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Saadiah Gaon (882-942 ce)
Sabbath lamp
Sabbath prayer
Sabbath, Great(Hebrew: Shabbat ha-Gadol)
Sabbath, special
Sabbath (Hebrew: Shabbat)
Sabbatical year
Sacrifice
Sacrilege
Sadducees
Safed
Salanter, Israel (1810-83)
Sale
Salt
Samael
Samaria
Samaritan Pentateuch
Samaritans
Sambatyon
Samson (fl. 12th-11th century bce)
Samuel, Book of
Samuel (fl. 11th century bce)
Sanctification
Sanctuary (Hebrew: bet ha-mikdash)
Sandak
Sanhedrin, Great
Sanhedrin (Hebrew, 'Assembly')
Saragossa
Sarah (fl. ?16th century bce)
Satan
Satmar
Saul (fl. 11th century bce)
Savoraim
Sayings of the fathers
Scapegoat
Schechter, Solomon (1847-1915)
Scholem, Gershom (1897-1982)
Schools
Science and religion
Science of Judaism
Scribe (Hebrew: Sopher)
Scroll
Scrolls of the Law
Scrolls, Five
Second day of festivals
Secrets of Enoch
Secularism
Sedarim (Hebrew, 'orders')
Seder Olam(Hebrew, 'Order of the World')
Seder (Hebrew, 'order')
Sefer Ha-Yashar(Hebrew, 'Book of Jashar')
Sefer Hasidim(Hebrew, 'Book of the Pious')
Sefer Torah
Sefer Yetzirah
Sefirot
Selah
Selihot
Semikhah
Separating the fat(Hebrew: nikkur)
Sephardim
Sepphoris
Septuagint
Seraph
Sermon
Servant Songs
Set aside things(Hebrew: muktzeh)
Seudah shelishit(Hebrew, 'third meal')
Seudah (Hebrew, 'meal')
Seudat havraah(Hebrew, 'community meal')
Seudat mafseket(Hebrew, 'final meal')
Seudat mitzvah (Hebrew, 'meal associated with a commandment')
Seven benedictions(Hebrew: Sheva berakhot)
Seventeenth of Tammuz
Seville
Sevorah
Sexual morality
Shabbat ha-Gadol
Shabbat (Hebrew, 'Sabbath')
Shabbetai Zevi (1626-76)
Shabbetaians
Shabbos goy(Yiddish, 'Sabbath gentile')
Shaddai (Hebrew, 'Almighty')
Shadkhan
Shaharit
Shaliah
Shalom
Shalom Aleichem
Shalom bayit(Hebrew, 'domestic peace')
Shammai (fl. first century bce)
Shammash (Hebrew, 'beadle')
Shas
Shatnes
Shaving
Shavuot
Shechem
Shehita
Sheitel
Shekhinah
Sheliah zibbur (Hebrew, 'emissary of the congregation')
Sheloshim
Shem, Ha-
Shemaiah (fl. first century bce)
Shema (Hebrew, 'hear')
Shemini Atzeret (Hebrew, 'Eighth Day of Solemn Assembly')
Shemoneh esreh
Sheol
Sherira Gaon (906-1006)
Shewbread
Shiddukh (Hebrew, 'marital match')
Shiloh
Shirayim (Hebrew, 'leftovers')
Shivah
Shneour Zalman (1747-1813)
Shoah
Shofar
Shohet
Shrine
Shroud
Shtetl (Yiddish, 'small town')
Shtibl (Yiddish)
Shul
Shulhan Arukh
Sicarii (Latin, 'men with daggers')
Sick, prayers for the
Siddur
Sidrah
Sifra
Sifrei
Sifrei Zuta
Silent prayer
Silver, Abba Hillel (1893-1963)
Simeon bar Kokhba
Simeon ben Yohai(fl. second century)
Simhat Torah(Hebrew, 'Rejoicing in the Law')
Sin
Sin offering
Six Day War
Six hundred and thirteencommandments
Siyyum (Hebrew, 'termination')
Skullcap
Slander (Hebrew: leshon ha-ra)
Slaughter
Slavery
Sod
Sodom
Sofer, Moses (1762-1839)
Solomon, Psalms of
Solomon, Song of
Solomon, Wisdom of
Solomon (fl. 10th century bce)
Soloveitchik, Joseph B. (1903-1993)
Song of Songs
Song of the Three Children
Sons of Light
Soul
Southern Kingdom
Spice box
Spinoza, Baruch (1632-77)
Star of David(Hebrew: magen David)
Steinheim, Solomon Ludwig (1789-1866)
Sterilization
Stern, Avraham (1907-42)
Stranger
Streimel
Study
Submission
Suffering
Suffering servant
Suicide
Sukkah (Hebrew, 'tabernacle')
Sukkot (Hebrew, 'Tabernacles')
Sun, Blessing of the
Supercommentary
Superstition
Supplication
Sura
Susanna and the Elders
Synagogue
Synagogue, Great
Synod
Synod of Usha
Syria
Szold, Henrietta (1860-1945)
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Reprinted with permission from
A Concise Encyclopedia of Judaism
,
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Oneworld Publications.