English words from Hebrew
- tna'imAn informal document containing the terms and expectations for a betrothed couple.
- todah rabahThank you; many thanks.
- TosafotMedieval commentaries on the Talmud, in the form of critical and explanatory glosses.
- TsahalSynonym of IDF (“Israel Defense Forces”).
- tsitsithany of the four tassels or fringes on garments worn by the Jews in remembrance of the commandments
- tzaraathAny of various disfigurements of a person's skin, hair, clothing, or home understood as a kind of impurity requiring special rituals of atonement.
- tzereA Hebrew niqqud diacritical mark (ִ◌ֵ) in the form of two horizontal dots, pronounced in Modern Hebrew as /e(j)/.
- tzibburA community.
- tzimtzumA foundational concept in Kabbalah, describing the theological process by which God withdrew his infinite light to create a void, making room for the existence of a finite universe.
- TziporiSynonym of Sepphoris.
- tzniutStandards of modesty in dress and conduct, especially between the sexes.
- vidduiconfession of one's sins before God
- Yad VashemThe official Israeli memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 in Jerusalem.
- yechidahOne of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, that of being one with God.
- yeridaThe emigration of Jews from Israel.
- yetzer haraThe human inclination toward evil.
- yibbumlevirate marriage
- yichudThe prohibition in Jewish religious law against seclusion in a private area of a man and a woman who are not married to each other, so as to prevent adultery or promiscuity.
- YnonA male given name from Hebrew.
- yodhThe tenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- Yom HaDinRosh Hashanah
- Yom HaKippurimYom Kippur
- Yom HaShoahHolocaust Remembrance Day, a national memorial day in Israel on the 27th of Nisan (April or May).
- Yom KippurA particular Jewish holiday, the day of atonement, falling on the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei.
- yom tovA major religious holiday, on which a certain set of rules and prohibitions applies.
- ZadkielThe archangel of freedom, benevolence and mercy, in Jewish and Christian angelology.
- ZAKAA series of Israeli disaster response teams.
- zavA state of ritual impurity arising from abnormal seminal discharge by the male.
- zayinThe seventh letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- ZebadiahOne of several minor characters in the Old Testament. (biblical character)
- zechutfortunate opportunity, privilege
- ZelophehadA male given name from Hebrew.
- zeroaThe bone of a lamb shank, laid on a platter as one of five symbolic foods at Passover.
- zeroahThe Messiah, strength of God, or spirit of sacrifice.
- zimrahA table song sung at the Shabbat dinner table on Friday night.
- zimunA blessing made before Birkat Hamazon, calling together those who have eaten.
- zizA giant bird resembling a griffin in Jewish mythology.