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Aleinu, the Glossary

Aleinu (Hebrew:, lit. "upon us", meaning " our duty") or Aleinu leshabei'ach (Hebrew: " our duty to praise "), meaning "it is upon us" or "it is our obligation or duty" to "praise God," is a Jewish prayer found in the siddur, the classical Jewish prayerbook.^[1]

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Abba Arikha

Rav Abba bar Aybo (175–247 CE), commonly known as Abba Arikha or simply as Rav, was a Jewish amora of the 3rd century.

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Adamah

Adamah (Biblical Hebrew: אדמה) is a word, translatable as ground or earth, which occurs in the Genesis creation narrative.

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Adon

Adon (𐤀𐤃𐤍) literally means "lord." Adon has an uncertain etymology, although it is generally believed to be derived from the Ugaritic ad, “father.”.

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Amidah

The Amidah (תפילת העמידה, Tefilat HaAmidah, 'The Standing Prayer'), also called the Shemoneh Esreh (שמנה עשרה 'eighteen'), is the central prayer of the Jewish liturgy. Aleinu and Amidah are Hebrew words and phrases in Jewish prayers and blessings, Jewish prayer and ritual texts, Maariv, Mincha and Shacharit.

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Ashkenazi Jews

Ashkenazi Jews (translit,; Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.

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The Authorised Daily Prayer Book (formally The Authorised Daily Prayer Book of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire, commonly known as Singer's Prayer Book or Singer's Siddur) was an English translation of the Hebrew siddur created by Rabbi Simeon Singer.

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Battle of Jericho

The Battle of Jericho, as described in the Biblical Book of Joshua, was the first battle fought by the Israelites in the course of the conquest of Canaan.

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Blois

Blois is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours.

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Brit milah

The brit milah (bərīṯ mīlā,,; "covenant of circumcision") or bris (ברית) is the ceremony of circumcision in Judaism and Samaritanism, during which the foreskin is surgically removed.

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Chesed

(חֶסֶד, also Romanized) is a Hebrew word that means 'kindness or love between people', specifically of the devotional piety of people towards God as well as of love or mercy of God towards humanity.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.

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Conservative Judaism

Conservative Judaism, also known as Masorti Judaism (translit), is a Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people through the generations, more than from divine revelation.

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Gematria

Gematria (גמטריא or gimatria גימטריה, plural גמטראות or גימטריות) is the practice of assigning a numerical value to a name, word or phrase by reading it as a number, or sometimes by using an alphanumerical cipher.

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Goy

In modern Hebrew and Yiddish, goy (goyim, or) is a term for a gentile, a non-Jew.

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Great Assembly

According to Jewish tradition the Great Assembly (Knesset HaGedolah, also translated as Great Synagogue or Synod) was an assembly of possibly 120 scribes, sages, and prophets, which existed from the early Second Temple period (around 516 BCE) to the early Hellenistic period (which began in the region with Alexander's conquest in 332 BCE), roughly coinciding with the Persian hegemony over the nation of Israel.

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Hayyim ben Joseph Vital

Hayyim ben Joseph Vital (חַיִּים בֶּן יוֹסֵף וִיטָאל; Safed, October 23, 1542 (Julian calendar) / October 11, 1542 (Gregorian Calendar) – Damascus, 23 April 1620) was a rabbi in Safed and the foremost disciple of Isaac Luria.

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Heaven in Judaism

In Jewish cosmology, Shamayim (שָׁמַיִם šāmayīm, "heavens") is the dwelling place of God and other heavenly beings according to the Hebrew Bible (not to be confused with the Christian Bible).

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Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

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Isaac Luria

Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; Fine 2003, p. July 25, 1572), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari, Ha'ari Hakadosh or Arizal, was a leading rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Syria, now Israel.

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Isaiah

Isaiah (or; יְשַׁעְיָהוּ, Yəšaʿyāhū, "Yahweh is salvation"; also known as Isaias or Esaias from Ἠσαΐας) was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named.

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Jewish prayer

Jewish prayer (תְּפִילָּה,; plural; tfile, plural תּפֿלות; Yinglish: davening from Yiddish דאַוון 'pray') is the prayer recitation that forms part of the observance of Rabbinic Judaism. Aleinu and Jewish prayer are Jewish prayer and ritual texts.

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Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks

Jonathan Henry Sacks, Baron Sacks (8 March 19487 November 2020) was an English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, and author.

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Joshua

Joshua, also known as Yehoshua (Yəhōšuaʿ, Tiberian: Yŏhōšuaʿ, lit. 'Yahweh is salvation'), Jeshoshua, or Josue, functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Exodus and Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes in the Book of Joshua of the Hebrew Bible.

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Kabbalah

Kabbalah or Qabalah (קַבָּלָה|Qabbālā|reception, tradition) is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism.

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Kaddish

The Kaddish (קדיש, 'holy' or 'sanctification'), also transliterated as Qaddish or Qadish, is a hymn praising God that is recited during Jewish prayer services. Aleinu and Kaddish are Jewish prayer and ritual texts.

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Kiddush levana

Kiddush Levanah is a Jewish ritual performed outside at night in which a series of prayers are recited to bless the new moon. Aleinu and Kiddush levana are Hebrew words and phrases in Jewish prayers and blessings.

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Koren Siddur

The Koren Siddur refers to a family of siddurim published by Koren Publishers Jerusalem beginning in 1981.

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List of Jewish prayers and blessings

Listed below are some Hebrew prayers and blessings that are part of Judaism that are recited by many Jews. Aleinu and List of Jewish prayers and blessings are Jewish prayer and ritual texts.

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Menahem Recanati

Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati (מנחם בן בנימין ריקנטי; 1223–1290) was an Italian rabbi who was born and died in the city of Recanati, who devoted the chief part of his writings to the Kabbalah.

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Menasseh Ben Israel

Manoel Dias Soeiro; (1604 – 20 November 1657), better known by his Hebrew name Menasseh ben Israel or Menashe ben Israel, also known as Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael, also known with the Hebrew acronym, MB"Y or MBI, was a Jewish scholar, rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer, publisher, and founder of the first Hebrew printing press (named Emeth Meerets Titsma`h) in Amsterdam in 1626.

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Mussaf

Mussaf (also spelled Musaf or Musof) is an additional service that is recited on Shabbat, Yom Tov, Chol Hamoed, and Rosh Chodesh. Aleinu and Mussaf are Hebrew words and phrases in Jewish prayers and blessings.

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Names of God in Judaism

Judaism considers some names of God so holy that, once written, they should not be erased: יהוה, rtl (Adonai), rtl (El), rtl, rtl (Shaddai), and rtl; some also include I Am that I Am.

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Posek

In Jewish law, a posek (פוסק, pl. poskim) is a legal scholar who determines the application of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah, in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.

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Rabbinical Assembly

The Rabbinical Assembly (RA) is the international association of Conservative rabbis.

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Reconstructionist Judaism

Reconstructionist Judaism is a Jewish movement based on the concepts developed by Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881–1983) that views Judaism as a progressively evolving civilization rather than just a religion.

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Reform Judaism

Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the superiority of its ethical aspects to its ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation which is closely intertwined with human reason and not limited to the Theophany at Mount Sinai.

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Religious censorship

Religious censorship is a form of censorship where freedom of expression is controlled or limited using religious authority or on the basis of the teachings of the religion.

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Reuven Hammer

Reuven Hammer (June 30, 1933 – August 12, 2019) was an American-Israeli Conservative rabbi, scholar of Jewish liturgy, author and lecturer who was born in New York.

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Romanization of Hebrew

The Hebrew language uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel diacritics.

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Rosh Hashanah

Rosh HaShanah (רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה,, literally "head of the year") is the New Year in Judaism.

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Second Temple period

The Second Temple period or post-exilic period in Jewish history denotes the approximately 600 years (516 BCE – 70 CE) during which the Second Temple stood in the city of Jerusalem.

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Sefirot

Sefirot (translit, Tiberian), meaning emanations, are the 10 attributes/emanations in Kabbalah, through which Ein Sof ("infinite space") reveals itself and continuously creates both the physical realm and the chain of higher metaphysical realms (Seder hishtalshelus).

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Sephardic Jews

Sephardic Jews (Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).

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Shacharit

Shacharit (שַחֲרִית šaḥăriṯ), or Shacharis in Ashkenazi Hebrew, is the morning tefillah (prayer) of Judaism, one of the three daily prayers.

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Siddur

A siddur (סִדּוּר sīddūr,; plural siddurim סִדּוּרִים) is a Jewish prayer book containing a set order of daily prayers.

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Siddur Sim Shalom

Siddur Sim Shalom (סדור שים שלום) refers to any siddur in a family of siddurim, Jewish prayerbooks, and related commentaries, published by the Rabbinical Assembly and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

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Spanish and Portuguese Jews

Spanish and Portuguese Jews, also called Western Sephardim, Iberian Jews, or Peninsular Jews, are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardic Jews who are largely descended from Jews who lived as New Christians in the Iberian Peninsula during the few centuries following the forced expulsion of unconverted Jews from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1497.

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Thirteen Attributes of Mercy

The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy (י״ג מִידּוֹת) or Shelosh-'Esreh Middot HaRakhamim (transliterated from the Hebrew) as enumerated in the Book of Exodus in Parasha Ki Tissa are the Divine Attributes with which, according to Judaism, God governs the world. Aleinu and Thirteen Attributes of Mercy are Jewish prayer and ritual texts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleinu

Also known as 'Alenu, 'Alenu prayer, Alenu, Aleynu, Alénu le-Shabbe'ah.

, Tzadik, United Synagogue, Yehoshua Leib Diskin, Yiddish, Yom Kippur.

Aleinu, the Glossary

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See also

Maariv

Mincha

Shacharit

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