Jewish tradition
Ancestral Israelite customs
Jewish tradition encompasses the religious practices, laws, customs, and cultural heritage passed down through generations of Jewish people.
It includes observance of the Torah and Talmud, celebration of holidays like Passover and Yom Kippur, dietary laws (kashrut), and lifecycle rituals.
The phrase often appears when explaining why something is done a certain way: In Jewish tradition, the Sabbath begins at sundown Friday.
- SederPassover ceremonial dinner
- ShabbatJewish day of rest
- lighting candlesIgniting wax wicks
- PassoverFestival of liberation
- breaking the fastEnding a period without eating
Yom Kippur · Mishnah · Torah scroll · Hanukkah · Torah · Mikveh · Havdalah · Babylonian exile · Promised Land · Rosh Hashanah · Tisha B'Av · Holocaust remembrance · Purim · mitzvah · bar mitzvah · Hebrew · challah · observance
- Jewish studiesTorah study, yeshiva, rabbinical school, midrash, kabbalah
- Jewish ThoughtKabbalah, Torah study, Halakha, Mishnah, Messiah
- Jewish educationyeshiva, Hebrew, Hebrew school, day school, day schools
- Torah studyTorah study, Torah reading, parsha, Torah portion, Mishnah
- Fiddler on the Rooffiddler, milkman, Mendel, wedding canopy, matchmaking
- Hanukkahmenorah, dreidel, latkes, gelt, shamash
Jewish traditionChristianity
Faith based on Jesus
Islam · Christian tradition · Islamic tradition · Buddhist tradition · Hindu tradition
Jewish traditionatheism
Rejection of deities
secular humanism · paganism · polytheism · idolatry · Eastern philosophy
Jewish traditionassimilation
Absorbing into a whole
secularization · apostasy · cultural erasure · modernism · rootlessness