Glossary

Banadeira

A typically female ritual bath attendant, also called a balanit or shomeret. See mikveh.

A large hall or building with two rows of columns, and a semicircular apse at one end. Although first used

ritual inspection to confirm fitness according to Jewish law. An important step in ensuring meat is kosher.

a three-person Rabbinic court, representative of the entire Jewish people, which functions as the final authority on judging, and accepting

“The house of life,” a euphemism for a Jewish cemetery.

Bearing a name which translates from Hebrew to “Great Study House,” Beit Hemedresh is a historic Orthodox Jewish congregation in

A type of opera singing which uses a full, rich, broad tone and smooth phrasing (Oxford Languages)

Hebrew for “Sons of Israel,” the Bene Israel are a Jewish community in India. Origin theories for this group include

Literally “House of God.” The name of a historic synagogue in Charleston, South Carolina.

The elevated platform in a Synagogue from which the Torah and Haftarah are read aloud on the Sabbath and festival

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