Chizuk means emotional or spiritual support or encouragement.
By Rabbi Julian Sinclair
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.
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Tinok shenishbah means a small child who was kidnapped by non-Jews.
In the Bible, de'ah means knowledge.
Etnachta is one of the biblical cantillation symbols first developed in talmudic times and codified by the 10th century.
The Shulchan Aruch is accepted today as the authoritative code of Jewish law.
Chibah means affection or love.
Dikduk means grammar in modern Hebrew.
To "lose it" in English means lose one's temper. In Hebrew we say "labed (to lose) eshtonot".
The Sambatyon is a mythical river separating the Ten Lost Tribes from the rest of Israel.