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yaaleh ve-yavo('may it arise and come')
yaaleh ('may it arise')
yad (Hebrew, 'hand')
Yah
yah ribbon olam('God, master of the universe')
yahad (Hebrew, 'unity')
yahrzeit
Yahweh
Yahwist
Yalkut (Hebrew, 'Compilation')
yamin noraim(Hebrew, 'days of awe')
yarmulke
year of release
year, Jewish
yekum purkan(Aramaic, 'may redemption come')
Yelammedenu(Aramaic, 'Let Him Pronounce')
yeshivah
yetzer ha-ra
yetzer ha-tov
Yetzirah, Sefer
YHWH
Yiddish
yiddishkeit
yigdal(Hebrew, 'may he be magnified')
yihus
yishtabbah(Hebrew, 'may his name be praised')
yizkor (Hebrew, 'he shall remember')
Yom Atzmaut
Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur Katan(Hebrew, 'Minor Day of Atonement')
yom tov (Hebrew, 'a good day')
yontif
Yoreh Deah
yotzer (Hebrew, 'He createth')
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Reprinted with permission from
A Concise Encyclopedia of Judaism
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by Dan Cohn-Sherbok. Oneworld Publications.