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 * 1) Ya'abetz (Ya'abez) (JE | ) -- See E341: Emden, Jacob Israel ben &#7826;ebi Ashkenazi
 * 2) Ya'aleh (JE | ) 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 | ) A pointer to guide the reading in public of the text of the Sefer Torah. During the reading of the ......
 * 4) Yadayim (JE | ) Treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta, dealing with the uncleanness of the hands and their ablution. It stands eleventh ......
 * 5) Yah Shimkha (JE | ) 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 | ) -- See H998: Ne&#39;ilah (Hymn Tunes, 1)
 * 7) Yachya (Yahya) DAB >> David ibn Yahya ben Solomon JE, Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph JE (JE | ) 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 | ) Representative of the community of Seville and contemporary of Asher b. Jehiel. He was probably a brother of Solomon b. ......
 * 9) Yarim (JE | ) -- See A1095: Alcimus
 * 10) Abraham Yakini (JE | ) -- See A605: Abraham ha-Yakini
 * 11) Yaqqar ben Samuel ha-Levi I (Yakkar ben Samuel ha-Levi I) (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) A haggadic compilation on the books of the Old Testament. From such older haggadot as were accessible to him, the ......
 * 14) Yannai (JE | ) 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 | ) First payyeṭan to employ rime and introduce his name in acrostics; flourished, probably in Palestine, in the first half of ......
 * 16) Yannai (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) -- See A547: Abraham Ben Nathan
 * 20) Yarmouth S 2006-02-19 (JE | ) 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 | ) River of Palestine; its various sources rise in the mountains of Hauran and Jaulan; it flows generally west and empties ......
 * 2) Yaroslav (Jaroslaw) + (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) See Samuel and Yates Pedigree. ......
 * 5) Benjamin Eliakim Yates (JE | ) First minister of the congregation at Liverpool, England; died there 1798. He was the elder son of Eliakim Getz (Goetz) ......
 * 6) Yawan (JE | ) -- See J176: Javan
 * 7) Year-Book (JE | ) 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 | ) -- See A451: Bedersi or Bedaresi, Jedaiah ben Abraham
 * 9) Yehudai ben Nachman (Yehudai ben Nahman) (JE | ) Gaon of Sura from 760 to 764. After the office of the gaonate was left vacant by the death of ......
 * 10) Yekaterinoslaf (Yekaterinoslav) (JE | ) Russian city founded in 1787 during the reign of Catherine II.; capital of the government of the same name. It ......
 * 11) Yelammedenu JE (JE | ) -- See M591: Tan&#7717;uma Midrash
 * 12) Yelisavetgrad (Elizabethgrad) S 2006-02-19 (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) Algerian Talmudist of the fifteenth century; born at Tlemçen. In 1467, owing to the massacres of the Jews of Tlemçen ......
 * 18) Yevreiskaya Biblioteka (JE | ) -- See P199: Russia, Periodicals
 * 19) Yetzer Ha-Ra' (Yezer Ha-Ra, Yetzer Ha-Ra) (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) -- See L293: Levirate marriage
 * 2) Yigdal JE S 2006-02-19 (JE | ) The hymn which in the various rituals shares with Adon 'Olam the place of honor at the opening of the ......
 * 3) Yimlok Adonai (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) A frequent exclamation and expression of thanks. The first part of the formula is derived by Levy and Kohut from ......
 * 7) Yisrael Nosha' (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | )
 * 7) Abraham Yitzchaqi (Abraham Yizhaki) (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) -- See G1: Gabbai
 * 10) Yod S 2006-02-19 (JE | ) Tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The name seems to be connected with "yad," meaning "hand"; the Phenician "yod" remotely ......
 * 11) Yoke (JE | ) -- See A910: Agriculture
 * 12) Ha-Yom (JE | ) -- See P199: Periodicals
 * 13) Yom Kippur S 2006-02-19 (JE | ) -- See A2093: Atonement, Day of
 * 14) Yom Kippur Qatan (Yom Kippur Katan) JE (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) Tosafist and liturgical poet who suffered martyrdom at York, Eingland, in March, 1190, as has been proved by Grätz ("Gesch." ......
 * 17) Yoma (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) -- See J473: Joseph ben Gorion
 * 20) Young Men's Hebrew Association S 2006-02-19 (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) -- See G1: Gabbai
 * 3) Yudan (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) Palestinian amora of the third century; a contemporary of Johanan, who in his name transmits a ruling relating to the ......
 * 7) Yughanites (JE | ) 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 | ) -- See Z7: Zacuto, Abraham
 * 9) David Levy Yulee S 2006-02-19 (JE | ) 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 | ) 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 | ) -- See J514: Joseph b. Noah ha-Ba&#7779;ri
 * 12) Yusuf ibn Teshufin S 2006-02-19 (JE | ) Almoravid king of Spain in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. He was the only Almoravid ruler hostile to the Jews, ......