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fable (Hebrew: mashal)
Fackenheim, Emil (b. 1916)
faith
faith, confession of
Faith, Thirteen Principles of
Falashas
Fall
false witness
family
fasting
fasts
fathers, merits of
Fathers, Sayings of(Hebrew: Avot)
fear of God
feminism
fence around the law
festivals
Fez
Fifteenth of Av (Hebrew: Tu B'Av)
Fifteenth of Shevat (Hebrew: Tu Bi-Shevat)
Final Solution
fine
first fruits
first-born
First-born, Fast of the
First-born, Redemption of
fish
Five Scrolls
Flood
forced conversion
forgiveness
former prophets
Formstecher, Solomon (1808-89)
Fostat
four captives
four cups (Hebrew: Arba Kosot)
four questions
four spices
Frank, Jacob (1726-91)
Frankel, Zecharias (1801-75)
free will
Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
fringes
fromm (Yiddish)
funeral
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Reprinted with permission from
A Concise Encyclopedia of Judaism
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by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Oneworld Publications.