NISSAN (Heb.). Spring month (March-April), in which Passover is celebrated. OLENU (Heb.). The concluding prayer in the synagogue service. OLOM HA-SHEKER (Heb.). "The world of falsehood," this world. OLOM HA-TOHU (Heb.). World of chaos. OLOM HO-EMESS (Heb.). "The world of truth," the world-to-come. PARNOSSEH (Heb.). Means of livelihood; business; sustenance. PIYYUTIM (Heb.). Liturgical poems for festivals and Holy Days recited in the synagogue. PORUSH (Heb.). Recluse. PRAYER OF THE HIGHWAY. Prayer on setting out on a journey. PRAYER-SCARF. _See_ TALLIS. PUD (Russ.). Forty pounds. PURIM (Heb.). The Feast of Esther. RASHI (RASHI). Hebrew initial letters of Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, a great commentator; applied to a certain form of script and type. RAV (Heb.). Rabbi. REBBE. Sometimes used for Rabbi; sometimes equivalent to Mr.; sometimes applied to the Tzaddik of the Chassidim; and sometimes used as the title of a teacher of young children. REBBETZIN. Wife of a Rabbi. ROSH-YESHIVEH (Rosh ha-Yeshiveh) (Heb.). Headmaster of a Talmudic Academy. SCAPE-FOWLS (trl. of Kapporos). Roosters or hens used in a ceremony on the Eve of the Day of Atonement. SEDER (Heb.). Home service on the first two Passover evenings. SELICHES (Heb.). Penitential prayers. SEVENTEENTH OF TAMMUZ. Fast in commemoration of the first breach made in the walls of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar. SHALOM (Heb. in Sefardic pronunciation). Peace. _See_ SHOLOM ALECHEM. SHAMASH (Heb.). Beadle. SHECHINAH (Heb.). The Divine Presence. SHEGETZ (Heb.). "Abomination;" a sinner; a rascal. SHLIMM-MAZEL (Ger. and Heb.). Bad luck; luckless fellow. SHMOOREH-MATZES (Heb.). Unleavened bread specially guarded and watched from the harvesting of the wheat to the baking and storing. SHOCHET (Heb.). Ritual slaughterer. SHOFAR (Heb.). Ram's horn, sounded on New Year's Day and the Day of Atonement. _See_ Lev. xxiii. 24. SHOLOM (SHALOM) ALECHEM (Heb.). "Peace unto you"; greeting, salutation, especially to one newly arrived after a journey. SHOMER. Pseudonym of a Yiddish author, Nahum M. Schaikewitz. SHOOL (Ger., Schul'). Synagogue. SHULCHAN ARUCH (Heb.). The Jewish code. SILENT PRAYER. _See_ EIGHTEEN BENEDICTIONS. SOLEMN DAYS. The ten days from New Year to the Day of Atonement inclusive. SOUL-LIGHTS. Candles lighted in memory of the dead. STUFFED MONKEYS. Pastry filled with chopped fruit and spices. TALLIS (popular plural formation, Tallesim) (Heb.). The prayer-scarf. TALLIS-KOTON (Heb.). _See_ FOUR-CORNERS. TALMID-CHOCHEM (Heb.). Sage; scholar. TALMUD TORAH (Heb.). Free communal school. TANO (Heb.). A Rabbi cited in the Mishnah as an authority. TARARAM. Noise; tumult; ado. TATE, TATISHE (Ger. and Russ. dimin.). Father. TEFILLIN-SAeCKLECH (Heb. and Ger.). Phylacteries bag. TISHO-B'OV (Heb.). Ninth of Ab, day of mourning and fasting to commemorate the destruction of Jerusalem; hence, colloquially, a sad day.