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Wholly Jewish: Noa: The Beauty of Taking Up Space
On the season finale of Wholly Jewish season 2, we are joined by NYU student and college organizer Noa Baron (they/them). Noa shares the personal and Jewish and significance of their name (and their Jewish name-changing ceremony), the importance of deep listening to the queer community, their aspirations as a trans Jewish leader, and the beauty LGBTQ+ Jews bring to the Jewish community.
Mishkan
The portable tabernacle.
Chesed
Kindness
aleph-bet
The Hebrew alphabet
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.