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Yitgadal veyitkadach shmé raba Hebrew for "May His Name be blessed and magnified."

Yom Kippur (yahm kih poor) the Jewish day of atonement, a holiday observed with fasting and prayer.

Zion here, the term refers to the Jewish nation; Zionism is a general term applying to the movement to establish a Jewish state in Palestine.

Zionism an international drive or political movement that resulted in the development and establishment of a Jewish state.

Zohar (zoh hahr) literally, the "Book of Brightness," a symbolic or alle­gorical interpretation of Jewish law. Moses de Leon compiled the Zohar, the main text of the cabbala, in Spain near the end of the thirteenth century.

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