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1. Ya'abetz (Ya'abez) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See E341: Emden, Jacob Israel ben Ẓebi Ashkenazi
2. Ya'aleh (JE | WP GWP G) The introductory hymn prefixed to the seliḥot which follow the evening service proper of the Day of Atonement (comp. Kol ......
3. Yad S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) A pointer to guide the reading in public of the text of the Sefer Torah. During the reading of the ......
4. Yadayim (JE | WP GWP G) Treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta, dealing with the uncleanness of the hands and their ablution. It stands eleventh ......
5. Yah Shimeka (JE | WP GWP G) Hymn of five long stanzas which forms the introduction to the Ḳaddish before "Bareku" in the morning service of the ......
6. Yachbi'enu (Yahbi'enu) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See H998: Ne'ilah (Hymn Tunes, 1)
7. Yachya (Yahya) DAB >> David ibn Yahya ben Solomon JE, Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph JE (JE | WP GWP G) Portuguese family of the Middle Ages, members of which were prominent in Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Turkey. Certain individuals of ......
8. David b. Abraham bin Ya'ish (JE | WP GWP G) Representative of the community of Seville and contemporary of Asher b. Jehiel. He was probably a brother of Solomon b. ......
9. Yarim (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A1095: Alcimus
10. Abraham Yakini (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A605: Abraham ha-Yakini
11. Yaqqar ben Samuel ha-Levi I (Yakkar ben Samuel ha-Levi I) (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar of the eleventh century; lived for a short time in Speyer. He was a pupil of Kalonymus of ......
12. Yaqqar ben Samuel ha-Levi II (Yakkar ben Samuel ha-Levi II) (JE | WP GWP G) German scholar and liturgical poet of the second half of the thirteenth ceutury; flourished in Cologneand in Mayence. He was ......
13. Yalqut (Yalkut) >> Yalkut Shimoni JE (JE | WP GWP G) A haggadic compilation on the books of the Old Testament. From such older haggadot as were accessible to him, the ......
14. Yannai (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century; father-in-law of Ammi. According to his own statement, he had a grandson of the ......
15. Yannai (JE | WP GWP G) First payyeṭan to employ rime and introduce his name in acrostics; flourished, probably in Palestine, in the first half of ......
16. Yannai (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the first generation (2d and 3d cent.). A genealogical chart found at Jerusalem traced his descent from ......
17. Yannai ben Ishmael (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century; a contemporary of Ze'era and of Abba bar Kahana. There exist a few halakot ......
18. Yannai the Younger (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth generation; called "the Younger " ("ze'era") to distinguish him from Yannai b. Ishmael. When his ......
19. Abraham Yarchi (Abraham Yarhi) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A547: Abraham Ben Nathan
20. Yarmouth S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Seaport of Norfolk, England. Jews must have resided in this town at an early date. In the Lansdowne MS. under ......

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1. Yarmuk S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) River of Palestine; its various sources rise in the mountains of Hauran and Jaulan; it flows generally west and empties ......
2. Yaroslav (Jaroslaw) + (JE | WP GWP G) Town in Galicia, known as one of the principal seats of the Council of Four Lands. The fair of Yaroslav, ......
3. Sefer ha-Yashar (JE | WP GWP G) One of the latest works of the midrashic Haggadah; known also under the titles "Toledot Adam" and "Dibre ha-Yamim be-'Aruk." ......
4. Yates Pedigree (JE | WP GWP G) See Samuel and Yates Pedigree. ......
5. Benjamin Eliakim Yates (JE | WP GWP G) First minister of the congregation at Liverpool, England; died there 1798. He was the elder son of Eliakim Getz (Goetz) ......
6. Yawan (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J176: Javan
7. Year-Book (JE | WP GWP G) An annual publication that contains not only a calendar and a review of the year, but also articles of literary ......
8. Yedaya S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A451: Bedersi or Bedaresi, Jedaiah ben Abraham
9. Yehudai ben Nachman (Yehudai ben Nahman) (JE | WP GWP G) Gaon of Sura from 760 to 764. After the office of the gaonate was left vacant by the death of ......
10. Yekaterinoslaf (Yekaterinoslav) (JE | WP GWP G) Russian city founded in 1787 during the reign of Catherine II.; capital of the government of the same name. It ......
11. Yelammedenu JE (JE | WP GWP G) -- See M591: Tanḥuma Midrash
12. Yelisavetgrad (Elizabethgrad) S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Town in the government of Kherson, Russia. It was founded in 1754, and soon became one of the most important ......
13. Yemen S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Province comprising the southwestern part of Arabia. Various traditions trace the earliest settlement of Jews in this region back to ......
14. Solomon b. Menahem Yeurshalmi (JE | WP GWP G) Scholar of the early part of the sixteenth century. He wrote a commentary on the Book of Ruth which he ......
15. Yeshibah (Yeshiva) S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) A high school; a rabbinical college. It is the oldest institution of Jewish learning, and ranks higher than the ?eder ......
16. Yeshu'ah (Jeshuah) ben Elijah Ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) African scholar and, perhaps, liturgical poet; of unknown date. He collected the poems of Judah ha-Levi into a diwan, providing ......
17. Yeshu'ah (Jeshuah) ben Joseph Ha-Levi (JE | WP GWP G) Algerian Talmudist of the fifteenth century; born at Tlemçen. In 1467, owing to the massacres of the Jews of Tlemçen ......
18. Yevreiskaya Biblioteka (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Russia, Periodicals
19. Yetzer Ha-Ra' (Yezer Ha-Ra, Yetzer Ha-Ra) (JE | WP GWP G) Evil inclination or impulse, popularly identified with the lusts of the flesh. The idea is derived from Gen. viii. 21: ......
20. Sefer Yetzirah (Sefer Yezirah) S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) The title of two esoteric books. Of these the older is also called "Hilkot Ye?irah" (Rules of Creation), and is ......

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1. Yibbum JE S 2005-08-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See L293: Levirate marriage
2. Yigdal JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) The hymn which in the various rituals shares with Adon 'Olam the place of honor at the opening of the ......
3. Yimlok Adonai (JE | WP GWP G) The tenth and final verse of Ps. cxlvi., which opens the series of HalleluiahPsalms that conclude the Psalter. The verse ......
4. Yir'am of Magdiel JE S 2005-08-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Italian Biblical commentator; lived at Rome in the tenth century. Yir'am was styled "of Magdiel " in conformity with the ......
5. Yishai (Jesse) ben Hezekiah (JE | WP GWP G) Exilarch of Damascus toward the end of the thirteenth century. He was a very prominent defender of the writings of ......
6. Yishar Kocheka (Yishar Koheka) (JE | WP GWP G) A frequent exclamation and expression of thanks. The first part of the formula is derived by Levy and Kohut from ......
7. Yisrael Nosha' (JE | WP GWP G) A hymn composed by an early medieval writer named Shephatiah (Zunz, "Literaturgesch." p. 235), and forming the pizmon, or chief ......
8. Yitzchaq (Yizhak, Isaac) (JE | WP GWP G) Tanna of the early post-Hadrianic period (2d cent. C.E.); a halakic exegete whose Biblical exegesis mostly belongs to the Mekilta ......
9. Yitzchaq bar Adda (Yizhak bar Adda) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of uncertain period. He interpreted Ps. xcii. 13 as meaning that even as the shade of the palm-tree ......
10. Yitzchaq Ha-Babli (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora. His period is unknown. Two haggadot of his are extant. The king Melchizedek, who went to meet Abraham, ......
11. Yitzchaq of Carthage (JE | WP GWP G) In an edition of the Pesiḳta Rabbati by Buber (xiv. 64a) occurs the word V12p613006.jpg, written incorrectly for V12p613007.jpg = ......
12. Yitzchaq b. Eleazar of Caesarea (Yizhak b. Eleazar of Caesarea) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He was a teacher of law in the old synagogue of Cæsarea, where he was so loved by pupils and friends that Jacob of ......
13. Yitzchaq ben Chaqola (Yizhak ben Hakola) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century. He was a contemporary of Joshua ben Levi and Johanan, and belonged to the ......
14. Yitzchaq ben Chiyya the Scribe (Yizhak ben Hiyya the Scribe) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century; contemporary of Mani. He was well known as a scribe, and was the author ......
15. Yitzchaq bar Joseph (Yizhak bar Joseph) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third and fourth centuries. He was a pupil of Abbahu and of Johanan, and transmitted almost ......
16. Yitzchaq bar Judah (Yizhak bar Judah) (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the fourth century; a junior contemporary of Ulla. He was educated at his father's house in Pumbedita; ......
17. Yitzchaq of Magdala (Yizhak of Magdala) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century. He engaged in various midrashic controversies. Among them was one with Levi concerning I ......
18. Yitzchaq ben Maryon (Yizhak ben Maryon (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century; contemporary of Eleazar ben Pedat (Yer. Suk. 53a). He transmitted some haggadic maxims in ......
19. Yitzchaq bar Nachman (Yizhak bar Nahman) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century; a friend of Jacob bar Idi, together with whom he officiated as poor-law commissioner ......
20. Yitzchaq Nappacha (Yizhak Nappaha) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third and fourth centuries. He is found under the name "Nappaḥa" only in the Babylonian Talmud, ......

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1. Yitzchaq ben Parnak (Yizhak ben Parnak) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of uncertain period. He is named as the author of an apocryphal work entitled V12p616001.jpg, which describes the ......
2. Yitzchaq bar Redifa (Yizhak bar Redifa) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century; the transmitter of the haggadah of R. Ammi (Lev. R. xii., beginning; Ex. R. ......
3. Yitzchaq ben Samuel ben Marta (Yizhak ben Samuel ben Marta) (JE | WP GWP G) Babylonian amora of the third and fourth centuries. He was a pupil of R. Naḥman, to whom he directed questions ......
4. Yitzchaq ben Tablai (Yizhak ben Tablai) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century; a contemporary of Jacob ben Zabdai and Ḥelbo, together with both of whom he ......
5. Yitzchaq ben Ze'era (Yizhak ben Ze'era) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century. He interpreted the word V12p617008.jpg in Ps. xix. 6, in connection with Gen. xviii. ......
6. Yitzchaq (Yizhak) (JE | WP GWP G)
7. Abraham Yitzchaqi (Abraham Yizhaki) (JE | WP GWP G) Turkish Talmudist; lived at Salonica toward the end of the sixteenth century. He was dayyan under Rabbi Solomon ha-Levi, after ......
8. Abraham ben David Yitzchaqi (Abraham ben David Yitzchaqi) (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian rabbi and anti-Shabbethaian; born in 1661; died at Jerusalem June 10, 1729; on his mother's side a grandson of ......
9. Abraham Gabbai Yizidro (Abraham Gabbai Ysidro) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G1: Gabbai
10. Yod S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The name seems to be connected with "yad," meaning "hand"; the Phenician "yod" remotely ......
11. Yoke (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A910: Agriculture
12. Ha-Yom (JE | WP GWP G) -- See P199: Periodicals
13. Yom Kippur S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See A2093: Atonement, Day of
14. Yom Kippur Qatan (Yom Kippur Katan) JE (JE | WP GWP G) The "Minor Day of Atonement"; observed on the day preceding each Rosh Ḥodesh or New-Moon Day, the observance consisting of ......
15. Yom-Tob ben Abraham Ishbili (JE | WP GWP G) Famous Talmudic commentator of the first half of the fourteenth century. He received his name from the city of Seville; ......
16. Yom-Tob ben Isaac of Joigny (JE | WP GWP G) Tosafist and liturgical poet who suffered martyrdom at York, Eingland, in March, 1190, as has been proved by Grätz ("Gesch." ......
17. Yoma (JE | WP GWP G) A treatise in the Mishnah, in the Tosefta, and in both Talmudim, treating of the divineservice on the Day of ......
18. York S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Capital town of Yorkshire, England, and seat of a metropolitan see. In the Angevin period it was the second city ......
19. Yosippon S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J473: Joseph ben Gorion
20. Young Men's Hebrew Association S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Communal institution organized in various cities of the United States for the mental, moral, social, and physical improvement of Jewish ......

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1. Yotzerot (Yozerot) (JE | WP GWP G) The collective name for the piyyuṭim introduced in the recitation of the morning service on the festivals and on special ......
2. Abraham Gabbai Ysidro (JE | WP GWP G) -- See G1: Gabbai
3. Yudan (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the fourth century. His name does not occur in the Babylonian Talmud, whereas it is often mentioned ......
4. Yudan ben Ishmael (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century; probably a brother of Yannai ben Ishmael. He solved the question whether instructors in ......
5. Yudan ben Manasseh (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century. One of his halakic maxims has been preserved in the Jerusalem Talmud (Kil. 27a), ......
6. Yudan ben Simeon (JE | WP GWP G) Palestinian amora of the third century; a contemporary of Johanan, who in his name transmits a ruling relating to the ......
7. Yughanites (JE | WP GWP G) Members of the Jewish sect called "Al-Yudghaniyyah," after the name of its founder, Yudghan or Judah of Hamadan, a disciple ......
8. Sefer ha-Yuchasin (Sefer ha-Yuhasin) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See Z7: Zacuto, Abraham
9. David Levy Yulee S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) American politician; born in St. Thomas, West Indies, in 1811; died in New York city Oct. 10, 1886. He went ......
10. Samuel Yuly (Samuel Yulee) (JE | WP GWP G) Moorish envoy to England; born in Mogador, Morocco, at the end of the eighteenth century; died at Portsea, England, in ......
11. Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Nuch (Abu Ya'kub Yusuf ibn Nuch) (JE | WP GWP G) -- See J514: Joseph b. Noah ha-Baṣri
12. Yusuf ibn Teshufin S 2006-02-19 (JE | WP GWP G) Almoravid king of Spain in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He was the only Almoravid ruler hostile to the Jews, ......

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