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daily prayer
Damascus affair
dance
danger to life
Daniel, Book of
darshan (Hebrew, 'expounder')
daven
David, City of
David, Star of(Hebrew: magen David)
David (fl. 11th-10th century bce)
Day of Atonement(Hebrew: Yom Kippur)
Day of Judgement
Day of the Lord
Dayan, Moshe (1915-81)
Days of Awe(Hebrew: Yamim Noraim)
dayyan
dayyenu(Hebrew, 'It would have satisfied us')
Dead Sea Scrolls
dead, prayers for the
death
death anniversary
death penalty
Deborah (fl. 12th century bce)
Decalogue
decree (Hebrew: gezerah)
demonology
derekh eretz(Hebrew, 'way of the land')
desecration of the host
Deutero-Isaiah
Deuteronomic historian
Deuteronomy, Book of
devekut (Hebrew, 'cleaving to God')
devil (Hebrew: Satan)
devotion (Hebrew: kavvanah)
dialogue
diaspora
dibbuk
dietary laws (Hebrew: kashrut)
din Torah
dina de-malkuta dina (Aramaic, 'The law of the country is the law')
Discipline, Manual of
dispersion
disputations
divine emanations(Hebrew: sefirot)
divorce
documentary hypothesis
dogma
Dome of the Rock
Donmeh
doorpost
Dov Baer of Liubavitch (1773-1828)
Dov Baer of Mezhirech (c.1710-72)
dowry
dream
dreidel (Yiddish, 'spinning top')
dress
Dreyfus, Alfred (1859-1935)
drink offering
dualism
dukhan
Duran, Simeon ben Zemah (1361-1444)
duty
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Reprinted with permission from
A Concise Encyclopedia of Judaism
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by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Oneworld Publications.