💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pidyon haben"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| bekhornoun | (Judaism) A firstborn child. |
| bar mitzvahnoun | (Judaism) A Jewish coming of age ceremony for boys. |
| upsherinnoun | In some Jewish cultures, a ceremony for a three-year-old boy's first haircut, or the haircut itself. |
| sandeknoun | (Judaism) A person honoured at a Jewish brit milah by holding the baby boy in his lap as the mohel performs the circumcision. |
| halitzahnoun | (Judaism) A rite by which a widow absolves herself of the duty of levirate marriage. It involves making a declaration, removing a shoe, and spitting on the floor. |
| zeved habatnoun | (Judaism) A ceremony in which girls are named. |
| omernoun | (Judaism) The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot. |
| mikvehnoun | (Judaism) A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed. |
| day of atonementnoun | (Judaism) Yom Kippur. |
| metzitzanoun | (Judaism) a procedure performed in Rabbinic Judaism after the Jewish ritual of brit milah (covenent cut) following the two added steps of priya (uncovering) and circumcision (circle-cut) mandated by the Gelmud in 500 CE: in this 3rd extra step a mohel uses his mouth to suck blood from the penis of the male (usually a baby) he just uncovered and circumcised, drawing the blood from the wound where the prepuce (foreskin) was amputated. |
| tzedakahnoun | (Judaism) The Jewish tradition of charity. |
| korban todahnoun | (Judaism) A thanksgiving offering |
| mitzvanoun | (Religion, Jewish) An order from rabbis or a commandment from the Bible |
| zimunnoun | (Judaism) A blessing made before Birkat Hamazon, calling together those who have eaten. |
| passovernoun | The seven-day (Reform Judaism) or eight-day (Orthodox and Conservative Judaism) Jewish festival of Pesach (also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread (מַצּוֹת (matsót)), commemorating the biblical story of the Exodus. |
| brachanoun | (Judaism) Blessing. |
| aqedahnoun | Alternative form of Akedah. [(Christianity, Judaism) The Binding of Isaac.] |
| bat mitzvahnoun | (Judaism) A Jewish coming of age ceremony for a girl. |
| heremnoun | (Judaism) The exclusion of a person from the Jewish community. |
| brit milahnoun | (Judaism) The Jewish ceremony of circumcision normally performed on the eighth day of life. |
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