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HaShem
Title used to referred to God
Wholly Jewish: Max Antman: The Queerness and Politics of Torah
How can we embrace Judaism from not only a queer perspective, but also a “political” one? Max Antman (he/him), a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, discusses how being a gay man influences his reading of Torah, how his Reform synagogue empowered his gay identity, and the sacred relationship between activism and studying Jewish text.
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Wholly Jewish: Laura: Creating Peace Out of Wholeness
This week’s guest, Cantor Laura Stein, shares her perspectives on how we can best care for those around us, the (lack of) tension between being Jewish and being a lesbian, and how her spiritual leadership inspires her social work at Mount Sinai Hospital's Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery.
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shoah
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שׁוֹאָה
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Lit. "conflagration;" the Shoah refers to the murder of the six million Jews.
shomeir
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שׁוֹמֵר
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shomer
Guard who sits with the body before burial, often reciting psalms.
t'hillim
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תְּהִלִּים
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tehilim
"Psalms."
Tzidkuk HaDin
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צִדּוּק הַדִּין
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Tziduk ha-din
The "justification of God" prayer recited at burial.
am haSefer
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עַם הַסֵּפֶר
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am ha-sefer
People of the Book.
Babylonian Talmud
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תַּלְמוּד בָּבְלִי
Compendium of Jewish law and lore developed by the Rabbis from the first centuries of the Common Era (C.E.). Codified circa 500 C.E.