The Chumash Questions
Table of Contents
Glossary
- ach
but, only
- akdamus
- akeidah
- Al Hanissim
- aliyah
- aliyos
- amos
- Am Yisroel
the Jewish nation
- Ana Bekoach
- arbeh
locusts
- arei miklot
cities of refuge
- aron
ark
- arov
wild animals
- Aseres Hadibros
Ten Commandments
- Aseres Yemei Teshuvah
Ten Days of Repentance
- Asham
- Atah Chonantanu
- Atzeres
- aveiro
sin
- aveiros
sins
- Av Hatumah
- Avi Avos Hatumah
- Avim
- Avinu Malkeinu
- avneit
belt
- avodah
- avodah zorah
- avodim
- Avos
Patriarchs
- Avraich
- baal koreh
- baal tashcis
- baalei teshuva
- bamah
private altars
- Baruch Shem
second posuk of Shma
- Bosi Legani
- bashert
predestined
- bas kol
Heavenly voice
- bechorah
birthright
- bechor
firstborn
- bechorim
firstborn
- bedikas chametz
- beged
garment
- behaaloscha
- behasraah
- Beis Hamikdash
Sanctuary
- beis medrash
- ben chameish lemikrah
- ben sorer umoreh
rebellious son
- bentching
- besomim
spices
- bigdei kehuna
- bigdei serod
- bikurim
- bimah
- Birkas Kohanim
- bitachon
trust
- bitul chametz
- Biurim L’peirush Rashi
- biyur chametz
- Bnei Yisroel
the Children of Israel
- bored
hail
- brocho
blessing
- chametz
leaven
- charoses
- Chatos
- Chazal
our Sages
- cheilev
forbidden fats
- chesed
kindness
- chet ha’egel
sin of the calf
- Chitas
Chumash, Tehillim, Tanya
- Chol Hamoed
intermediate days
- choshen hamishpot
- Chossid
- Chumash
- chumrahs
restrictions
- Damesek
- dever
death
- dor haflaga
generation of dispersion
- egloh arufoh
the chopped-off calf
- eilim
rams
- Erev
- erev rav
Egyptian converts
- eruv tavshillin
- Esek
- esrog
- eved Ivri
Jewish slave
- Galus Bavel
Babylonian Exile
- garti
I lived
- gebrokts
- Gehinom
- goel hadam
avenger of the blood
- Golus
Exile
- ha’anakah
farewell gift
- hai
- Hakofos
- halacha
Jewish law
- Hallel
- Hanavi
- Haneiros Halalu
- Har Sinai
Mount Sinai
- hashgocha protis
divine providence
- hayom
today
- hechsher
- hekdesh
- hisgalus
- Horahamon
- Hoshana Rabbah
- histalkus
passing
- ir hanidachas
a deviant city
- issur
prohibition
- Kadaish
- Kaddish
- Kaftorim
- kal vachomer
- kapitl
psalm
- kapores
- kavana
intention
- kaves
sticks
- kavod
honor
- kedoshim kalim
- kedusha
sanctity
- kehuna
- keilim
utensils
- kesones pasim
- ketores
incense
- kevasim
lambs
- kezayis
- kfitzas haderech
a miracle to quicken his trip
- Kiddush Levana
- kikar
mixing
- Kiryas Arba
City of Four
- kittel
white robe/coat
- kodshai kedoshim
- Kohanim
priests
- Kohein
Priest
- Kohein Gadol
High Priest
- Kol Nidrei
- korban
sacrifice
- Korban Ha’Omer
- Korban Minchah
- korbanos
sacrifices
- Korban Pesach
Passover sacrifice
- korech
sandwich
- kos shel brocho
lit. ‘cup of blessing’
- krias haTorah
- krias Yam Suf
the parting of the Red Sea
- laining ‘trop’
cantillation/musical notes
- lechem
bread
- lechem hapanim
showbread
- lechem oni
bread of poverty
- lekach
honey-cake
- Likutei Sichos
- Likutei Torah
- loshon horo
lit. evil tongue
- Luchos
tablets
- lulov
four species
- ma’acheles
- maamar
- maamorim
- Maariv
evening prayer
- maaser
tithe
- maaser sheini
- maasros
tithes
- mabul
מבול
- machatzis ha’shekel
- machlokes
discord
- makah
plague
- makas bechoros
slaying of the firstborn
- makos
floggings; plagues
- maloch
angel
- malochim
angels
- marror
- masach
- mashal
example
- mashkon
security
- mashpia
- masos
- matanos kehuna
gifts
- matanos la’evyonim
- Matan Torah
the Giving of the Torah
- mateh
staff
- matzo
unleavened bread
- mechiras chametz
- mehudar
choicest
- meis
dead body
- mekushar
- mekoshesh
wood gatherer
- melacha
work
- Melech HaMoshiach
- menorah
- Meoros Hamachpeila
- meraglim
spies
- merkava
chariot to Hashem
- midbar
desert
- mi-deoraisa
from the Torah
- mi-dirabonon
from the Rabbis
- midoh
trait
- midoh tovah
- midoh poranius
- mikvah
- milchamah
- milchemes ho’rshus
optional war
- Minchah
afternoon
- minhag
custom
- minyan
community
- Mishkan
Tabernacle
- Mitzrayim
Egypt
- Mitzri
Egyptian
- mitzvoh asei
positive mitzvoh
- mitzvos asei
positive mitzvos
- mitzvos lo ta’asei
negative mitzvos
- mivtzoyim
mitzvah campaigns
- mizbeyach
altar
- mizmor
psalm
- mon
manna
- Moshiach
- mussar
rebuke
- naar
youngster
- Naaseh venishmah
we shall do and we shall listen
- nachas
pleasure
- Nazir
- neder
vow
- nedorim
- nedava
- nedovos
- Nefesh
- nefesh habahamis
animal soul
- negah
- negayim
- negel vasser
- neis
miracle
- nesiyim
heads of tribes; princes
- neshamah
soul
- nesochim
wine and oil offerings
- Neviah
Prophetess
- Nevi’im
Prophets
- niftar
- nisim
miracles
- Ohel Moed
- Olah
sacrifice
- Olom Haboh
the World to Come
- osos
- para adumah
red heifer
- parsha
- parnasah
livelihood
- paroches
curtain in front of the Ark
- par
ox
- parshiyos
- Pesach
Passover
- pesukim
verses
- pidyon ha’ben
redemption of the first born
- Pirkei Avos
Ethics of our Fathers
- porim
bulls
- posuk
verse
- posul
- pri eitz hadar
- pshat
- rasha
sinner
- Razal
our Sages
- rebbi
teacher
- Rechovos
- Refayim
- reishis hagez
- reshayim
sinners
- Ribono Shel Olom
- Rishon
- Risma
- ruach hakodesh
divine inspiration
- ruchniyus
spirituality
- Satan
- s’chach
covering for the Sukkah
- seder
- sedra
parsha
- sefer
the book of
- Sefer Torah
- Sefira
- Sei’ir la’azazel
- Shabbos
- Shabbos Shabbaton
- Shacharis
morning prayer
- shalach manos
- Shalosh Seudos
- shamash
- shatnez
mixture of wool and linen
- Shavous
- sh’chin
boils
- sh’chutei chutz
outside offerings
- Shechina
Divine Presence
- sheetim
cedar
- Shehecheyanu
- Sheini
- sheivet
the tribe of
- shemen hamishcho
- Shemini Atzeres
- Sheva Brachos
- shevatim
tribes
- shidduch
marriage partner; match
- shifcha Cnaanis
a gentile maidservant
- shiluach hakan
- shira
song
- shiva
- Shiveh
- shlichus
- Shlomim
- shloshim
- Shma Yisroel
- shmurah
hand-baked matzo
- Shnayim mikrah v’echad targum
- shoham
- shonoh
year
- shtus d’kedusha
- shulchon
table
- Shulchon Oruch
- Shvi’i shel Pesach
the seventh day of Pesach
- Simchas Beis Hashoevah
- Sitnah
- smicha
rabbinical ordination
- Sotah
- Sukkos
TODO 2 omonims
- Taanis Esther
Fast of Esther
- Tachanun
- taharah
purity
- tahor
pure
- taiva
ark/box
- talmid
student
- tam
- Tamid
- tamid
steadily
- techiyas hameisim
resurrection of the dead
- teichef umiyad mamash
- Tekiah
- tenufah
lifting
- terumah
- terumos
- terumas hadeshen
- teshuvah
repentance
- Tfilas
- Tiskabel
- Tochecha
curses, punishments
- tomei
impure
- Torah Shebe’al Peh
Oral Law
- totafos
tefillin
- tumah
impurity
- tzadik
righteous person
- tzadikim
righteous persons
- tzav
command
- tzedakah
charity
- tzefardeia
frogs
- tzitzis
- tzoraas
- uforatzto
- vayishokaihu
- Ve’ahavta
- Vehaya
- Vezos Habracha
- Vidui
confession statement
- vlad hatumah
second level tumah
- yad
hand
- Yam Suf
the Red Sea
- Yarden
Jordan
- Yehi Ratzon
- yetze’r horah
evil inclination
- yetzias Mitzmyim
the exodus from Egypt
- yirah
fear, respect
- yiras shamayim
fear of Heaven
- Yizkor
- Yom Tov aliyas haregel
going up to the Beis Hamikdash for the holidays
- yotzei
exempt
- Yovel
- yud
- Yud Shvat
- zav
- zavah
- zechus
merit