Morning blessings
The after-toilet prayer
The midnight prayer
Getting up in the morning
Darchei Shalom means the ways or paths of peace.
Ga'agua means longing or homesickness.
Literally, the word means delicious or yummy in Yiddish.
Chizuk means emotional or spiritual support or encouragement.
The overriding theme of Neilah is God's readiness always to accept and forgive all who turn in repentance.
The word harat is connected to pregnancy and birth.
Machzor is a cycle, deriving from the root chazar, to return.
Taharah is purification, from tahor, meaning pure.
The modern Hebrew word for soldier is chayal, coined by Eliezer Ben Yehuda.
According to New York Times columnist William Safire, the Yiddish beigel was shortened and anglicised to bagel around 1932.
Tinok shenishbah means a small child who was kidnapped by non-Jews.
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