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C) LEGEND
| Aron haQodesh | or simply Aron is an ornate cabinet that enshrines the sacred Torah scrolls |
| Bar/Bat Mitzwah | According to Jewish law a boy/girl at the age of thirteen years become a Bar/Bat Mitzvah and is responsible for his/her behaviour |
| Beit-haKneset | Synagogue. Place of meeting, study and prayer, also called "scola", where are kept the manuscript scrolls of the Torah |
| Davening | The prayer recitation that forms part of the observance of Judaism |
| Dvar Torah | Word of Torah |
| haGomel | Thanking God for Deliverance |
| Hanukka | Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, observed by kindling the menorah |
| Hazan | A cantor of a Synagogue |
| Kiddush | Blessing of the wine with which it is used to sanctify the Jewish festivals |
| Mechitza | A separé, in particular the one used to separate men from women |
| Menorah | The nine-branched candelabrum |
| Minhag | A type of liturgical rite, which denotes a set of liturgies, traditions, rules specific to certain communities of rabbinic Judaism of the Diaspora |
| Minyan | The number ten males over the age of thirteen needed for public prayer and the public reading of the Torah |
| Rav | Title attributed to many Orthodox rabbis |
| Rosh haShana | New Year's Beginning. Its celebration is characterized by the blowing of the shofar |
| Seforim | Testo giudaico |
| Shabbat | Saturday, the most important Jewish celebration, as it reminds the rest of the Lord after the creation |
| Shofar | A ram horn that is blown on Rosh ha-Shanah and at the conclusion of Yom Kippur |
| Sukkot | Eight-day festival of the pilgrimage that begins just five days after Yom Kippur |
| Tefilla | The declaration of feelings and desires that every Jew makes turned to God |
| Teva | Sort of table at which the officiant recites the prayers in the synagogue |
| Torah | The first five books of the Tanakh, also known by the Greek name of Pentateuch |
| Yom Kippur | Jewish religious Feast which celebrates the day of the expiation |
