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Counting the Omer
Tithing property
Washing hands after a meal
According to New York Times columnist William Safire, the Yiddish beigel was shortened and anglicised to bagel around 1932.
Tinok shenishbah means a small child who was kidnapped by non-Jews.
In the Bible, de'ah means knowledge.
Etnachta is one of the biblical cantillation symbols first developed in talmudic times and codified by the 10th century.
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