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- Yad
- Torah pointer (literally, hand). The Torah pointer was used to
avoid touching the scroll. Yads are made of silver, wood, ivory
and even coral.
- Yarmulke
- A Jewish head-covering. In Hebrew, a "kippah." Customs about what
it looks like, who wears it, and when it is worn have varied from
time to time and from place to place.
- Yibbum, also, Levirate marriage.
- The Torah specifies that if a married man dies without children,
his brother is supposed to marry the man's widow and their first
child is to carry on the line of the dead brother. The act of
marrying your sister-in-law to fulfill this obligation is called
"yibum."
- Yom Tov Sheni
- An additional day of Yom Tov (festival) that was traditionally
celebrated in the diaspora. Basically, before the calendar was
fixed, people far away from Jerusalem wouldn't always know which
of two possible dates was the new moon (beginning of the Hebrew
month) according to the official Jerusalem declaration. So they
didn't know which of two possible dates a festival in any given
month was. So they celebrated both dates, just in case. And they
kept doing that even after the calendar was fixed and not declared
by a court in Jerusalem. The Reform movement decided to follow
the Israeli calendar, which celebrates only 1 day of the festivals.
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