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pacifism
pais
Pakuda, Bahya ibn(fl. 11th century)
Palestine
Palestinian Talmud
pantheism
parable
paradise
parashah (Hebrew, 'section')
parents
Paris
parnas (Hebrew, 'provider')
parokhet
partition
parveh (Yiddish, 'neutral')
paschal lamb
Passover meal
Passover (Hebrew: Pesach)
patriarchs
peace offering
peace (Hebrew: shalom)
peah (Hebrew, 'corner')
Penitence, Ten Days of (Hebrew: Aseret Yeme Teshuvah)
penitential prayers(Hebrew: selihot)
Pentateuch
Pentecost
peot (Yiddish, 'sidecurls')
perek shirah(Hebrew, 'chapter of song')
Peres, Shimon (b. 1923)
persecution
perush
Perushim
Pesach
peshat
pesher (Hebrew, 'interpretation')
Peshitta (Syriac, 'simple')
pesuke de-zimrah(Hebrew, 'passages of songs')
petihah (Hebrew, 'opening')
Pharisees (Hebrew: Perushim)
philosophy
Philo (c.25 bce-40 ce)
phylactery
pidyon ha-ben
pikkuah nefesh
pilgrim festivals
pilgrimage
pilpul (Hebrew, 'fine distinctions')
Pinsker, Leon (1821-91)
pioneer (Hebrew: halutz)
Pirke Avot
Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer
piyyut
Poale Zion(Hebrew, 'Workers of Zion')
poem of mourning(Hebrew: kinah)
pogrom
polemic
polygamy
posekim
poverty
practical kabbalah
Prague
prayer
prayer book
prayer for the dead
prayer shawl
preacher
pride
priestly blessing
priest (Hebrew: cohen)
primordial man(Hebrew: Adam Kadmon)
principles of faith(Hebrew: ikkarim)
printing
procreation
profanation
profanation of the name
Progressive Judaism
promised land
prophet (Hebrew: navi)
prosbul
proselyte (Hebrew: ger)
prostitution, sacred
prostration
Proverbs, Book of
providence
Psalms, Book of
Pseudepigrapha
Pumbedita
punishment
purification after childbirth
Purim, Special
Purim (Hebrew, 'Lots')
purity
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Reprinted with permission from
A Concise Encyclopedia of Judaism
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by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Oneworld Publications.