The four foundations of mindfulness
texts
Mutawātir vs. Āḥād (Mass- vs. Solitary-Transmission)
texts
Tajsīm (Corporealism)
texts
Kaddish Shalem (Full Kaddish)
קדיש שלם
texts
Kiddush Levana (Sanctification of the New Moon)
קידוש לבנה
texts
Infant Baptism
texts
Khalq al-Qurʾān (Createdness of the Qurʾān)
texts
Dam Tohar (Blood of Purity After Childbirth)
דם טוהר
texts
Bird-Omens (Ornithomancy)
texts
al-Jawhar wa-l-ʿAraḍ (Atoms and Accidents)
texts
Khawārij (The Khārijites)
texts
Birkat Aveilim (Mourners' Blessing)
ברכת אבלים
texts
Confession of faults
texts
Hoshana Rabbah (The Great Hoshana)
הושענא רבה
texts
Ashʿariyya (Ashʿarī School)
texts
Fitna (Civil War / Sedition)
texts
Jabr (Theological Determinism)
texts
Kil'ei Zera'im (Forbidden Seed Mixtures)
כלאי זרעים
texts
Mayim Sheuvim (Drawn Water — Invalid for Mikveh)
מים שאובים
texts
Procession of the Holy Spirit
texts
HaMotzi (Bread Blessing)
המוציא
texts
Kibr (Arrogance / Pride)
texts
Chayot HaKodesh (Holy Living Creatures)
חיות הקודש
texts
Docetism
texts
Infinite Worlds
texts
Guest-Friendship (Xenia)
texts
Hishtavut (Equanimity)
השתוות
texts
Kalām Nafsī (Inner Divine Speech)
texts
al-Ṭabīʿiyyāt (Natural Philosophy)
texts
Khilāfa (Caliphate as Institution)
texts
Māhiyya wa-Wujūd (Essence and Existence)
texts
Wājib wa-Mumkin al-Wujūd (Necessary and Contingent Existence)
texts
Darshinan Ta'ama DeKra (Interpreting Scripture's Reasons)
דרשינן טעמא דקרא
texts
Notarikon (Acronym Hermeneutic)
נוטריקון
texts
Arba Kosot (Four Cups of Wine)
ארבע כוסות
texts
Hoshanot (Sukkot Processions)
הושענות
texts
Ahl al-Bayt (People of the Prophet's House)
texts
Muktzeh Machmat Chesron Kis (Valuable-Item Muktzeh)
מוקצה מחמת חסרון כיס
texts
Kenosis (Self-Emptying)
texts
Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa (Higher Objectives of the Law)
texts
Prevenient Grace
texts
Hagbah and Gelilah (Lifting and Dressing the Torah)
הגבהה וגלילה
texts
al-ʿĀmm wa-l-Khāṣṣ (General and Particular)
texts
Madhhab (School of Law as Institution)
texts
Arba Parshiyot (The Four Tefillin Sections)
ארבע פרשיות שבתפילין
texts
The Noble Eightfold Path
texts
Histapkut (Contentment with One's Lot)
הסתפקות
texts
Toen v'Nitan (Plaintiff and Defendant Procedure)
טוען ונטען
texts
Dhimma & Jizya (Protected Non-Muslims, Legal)
texts
Saʿāda (Felicity/Happiness)
texts
Safek D'Oraita / Safek D'Rabbanan
ספק דאורייתא וספק דרבנן
texts
Simchat Torah
שמחת תורה
texts
Luṭf (Divine Grace)
texts
Tarti D'Sasrei (Internal Contradiction)
תרתי דסתרי
texts
Mocha Stimaa (The Concealed Brain of Arich)
מוחא סתימאה
texts
Savlanut (Patience / Forbearance)
סבלנות
texts
Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi Minhag (The Major Divide)
מנהג אשכנז וספרד
texts
Dream Divination and Incubation
texts
Hadasim (Myrtle Branches)
הדסים
texts
Arkān al-Īmān (The Six Articles of Faith)
texts
Murūʾa (Magnanimous Virtue / Manliness)
texts
The spiritual friend
texts
Divine Omnipresence
texts
Mortal and Venial Sin
texts
Ahl al-Ḥadīth / Atharī Creed
texts
Ḥilm (Forbearance / Equanimity)
texts
Ta'amei HaMikra (Cantillation/Trope)
טעמי המקרא
texts
The marks of a great being
texts
Alma D'Itgalya (The Revealed World)
עלמא דאתגליא
texts
Intercession of the Saints
texts
Indifferents & Preferred Indifferents
texts
Matir (Untying)
מתיר
texts
Meraked (Sifting)
מרקד
texts
Toveh (Spinning)
טווה
texts
The King as Shepherd of the People
texts
Ripui (Medical Costs)
ריפוי
texts
Birkat HaChodesh (Blessing the New Month)
ברכת החודש
texts
Source Criticism & Sifting Reports
texts
Ikvot Meshicha (Heels of the Messiah)
עקבות משיחא
texts
Bayʿ (Sale Contract)
texts
Iḥrām (Consecrated Pilgrim State)
texts
Tachrichim (White Burial Shrouds)
תכריכין
texts
Dionysiac / Bacchic Rites
texts
Tallit Katan (Daily Four-Cornered Garment)
טלית קטן
texts
Shiva Asar B'Tammuz (17th of Tammuz)
י"ז בתמוז
texts
Mīzān (The Balance of Deeds)
texts
Muḥkam & Mutashābih (Clear & Ambiguous Verses)
texts
Qidam al-ʿĀlam (Eternity of the World)
texts
Satisfaction Theory (Atonement)
texts
The Intelligible and the Sensible
texts
Living in Agreement with Nature
texts
Jumuʿa (Friday Congregational Prayer)
texts
Tawāḍuʿ (Humility)
texts
Tikkun Leil Shavuot (All-Night Shavuot Learning)
תיקון ליל שבועות
texts
Two Challot (Lechem Mishneh)
לחם משנה
texts
Tantric empowerment / initiation
texts
Just War
texts
al-Ḥadīth al-Muʿallal (Hidden-Defect Criticism)
texts
Iʿjāz (Inimitability of the Qurʾān)
texts
Qibla (Direction of Prayer)
texts
Wuḍūʾ (Ablution before Prayer)
texts
Zoreh (Winnowing)
זורה
texts
Pnimiyut and Chitzoniyut
פנימיות וחיצוניות
texts
Apatheia (Dispassion)
texts
Ein Mikra Yotzei Midei Peshuto
אין מקרא יוצא מידי פשוטו
texts
Set Speeches in History
texts
Kaf HaKela (The Sling of the Soul)
כף הקלע
texts
Divination & the Reading of Omens
texts
Safek Brachot Le'Hakel (When in Doubt, Don't Bless)
ספק ברכות
texts
Yahrzeit (Anniversary of Death)
יאהרצייט
texts
Meditative cultivation
texts
Māra
texts
Charoset (Seder Spice Mixture)
חרוסת
texts
Khabar al-Wāḥid (The Solitary Report in Law)
texts
First Cause (Prime Mover)
texts
Pneumatomachianism (Macedonianism)
texts
Janāza (Funeral Rites)
texts
Kinnot (Tisha B'Av Elegies)
קינות
texts
Purification and Lustration (Katharsis)
texts
Mechusar Kippurim (One Awaiting Atonement-Korban)
מחוסר כפורים
texts
Ikar Ketubah (Base Ketubah Amount)
עיקר כתובה
texts
Ribā (Usury / Unlawful Increase)
texts
Karpas (Seder Step 3: Spring Vegetable)
כרפס
texts
Mochek-Letters (Erasing)
מוחק על מנת לכתוב
texts
Simchat Beit HaSho'eva (Water-Drawing Celebration)
שמחת בית השואבה
texts
The one vehicle
texts
Veneration of Relics
texts
Tum'at Kohanim (Priestly Impurity Prohibition)
טומאת כהנים
texts
Descent into Hades
texts
Moral Habituation and Settled Disposition
texts
Kashf (Unveiling)
texts
ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān (Sciences of the Qurʾān)
texts
Shenayim Mikra V'Echad Targum (Twice Scripture, Once Targum)
שנים מקרא ואחד תרגום
texts
Deity yoga
texts
Marriage Rites
texts
The One and the Many
texts
Ṣirāṭ (The Bridge)
texts
Exaltation and Name of Jesus
texts
Birkat HaGomel (Blessing After Deliverance)
ברכת הגומל
texts
Muṣṭalaḥ al-Ḥadīth (Technical Terminology of Hadith)
texts
Mashpia U'Mekabel (Giver and Receiver)
משפיע ומקבל
texts
Minhag Baghdad (Iraqi / Baghdadi Halachic Customs)
מנהג בגדאד
texts
Fasting & Abstinence Rules
texts
Awliyāʾ (Friends of God / Saints)
texts
al-Rukhṣa wa-l-ʿAzīma (Dispensation and Strict Rule)
texts
The stūpa / relic-mound
texts
Asbāb al-Nuzūl (Occasions of Revelation)
texts
Fatwā (Non-binding Legal Opinion)
texts
Ṭawāf (Circumambulation of the Kaʿba)
texts
The Voluntary and the Involuntary
texts
Taanit Esther (Fast of Esther)
תענית אסתר
texts
Wisdom and compassion united
texts
Nomoi (Customs of Peoples)
texts
Adhān (Call to Prayer)
texts
ʿĀda (Occasionalism / Customary Causation)
texts
Three-Judge Beit Din (Dinei Mamonot)
שלשה דיינים
texts
Tikkun Chatzot (Midnight Lament)
תיקון חצות
texts
ʿUrf (Custom)
texts
Tzror HaChaim (The Bundle of Life)
צרור החיים
texts
Acharit HaYamim (The End of Days)
אחרית הימים
texts
Aron Kodesh (The Holy Ark)
ארון הקודש
texts
First-Fruits Offering (Aparche)
texts
Hidden Hand of Hashem in Megillat Esther
הסתר פנים במגילת אסתר
texts
Qirāʾāt (Canonical Variant Readings)
texts
Ṣaḥīḥ, Ḥasan, Ḍaʿīf (Grading of Reports)
texts
Taʿṭīl (Divestment of Attributes)
texts
Kedushat Shevi'it (Sanctity of Shemittah Produce)
קדושת שביעית
texts
Shulchan Orech (Seder Step 10: The Festive Meal)
שולחן עורך
texts
Tochachah (Rebuke)
תוכחה
texts
Tu B'Shvat (New Year of the Trees)
ט"ו בשבט
texts
Prayer for the Dead
texts
Gebrokts (Not Eating Wet Matzah)
שרויה
texts
Magnitude vs. Number (Continuous and Discrete Quantity)
texts
Hagramah (Cutting Outside the Permitted Zone)
הגרמה
texts
Malchuyot, Zichronot, Shofarot (Three Musaf Berakhot)
מלכויות זכרונות שופרות
texts
The Hymn (Praise of God & King)
texts
Council of Ephesus (431)
texts
Reversal of Fortune (Peripeteia in History)
texts
Fayḍ (Neoplatonic Emanation)
texts
Hasagat Gevul (Encroachment)
השגת גבול
texts
Kol Nidre (Annulment of Vows, Opening of Yom Kippur)
כל נדרי
texts
M'amer (Binding Sheaves)
מעמר
texts
Shilu'ach HaKen (Sending the Mother Bird)
שילוח הקן
texts
The Spiritual Senses
texts
Masjid (Mosque / Place of Prostration)
texts
Shūrā (Consultation in Succession)
texts
Ziyāra (Visitation of Shrines & Graves)
texts
Tum'at Maga (Impurity via Touch)
טומאת מגע
texts
Aravot (Beating the Willows)
חיבוט ערבות
texts
Get Me'useh (Coerced Get)
גט מעושה
texts
al-Fātiḥa (The Opening)
texts
Muṣḥaf & the Collection of the Qurʾān (jamʿ al-Qurʾān)
texts
Korech (Seder Step 9: Hillel's Sandwich)
כורך
texts
Asarah Harugei Malchut (The Ten Martyrs)
עשרה הרוגי מלכות
texts
Apollinarianism
texts
Umma (The Community of Believers)
texts
Ketoret (Incense Offering)
קטורת
texts
Menapetz (Combing / Carding)
מנפץ
texts
Achdut Hashem (Divine Unity)
אחדות השם
texts
The word of the Buddha
texts
Accident
texts
Yedi'at Hashem (Knowledge of God)
ידיעת השם
texts
Eutychianism
texts
Self-Mastery (Continence)
texts
Ahl al-Ḥadīth wa-Ahl al-Raʾy (Traditionists vs Rationalists)
texts
Taqiyya (Precautionary Dissimulation)
texts
Inana / Ištar, Goddess of Love & War
texts
Confirmation / Chrismation
texts
Patience (as perfection)
texts
Elu v'Elu Divrei Elokim Chayim
אלו ואלו דברי אלהים חיים
texts
Despotic Rule (Mastery)
texts
Virtue Is Knowledge
texts
Pesulei Sukkah (Disqualifications of the Sukkah)
פסולי סוכה
texts
Relics
texts
Conciliarity (Synodality)
texts
Pascha / Easter Dating
texts
Da Ma L'Maalah Mimcha (Know What Is Above You)
דע מה למעלה ממך
texts
Klimata (Latitudinal Zones)
texts
Rāshidūn (The Rightly-Guided Caliphate)
texts
Ḥurūb al-Ridda (The Apostasy Wars)
texts
The Uncreated Light
texts
Elohai Neshamah (Morning Soul Blessing)
אלהי נשמה
texts
The Gymnasium and Athletic Nudity
texts
al-Ṣifāt al-Khabariyya (The Revealed Attributes)
texts
Sīra (Prophetic Biography)
texts
Tajallī (Divine Self-Disclosure)
texts
Akdamut Milin (Shavuot Aramaic Piyut)
אקדמות מלין
texts
Right effort
texts
The threefold training
texts
Chametz Nuksheh (Hardened/Inedible Chametz)
חמץ נוקשה
texts
Aseity (Self-Existence of God)
texts
Supplication (Hiketeia)
texts
Ḥalāl Slaughter (Dhabīḥa) & Dietary Practice
texts
al-Manṭūq wa-l-Mafhūm (Explicit and Implied Meaning)
texts
Mawḍūʿ (Forged Hadith)
texts
Tzom Gedaliah (Fast of Gedaliah)
צום גדליה
texts
The Eleusinian Mysteries
texts
Ḥajj & ʿUmra (Pilgrimage Observance)
texts
Melekhet Ochel Nefesh (Food-Prep Permitted on Yom Tov)
מלאכת אוכל נפש
texts
Tum'at Ohel (Tent-Roof Impurity from Corpses)
טומאת אהל
texts
Monarchy of the Father
texts
Sulūk (Wayfaring of the Path)
texts
Wuqūf at ʿArafa (The Standing at ʿArafāt)
texts
Modeh Ani (First Words on Waking)
מודה אני
texts
Torah Im Derech Eretz (Hirschian Worldview)
תורה עם דרך ארץ
texts
The universal monarch
texts
No Salvation Outside the Church
texts
Veneration of Saints
texts
The Contemplative Life
texts
Barzakh (The Intermediate Realm)
texts
Khums (The One-Fifth Levy)
texts
World-cycles / aeons
texts
Chazakat Mamon (Presumption of Current Possession)
חזקת ממון
texts
Fanāʾ (Annihilation in God)
texts
Theory of Prophecy (Philosophical Nubuwwa)
texts
Mashiv HaRuach U'Morid HaGeshem / Morid HaTal
משיב הרוח ומוריד הגשם
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The Sign of the Cross
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Daily Tehillim Recitation
אמירת תהלים
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Clerical Celibacy & Marriage Discipline
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ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā (Festival of the Sacrifice)
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Murāqaba (Watchfulness / Contemplative Vigilance)
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Waḥdat al-Wujūd (Oneness of Being)
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Me'abed (Tanning / Curing)
מעבד
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Sandek (Holder at Brit Milah)
סנדק
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Shiv'im Panim LaTorah (Seventy Faces)
שבעים פנים לתורה
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Eucharistic Sacrifice
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Hijra (Emigration to Medina)
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al-Uṣūl al-Khamsa (The Five Principles)
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Meisach (Warping)
מיסך
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Ransom Theory (Atonement)
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Oikoumenē (The Inhabited World)
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Thalassocracy (Sea Power)
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al-ʿUqūl al-Mufāriqa (Separate Intellects)
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Maqāmāt (Stations of the Path)
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Tafwīḍ (Consigning the Meaning to God)
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Economic and Immanent Trinity
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Qawl al-Ṣaḥābī (Opinion of a Companion)
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Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming the Sabbath)
קבלת שבת
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Kaddish Yatom (Mourner's Kaddish)
קדיש יתום
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Lefum Tza'ara Agra (The Reward Is Proportional to the Effort)
לפום צערא אגרא
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Mitzvot Bein Adam LaMakom (Between Person and God)
מצוות בין אדם למקום
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The thirty-seven aids to awakening
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The formless attainments
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The Middle Way
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Sunday (Lord's Day) Observance
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Iʿtikāf (Devotional Seclusion)
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Waqf (Charitable Endowment)
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Ma'ariv Aravim (Evening Creation Blessing of Shema)
מעריב ערבים
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Nekamah u'Netirah (Revenge and Bearing a Grudge)
נקימה ונטירה
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Behemoth (Shor HaBar — The Wild Ox of the End of Days)
בהמות שור הבר
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Chevlei Mashiach (Birth-Pangs of the Messiah)
חבלי משיח
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Yichud Room (Post-Chuppah Seclusion)
חדר ייחוד
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Apotropos (Guardian of Orphans)
אפוטרופוס
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Ezrat Nashim (Women's Section in the Synagogue)
עזרת נשים
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al-Faḍāʾil al-Arbaʿ (The Four Cardinal Virtues)
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Mursal (Missing-Companion Report)
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al-Ṣaḥīḥān (The Two Ṣaḥīḥs)
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Kippah / Yarmulke (Head Covering)
כיפה
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Todah (Thanksgiving Offering)
תודה
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Birkat HaMinim (Blessing Against Heretics)
ברכת המינים
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The five hindrances
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Historiē (Inquiry / Eyewitness Research)
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Hidur Mitzvah (Beautification of the Mitzvah)
הידור מצוה
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Aḥwāl (Spiritual States)
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Munkar wa-Nakīr (The Questioning of the Grave)
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Incantation & Exorcism (the Āšipu's Craft)
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Loving-kindness
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Deification (Spiritual Ascent)
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Jinn (The Hidden Beings)
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Bal Yera'eh u'Val Yimatzeh
בל יראה ובל ימצא
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The Three Impure Kelipot
שלוש קליפות הטמאות
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Tu B'Av (15th of Av)
ט"ו באב
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The stages of the path
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Concord / Civic Unity
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al-Mahdī (The Awaited Guided One)
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Kohen (Priestly Lineage)
כהן
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Ma Nishtana (The Four Questions)
מה נשתנה
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Enlil & Divine Rulership
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Yeshivat Sukkah (Dwelling in the Sukkah)
ישיבת סוכה
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Shemittot (Cosmic Sabbatical Cycles)
שמיטות
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Olam HaBerudim (World of Variegated Lights)
עולם הברודים
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Particular Judgment
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Maghāzī (The Prophet's Military Campaigns)
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Means of valid knowledge
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Council of Chalcedon (451)
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Sadd al-Dharāʾiʿ (Blocking the Means)
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Simanim (Rosh Hashanah Symbolic Foods)
סימנים
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Chatzi Kaddish (Half-Kaddish)
חצי קדיש
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Ḥawḍ (The Prophet's Pool)
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Ijāra (Lease / Hire Contract)
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The ten courses of action
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The Problem of the Nile Flood
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Ḥijāb (Modest Dress)
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Muḥāsaba (Self-Examination)
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Mutʿa (Temporary Marriage)
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Walāya (Devotion to the ahl al-bayt)
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Safrut / STaM (Scribal Law)
הלכות סופרים
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Mystical Union with God
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Hashchatat Zera
השחתת זרע
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Dār al-Islām vs. Dār al-Ḥarb (Abodes of Islam/War)
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Istiḥsān (Juristic Preference)
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Istiṣḥāb (Presumption of Continuity)
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Celestial Science & Mathematical Astronomy
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Maggid (Angelic Mentor)
מגיד
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The monastic rule (Pātimokkha)
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Genus and Species
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Privation
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Battle of Badr
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Basmala (Bi-smi-llāh)
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Bilā Kayf (Without Asking How)
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Ghadīr Khumm (The Designation of ʿAlī)
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Tawallā wa-Tabarrā (Allegiance and Disavowal)
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Pargod (The Celestial Curtain)
פרגוד
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Partzuf Leah
פרצוף לאה
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Sfeika d'Yoma (The Doubtful Festival Day of the Diaspora)
ספיקא דיומא
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Tashlich (Casting Sins into Water)
תשליך
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Mindfulness of breathing
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Energy / diligence
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Cataphatic (Affirmative) Theology
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Natural vs Conventional Naming
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Gharar (Excessive Uncertainty)
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al-Insān al-Kāmil (The Perfect Human)
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Nanna / Sîn, the Moon-God
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Ye'ush Shelo Mida'at (Despair Without Awareness)
יאוש שלא מדעת
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Yishtabach
ישתבח
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Kingship
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Nikāḥ (Marriage Customs)
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Kapparot (Pre-Yom Kippur Atonement Ritual)
כפרות
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Shabbat Mevarchim (Shabbat Blessing the New Month)
שבת מברכין
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Celestial buddhas and bodhisattvas
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Christian Burial
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Montanism
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Hakafot (Simchat Torah Torah-Scroll Circuits)
הקפות
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Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān (Virtues of the Qurʾān)
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Ittiḥād al-ʿĀqil wa-l-Maʿqūl (Identity of Knower and Known)
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The Twelve Imams (al-Aʾimma al-Ithnā ʿAshar)
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Ones (Liability for Rape/Seduction of an Unmarried Maiden)
אונס ומפתה
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Rachamim (Compassion)
רחמים
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The reality body
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Essence–Energies Distinction
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Reductio ad Absurdum (Proof by Contradiction)
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Maftir and Haftarah
מפטיר והפטרה
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Modim DeRabbanan
מודים דרבנן
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Korban Tamid (Daily Continual Offering)
קרבן תמיד
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Birkot HaMitzvot (Blessings Before Performing a Mitzvah)
ברכות המצוות
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The Argument from Design
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ʿĪd al-Fiṭr (Festival of Breaking the Fast)
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Laylat al-Qadr (The Night of Decree)
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Kinyan Kesef (Acquisition by Money)
קנין כסף
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Sephardi Minhag Tradition
מנהגי ספרד
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Gilgul Shevuah (Oath Extended to Cover Additional Claims)
גלגול שבועה
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Ribui u'Mi'ut (R. Akiva's Hermeneutic)
ריבוי ומיעוט
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Shogeg, Mezid, Onnes (Inadvertent, Intentional, Coerced)
שוגג מזיד ואונס
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Modern Conversion Standards (Geirut Contemporary)
גיור מודרני
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Gartel / Avnet (Hasidic Prayer Belt)
גארטל
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Heter Mechirah (Shmita Sale)
היתר מכירה
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Ghayba (Occultation of the Twelfth Imam)
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The rains retreat
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The seven factors of awakening
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Sacramental Confession (Practice & Frequency)
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Lectio Divina
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Distributive Justice (Proportional Equality)
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Nuzūl ʿĪsā (The Descent of Jesus)
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Medicine & Diagnosis (the Asû and the Sa-gig)
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Atah Chonantanu (Havdalah in Motzaei-Shabbat Maariv)
אתה חוננתנו
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Three Ways (Purgation, Illumination, Union)
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Contraception in Halacha
מניעת הריון
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Daas Torah (Authority of Torah-Sage Judgment)
דעת תורה
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Baqāʾ (Subsistence in God)
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Gharīb al-Qurʾān (Rare Qurʾānic Vocabulary)
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Himma (Spiritual Aspiration)
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Makkī & Madanī (Meccan/Medinan Division)
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Tosefet Ketubah (Voluntary Addition to Ketubah)
תוספת כתובה
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Asarah Nisyonot (Avraham's Ten Tests)
עשרה נסיונות
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Brit Avot (The Patriarchal Covenant)
ברית אבות
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Intrinsic nature
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Divine Office / Liturgy of the Hours
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Autopsy (Seeing for Oneself)
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The Non-Naturals (Six Manageable Factors of Health)
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Hatarat Nedarim (Talmudic Foundations)
התרת נדרים
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Kiddushei Kesef (Betrothal Via Money — The Ring)
קידושי כסף
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Mi Sheberach (Public Blessing Formula)
מי שברך
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Barchu (Call to Prayer)
ברכו
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Berich Shemei (Zoharic Prayer at Torah Removal)
בריך שמיה
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Dybbuk (Soul Attachment)
דיבוק
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Badāʾ (Divine Alteration of Decree)
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Matn (Text of the Report)
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al-Muṭlaq wa-l-Muqayyad (Unrestricted and Restricted)
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The Pythian Games
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ʿĀshūrāʾ Observance
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Ṭarīqa (The Sufi Path / Order)
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Uṣūl al-Dīn (Twelver Five Roots of Religion)
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Mesartet (Ruling Lines / Marking)
מסרטט
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Partzuf Yaakov
פרצוף יעקב
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The thirty-one planes of existence
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Get Al Tnai (Conditional Get)
גט על תנאי
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Division in Extreme & Mean Ratio
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Zaydī Imāmate Doctrine
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Kegavna (Friday-Night Zoharic Excerpt)
כגוונא
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Shabbat HaGadol (The Great Shabbat Before Pesach)
שבת הגדול
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Ashmedai (Asmodeus, King of the Demons)
אשמדאי
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Chazakah D'Rava (Categories of Halachic Presumption)
חזקות דרבא
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Transubstantiation
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Ein Mukdam u'Me'uchar BaTorah
אין מוקדם ומאוחר בתורה
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Participation
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al-Manzila bayn al-Manzilatayn (The Intermediate Position)
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Asarah B'Tevet (Tenth of Tevet)
עשרה בטבת
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The five spiritual faculties
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Prostration and offering
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The two obscurations
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The Isthmian Games
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Oligarchy (Rule of the Few)
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Freedom of Speech (Frank Speech)
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al-Kutub al-Sitta (The Six Canonical Collections)
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Kadesh (Seder Step 1: Kiddush)
קדש
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Birkat HaIlanot (Blessing on Blooming Trees in Nisan)
ברכת האילנות
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Non-abiding nirvāṇa
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Baptism in the Holy Spirit
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Geometric Construction (Problem and Ruler-and-Compass)
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al-Masīḥ al-Dajjāl (The Antichrist)
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Futūḥ (The Early Conquests)
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Foundation Rites & the Buried Record
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Arba Yesodot (Four Elements: Fire/Water/Air/Earth)
ארבע יסודות
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Avir Kadmon (Primordial Aether)
אויר קדמון
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Chalav Stam (Government-Supervised Milk)
חלב סתם
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Treatment by Opposites (Contraria Contrariis)
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Lag BaOmer (33rd Day of the Omer)
ל"ג בעומר
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Matzah Shemurah (Guarded Matzah for the Seder)
מצה שמורה
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Sacrifice & Feeding the Gods
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Shmurah Matzah
מצה שמורה
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Barech (Seder Step 12: Birkat HaMazon)
ברך
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Aporia (Philosophical Impasse)
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Hezek Re'iyah (Damage of Visual Intrusion)
היזק ראייה
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Ittiṣāl (Conjunction with the Intellect)
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Tajwīd (Rules of Recitation)
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Oseh Batei Nirin (Making Two Loops)
עושה שני בתי נירין
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Melaveh Malkah (Escorting the Queen)
מלוה מלכה
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Seudah HaMafseket (Pre-Fast Final Meal)
סעודה המפסקת
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Tikkun Rachel / Tikkun Leah (Lurianic Two-Stage Midnight Vigil)
תיקון רחל ותיקון לאה
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Chazakat Shalosh Shanim (3-Year Land Possession Establishes Title)
חזקת ג' שנים
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Dyothelitism (Two Wills of Christ)
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Priesthood of All Believers
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Marduk & Nabû, Gods of Babylon
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Derisah (Pressing the Knife Instead of Drawing It)
דרסה
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Vatikin (Sunrise Shacharit)
ותיקין
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Zayin Adar (Moshe's Yahrzeit)
ז' אדר
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The observance day
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Cheshbon HaNefesh (Spiritual Self-Accounting)
חשבון הנפש
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Yechidah (The 5th Soul-Level)
יחידה
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Mount Meru and the world-system
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Tantric commitments
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Pentecost
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State of Israel in Halacha
מדינת ישראל בהלכה
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Savoraim (Post-Amoraic Redactors, ~500-600 CE)
סבוראים
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Guru devotion
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First Council of Constantinople (381)
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Chance and Spontaneity in Nature
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Infinity / The Unlimited
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Ismāʿīlī Bāṭin (Esoteric Inner Truth)
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Khitān (Circumcision)
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Samāʿ (Spiritual Audition / Sufi Listening)
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Niggun (Hasidic Melody)
ניגון
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Pidyon HaBen Seudah (Redemption Meal)
סעודת פדיון הבן
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Tum'at Yadayim (Impurity of Hands)
טומאת ידים
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Momentariness
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Apocatastasis (Universal Restoration)
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Geneivat Da'at (Deception / Stealing the Mind)
גניבת דעת
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Aidōs (Shame / Sense of Honor)
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Levushim (Three Soul-Garments)
לבושים
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Bar Kochba Revolt
מרד בר כוכבא
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Veneration of Icons
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The Demagogue
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ISHSUT (Yisrael Sabba ve-Tevunah partzuf)
ישראל סבא ותבונה
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Filial piety
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The attainment of cessation
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Lent / The Great Fast
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Critique of Anthropomorphism
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Krasis (The Temperament)
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Pragmatic / Universal History
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HaKol Tzafui V'HaReshut Netunah (All Is Foreseen Yet Freedom Is Granted)
הכל צפוי והרשות נתונה
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Hasidic Minhag Tradition
מנהגי חסידות
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Seven Aḥruf (Seven Modes of Recitation)
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Potzeya (Separating Threads)
פוצע
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The Sacred Marriage (Inana & Dumuzi)
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Shir Shel Yom (Psalm of the Day)
שיר של יום
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The four noble persons
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Adoptionism
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Wajd (Ecstatic Finding)
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Ninurta, the Divine Warrior & Farmer
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Beit Din Shel Shiv'im V'Echad (Great Sanhedrin)
בית דין של שבעים ואחד
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The critical phrase (huatou)
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Visible and Invisible Church
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The Celestial Spheres (Geocentric World-System)
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The Nemean Games
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Desire / Appetition (Orexis)
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Zeno's Paradoxes
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Hijrī Calendar (The Lunar Year)
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Battle of Karbalāʾ & Martyrdom of Ḥusayn
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Murīd and Murshid (Disciple and Guide)
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Quṭb and Abdāl (The Hidden Saintly Hierarchy)
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Kil'ei Behemah / Harba'ah (Forbidden Animal Cross-Breeding)
כלאי בהמה
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Hungry ghosts
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Millennialism
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Pilgrimage
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The Self (Ātman)
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Shemittat Kesafim (Sabbatical-Year Debt Release)
שמיטת כספים
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Buddhist vegetarianism
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Mariology (Doctrine of Mary)
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A Possession for All Time
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God / The Lord (Īśvara)
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Ḥadīth Qudsī (Divine Saying)
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Siyum Masechet (Tractate Completion)
סיום מסכת
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Tekumat Medinat Yisrael (Founding of the State of Israel)
תקומת מדינת ישראל
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Tum'at Basar / Tum'at HaGuf (Impurity of Korban Meat / Eater)
טומאת בשר וטומאת הגוף
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Chronology and Synchronism
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Sameness and Difference
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Liberation (Mokṣa)
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ʿAqīqa (Birth Sacrifice)
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Shtikah (Silence as a Virtue)
שתיקה
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Zeh Neheneh v'Zeh Lo Chaser (Benefit Without the Other's Loss)
זה נהנה וזה לא חסר
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The intermediate state
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Penal Substitution (Atonement)
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Eleh Ezkerah (The Ten Martyrs Piyut)
אלה אזכרה
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The Path of Knowledge (Jñāna)
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Tasbīḥ / Misbaḥa (Prayer Beads & Dhikr)
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Tinok Shenishbah (Captive Infant)
תינוק שנשבה
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Am Segulah (Treasured Nation)
עם סגולה
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Equanimity
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Edim Zomemim (Plotting Witnesses)
עדים זוממים
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The Classification of Desires
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Ha'alat Nitzotzot (Elevation of Sparks)
העלאת ניצוצות
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Karma (Action and Its Fruit)
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Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq (Illuminationist Philosophy)
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Hebrew Naming
קריאת שם
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Atchalta DeGeula (Beginning of Redemption)
אתחלתא דגאולה
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Cholent / Chamin (Shabbat Slow-Cooked Stew)
חמין
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Hilcheta K'Batrai (Law Follows the Later Authorities)
הלכתא כבתראי
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Brahman (the Absolute)
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Tahāfut al-Falāsifa (Incoherence of the Philosophers)
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Stam v'Achar Kach Machloket
סתם ואחר כך מחלוקת
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'Who Is a Jew' / Conversion Standards
מיהו יהודי
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Birkat HaGomel (Thanksgiving Blessing)
ברכת הגומל
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Spiritual urgency
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Purgatory
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Eunomia (Good Order)
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The Panathenaia
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Kaddish DeRabbanan (Rabbis' Kaddish)
קדיש דרבנן
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HaSechel HaNikneh (Acquired Intellect / Rambam's Olam HaBa)
השכל הנקנה
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Birkat Banim (Parental Blessing of Children)
ברכת הבנים
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Sola Scriptura
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Ed Echad Ne'eman B'Issurin
עד אחד נאמן באיסורין
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The Hedonic Calculus
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Man the Measure (Homo Mensura)
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The Useful versus the Pleasurable in History
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Ḥadīth al-Thaqalayn (The Two Weighty Things)
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Tum'at Masa (Impurity via Carrying)
טומאת משא
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Shabbat Shuva (Shabbat of Repentance)
שבת שובה
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Ikkur (Tearing the Simanim Rather Than Cutting)
עיקור
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Shibud Nechasim (Lien on a Debtor's Property)
שעבוד נכסים
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Tikkun HaKlali (The Ten-Psalm General Rectification)
תיקון הכללי
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Amidah Standing Posture
עמידה
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The icchantika
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Ebionism
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The Liturgical Year
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The Inner Instrument (Antaḥkaraṇa: Manas, Buddhi, Ahaṅkāra)
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Vital Breath and the Five Winds (Prāṇa & the Vāyus)
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Founding of the Madhāhib (Schools of Law)
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Kiddushei Shtar (Betrothal Via Document)
קידושי שטר
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Religious Zionism
ציונות דתית
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The tetralemma
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Fourfold Sense of Scripture
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The Sphere of Being (Parmenidean Being)
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Prime Matter
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Hodaat Baal Din (Litigant's Admission)
הודאת בעל דין
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Seudat Havraah (Meal of Consolation)
סעודת הבראה
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Monothelitism
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Coction and Crisis (Pepsis)
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Ignorance (Avidyā)
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The Round of Rebirth (Saṃsāra)
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al-Qāʾim (The Riser / Awaited Mahdī)
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Rajʿa (Return Before the End)
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Kel Melech Yoshev (13 Attributes Liturgy)
א-ל מלך יושב
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Noi Sukkah (Decorating the Sukkah)
נוי סוכה
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Fate, Destiny & the Allotted Lot
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The Proverb
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The Pantheon & the Divine Assembly
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Talmud Torah Keneged Kulam (Torah Study Equals All Mitzvot)
תלמוד תורה כנגד כולם
texts
Tehiru (The Primordial Brightness)
טהירו
texts
The eight precepts
texts
The Two Principles: Active and Passive
texts
Sophistical Refutations (Fallacies)
texts
Metaphor
texts
Pederastic Mentorship
texts
Movements of the Mind (Citta-Vṛtti)
texts
Meditation (Dhyāna)
texts
Kittel (White Holiday Robe)
קיטל
texts
Divine Abandonment & the Fall of a Dynasty
texts
Demons & the Sources of Evil
texts
Averting the Portended Evil (Namburbi)
texts
Reishit Tzmichat Geulateinu (Beginning of the Sprouting of Redemption)
ראשית צמיחת גאולתינו
texts
Sichliyim Nivdalim (The Separate Intellects)
שכלים נבדלים
texts
Arba Avodot (Four Sacrificial Services)
ארבע עבודות
texts
Anhypostasis and Enhypostasis
texts
Feast Days of Saints
texts
The Five Canons of Rhetoric
texts
Negative Theology and the Ineffable First
texts
The Teacher (Guru)
texts
al-Madīna al-Fāḍila (The Virtuous City)
texts
Wilāyat al-Faqīh (Guardianship of the Jurist)
texts
V'hu Rachum / Extended Tachanun (Mon-Thurs)
והוא רחום
texts
The 'all-exists' doctrine
texts
The Divided Line and the Degrees of Cognition
texts
Figures of Speech and Thought
texts
al-Rasm al-ʿUthmānī (The ʿUthmānic Orthography)
texts
Yaʾjūj wa-Maʾjūj (Gog and Magog)
texts
Pidyon Nefesh (Petitionary Donation to a Rebbe)
פדיון נפש
texts
Siddur (The Prayer Book)
סידור התפילה
texts
Monastic Tonsure & Vows
texts
The Roman Household Cult (Lares and Penates)
texts
Panhellenism
texts
Latent Impressions and Tendencies (Saṃskāra & Vāsanā)
texts
Being-Consciousness-Bliss (Sat-Cit-Ānanda)
texts
Power / The Divine Feminine (Śakti)
texts
The wheel of life
texts
The ascetic practices
texts
The ten fetters
texts
Third Council of Constantinople (680–681)
texts
City Dionysia and the Dramatic Festivals
texts
The Swerve
texts
Impartiality and Truth-Telling (Without Favor)
texts
Memory
texts
Orphic Rites
texts
The Pillars of Heracles and the Limits of the World
texts
Signs and Inference
texts
Verbal Testimony (Śabda / Āgama)
texts
Austerity / Ascetic Heat (Tapas)
texts
Dispassion (Vairāgya)
texts
Enki / Ea, God of Wisdom & the Sweet Waters
texts
Priesthood & Temple Office
texts
Pre-Davening Mikvah
טבילה לפני תפילה
texts
Sinai vs Oker Harim (Two Types of Talmudic Genius)
סיני ועוקר הרים
texts
Annus Rachmana Patrei (The Torah Exempts the Coerced)
אונס רחמנא פטריה
texts
The four reliances
texts
The 'person' doctrine
texts
Coming-of-Age Rites (Ephebeia / Toga Virilis)
texts
Rotation of Office (Ruling and Being Ruled in Turn)
texts
The Self-Moving Soul
texts
Mantra (Sacred Sound)
texts
Kabbalat Panim (Pre-Chuppah Reception)
קבלת פנים
texts
Lecha Dodi
לכה דודי
texts
Ma'aseh Avot Siman LaBanim
מעשה אבות סימן לבנים
texts
Shevu'at Edut (Witnesses' Oath)
שבועת עדות
texts
Tum'at Keilim (Impurity of Vessels)
טומאת כלים
texts
Women's Ordination (Smicha / Rabbah / Maharat / Conservative)
סמיכה לנשים
texts
The three spheres of existence
texts
Second Council of Nicaea (787)
texts
Iconoclasm
texts
Regimen (Diet & Way of Life as Medicine)
texts
Mystery Cult and Initiation
texts
Progymnasmata (Rhetorical Exercises)
texts
Preconception
texts
Emission / Creation (Sṛṣṭi)
texts
Discernment (Viveka)
texts
Maot Chitim (Wheat Money for the Poor)
מעות חיטים
texts
Sambatyon (The Sabbath River)
סמבטיון
texts
Sa'ir LaAzazel (The Scapegoat)
שעיר לעזאזל
texts
Situmta (Acquisition by Commercial Custom)
סיטומתא
texts
Veneration of Icons & Holy Images
texts
Semi-Pelagianism
texts
Hanhagat HaMishpat (The Conduct of Justice)
הנהגת המשפט
texts
Nature and Spirit (Prakṛti & Puruṣa)
texts
Devotional Meditation (Upāsanā)
texts
Kivrei Tzaddikim (Visiting Graves of the Righteous)
קברי צדיקים
texts
The Letter-Prayer (Petition to a God)
texts
Rachtzah (Seder Step 6: Washing with Bracha)
רחצה
texts
The Kiss of Peace
texts
The Harmony of the Spheres
texts
Māyā
texts
The Three Strands (Guṇas: Sattva, Rajas, Tamas)
texts
Sacrifice / Offering (Yajña)
texts
Kvater and Kvaterin (Brit Honor)
קוואטר
texts
Nusach Edot HaMizrach (Eastern Sephardic Prayer Rite)
נוסח עדות המזרח
texts
Ana BeKoach (42-Letter Name Liturgy)
אנא בכח
texts
Right livelihood
texts
Vigils (Night Watches)
texts
Vesta, the Hearth Cult, and the Vestal Virgins
texts
Mered HaHashmonaim (The Hasmonean Revolt)
מרד החשמונאים
texts
Dharma (Right Order and Duty)
texts
Liberation While Living (Jīvanmukti)
texts
OM / The Praṇava (Auṃ)
texts
Means of Knowledge (Pramāṇa)
texts
Deep Sleep (Suṣupti)
texts
The Three Bodies (Sthūla, Sūkṣma, Kāraṇa Śarīra)
texts
Apparent vs Real Transformation (Vivarta & Pariṇāma)
texts
al-Daʿwa & Cyclical Prophetology (Ismāʿīlī)
texts
Māturīdiyya (Māturīdī School)
texts
Muṣannaf & Musnad (Topical and Companion Arrangements)
texts
The fivefold cosmic order
texts
Anointing of the Sick
texts
Blessing of Objects
texts
The Original Mixture (All Things Together)
texts
The Patron-Client Relationship
texts
The Four Yogas (Paths of Jñāna, Bhakti, Karma, Rāja)
texts
The Four Aims of Life (Puruṣārthas)
texts
The Path of Meditation (Rāja-Yoga / Aṣṭāṅga)
texts
Ma Tovu (Synagogue Entry Prayer)
מה טובו
texts
The Akītu (New Year Festival)
texts
Utu / Šamaš, the Sun-God of Justice
texts
Sachir Yom vs. Sachir Shanah (Day-Laborer vs. Year-Worker)
שכיר יום שכיר שנה
texts
Ushpizin (Mystical Sukkot Guests)
אושפיזין
texts
Yachatz (Seder Step 4: Breaking the Middle Matzah)
יחץ
texts
Baptism by Immersion vs. Affusion
texts
Miaphysitism (One Incarnate Nature)
texts
David and Batsheva (Repentance Narrative)
דוד ובת שבע
texts
El Male Rachamim (Memorial Prayer for the Departed)
אל מלא רחמים
texts
The Path of Action (Karma-Yoga)
texts
"Not This, Not This" (Neti-Neti)
texts
Perception (Pratyakṣa)
texts
Meditative Absorption (Samādhi)
texts
Tattva 15 — The Ego-Maker (Ahaṃkāra)
texts
The Two Levels of Reality (Pāramārthika & Vyāvahārika)
texts
Ibāḍiyya (Ibāḍī Islam)
texts
Umayyad & ʿAbbāsid Caliphates
texts
Kabbalat HaYisurin (Acceptance of Suffering)
קבלת היסורין
texts
Kinyan Meshicha (Acquisition by Pulling)
קנין משיכה
texts
Yom Kippur Katan (Minor Yom Kippur, Erev Rosh Chodesh)
יום כיפור קטן
texts
Avodat Yom HaKippurim (Yom Kippur Temple Service)
עבודת יום הכיפורים
texts
Beit Din Shel Esrim V'Shalosh (Lesser Sanhedrin of 23)
בית דין של עשרים ושלשה
texts
The alms-round
texts
The natural order / cosmic law
texts
The Roman Triumph
texts
Devotion (Bhakti)
texts
The Five Afflictions (Kleśas)
texts
The Channels: Iḍā, Piṅgalā, Suṣumnā (Nāḍī)
texts
The Witness (Sākṣin)
texts
Waking (Jāgrat)
texts
Tattva 12 — The Bound Self (Puruṣa)
texts
Tattva 34 — Fire (Tejas / Agni)
texts
The Thirty-Six Tattvas (Ṣaṭ-Triṃśat Tattva)
texts
Liturgical Lament & the Soothing of the God's Heart
texts
Sin, Pollution & the Anger of God
texts
The City & Its Patron God
texts
Mikra Bikkurim (Bikkurim Declaration)
מקרא ביכורים
texts
Yizkor (Memorial Prayer)
יזכור
texts
Birkat HaChama (Blessing on the Sun, Once in 28 Years)
ברכת החמה
texts
Moral Influence Theory (Atonement)
texts
Electricity on Shabbat
חשמל בשבת
texts
Anatomy & Dissection (Knowing the Parts)
texts
Augury and the Taking of Auspices
texts
Cosmic Sympathy
texts
Haruspicy (Entrail-Reading)
texts
The Mathematical Sciences (Quadrivium)
texts
The Sibyl and the Sibylline Books
texts
Body as Tomb (Sōma Sēma)
texts
Superimposition (Adhyāsa)
texts
The Golden Womb / Cosmic Egg (Hiraṇyagarbha & Brahmāṇḍa)
texts
Brahman With and Without Qualities (Saguṇa & Nirguṇa)
texts
The Subtle Body (Sūkṣma-Śarīra)
texts
Tattva 16 — The Mind (Manas)
texts
The Šuilla (Hand-Lifting Prayer)
texts
Nusach Ashkenaz (German-Polish-Litvish Liturgy)
נוסח אשכנז
texts
Ta'amim-Nekudot-Tagin-Otiyot (TaNTA)
טעמים נקודות תגין אותיות
texts
Tikkun Keriah (Yemenite Torah Reading)
תיקון קריאה תימני
texts
V'ten Tal U'Matar (Seasonal Request for Rain)
ותן טל ומטר לברכה
texts
Batim (Tefillin Boxes)
בתים של תפילין
texts
Breaking the Glass at the Wedding
שבירת הכוס
texts
Spiritual lineage / disposition
texts
Seated meditation (zazen)
texts
Baptismal Sponsors (Godparents)
texts
Deuterocanonical Books
texts
Last Rites / Anointing of the Sick
texts
Monarchianism
texts
Incommensurable Magnitudes
texts
The Receptacle (Khora)
texts
The Sublunary and Superlunary Realms
texts
Isolation (Kaivalya)
texts
Recognition (Pratyabhijñā)
texts
Power of Consciousness (Cit-Śakti)
texts
Faith / Trusting Conviction (Śraddhā)
texts
Dream (Svapna)
texts
The Three Worlds (Trailokya / Loka)
texts
Mawlid al-Nabī (Celebration of the Prophet's Birth)
texts
IVF, Surrogacy, and Halacha
הפריה חוץ-גופית ופונדקאות
texts
The Cult-Image & the God's Real Presence
texts
Milui (Expansion of a Divine Name)
מילוי
texts
Peret (Fallen Grapes)
פרט
texts
Urchatz (Seder Step 2: Washing without Bracha)
ורחץ
texts
Yahrzeit Candle
נר נשמה
texts
Aufruf (Pre-Wedding Aliyah)
אויפרוף
texts
Badeken (Veiling the Bride)
באדעקען
texts
Berachot (Blessings)
ברכות
texts
Exclusion (theory of meaning)
texts
Chad Gadya / Echad Mi Yodea
חד גדיא
texts
Chatzi Hallel (Half-Hallel)
חצי הלל
texts
Christmas (Feast of the Nativity)
texts
Divine Kingship & the King as Guarantor of Ma'at
texts
Eshet Chayil (Friday-Night Recitation)
אשת חיל
texts
The Cosmic Vortex (Dinē)
texts
Measuring the Earth (Geodesy)
texts
The Śiva-Perceiver (Śiva-Pramātṛ)
texts
Tattva 36 — Earth (Pṛthivī)
texts
Stations and Stages of Life (Varṇa & Āśrama)
texts
Restraints and Observances (Yama & Niyama)
texts
Nusach Aram Tzova (Aleppo / Syrian Rite)
נוסח ארם צובה
texts
Nusach Sefard (Hasidic Adaptation)
נוסח ספרד
texts
Tzedakah Before Tefillah
צדקה לפני תפילה
texts
Tzimtzum Kifshuto vs. Lo Kifshuto (Literal vs. Non-literal Tzimtzum)
צמצום כפשוטו
texts
Bi'ur Shevi'it (Removal of Shemittah Produce)
ביעור שביעית
texts
Chabad-Lubavitch Movement
חב"ד
texts
Chassidut and Mitnagdut (Two Paths)
חסידות ומתנגדות
texts
Filioque
texts
The Indemonstrables (Stoic Propositional Logic)
texts
Hatavat Chalom (Amelioration of a Bad Dream)
הטבת חלום
texts
Posture (Āsana)
texts
The Embodied Perceiver (Sakala)
texts
Worship and the Image (Pūjā & Mūrti)
texts
The Pre-Existent Effect (Satkāryavāda)
texts
Hearing, Reflection, Meditation (Śravaṇa–Manana–Nididhyāsana)
texts
The Fourth (Turīya)
texts
Tattva 14 — Intellect (Buddhi)
texts
Igud Lulav (Binding the Lulav)
אגד לולב
texts
Enūma Eliš (the Babylonian Epic of Creation)
texts
Law Collections & Royal Justice
texts
The Tablet of Destinies & the Fixing of Fates
texts
Sacred Space & the Temple's Cosmic Center
texts
Wisdom & Instruction (the Counsels of a Father)
texts
Shaveh Perutah (Minimum Value of Legal Consequence)
שווה פרוטה
texts
Shem Eheyeh (The Name 'I Will Be')
שם אהי"ה
texts
Shem Mah (The 45-Numerical-Value Expansion)
שם מ"ה
texts
Shem Shaday (Shaddai)
שם שד"י
texts
Tum'at Okhalin U'Mashkin (Impurity of Foods and Liquids)
טומאת אוכלין ומשקין
texts
Stealing/Hiding the Afikoman
אפיקומן
texts
Olam HaAkudim (World of Bound Lights)
עולם האקודים
texts
Liturgical chanting / recitation
texts
Annihilationism (Conditional Immortality)
texts
Communion in Both Kinds
texts
Da'at Elyon / Da'at Tachton
דעת עליון ודעת תחתון
texts
Even Shetiyah (The Foundation Stone)
אבן שתייה
texts
The Great Year (Cosmic Cycle)
texts
The Healing Power of Nature
texts
Grace / Revealing (Anugraha)
texts
Withdrawal / Reabsorption (Saṃhāra)
texts
Sacred Beholding (Darśana)
texts
Repetition of the Name (Japa)
texts
Divine Play (Līlā)
texts
The Categories of the Real (Padārthas of Vaiśeṣika)
texts
Breath Control (Prāṇāyāma)
texts
Tattva 32 — Space (Ākāśa)
texts
Tattva 33 — Air (Vāyu)
texts
The Three Impurities (Mala)
texts
International Dateline / Halachic Time Zones
קו התאריך ההלכתי
texts
al-Kutub al-Arbaʿa (The Shīʿī Four Books)
texts
Kel Malei Rachamim (Memorial Prayer)
אל מלא רחמים
texts
Levayat HaMet (Escorting the Deceased)
לוויית המת
texts
An / Anu, the Sky-Father
texts
The Dying God (Dumuzi / Tammuz)
texts
Ereškigal & Nergal, Rulers of the Dead
texts
Pidyon Ma'aser Sheni (Redemption of Second Tithe)
פדיון מעשר שני
texts
Shoah (The Holocaust)
שואה
texts
Unetanneh Tokef (High Holiday Piyut)
ונתנה תוקף
texts
Upsherin (First Haircut at Age 3)
חאלקה
texts
Chakirot V'Drishot (Witness Interrogations)
חקירות ודרישות
texts
The King as Horus, Son of Ra
texts
The Four Humours
texts
The Scapegoat (Pharmakos)
texts
The Sphericity of the Earth
texts
The Three Styles (Grand, Middle, and Plain)
texts
Non-Violence (Ahiṃsā)
texts
The Three Locks (Bandhas)
texts
The Wheels of Subtle Energy (Cakras)
texts
The Five Acts of God (Pañcakṛtya)
texts
Impurity of Individuality (Āṇava-Mala)
texts
Self-Surrender (Prapatti / Śaraṇāgati)
texts
Vibration (Spanda)
texts
Tattva 35 — Water (Ap / Jala)
texts
Kiddushei Biah (Betrothal Via Sexual Union)
קידושי ביאה
texts
Kil'ei Ilan / Harkavah (Forbidden Tree Grafting)
כלאי אילן
texts
Dreams & Divine Revelation
texts
Theodicy & the Righteous Sufferer
texts
Mezuzah Checking (Periodic Inspection)
בדיקת מזוזות
texts
Shalom Zachor (Friday-Night After-Birth Gathering)
שלום זכר
texts
Tzafun (Seder Step 11: Eating the Afikoman)
צפון
texts
Avinu Malkenu
אבינו מלכנו
texts
Genuflection & Prostration
texts
Consecrated Virginity
texts
Dan L'Kaf Zechut (Judging Favorably)
דן לכף זכות
texts
Tum'at Heset (Impurity via Displacement)
טומאת היסט
texts
The Eight Limbs (Aṣṭāṅga-Yoga)
texts
The Point / Vital Essence (Bindu)
texts
The Five Layers of the Self (Pañca-Kośa)
texts
The Five Powers of Śiva (Pañca-Śakti)
texts
The Inner Sound (Nāda)
texts
The Holy Name (Nāma)
texts
"That Thou Art" (Tat Tvam Asi)
texts
The Ages of the World (Yugas & Kalpa)
texts
Kinyan Chazakah (Acquisition by Demonstrating Ownership)
קנין חזקה
texts
Machine Matzah
מצות מכונה
texts
The Anzû Epic (Theft of the Tablet of Destinies)
texts
The Epic of Gilgameš (Standard Babylonian)
texts
The List & the Ordering of the World
texts
The Combat Myth & the Exaltation of the City-God
texts
Shelilat HaTo'arim (Negative Attribution)
שלילת התארים
texts
Nirtzah (Seder Step 15: Concluding Acceptance)
נרצה
texts
Organ Donation in Halacha
תרומת איברים
texts
Purim Katan (Minor Purim, Adar I)
פורים קטן
texts
Sereifah (Court-Imposed Burning)
שריפה
texts
Shem Tzevaot (The Name of Hosts)
שם צבאו"ת
texts
Vach Nacht (Night-Watch Before Brit)
ליל שמורים
texts
Yemenite Minhag Tradition (Baladi and Shami)
מנהגי תימן (בלדי ושאמי)
texts
Brain Death and Halachic Death
מות מוחי
texts
Holy Water
texts
Leavened vs. Unleavened Eucharistic Bread
texts
Protestant Reformation
texts
Modern City Eruv
עירוב עיר מודרנית
texts
Gerush Sefarad (The Spanish Expulsion of 1492)
גירוש ספרד
texts
The Antipodes and Inhabitable Zones
texts
Curse Tablets (Defixiones)
texts
The Imperial Cult
texts
Pneuma (Vital Breath / Innate Spirit)
texts
The Third Man Argument
texts
Hashkavah (Sephardic Memorial Prayer)
השכבה
texts
Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment)
השכלה
texts
The Path of Devotion (Bhakti)
texts
Power of Will (Icchā-Śakti)
texts
Tattva 10 — Time (Kāla)
texts
Tattva 7 — Limited Agency (Kalā)
texts
Tattva 30 — Taste-Quality (Rasa)
texts
Tattva 27 — Sound (Śabda)
texts
The Three States and the Fourth (Avasthātraya & Turīya)
texts
Sacred Crossing / Pilgrimage (Tīrtha)
texts
Limiting Adjunct (Upādhi)
texts
Audible Speech (Vaikharī)
texts
IDF Service and Halacha
צה"ל והלכה
texts
The Debate Poem (Disputation)
texts
The ME (Divine Offices of Civilization)
texts
Scribal Culture & the Tablet-House (Eduba)
texts
The Ziggurat (Stepped Temple-Tower)
texts
Naarah and Bogeret (Halachic Stages of a Female Minor's Majority)
נערה ובוגרת
texts
Nusach HaArizal (Chabad/Kabbalist Rite)
נוסח האריז״ל
texts
Shem Av (The 72-Numerical-Value Expansion)
שם ע"ב
texts
Shem Ban (The 52-Numerical-Value Expansion)
שם ב"ן
texts
Shem Elokim (The Name of Judgment)
שם אלהי"ם
texts
Tum'at Terumah (Impurity of Heave-Offering)
טומאת תרומה
texts
Shemoneh Madreigot Tzedakah (Rambam's Eight Levels of Charity)
שמונה מדרגות צדקה
texts
Apples in Honey (Rosh Hashanah)
תפוח בדבש
texts
Daily Birkat Kohanim (Sephardic vs Ashkenazi Frequency)
ברכת כהנים יומית
texts
Just sitting
texts
Papal Infallibility
texts
The Four Archangels (Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel)
ארבעת המלאכים: מיכאל, גבריאל, רפאל, אוריאל
texts
The Sublime
texts
Henna Ceremony (Pre-Wedding)
חינה
texts
Inference (Anumāna)
texts
The Coiled Power (Kuṇḍalinī)
texts
Yogic Seals (Mudrā)
texts
Grace / Blessed Offering (Prasāda)
texts
Hilula (Yahrzeit Celebration of a Tzaddik)
הילולא
texts
Kedushah (Holiness — Mesillat Yesharim Final Rung)
קדושה
texts
Modern Kosher Certification (Hashgachah)
השגחת כשרות מודרנית
texts
The City-Lament (Mourning a Fallen City)
texts
The Creation of Humankind
texts
Friendship & the Loss of a Companion
texts
The Mother-Goddess & the Birth of Life
texts
The Netherworld (Land of No Return)
texts
Secular Zionism
ציונות חילונית
texts
Shem ע"ב (72-Letter Name)
שם ע"ב של ע"ב אותיות
texts
Shem Adnut (The Name Adonai)
שם אדנו"ת
texts
Shem Sag (The 63-Numerical-Value Expansion)
שם ס"ג
texts
Brit Yitzchak (Eve-of-Brit Learning Vigil)
ברית יצחק
texts
Pilgrimage
texts
Liturgical Incense
texts
Inerrancy / Infallibility of Scripture
texts
Ma'at as Ethical & Social Order
texts
Farbrengen (Hasidic Gathering)
פארברענגען
texts
Atticism vs. Asianism
texts
The Method of Exhaustion
texts
The Encircling Ocean
texts
The Pulse (Diagnostic Pulse Theory)
texts
The Unseen Potency of Ritual (Apūrva)
texts
The Five States of Awareness (Trika)
texts
The Four Levels of Speech (Vāc)
texts
The Food Sheath (Annamaya-Kośa)
texts
Breath Retention (Kumbhaka)
texts
Impurity of Differentiation (Māyīya-Mala)
texts
Tattva 29 — Form (Rūpa)
texts
Tattva 28 — Touch-Quality (Sparśa)
texts
Italian Minhag Tradition (Nusach Italki)
מנהגי איטליה (נוסח איטלקי)
texts
Kabbalah vs. Philosophy (The Medieval Debate)
קבלה מול פילוסופיה
texts
Kapparot with Money (Sephardic Preference)
כפרות בכסף
texts
Sephardic Seder Plate (Ke'arah) Arrangement
קערה ספרדית
texts
Kvitel (Petitionary Note to a Rebbe)
קוויטל
texts
Mar'ot (Niddah Blood Colors)
מראות דמים
texts
Creation of the World (Cosmogony)
texts
Retzuot (Tefillin Straps)
רצועות
texts
Viduy Ma'aser (Tithe Declaration)
וידוי מעשרות
texts
The bardo
texts
The Prāsaṅgika–Svātantrika distinction
texts
Giving and taking
texts
Chinuch L'Tefillin (Pre-Bar-Mitzvah Tefillin Training)
חינוך תפילין
texts
Filioque Controversy
texts
Ma'at — Truth, Order & Justice
texts
Osiris as Lord of the Dead & Resurrection
texts
Ra & the Sun
texts
The Royal Titulary — the Fivefold Name
texts
Same-Sex Marriage / Homosexuality (Modern Halachic Discourse)
נישואי אותו מין בהלכה
texts
Common Sense
texts
The Natural Faculties (Powers of the Body)
texts
The Saturnalia
texts
Hagbahah & Gelilah (Lifting & Wrapping the Torah)
הגבהה וגלילה
texts
Hashkamat HaBoker (Pre-Dawn Rising)
השכמת הבוקר
texts
Maintenance (Sthiti)
texts
Cosmic Order (Ṛta)
texts
The Six Schools (Ṣaḍ-Darśana)
texts
Power of Bliss (Ānanda-Śakti)
texts
Power of Knowing (Jñāna-Śakti)
texts
Tattva 19 — Sight (Cakṣus)
texts
Tattva 31 — Smell-Quality (Gandha)
texts
Tattva 6 — Māyā (The Veil)
texts
Tattva 1 — Śiva (Pure Consciousness)
texts
Tattva 5 — Pure Wisdom (Śuddhavidyā)
texts
Hoda'ah / Hakarat HaTov (Gratitude)
הודאה / הכרת הטוב
texts
Ikarim, Shorashim, Anafim (Albo's Roots and Branches)
עיקרים שרשים וענפים
texts
Marjaʿiyya (Source of Emulation)
texts
Kos shel Eliyahu (Cup of Elijah)
כוס של אליהו
texts
Kreplach (Filled Dumplings Custom)
קרעפלאך
texts
Maoz Tzur (Chanukah Hymn)
מעוז צור
texts
Mitzvot Tzrichot Kavanah (Do Mitzvot Require Intent?)
מצוות צריכות כוונה
texts
Nusach Baladi (Yemenite Maimonidean Rite)
נוסח בלאדי
texts
Pitum HaKetoret (Incense Recitation)
פיטום הקטרת
texts
Sheva Mitzvot Bnei Noach (Seven Noahide Laws)
שבע מצוות בני נח
texts
Tefillin of Rabbeinu Tam
תפילין דרבנו תם
texts
Tznius (Modesty as a General Character Trait)
צניעות
texts
Auctioning Aliyot
מכירת מצוות
texts
Baladi vs Shami Nusach (Yemenite Liturgical Schools)
בלדי ושאמי
texts
Wise attention
texts
Bukharian Jewish Customs
מנהגי בוכרה
texts
Bushah (Sense of Shame)
בושה
texts
Chanukah Gelt
דמי חנוכה
texts
Liturgical Candles & Lamps
texts
Hesychasm
texts
The Jesus Prayer
texts
Chukot HaGoyim (Statutes of the Nations)
חוקות הגויים
texts
Daf Yomi (Daily Talmud Page)
דף יומי
texts
The Heliopolitan Ennead & Cosmogony
texts
Ethiopian (Beta Israel) Customs
מנהגי ביתא ישראל
texts
Genetic Testing (Pre-marital Screening + BRCA)
בדיקות גנטיות בהלכה
texts
The Constancy of Human Nature in History
texts
Emanation (Procession)
texts
Hanhagat HaYichud (The Conduct of Unity)
הנהגת הייחוד
texts
Divine Descent (Avatāra)
texts
The Mental Sheath (Manomaya-Kośa)
texts
The Vital Sheath (Prāṇamaya-Kośa)
texts
The Great-Lord-of-Mantra Perceiver (Mantra-Maheśvara)
texts
Power of Action (Kriyā-Śakti)
texts
The Burst of Meaning (Sphoṭa)
texts
Tattva 21 — Smell (Ghrāṇa)
texts
Tattva 23 — Grasping (Pāṇi)
texts
Tattva 20 — Taste (Rasana)
texts
Tattva 17 — Hearing (Śrotra)
texts
Supreme Speech (Parā-Vāc)
texts
Internet, Smartphone, and AI in Halacha
אינטרנט והלכה
texts
Kiddush in Shul (Communal Shabbat Refreshment)
קידוש בית הכנסת
texts
Klaf and Dyo (Parchment and Ink for Holy Writing)
קלף ודיו
texts
Lithuanian (Litvish) Minhag Tradition
מנהגי ליטא
texts
Malkot on Erev Yom Kippur
מלקות ערב יום כפור
texts
Romaine Lettuce for Maror
חסה למרור
texts
Descent to the Underworld
texts
The Quest for Immortality & Its Limit
texts
Metaltelin and Karka (Movables vs. Real Property)
מטלטלין וקרקע
texts
Mi Sheberach LaCholim (Public Prayer for the Sick)
מי שברך לחולים
texts
Mikveh Erev Shabbat (Pre-Shabbat Immersion)
מקוה ערב שבת
texts
Mikveh Kallah (Bridal Immersion)
מקוה כלה
texts
Mishnayot L'Iluy Nishmat (Mishnah Study for the Soul)
משניות לעילוי נשמה
texts
Avoiding Nuts on Rosh Hashanah
אגוזים בראש השנה
texts
Nusach Shami (Yemenite-Sephardic Hybrid)
נוסח שאמי
texts
Sufganiyot, Latkes, Sambusek (Oily Foods)
לביבות וסופגניות
texts
Persian-Iranian Mizrachi Customs
מנהג פרס
texts
Reconstructionist Judaism
יהדות רקונסטרוקציוניסטית
texts
Daily Birkat Kohanim (Sephardi Practice)
ברכת כהנים יומית
texts
Eating Dairy on Shavuot
מאכלי חלב בשבועות
texts
Shesh Kefulot / Shtim-Esrei Peshutot (Seven Doubles + Twelve Simples)
שש כפולות, י״ב פשוטות
texts
No Haircut Until Shloshim
תספורת אבל
texts
Sigd (Beta Israel Mountain Festival)
סיגד
texts
Simanim B'Aveidah (Identifying Marks on Lost Objects)
סימנים באבידה
texts
Sitting on Ground until Chatzot on Tisha B'Av
ישיבה על הקרקע
texts
Sofer STaM (Scribe of Sifrei Torah, Tefillin, Mezuzot)
סופר סת״ם
texts
Taanit Bechorot (Fast of the Firstborn)
תענית בכורות
texts
Taanit Chatan v'Kallah (Wedding-Day Fast)
תענית חתן וכלה
texts
Taharah (Ritual Washing of the Deceased)
טהרת המת
texts
Tefillin Shimusha Rabba
תפילין שמושא רבה
texts
No Haircut Three Weeks (Ashk) / Nine Days (Seph)
תספורת בין המצרים
texts
No Music in Three Weeks
שמיעת מוזיקה בין המצרים
texts
Tikkun Leil Hoshana Rabbah (Seventh-Night Vigil)
תיקון ליל הושענא רבה
texts
Tisch (Rebbe's Public Table)
טיש
texts
Torah U'Madda (Torah and Secular Knowledge)
תורה ומדע
texts
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
יום השואה
texts
Zeved HaBat (Sephardic Baby-Girl Naming)
זבד הבת
texts
Bakashot (Pre-Dawn Sephardi Piyutim)
בקשות
texts
Breslov Movement
ברסלב
texts
Mind training
texts
The Sautrantika school
texts
Chamesh Inuyim (Five Yom Kippur Afflictions)
חמש עינויים
texts
Chitas (Chabad Daily Study Cycle)
חת"ת
texts
The Dark Night of the Soul
texts
Ember Days
texts
Palm Sunday / Blessing of Palms
texts
Chuppah Under the Stars
חופה תחת השמים
texts
Cloning (Halachic Status of Cloned Humans / Animals)
שיבוט בהלכה
texts
The Aten & Akhenaten's Solar Religion
texts
The Ba — Soul / Personality
texts
Heka — Magic & Ritual Power
texts
The Osiris Myth
texts
The Pyramid Texts
texts
Sebayt — the Instruction Genre
texts
The Solar Cycle — Day-Barque & Night Journey
texts
The Two Lands & Unification
texts
The Lupercalia
texts
The Bliss Sheath (Ānandamaya-Kośa)
texts
The Intuitive Sheath (Vijñānamaya-Kośa)
texts
The Mantra-Perceiver (Mantra)
texts
The Insightful Perceiver (Vijñānākala)
texts
Tattva 24 — Locomotion (Pāda)
texts
Tattva 25 — Excretion (Pāyu)
texts
Tattva 9 — Limited Desire (Rāga)
texts
Tattva 3 — Sadāśiva
texts
Tattva 2 — Śakti (Divine Power)
texts
Tattva 18 — Touch (Tvak)
texts
Tattva 26 — Generation (Upastha)
texts
Tattva 22 — Speech (Vāk)
texts
Tattva 8 — Limited Knowledge (Vidyā)
texts
Daily Duchaning (Sephardic / Israel Practice)
ברכת כהנים יומי
texts
Fable & the Wisdom of Animals
texts
The Heroic King of Epic (Uruk Cycle)
texts
The Sumerian King List & Dynastic Legitimacy
texts
The Flood (Deluge)
texts
Mitzvot Sichliyot vs Shimiyot (Rational vs Revealed)
מצוות שכליות ושמעיות
texts
Shehiyah (Pausing Mid-Slaughter)
שהיה
texts
Theology After the Shoah
תאולוגיה אחרי השואה
texts
Shtreimel / Spodik (Hasidic Shabbat Fur Hat)
שטריימל
texts
Simchat Bat (Ashkenazi Baby-Girl Celebration)
שמחת בת
texts
Sulam Yaakov (Jacob's Ladder)
סולם יעקב
texts
Breaking the Plate at Tenaim
שבירת הצלחת
texts
Toldot HaTum'ah (Secondary Impurity)
תולדות הטומאה
texts
Yom HaAtzmaut Hallel (Israel Independence Day)
הלל יום העצמאות
texts
Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day)
יום ירושלים
texts
The 614th Commandment (Fackenheim)
המצוה התרי״ד
texts
Apotiki (Designated Property as Lien)
אפותיקי
texts
Bedikah (Internal Examination Cloth)
בדיקה
texts
Chazakah (Legal Presumption — General)
חזקה
texts
Council of Trent (1545–1563)
texts
East–West Schism (1054)
texts
Liturgical Processions
texts
Aerial Toll Houses
texts
Conservative / Masorti Judaism
יהדות קונסרבטיבית / מסורתית
texts
The Akh — Transfigured Spirit
texts
The Instruction of Amenemope
texts
Anubis — Embalmer & Guardian of the Dead
texts
Coronation & Accession of the King
texts
Creation & the First Mound
texts
The Destruction of Mankind
texts
The Distant Goddess & the Eye of Ra
texts
Djet & Neheh — Two Eternities
texts
The Duat — the Underworld
texts
The Eloquent Peasant & the Plea for Justice
texts
The Field of Reeds (Blessed Afterlife)
texts
The Four Sons of Horus & the Canopic Equipment
texts
Isfet — Chaos & Disorder
texts
The Journey Through the Duat
texts
The Ka — Life-Force
texts
Mummification & the Preserved Body
texts
The Opening of the Mouth
texts
The Temple Cult — Feeding the Gods
texts
Fish/Lamb Head on Rosh Hashanah
ראש דג
texts
Mithraism (Roman Mysteries of Mithras)
texts
Hakamat Matzevah (Unveiling the Tombstone)
הקמת מצבה
texts
Heter Me'ah Rabbanim (Permit of 100 Rabbis)
היתר מאה רבנים
texts
Concealment (Tirodhāna / Vilaya)
texts
Impurity of Action (Kārma-Mala)
texts
The Lord-of-Mantra Perceiver (Mantreśvara)
texts
The Perceiver in the Void (Pralayākala)
texts
The Seven Perceivers (Sapta-Pramātṛ)
texts
Beyond the Fourth (Turyātīta)
texts
Tattva 4 — Īśvara
texts
Tattva 11 — Limitation / Necessity (Niyati)
texts
Tattva 13 — Primal Nature (Prakṛti)
texts
Inner Speech (Madhyamā)
texts
Hoil (Since — Retroactive Justification)
הואיל
texts
Kavua (The Fixed-in-Place Doubt That Is Treated as a 50-50)
קבוע
texts
Ketz HaYamin (The Appointed End / Calculating the End)
קץ הימין חישוב הקץ
texts
Mashkon (Pledge / Security for a Loan)
משכון
texts
Adapa & the South Wind (the Sage Who Lost Immortality)
texts
Care of the Dead (the Kispu Offering)
texts
Dilmun, the Pure Land
texts
Erra & Išum (the Poem of the Plague-God's Rampage)
texts
The Flood-Hero Granted Eternal Life
texts
Pessimism & the Vanity of Life
texts
Satire, Humor & the School Joke
texts
The Stream of Tradition (Canonical Learning)
texts
Modern Orthodoxy
אורתודוקסיה מודרנית
texts
Reform Judaism
יהדות רפורמית
texts
VaYechulu (Witness Recitation of Creation)
ויכלו
texts
Yehi Ratzonim (Symbolic Foods of Rosh Hashanah)
יהי רצונים
texts
Yoledet (Postpartum Ritual Status)
יולדת
texts
Akedah (Binding) — alias
עקדה
texts
Mahzor Aram Tzova (Aleppine High-Holiday Liturgy)
מחזור ארם צובה
texts
Bar Mitzvah Derashah (Talmudic Discourse by the Initiate)
texts
Sephardic Havdalah Besamim Practice
בשמים ספרדי
texts
The preliminary practices
texts
Charedi (Ultra-Orthodox)
חרדי
texts
Adoption (Filial Adoption)
texts
Advent
texts
Advent Calendar
texts
Advent Wreath
texts
Angels & the Celestial Hierarchy
texts
Ashes / Ash Wednesday
texts
Beatific Vision
texts
Blessing of Throats (St Blaise)
texts
Candlemas (Feast of the Presentation)
texts
Christingle
texts
Christmas Tree
texts
Churching of Women
texts
Corpus Christi Procession
texts
Second Council of Constantinople (553)
texts
Almsgiving
texts
Easter Vigil & Paschal Candle
texts
Epiphany House Blessing (Chalking the Door)
texts
Glossolalia (Speaking in Tongues)
texts
The Jesus Prayer & Prayer Rope
texts
Lammas / Loaf-Mass (Harvest Blessing)
texts
Liturgical Colors & Vestment Seasons
texts
Mandatum / Foot-Washing on Maundy Thursday
texts
Nativity Scene (Crèche)
texts
Penance
texts
The Rapture
texts
Veneration of Relics
texts
Rogation Days
texts
The Rosary
texts
The Septuagint (LXX)
texts
Stations of the Cross
texts
The Angelus
texts
Coplas (Ladino Devotional Poetry)
קופלאס
texts
Amun(-Ra) — the Hidden God
texts
Ankh — the Sign of Life
texts
The Nightly Combat with Apophis
texts
The Book of the Dead (Spells for Going Forth by Day)
texts
Hathor — Love, Joy & the Sky
texts
The Heart (Ib) — Seat of Thought & Conscience
texts
The Hermopolitan Ogdoad
texts
The Contendings of Horus & Seth
texts
The House of Life (Per-Ankh)
texts
Isis — Magic & Divine Protection
texts
Isis and the Secret Name of Ra
texts
King-Lists & Annals — Egypt's Native Chronology
texts
Medu-Netjer — Hieroglyphs as 'the God's Words'
texts
Memphite Theology — Ptah Creates by Word
texts
Nun — the Primeval Waters
texts
Personal Piety & the Approachable God
texts
Ptah — the Craftsman-Creator of Memphis
texts
The Royal Ka
texts
The Scribe & the Prestige of Writing
texts
The Sed Festival (Royal Jubilee)
texts
Seth (Sutekh) — God of Disorder & Defender of the Sun
texts
The Shadow & the Name — Two More Parts of the Person
texts
The Tale of Sinuhe (Exile & Return)
texts
Thoth & the Invention of Writing
texts
The Weighing of the Heart (Judgment)
texts
Ancestor Masks (Imagines)
texts
Hachnasat Sefer Torah (Torah Scroll Dedication Procession)
texts
Hakafot Shniyot (Second Simchat Torah Circuits on Motzaei Shemini Atzeret)
texts
Hakham Bashi (Ottoman Chief Rabbinate)
חכם באשי
texts
Half-Hallel on Rosh Chodesh
texts
Hatarat Klalot (Annulment of Curses)
התרת קללות
texts
Henna Ceremony (Mizrachi-Yemenite-Persian pre-wedding)
חינה
texts
The Nine Forms of Devotion (Navadhā Bhakti)
texts
Visionary Speech (Paśyantī)
texts
NaRaNCHaY — Five Levels of the Soul
texts
Kol Nidre Melody (MiSinai Chant)
texts
Korbanot (Daily Recitation of the Sacrificial Order)
קרבנות
texts
Leil Shimurim (Seder Night — Night of Divine Protection)
texts
Mashgiach (Kashrut Supervisor)
משגיח כשרות
texts
Matrilineal Descent (Jewish Status Follows the Mother)
הַוָּלָד הוֹלֵךְ אַחַר הָאֵם
texts
Megillat Rut on Shavuot (Public Reading of Ruth)
texts
Atra-ḫasīs (the Babylonian Flood & Creation Epic)
texts
What a God Is (the Divine, the Personal God)
texts
Enmerkar & the Lord of Aratta (the Invention of Writing)
texts
Etana (the King Who Flew to Heaven)
texts
The Lugalbanda Epics (the Hero in the Mountains)
texts
The Structure of the Cosmos & Its Waters
texts
The 'Noise' of Humanity & Divine Displeasure
texts
Mimouna (Post-Pesach Moroccan Celebration)
מימונה
texts
Mishmar Leil Shabbat (Sephardic All-Night Friday Learning)
משמר ליל שבת
texts
Mishmara (Maghrebi All-Night Study Vigil for the Deceased)
משמרה
texts
Noche de Novia (Ladino Henna Night)
ליל הכלה
texts
Omer Mourning Period — Community Variant Customs
texts
Pegam (Spiritual Blemish / Damage to the Worlds)
פגם
texts
Pizmonim (Aleppine-Syrian Maqam Tradition)
פזמונים
texts
Public Chanting of Eichah on Tisha B'Av Night
texts
Purim Masquerade (Costumes and Masks)
texts
Purim Spiel (Purim Theatrical Performance)
texts
Rishon LeTzion (Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Eretz Yisrael)
ראשון לציון
texts
Rosh Chodesh as Women's Holiday
texts
Seder Bakkashot (Aleppine Friday Pre-Dawn Cycle)
סדר בקשות
texts
Seder Tu BiShvat (30-Fruit Lurianic Seder)
סדר ט"ו בשבט
texts
Seudah Mafseket with Egg Dipped in Ash (Pre-Tisha B'Av Mourner's Meal)
texts
Seudat Yitro (Tunisian-Djerban Children's Feast)
סעודת יתרו
texts
Shadarim (Emissaries from Eretz Yisrael)
שד"רים
texts
Shavuot Greenery and Floral Synagogue Decoration
texts
Shir HaShirim on Erev Shabbat (Kabbalistic Weekly Recitation)
texts
Shir Shel Aliyah (Yemenite-Persian Aliyah Songs)
שיר של עליה
texts
Surrogacy (Halachic Maternity of Surrogate vs Genetic Mother)
פונדקאות בהלכה
texts
Tefillat Geshem / Tal (Seasonal Rain and Dew Liturgy)
texts
Tevel (Untithed Produce)
טבל
texts
Tiklal (Yemenite Siddur)
תכלאל
texts
Tzidduk HaDin (Graveside Justification of Divine Decree)
texts
Yichud HaShem (Unification of the Divine Name)
יחוד השם
texts
Zemirot (Shabbat Table Songs)
texts