Glossary

Syllogism

a logical device consisting of (a) a major and (b) a minor premise and (c) a conclusion.

A Jewish house of worship; the term may apply to the building or the congregation itself.

a volume (“tractate”) of the Mishnah, Talmud, or Tosefta.

a defense strategy used by people brought before the Inquisition in which they attempted to invalidate the witness’s testimony

(also tallis). Prayer Shawl. Image: Prayer Shawl and Top hat at the Eldridge Street Synagogue Museum. Photo by Laura Leibman

The central oral version of the primary text of Judaism, the word Talmud in itself means “learning” in Hebrew. According

(Hebrew: תנ״ך), or Tanakh. An acronym for the Hebrew Bible consisting of the T (Torah–Five books of Moses), N (Nevim–Prophets),

Tango originated in Buenos Aires, and is a ballroom dance with a 2/4 time with pronounced rhythmic stepping between long

reader’s platform in a Sephardic synagogue. In Ashkenazi synagogues this is called a bima. Image: Theba in the Snoa in

The opposite of Kashrut, Tref describes something which is unclean and unfit for consumption under Jewish Law. Image: Hector Siltroy,

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