Glossary for

'05 Thesis:

The Disputations

Achar (another)

agape (sacrificial and a sharing type of love also known as "charity."

aliyah (an ascent)

asah (do)

Baruch The God of Israel (Blessed be The Name)

Baruch The God of Israel (Blessed be The Name)

Bnei El Chai (Sons of the Living God)

brit ha-chadashah (renewed, restored or repaired covenant)

Da’at (knowledge, especially of the Torah)

Dalet (the 4th letter of the Hebrew aleph-bet, which has the phonetic value of an English D and which is easily confused with a Resh)

Echad (an indivisible One, which should not be confused with y'chad, which is a unity)

Goyim (Gentiles)

Halachah* (codification of the laws of Torah in a practical way so they can be walked out)

The God of Israel (literally " The Name" of God)

Hasidim (Pious Jews who live by the adage, "what is mine is yours and what is yours is yours.")

kiddushin (betrothed. The initial stage of a Jewish wedding. It literally means, sanctified or set-apart)

kofer (atonement)

lashan hara (a statement, whether true or false, that diminishes someone before another without the knowledge of the person diminished).

malach The God of Israel (the angel or messenger of The God of Israel)

moshiah (messiah or 'anointed one')

nissuin (consummated. The stage of a Jewish wedding which seals the permanency of the marriage)

P’lishtim (the modern name for the Palestinian people used by Yasser Arafat in Arabic)

P’shat (simple meaning of the text of Scripture)

p’shim (transgressors of the covenant)

pesha (willful and intentional transgression for which there is no atonement, only mitigation)

Resh (the 20th letter of the Hebrew aleph-bet which has the phonetic value of an English R and which is easily confused with a Dalet)

Rosh Ha-Shanah (the new year on the Jewish civil calendar. It means 'head of the year')

Ruach (Spirit)

Ruach Hakodesh (Spirit of the Holy or Holy Spirit)

Sefirat Omer (literally 'counting of the Omer,' the 49-day period between Passover and Shavuot)

sh’tuf (associating another besides The God of Israel with The God of Israel)

shaliah (one who is sent for a special mission, the equivalent of an apostle)

shomer (keep, guard, protect)

Simhat Torah (the 8th day of the festival of Succot, also known as the Feats of Tabernacles)

Sod (mystical interpretation of Scripture)

Talmudim Chachamim (literally those wise in the Talmud)

tikkun (repair or rectification usually through spiritual intercession and suffering)

tzadik (a righteous man, from an Aramaic root meaning "to hunt" and applied to a "hunter of souls.")

tzedekah (charitable giving, the highest level of which is made anonymously or through a third party)

Yizra'el, Lo-ruhammah and Lo-Ami (the judgments against the Northern Kingdom that they should be the seed God would scatter --Jezreel, a change of the name, Israel -- Without Mercy and Not My People)