Part 34

SHOFAR (Heb.). Ram's horn, sounded on New Year's Day and the Day of Atonement. _See_ Lev. xxiii. 24.

SHOLOM (SHALOM) ALECHEM (Heb.). "Peace unto you"; greeting, salutation, especially to one newly arrived after a journey.

SHOMER. Pseudonym of a Yiddish author, Nahum M. Schaikewitz.

SHOOL (Ger., Schul'). Synagogue.

SHULCHAN ARUCH (Heb.). The Jewish code.

SILENT PRAYER. _See_ EIGHTEEN BENEDICTIONS.

SOLEMN DAYS. The ten days from New Year to the Day of Atonement inclusive.

SOUL-LIGHTS. Candles lighted in memory of the dead.

STUFFED MONKEYS. Pastry filled with chopped fruit and spices.

TALLIS (popular plural formation, Tallesim) (Heb.). The prayer-scarf.

TALLIS-KOTON (Heb.). _See_ FOUR-CORNERS.

TALMID-CHOCHEM (Heb.). Sage; scholar.

TALMUD TORAH (Heb.). Free communal school.

TANO (Heb.). A Rabbi cited in the Mishnah as an authority.

TARARAM. Noise; tumult; ado.

TATE, TATISHE (Ger. and Russ. dimin.). Father.

TEFILLIN-SAeCKLECH (Heb. and Ger.). Phylacteries bag.

TISHO-B'OV (Heb.). Ninth of Ab, day of mourning and fasting to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem; hence, colloquially, a sad day.

TORAH (Heb.). The Jewish Law in general, and the Pentateuch in particular.

TSISIN. Season.

TZADDIK (pl. Tzaddikim) (Heb.). "Righteous"; title of the Chassidic leader.

U-MIPNE CHATOENU (Heb.). "And on account of our sins," the first two words of a prayer for the restoration of the sacrificial service, recited in the Additional Service of the Holy Days and the festivals.

U-NESANNEH-TOIKEF (Heb.). "And we ascribe majesty," the first two words of a Piyyut recited on New Year and on the Day of Atonement.

VERFALLEN! (Ger.). Lost; done for.

VERSHOK (Russ.). Two inches and a quarter.

VIERER (Ger.). Four kopeks.

VIVAT. Toast.

YESHIVEH (Heb.). Talmud Academy.

YOHRZEIT (Ger.). Anniversary of a death.

YOM KIPPUR (Heb.). Day of Atonement.

YOM-TOV (Heb.). Festival.

ZHYDEK (Little Russ.). Jew.

P. 15. "It was seldom that parties went 'to law' ... before the Rav."--The Rabbi with his Dayonim gave civil as well as religious decisions.

P. 15. "Milky Sabbath."--All meals without meat. In connection with fowl, ritual questions frequently arise.

P. 16. "Reuben's ox gores Simeon's cow."--Reuben and Simeon are fictitious plaintiff and defendant in the Talmud; similar to John Doe and Richard Roe.

P. 17. "He described a half-circle," etc.--_See under_ GEMOREH.

P. 57. "Not every one is worthy of both tables!"--Worthy of Torah and riches.

P. 117. "They salted the meat."--The ritual ordinance requires that meat should be salted down for an hour after it has soaked in water for half an hour.

P. 150. "Puts off his shoes!"--To pray in stocking-feet is a sign of mourning and a penance.

P. 190. "We have trespassed," etc.--The Confession of Sins.

P. 190. "The beadle deals them out thirty-nine blows," etc.--_see_ MALKES.

P. 197. "With the consent of the All-Present," etc.--The Introduction to the solemn Kol Nidre prayer.

P. 220. "He began to wear the phylacteries and the prayer-scarf," etc.--They are worn first when a boy is Bar-Mitzveh (_which see_); Ezrielk was married at the age of thirteen.

P. 220. "He could not even break the wine-glass," etc.--A marriage custom.

P. 220. "Waving of the sacrificial fowls."--_See_ SCAPE-FOWLS.

P. 220. "The whole company of Chassidim broke some plates."--A betrothal custom.

P. 227. "Had a double right to board with their parents 'forever.'"--_See_ Koest.

P. 271. "With the consent of the All-Present," etc.--_See note under_ p. 197.

P. 273. "Nothing was lacking for their journey from the living to the dead."--_See note under_ p. 547.

P. 319. "Give me a teacher who can tell," etc.--Reference to the story of the heathen who asked, first of Shammai, and then of Hillel, to be taught the whole of the Jewish Law while standing on one leg.

P. 326. "And those who do not smoke on Sabbath, raised their eyes to the sky."--To look for the appearance of three stars, which indicate nightfall, and the end of the Sabbath.

P. 336. "Jeroboam the son of Nebat."--The Rabbinical type for one who not only sins himself, but induces others to sin, too.

P. 401. "Thursday."--_See note under_ p. 516.

P. 403. "Monday," "Wednesday," "Tuesday."--_See note under_ p. 516.

P. 427. "Six months' 'board.'"--_See_ Koest.

P. 443. "I knew Hebrew grammar, and could write Hebrew, too."--_See_ MASKIL.

P. 445. "A Jeroboam son of Nebat."--_See note under_ p. 336.

P. 489. "In a snow-white robe."--The head of the house is clad in his shroud at the Seder on the Passover.

P. 516. "She knew that on Wednesdays Yitzchokel ate his 'day'," etc.--At the houses of well-to-do families meals were furnished to poor students, each student having a specific day of the week with a given family throughout the year.

P. 547. "Why had he brought ... a white shirt-like garment?"--The worshippers in the synagogue on the Day of Atonement wear shrouds.

P. 552. "Am I ... I suppose I am to lie down?"--_See_ MALKES.

P. 574. "In a hundred and twenty years."--The age attained by Moses and Aaron; a good old age. The expression is used when planning for a future to come after the death of the person spoken to, to imply that there is no desire to see his days curtailed for the sake of the plan.