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Baal
Baal Shem Tov
Baal Shem(Hebrew, 'Master of the Divine Name')
baal teshuvah
Babylonia
Babylonian Talmud
badge, Jewish
Baeck, Leo (1873-1956)
Bahir, Book of (Hebrew: Sefer Bahir)
Balaam (fl. 13th century bce)
Balfour Declaration
ban (Hebrew: herem)
baptism
bar Kokhba, Simeon(fl. second century ce)
bar mitzvah (Hebrew, 'son of the commandment')
baraita (Aramaic, 'external')
Barcelona
Barekhu (Hebrew, 'Bless')
Barukh ha-shem(Hebrew, 'Blessed is the Name')
Barukh, Apocalypse of
bat kol (Hebrew, 'daughter of a voice')
bat mitzvah (Hebrew, 'daughter of the commandment')
Bathsheba (fl. 11th-10th century bce)
beard
Begin, Menahem (1913-92)
Bel and the Dragon
Ben Sirah, Wisdom of
Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973)
Ben-Yehudah, Eliezer (1858-1922)
Bene Israel (Hebrew, 'Sons of Israel')
benediction
Benjamin of Tudela(fl. 12th century)
bensh (Yiddish, 'bless')
Berakhot (Hebrew, 'Blessings')
Berdichevsky, Micah Joseph (1865-1921)
Bereshit
berit
Berkovits, Eliezer (1900-1992)
Berlin
bet din(Hebrew, 'house of judgement')
bet ha-midrash(Hebrew, 'house of study')
Bet Hillel, Bet Shammai
Bethel
betrothal
Bezazel (fl. ?13th century bce)
Bialik, Chaim Nachman (1873-1934)
Bible
Bible commentaries
Bible, translations of
bikkur holim
bimah (Hebrew, 'elevated place')
binding (Hebrew: akeda)
birkat ha-mazon
birkat ha-minim (Hebrew, 'blessing concerning sectarians')
birkat ha-torah (Hebrew, 'blessing of the Law')
birth control
bitter herbs (Hebrew: maror)
black Jews
blasphemy
blessing
blood
blood libel
Bnai Brith (Hebrew, 'Sons of the Covenant')
Boethusians
Book of Creation (Hebrew: Sefer Yetsirah)
Book of Life
Book of the Covenant
Borochov, Dov Ber (1881-1917)
Bratslav Hasidim
breastplate
bridegroom of the law
Bronfman, Sr., Edgar M.
Buber, Martin (1878-1965)
burial
burial society(Aramaic: hevra kaddisha)
burnt offering
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Reprinted with permission from
A Concise Encyclopedia of Judaism
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by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Oneworld Publications.