| yahrzeit |
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noun
- (context, Jewish) The anniversary of a person's death, often of a parent's.
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| Yahweh |
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proper noun
- (context, religion) The personal name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures; in Hebrew, ���� (YHVH)
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| yarmulke |
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noun
- A skullcap worn by religious Jewish males (especially during prayer), also known as a kippah.
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| yeshiva |
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noun - An academy for the advanced study of Jewish texts.
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| YHVH |
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proper noun - known as the "Tetragrammaton", the four Hebrew letters ���� which are transliterated into the Latin alphabet as YHVH (or IHVH, JHVH, or YHWH). These are usually combined with vowels in English to arrive at the spelling "Jehovah," but some Bible scholars agree that a perhaps closer pronunciation to the original Hebrew word would be something like "Yahweh".
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| Yom Kippur |
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proper noun
- The Jewish Day of Atonement. It falls on the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei and is considered the holiest day of the year by Jews.
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