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ha-noten teshvah
Ha-shem (Hebrew, 'The Name')
ha-tikvah (Hebrew, 'hope')
Habad
Habakkuk, Book of
Habiru
Hadassah
Hafetz Hayyim (1838-1933)
haftarah (Hebrew, 'conclusion')
Haganah
hagbahah (Hebrew, 'lifting')
Haggadah
Haggai, Book of
Hagiographa (Greek, 'Holy Writings')
Hai Gaon (939-1038)
hair
hakham (Hebrew, 'wise')
hakhel (Hebrew, 'assembly')
hakhnasat kallah (Hebrew, 'bringing in the bride')
hakhnasat orehim
halakhah (Hebrew, 'way of going')
halitzah
hallah (Hebrew, 'dough offering')
hallel
hallel ha-gadol (Hebrew, 'great Hallel')
hallelujah (Hebrew, 'praise ye the Lord')
halutz
Haman
hamesh megillot
hametz
hands, laying on of (Hebrew: semikhah)
hands, washing of
Hanukkah (Hebrew, 'Dedication')
haroset
hashkamah
hashkavah
hashkivenu (Hebrew 'cause us to lie down [in peace]')
Hasidei Ashkenaz(Hebrew, 'Pious ones of Germany')
hasidei ummot ha-olam (Hebrew, 'the pious ones of the world's nations')
Hasidim, Sefer(Hebrew, 'Book of the Pious')
Hasidim (Hebrew, 'the Pious')
Hasidism
Haskalah
haskamah (Hebrew, 'agreement')
Hasmoneans
havdalah (Hebrew, 'distinction')
haver (Hebrew, 'member')
havurah
hazzan
head, covering of
Hear, O Israel
heave offering (Hebrew, 'sacrifice')
heaven
Hebrew
Hebrews
Hebron
heder (Hebrew, 'school')
hefker
heifer, red
hekdesh
Hekhalot, Books of
Hellenism
hell (Hebrew: Gehenna)
heresy
heretic
hermeneutics
Herod (fl. 1st century bce)
Herzl, Theodor (1869-1904)
Heschel, Abraham Joshua (1907-72)
Hess, Moses (1812-1875)
hessah daat (Hebrew, 'removal of the mind')
hevra kaddisha
Hexateuch
Hezekiah (fl. eighth to seventh century bce)
Hibbat Zion (Hebrew, 'Love of Zion')
High Holy Days
high places
High Priest
Hillel (fl. first century bce)
hillul ha-Shem (Hebrew, 'profanation of the name')
Hinnom, Valley of
Hirsch, Samson Raphael (1808-88)
hol ha-moed (Hebrew, 'weekday of the festival')
Holdheim, Samuel (1806-60)
holent
holiness code
holiness (Hebrew: kedushah)
Holocaust (Hebrew: Shoah)
Holy Ark (Hebrew: Aron Kodesh)
holy days
Holy Land
Holy of Holies
holy places
Holy Spirit (Hebrew: Ruah ha-Kodesh)
home
homiletics
homosexuality
Hosea, Book of
Hoshanah Rabbah
hoshanot
hospitality
host, desecration of
house of worship
Hovevei Zion
hukkat ha-goy(Hebrew, 'custom of the gentile')
Humanistic Judaism
hummash
huppah
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Reprinted with permission from
A Concise Encyclopedia of Judaism
,
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Oneworld Publications.