Standing Again at Sinai Glossary

by Judith Plaskow

Standing Again at Sinai Glossary

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Sinai

A Mountain where God gave his commandments to Moses

Utopia

Heaven, Paradise, a perfect place

Am

People

Yishmah

Hear

Hakhel

Gather

Yilmedu

Learn

Chayim

Live

Beit Yaakov

House of Jacob

Torah

God's law

Hierarchy

Social scale, grading

Pshat

Text's direct meaning

Shofar

A trumpet made of ram's horn

Pragmatist

Someone who believes in the real world rather than only ideals

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