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ma'amadot
maaravot
Maarekhet Ha-Elohut(Hebrew, 'The Order of God')
maariv
Maaseh Bereshit(Hebrew, 'Work of Creation')
Maaseh Book
Maaseh Merkavah(Hebrew, 'Work of the Chariot')
maaser
Maccabees
Machpelah
Magen David
maggid (Hebrew, 'preacher')
magic
Mah Nishtannah(Hebrew, 'Why is it different?')
mahamad
Maharel of Prague (d. 1609)
mahloket (Hebrew, 'division')
Mahzor Vitry
mahzor (Hebrew, 'cycle')
Maimon, Solomon (1754-1800)
Maimonidean Controversy
Maimonides (1135-1204)
Maimuna
major prophets
majority
Malachi, Book of
Malbim (1809-79)
Malkuyyot (Hebrew, 'Sovereignty')
mamzer (Hebrew, 'bastard')
Manasseh, Prayer of
Manasseh (fl. seventh century bce)
manna
Manual of Discipline
maot hittim(Hebrew, 'wheat monies')
maphtir(Hebrew, 'one who concludes')
mappah (Hebrew, 'cloth')
Mari
maror
marranos (Hebrew: Anusim)
marriage
marriage canopy(Hebrew: huppah)
marriage contract(Hebrew: ketubbah)
marriages, forbidden
marshalik (Yiddish, 'jester')
martyr
Marx, Karl (1818-83)
mar (Hebrew, 'master')
Masada
mashal
mashiah
maskilim
masorah
masoretes
masoret (Aramaic, 'tradition')
massekhet
mastema
matchmaker (Hebrew: shadkhan)
matmid (Hebrew, 'one who persists')
matriarchs
mattan torah
matzah
mazal tov (Hebrew, 'good luck')
mazevah
meditation
megillah
Megillat Taanit(Hebrew, 'Scroll of the Fast')
mehitzah (Hebrew, 'partition')
meil (Hebrew, 'mantle')
Meir, Golda (1898-1978)
Meir (fl. second century ce)
mekhilta (Hebrew, 'measure')
melammed (Yiddish, 'teacher')
melavveh malkah
Melchizedek(fl. ?16th century bce)
meldar
memorbuch(German, 'book of memory')
memorial prayers
memra (Aramaic, 'word')
Mendelssohn, Moses (1729-86)
menorah (Hebrew, 'candelabrum')
mensh (Yiddish, 'human being')
menstruation
mercy seat
merits of the fathers
Merkavah Mysticism
meshullah
meshummad
messiah
Metatron
metempsychosis (Hebre: gilgul)
meturgeman(Aramaic, 'interpreter')
Mezhirech
mezumman
mezuzah (Hebrew, 'doorpost')
mi she-berakah(Hebrew, 'he who blessed')
Micah, Book of
Michael
Midrash Rabbah
midrashic literature
midrash (Hebrew, 'exposition')
mikveh
milah
milk
min
minhag
minhah
minor prophets
minyan man
minyan (Hebrew, 'number')
miracle
Miriam (fl. ?13th century bce)
mishmarot
Mishnah
Mishneh Torah
Mishpat Ivri(Hebrew, 'Hebrew Law')
mitnagdim (Hebrew, 'opponents')
mitzvah (Hebrew, 'commandment')
mixed marriage
Mizrahi
mizrah (Hebrew, 'east')
moadim le-simhah(Hebrew, 'holidays for rejoicing')
modeh ani (Hebrew, 'I give thanks')
Moed (Hebrew, 'Set Feast')
mohel
monarchy
monasticism
monotheism
Montefiore, Claude (1858-1938)
Montefiore, Moses (1784-1855)
months
Moon, Blessing of the(Hebrew: Kiddush Levenah)
More Judaico
Moreh Nevukhim
morenu (Hebrew, 'our teacher')
morning service(Hebrew: shaharit)
moser (Yiddish, 'betrayer')
Moses ben Maimon
Moses ben Nahman
Moses, Assumption of
Moses, Blessing of
Moses (fl. ?13th century bce)
mother
Mount Carmel
Mount Gerizim
Mount Sinai
Mourners for Zion(Hebrew: Avele Zion)
mourning (Hebrew: avelut)
muktzeh
mumar
murder
musaf
musar
Musar movement
music
myrtle
mysticism
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Reprinted with permission from
A Concise Encyclopedia of Judaism
,
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Oneworld Publications.