Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Seudat mitzvah

Index Seudat mitzvah

A seudat mitzvah (סעודת מצוה, "commanded meal"), in Judaism, is an obligatory festive meal, usually referring to the celebratory meal following the fulfillment of a mitzvah (commandment), such as a bar mitzvah, a wedding, a brit milah (ritual circumcision), or a siyum (completing a tractate of Talmud or Mishnah). [1]

86 relations: Abraham, Alcoholic drink, Aruch HaShulchan, Asher ben Jehiel, Avraham Gombiner, Bar and Bat Mitzvah, Bava Batra, Bava Kamma, Bereshit (parsha), Birkat Hamazon, Book of Genesis, Brit milah, Chaim Elazar Spira, Chazal, Chuppah, David HaLevi Segal, Esau, Gematria, God, Halakha, Hasidic Judaism, Hebrew calendar, Hebrew language, Isaac, Isaac Alfasi, Israel Isserlein, Jacob, Jacob ben Asher, Jerusalem Talmud, Jewish holidays, Jewish views on marriage, Jews, Joel Sirkis, Judaism, Kiddush, Kohen, Korban, List of Tosafists, Maharsha, Maimonides, Mechitza, Melaveh Malkah, Midrash, Mishnah, Mishnah Berurah, Mitzvah, Moed, Moses Isserles, Moses Sofer, Names of God in Judaism, ..., Nissim of Gerona, Orach Chayim, Orthodox Judaism, Ovadia Yosef, Parashah, Passover, Passover Seder, Pidyon haben, Purim, Rabbi, Rebbe, Rosh Hashanah, Samael, Seudah Shlishit, Shabbat, Shavuot, Shekel, Shiva (Judaism), Shulchan Aruch, Siyum, Solomon Luria, Sukkot, Ta'anit, Talmud, Temple in Jerusalem, Tisha B'Av, Torah, Tosafot, Tzniut, Vilna Gaon, Wedding, Yetzer hara, Yom Kippur, Yoreh De'ah, Zemirot, 613 commandments. Expand index (36 more) »

Abraham

Abraham (Arabic: إبراهيم Ibrahim), originally Abram, is the common patriarch of the three Abrahamic religions.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Abraham · See more »

Alcoholic drink

An alcoholic drink (or alcoholic beverage) is a drink that contains ethanol, a type of alcohol produced by fermentation of grains, fruits, or other sources of sugar.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Alcoholic drink · See more »

Aruch HaShulchan

Aruch HaShulchan (Hebrew: עָרוּךְ הַשֻּׁלְחָן) is a chapter-to-chapter restatement of the Shulchan Aruch (the latter being the most influential codification of halakhah in the post-Talmudic era).

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Aruch HaShulchan · See more »

Asher ben Jehiel

Asher ben Jehiel (אשר בן יחיאל, or Asher ben Yechiel, sometimes Asheri) (1250 or 1259 – 1327) was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Asher ben Jehiel · See more »

Avraham Gombiner

Abraham Abele Gombiner (c. 1635 – 5 October 1682), known as the Magen Avraham, born in Gąbin (Gombin), Poland, was a rabbi, Talmudist and a leading religious authority in the Jewish community of Kalisz, Poland during the seventeenth century.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Avraham Gombiner · See more »

Bar and Bat Mitzvah

Bar Mitzvah (בַּר מִצְוָה) is a Jewish coming of age ritual for boys.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Bar and Bat Mitzvah · See more »

Bava Batra

Bava Batra (also Baba Batra; Talmudic Aramaic: בבא בתרא "The Last Gate") is the third of the three tractates in the Talmud in the order Nezikin; it deals with a person's responsibilities and rights as the owner of property.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Bava Batra · See more »

Bava Kamma

Bava Kamma (Talmudic Aramaic: בבא קמא Bāḇā Qammā, "The First Chapter") is the first of a series of three Talmudic tractates in the order Nezikin ("Damages") that deal with civil matters such as damages and torts.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Bava Kamma · See more »

Bereshit (parsha)

Bereshit, Bereishit, Bereishis, B'reshith, Beresheet, or Bereishees (– Hebrew for "in the beginning," the first word in the parashah) is the first weekly Torah portion (parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Bereshit (parsha) · See more »

Birkat Hamazon

Birkat Hamazon or Birkat Hammazon, known in English as the Grace After Meals (בענטשן; translit. bentshn or "to bless", Yinglish: Benching), is a set of Hebrew blessings that Jewish Halakha ("collective body of Jewish religious laws") prescribes following a meal that includes at least a ke-zayit (olive sized) piece of bread or matzoh made from one or all of wheat, barley, rye, oats, spelt.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Birkat Hamazon · See more »

Book of Genesis

The Book of Genesis (from the Latin Vulgate, in turn borrowed or transliterated from Greek "", meaning "Origin"; בְּרֵאשִׁית, "Bərēšīṯ", "In beginning") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible (the Tanakh) and the Old Testament.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Book of Genesis · See more »

Brit milah

The brit milah (בְּרִית מִילָה,; Ashkenazi pronunciation:, "covenant of circumcision"; Yiddish pronunciation: bris) is a Jewish religious male circumcision ceremony performed by a mohel ("circumciser") on the eighth day of the infant's life.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Brit milah · See more »

Chaim Elazar Spira

Chaim Elazar Spira (December 17, 1868 – May 13, 1937) was one of the rebbes of the Hasidic movement Munkacz (pronounced Munkatsh).

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Chaim Elazar Spira · See more »

Chazal

Chazal or Ḥazal (חז"ל), an acronym for the Hebrew "Ḥakhameinu Zikhram Liv'rakha" ("Our Sages, may their memory be blessed"), refers to all Jewish sages of the Mishna, Tosefta and Talmud eras, spanning from the times of the final 300 years of the Second Temple of Jerusalem until the 6th century CE, or 250 BCE – 625 CE.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Chazal · See more »

Chuppah

A chuppah (חוּפָּה, pl. חוּפּוֹת, chuppot, literally, "canopy" or "covering"), also huppah, chipe, chupah, or chuppa, is a canopy under which a Jewish couple stand during their wedding ceremony.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Chuppah · See more »

David HaLevi Segal

David ha-Levi Segal (c. 1586 – 20 February 1667), also known as the Turei Zahav (abbreviated Taz) after the title of his significant halakhic commentary on the Shulchan Aruch, was one of the greatest Polish rabbinical authorities.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and David HaLevi Segal · See more »

Esau

Esau (ISO 259-3 ʕeśaw; Ἡσαῦ Hēsau; Hesau, Esau; عِيسُو ‘Īsaw; meaning "hairy"Easton, M. Illustrated Bible Dictionary, (2006, p. 236 or "rough"Mandel, D. The Ultimate Who's Who in the Bible, (.), 2007, p. 175), in the Hebrew Bible, is the older son of Isaac. He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis, and by the prophets Obadiah and Malachi. The New Testament alludes to him in the Epistle to the Romans and in the Epistle to the Hebrews. According to the Hebrew Bible, Esau is the progenitor of the Edomites and the elder twin brother of Jacob, the patriarch of the Israelites.Metzger & Coogan (1993). Oxford Companion to the Bible, pp. 191–92. Esau and Jacob were the sons of Isaac and Rebekah, and the grandsons of Abraham and Sarah. Of the twins, Esau was the first to be born with Jacob following, holding his heel. Isaac was sixty years old when the boys were born. Esau, a "man of the field", became a hunter who had "rough" qualities that distinguished him from his twin brother. Among these qualities were his red hair and noticeable hairiness. Jacob was a shy or simple man, depending on the translation of the Hebrew word tam (which also means "relatively perfect man"). Throughout Genesis, Esau is frequently shown as being supplanted by his younger twin, Jacob (Israel).Attridge & Meeks. The Harper Collins Study Bible,, 2006, p. 40.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Esau · See more »

Gematria

Gematria (גמטריא, plural or, gematriot) originated as an Assyro-Babylonian-Greek system of alphanumeric code or cipher later adopted into Jewish culture that assigns numerical value to a word, name, or phrase in the belief that words or phrases with identical numerical values bear some relation to each other or bear some relation to the number itself as it may apply to Nature, a person's age, the calendar year, or the like.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Gematria · See more »

God

In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and God · See more »

Halakha

Halakha (הֲלָכָה,; also transliterated as halacha, halakhah, halachah or halocho) is the collective body of Jewish religious laws derived from the Written and Oral Torah.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Halakha · See more »

Hasidic Judaism

Hasidism, sometimes Hasidic Judaism (hasidut,; originally, "piety"), is a Jewish religious group.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Hasidic Judaism · See more »

Hebrew calendar

The Hebrew or Jewish calendar (Ha-Luah ha-Ivri) is a lunisolar calendar used today predominantly for Jewish religious observances.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Hebrew calendar · See more »

Hebrew language

No description.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Hebrew language · See more »

Isaac

According to the biblical Book of Genesis, Isaac (إسحٰق/إسحاق) was the son of Abraham and Sarah and father of Jacob; his name means "he will laugh", reflecting when Sarah laughed in disbelief when told that she would have a child.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Isaac · See more »

Isaac Alfasi

Isaac ben Jacob Alfasi ha-Cohen (1013–1103) (ר' יצחק אלפסי, إسحاق الفاسي) - also known as the Alfasi or by his Hebrew acronym Rif (Rabbi Isaac al-Fasi), was an Algerian Talmudist and posek (decider in matters of halakha - Jewish law).

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Isaac Alfasi · See more »

Israel Isserlein

Israel Isserlin (ישראל איסרלן; Israel Isserlein ben Petachia; 1390 in Maribor, Duchy of Styria – 1460 in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria) was a Talmudist, and Halakhist, best known for his Terumat HaDeshen, which served as one source for HaMapah, the component of the Shulkhan Arukh by Moses Isserles.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Israel Isserlein · See more »

Jacob

Jacob, later given the name Israel, is regarded as a Patriarch of the Israelites.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Jacob · See more »

Jacob ben Asher

Jacob ben Asher, also known as Ba'al ha-Turim as well as Rabbi Yaakov ben Raash (Rabbeinu Asher), was probably born in the Holy Roman Empire at Cologne about 1269 and probably died at Toledo, then in the Kingdom of Castile, about 1343.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Jacob ben Asher · See more »

Jerusalem Talmud

The Jerusalem Talmud (תַּלְמוּד יְרוּשַׁלְמִי, Talmud Yerushalmi, often Yerushalmi for short), also known as the Palestinian Talmud or Talmuda de-Eretz Yisrael (Talmud of the Land of Israel), is a collection of Rabbinic notes on the second-century Jewish oral tradition known as the Mishnah.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Jerusalem Talmud · See more »

Jewish holidays

Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim ("Good Days", or singular Yom Tov, in transliterated Hebrew), are holidays observed in Judaism and by JewsThis article focuses on practices of mainstream Rabbinic Judaism.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Jewish holidays · See more »

Jewish views on marriage

In traditional Judaism, marriage is viewed as a contractual bond commanded by God in which a man and a woman come together to create a relationship in which God is directly involved.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Jewish views on marriage · See more »

Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Jews · See more »

Joel Sirkis

Joel ben Samuel Sirkis (יואל בן שמואל סירקיש) also known as the Bach - בית חדש) ב"ח)—an abbreviation of his magnum opus, Bayit Chadash—was a prominent Jewish posek and halakhist. He lived in central Europe and held rabbinical positions in Belz, Brest-Litovsk and Kraków. He lived from 1561 to 1640.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Joel Sirkis · See more »

Judaism

Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Judaism · See more »

Kiddush

Kiddush (קידוש), literally, "sanctification," is a blessing recited over wine or grape juice to sanctify the Shabbat and Jewish holidays.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Kiddush · See more »

Kohen

Kohen or cohen (or kohein; כֹּהֵן kohén, "priest", pl. kohaním, "priests") is the Hebrew word for "priest" used colloquially in reference to the Aaronic priesthood.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Kohen · See more »

Korban

In Judaism, the korban (קָרְבָּן qārbān), also spelled qorban or corban, is any of a variety of sacrificial offerings described and commanded in the Torah.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Korban · See more »

List of Tosafists

Tosafists were medieval rabbis from France and Germany who are among those known in Talmudical scholarship as Rishonim (there were Rishonim in Spain also) who created critical and explanatory glosses (questions, notes, interpretations, rulings and sources) on the Talmud.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and List of Tosafists · See more »

Maharsha

Shmuel Eidels (1555 – 1631) (שמואל אליעזר הלוי איידלס), was a renowned rabbi and Talmudist famous for his commentary on the Talmud, Chiddushei Halachot.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Maharsha · See more »

Maimonides

Moses ben Maimon (Mōšeh bēn-Maymūn; موسى بن ميمون Mūsā bin Maymūn), commonly known as Maimonides (Μαϊμωνίδης Maïmōnídēs; Moses Maimonides), and also referred to by the acronym Rambam (for Rabbeinu Mōšeh bēn Maimun, "Our Rabbi Moses son of Maimon"), was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Maimonides · See more »

Mechitza

A mechitza (מחיצה, partition or division, pl.:, mechitzot) in Jewish Halakha is a partition, particularly one that is used to separate men and women.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Mechitza · See more »

Melaveh Malkah

Melaveh Malkah (also, Melave Malka or Melava Malka) (מלווה מלכּה, lit. "Escorting the Queen") is the name of a meal that, as per halakha, is customarily held by Jews after their Sabbath (Shabbat), in other words, on Saturday evening.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Melaveh Malkah · See more »

Midrash

In Judaism, the midrash (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. מִדְרָשׁ; pl. מִדְרָשִׁים midrashim) is the genre of rabbinic literature which contains early interpretations and commentaries on the Written Torah and Oral Torah (spoken law and sermons), as well as non-legalistic rabbinic literature (aggadah) and occasionally the Jewish religious laws (halakha), which usually form a running commentary on specific passages in the Hebrew Scripture (Tanakh).

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Midrash · See more »

Mishnah

The Mishnah or Mishna (מִשְׁנָה, "study by repetition", from the verb shanah, or "to study and review", also "secondary") is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions known as the "Oral Torah".

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Mishnah · See more »

Mishnah Berurah

The Mishnah Berurah (משנה ברורה "Clarified Teaching") is a work of halakha (Jewish law) by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan (Poland, 1838–1933), also colloquially known by the name of another of his books, Chofetz Chaim "Desirer of Life".

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Mishnah Berurah · See more »

Mitzvah

In its primary meaning, the Hebrew word (meaning "commandment",,, Biblical:; plural, Biblical:; from "command") refers to precepts and commandments commanded by God.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Mitzvah · See more »

Moed

Moed (מועד, "Festivals") is the second Order of the Mishnah, the first written recording of the Oral Torah of the Jewish people (also the Tosefta and Talmud).

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Moed · See more »

Moses Isserles

Moses Isserles (משה בן ישראל איסרלישׂ, Mojżesz ben Israel Isserles) (February 22, 1530 / Adar I, 5290 – May 11, 1572 / Iyar), was an eminent Polish Ashkenazic rabbi, talmudist, and posek.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Moses Isserles · See more »

Moses Sofer

Moses Schreiber (1762–1839), known to his own community and Jewish posterity in the Hebrew translation as Moshe Sofer, also known by his main work Chatam Sofer, Chasam Sofer or Hatam Sofer, (trans. Seal of the Scribe and acronym for Chiddushei Torat Moshe Sofer), was one of the leading Orthodox rabbis of European Jewry in the first half of the nineteenth century.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Moses Sofer · See more »

Names of God in Judaism

The name of God most often used in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton (YHWH). It is frequently anglicized as Jehovah and Yahweh and written in most English editions of the Bible as "the " owing to the Jewish tradition viewing the divine name as increasingly too sacred to be uttered.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Names of God in Judaism · See more »

Nissim of Gerona

Nissim ben Reuven (1320 – 9th of Shevat, 1376, Hebrew: נסים בן ראובן) of Girona, Catalonia was an influential talmudist and authority on Jewish law.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Nissim of Gerona · See more »

Orach Chayim

Orach Chayim (אורח חיים; manner of life) is a section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of Halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Orach Chayim · See more »

Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of Judaism, which seek to maximally maintain the received Jewish beliefs and observances and which coalesced in opposition to the various challenges of modernity and secularization.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Orthodox Judaism · See more »

Ovadia Yosef

Ovadia Yosef (עובדיה יוסף Ovadya Yosef,; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013) was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and the founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Ovadia Yosef · See more »

Parashah

The term parashah (פָּרָשָׁה Pārāšâ "portion", Tiberian, Sephardi, plural: parashot or parashiyot) formally means a section of a biblical book in the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible).

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Parashah · See more »

Passover

Passover or Pesach (from Hebrew Pesah, Pesakh) is a major, biblically derived Jewish holiday.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Passover · See more »

Passover Seder

The Passover Seder (סֵדֶר 'order, arrangement'; סדר seyder) is a Jewish ritual feast that marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Passover Seder · See more »

Pidyon haben

The pidyon haben (פדיון הבן) or redemption of the first-born son is a mitzvah in Judaism whereby a Jewish firstborn son is "redeemed" by use of silver coins from his birth-state of sanctity, i.e. from being predestined by his firstborn status to serve as a priest.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Pidyon haben · See more »

Purim

Purim (Hebrew: Pûrîm "lots", from the word pur, related to Akkadian: pūru) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman, who was planning to kill all the Jews.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Purim · See more »

Rabbi

In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Rabbi · See more »

Rebbe

Rebbe (רבי: or Oxford Dictionary of English, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary) is a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word rabbi, which means 'master', 'teacher', or 'mentor'.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Rebbe · See more »

Rosh Hashanah

Rosh Hashanah (רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה), literally meaning the "beginning (also head) the year" is the Jewish New Year.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Rosh Hashanah · See more »

Samael

Samael (סַמָּאֵל, "Venom of God" or "Poison of God", or "Blindness of God" Samael "Samil" orSamiel)"Samael" in A Dictionary of Angels, including the fallen angels by Gustav Davidson, Simon & Schuster, p.255 is an important archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore, a figure who is an accuser, seducer, and destroyer (Mashhit), and has been regarded as both good and evil.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Samael · See more »

Seudah Shlishit

Seudah shlishit (סעודה שלישית, "third meal") or shaleshudes (Ashkenazic and שלוש־סעודות) is the third meal customarily eaten by Sabbath-observing Jews on Shabbat (observed on Saturdays).

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Seudah Shlishit · See more »

Shabbat

Shabbat (שַׁבָּת, "rest" or "cessation") or Shabbos (Ashkenazi Hebrew and שבת), or the Sabbath is Judaism's day of rest and seventh day of the week, on which religious Jews, Samaritans and certain Christians (such as Seventh-day Adventists, the 7th Day movement and Seventh Day Baptists) remember the Biblical creation of the heavens and the earth in six days and the Exodus of the Hebrews, and look forward to a future Messianic Age.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Shabbat · See more »

Shavuot

Shavuot or Shovuos, in Ashkenazi usage; Shavuʿoth in Sephardi and Mizrahi Hebrew (שבועות, lit. "Weeks"), is known as the Feast of Weeks in English and as Pentecost (Πεντηκοστή) in Ancient Greek.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Shavuot · See more »

Shekel

Shekel (Akkadian: šiqlu or siqlu; שקל,. shekels or sheqalim) is any of several ancient units of weight or of currency.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Shekel · See more »

Shiva (Judaism)

Shiva (שבעה, literally "seven") is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Shiva (Judaism) · See more »

Shulchan Aruch

The Shulchan Aruch (שֻׁלְחָן עָרוּך, literally: "Set Table"), sometimes dubbed in English as the Code of Jewish Law, is the most widely consulted of the various legal codes in Judaism.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Shulchan Aruch · See more »

Siyum

A siyum (סיום) (“completion”) is the completion of any unit of Torah study, or book of the Mishnah or Talmud in Judaism.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Siyum · See more »

Solomon Luria

Solomon Luria (1510 – November 7, 1573) (שלמה לוריא) was one of the great Ashkenazic poskim (decisors of Jewish law) and teachers of his time.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Solomon Luria · See more »

Sukkot

Sukkot (סוכות or סֻכּוֹת,, commonly translated as Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of the Ingathering, traditional Ashkenazi pronunciation Sukkos or Succos, literally Feast of Booths) is a biblical Jewish holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the seventh month, Tishrei (varies from late September to late October).

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Sukkot · See more »

Ta'anit

A ta'anit, or taanis (in Ashkenaz pronunciation), or taʿanith in Classical Hebrew is a fast in Judaism in which one abstains from all food and drink, including water.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Ta'anit · See more »

Talmud

The Talmud (Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד talmūd "instruction, learning", from a root LMD "teach, study") is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and theology.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Talmud · See more »

Temple in Jerusalem

The Temple in Jerusalem was any of a series of structures which were located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, the current site of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Temple in Jerusalem · See more »

Tisha B'Av

Tisha B'Av (תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב, "the ninth of Av") is an annual fast day in Judaism, on which a number of disasters in Jewish history occurred, primarily the destruction of both the First Temple by the Babylonians and the Second Temple by the Romans in Jerusalem.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Tisha B'Av · See more »

Torah

Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") has a range of meanings.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Torah · See more »

Tosafot

The Tosafot or Tosafos (תוספות) are medieval commentaries on the Talmud.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Tosafot · See more »

Tzniut

Tzniut (צניעות, tzniut, Sephardi pronunciation, tzeniut(h); Ashkenazi pronunciation, tznius, "modesty", or "privacy") describes both the character trait of modesty and humility, as well as a group of Jewish laws pertaining to conduct in general, and especially between the sexes.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Tzniut · See more »

Vilna Gaon

Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, (ר' אליהו בן שלמה זלמן Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman) known as the Vilna Gaon (דער װילנער גאון, Gaon z Wilna, Vilniaus Gaonas) or Elijah of Vilna, or by his Hebrew acronym HaGra ("HaGaon Rabbenu Eliyahu") or Elijah Ben Solomon (Sialiec, April 23, 1720 – Vilnius October 9, 1797), was a Talmudist, halakhist, kabbalist, and the foremost leader of misnagdic (non-hasidic) Jewry of the past few centuries.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Vilna Gaon · See more »

Wedding

A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Wedding · See more »

Yetzer hara

In Judaism, yetzer hara (יֵצֶר הַרַע, for the definite "the evil inclination"), or yetzer ra (יֵצֶר רַע, for the indefinite "an evil inclination") refers to the congenital inclination to do evil, by violating the will of God.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Yetzer hara · See more »

Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur (יוֹם כִּיפּוּר,, or), also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year in Judaism.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Yom Kippur · See more »

Yoreh De'ah

Yoreh De'ah (יורה דעה) is a section of Rabbi Jacob ben Asher's compilation of halakha (Jewish law), Arba'ah Turim around 1300.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Yoreh De'ah · See more »

Zemirot

Zemirot or Z'mirot (זמירות) (Yiddish: Zmiros; Biblical Hebrew: Z'miroth; singular: zemer/z'mer) are Jewish hymns, usually sung in the Hebrew or Aramaic languages, but sometimes also in Yiddish or Ladino.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and Zemirot · See more »

613 commandments

The tradition that 613 commandments (תרי"ג מצוות, taryag mitzvot, "613 mitzvot") is the number of mitzvot in the Torah, began in the 3rd century CE, when Rabbi Simlai mentioned it in a sermon that is recorded in Talmud Makkot 23b.

New!!: Seudat mitzvah and 613 commandments · See more »

Redirects here:

Se'udah, Se'udath mitzvah, Seuda, Seudah, Seudah HaMafseket, Seudas Hodaa, Seudat mitzva.

References

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

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »