Agav (acquiring movables through a valid acquisition in land) agunos (women who cannot remarry; usually because they

are still legally married to their husbands) am haaretz - (an ignorant person; someone who is not careful with respect of terumah, maaser, tumah and taharah) Amoraim (scholars during the time of the Gemora)
androgynous - a hermaphrodite one that has both male and female genitals

apotiki (A person may designate any type of property as security to the creditor without placing it in the possession of the creditor. The creditor has a lien on this property, and if the debt is not otherwise repaid, the creditor can collect his debt from the security. This security is called an apotiki.)
arachin (valuation, where the value assigned by the Torah to the subject of the vow is donated to the Temple)

asham taluy (korban brought when one is unsure if he committed a sin that is subject to a chatas)
asheirah (a tree that was worshipped as avodah zarah)
asmachta (a Scriptural support for a Rabbinical decree)

av melachah - [On Shabbos, one is forbidden from doing labor. We have it by tradition that there are
thirty-nine main categories of work. Each of those head a category of labor that is forbidden. Other types of work that are similar to those are regarded as secondary, or as a sub-category of the father labors. Planting is an example of a labor that is forbidden, and is one of the thirty-nine main categories. Watering a plant would be a secondary labor of planting. R Eliezer maintains that if one plants grain and waters a plant in one spell of unawareness, he is liable for two separate offerings.]

aylonis (a woman incapable of procreating) Baal keri (one who experiences a seminal emission; Ezra decreed that he should not daven or study Torah until he immerses in a mikvah; if he is sick, he may have nine kavim of water poured over him)
bazichin (the spoonfuls of frankincense which were placed on the Shulchan together with the showbreads; when they are removed from the Shulchan and burned on the Altar, the breads are permitted to be eaten by the Kohanim)

bechor (firstborn male of a cow, sheep or goat, which is born with sacrificial sanctity and is brought as a korban)
beis haperas (a field in which a grave had been plowed over; which we rule to be tamei)

bikkurim (the first ripe fruits of any of the seven species with which the Torah praises Eretz Yisroel, which had to be brought to the Beis Hamikdosh in Yerushalayim)
biur i.e. removing (the produce of Shemitah may be kept as long as that produce is still available in the fields for the animals; afterwards, it may no longer remain in the house)

chadash (the new crop of grain, which cannot be eaten until the korban omer is brought on the second day of Pesach)

chalal (a desecrated Kohen; a child born from a union between a Kohen and a woman
who is forbidden to Kohanim; the child becomes disqualified from Kehunah and is only allowed to marry women who are forbidden to Kohanim) chalalah (a Koheness who cohabits with a man that she is prohibited from marrying; she cannot eat terumah and she becomes forbidden from marrying a Kohen)
chalifin (the buyer gives the seller something as a token exchange to settle the

transaction) chalitzah (when a man dies childless, his brother has a mitzvah to perform yibum; if he declines, she submits to chalitzah, i.e. she removes his shoe, spits before him and declares that he does not want to marry her)
challah (a portion of dough which is separated and then given to a Kohen; has halachos like terumah)

chalutzah (a woman who submitted to chalitzah; she is Rabbinically forbidden to a Kohen) chataos hameisos - (there are five such examples: the offspring of a chatas, a chatas of which its owner has died, the temurah of a chatas, a chatas of which its owner has already received atonement for his original chatas got lost, and one that was over a year old)
chaver (someone who accepts to meticulously observe all the halachos of tumah and taharah)

chavitin (a minchah offering brought daily by the Kohen Gadol) chazakah (a proprietary act; one that demonstrates that he owns it, such as plowing the field or locking the gate) chupah (the act where a man takes a woman into his domain for the sake of marriage)

chut hasikra (a red line on the Altar at the point where it was five amos high; this was the dividing line between the two halves of the Altar)
confession of the tithes, viduy maasros (before Pesach on the fourth and seventh years of the shemitah cycle, he must make sure that all tithes from the previous years were given to their proper destination; on the final day of Pesach, he must declare that he has removed all the holy things from his house) Cuthean (converts to Judaism after an outbreak of wild animals in Eretz Yisroel and their conversion was debated as to its validity; they observed some commandments, but not others)

Duchsustis - parchment whose upper hide was removed demai (produce purchased from an am haaretz; since we are uncertain if maaser was separated, one is obligated to separate maaser rishon from it, but he is not required to give it to the Levi because that would be a monetary question (since there are no prohibitions regarding its consumption), and those issues are decided by using the principle of the one attempting to extract payment from the other bears the burden of proof; maaser sheini (in the first, second, fourth and fifth years of the Shemitah cycle) must be separated and eaten in Yerushalayim) dimua (terumah falls into regular chulin produce; the entire mixture becomes forbidden to all non-Kohanim unless there is a ratio of more than one hundred chulin produce to one terumah)
edim zomemin (when witnesses offer testimony and other witnesses refute them claiming that the first set of witnesses could not possible testify regarding the alleged crime since they were together with them at a different location at the precise time that they claimed to witness the crime somewhere else; the Torah teaches us that we believe the second pair in this instance; the first witnesses are called "eidim zomemim" -- "scheming witnesses," and they receive the exact punishment that they endeavored to have meted out to the one they accused) eglah arufah (the law is that upon finding a corpse, and being unable to solve the murder, the leaders of the city closest to the corpse are required to bring a calf to an untilled valley, decapitate it, wash their hands over it, and then they must recite a verse, declaring publicly that they did not kill the person) eruvei chatzeiros (If several houses open into a courtyard, one is Rabbincally forbidden to carry from the house into the courtyard and vice versa, unless they make an eruv. Bread, which is owned by all the residents, is placed in one of the houses. They are now regarded as if they have a common residence and the courtyard is their private domain. They are now allowed to carry from the merged houses into the courtyard and vice versa.)

eruv techumin (one who places a certain amount of food in a place up to 2,000 amos away from his current location; he is then permitted to walk 2,000 amos beyond there because the location of his food is regarded as his residence)

get mekushar - [They began by wring a single line or a number of lines of the essence of the document, and they folded the written part upon the part below and sewed them together. Another line or lines were written, and again the parchment was sewn down, and the procedure was repeated until the last fold. Each such fold was known as a kesher, and that is why it is called a get mekushar. The Gemara explains that the folded document type was ordained by the Rabbis primarily for gittin. They instituted it for the hot-tempered Kohen who might in a fit of anger decide to divorce his wife. Unlike any other Jew, a Kohen may not marry a divorcee, including his own ex-wife. They therefore instituted the folded deed which cannot easily be written quickly in order to allow time for the Kohens temper to cool. As this document type was ordained for divorce, the Rabbis also instituted it for other documents, for bills of indebtedness as well as for bills of sale so that one may choose the folded document, so as not to differentiate between bills of divorce and other documents.]
Gezeirah Shavah (one of the thirteen principles of Biblical hermeneutics; it links two similar words from dissimilar verses in the Torah)
gid hanasheh (sciatic nerve of an animals thigh)

gilgul shevuah (devolving an oath - once we force someone to take one oath, we

can extend this obligation to take another oath even though there is no requirement for the other oath)
Givonim (Gibeonites) (The Givonim pretended to affiliate themselves with Israel in order not to be killed by the Jewish people while they were conquering Eretz Yisroel. They pretended to be from a faraway land, and they convinced Yehoshua to swear that they would not be harmed. Even after the truth was discovered, the Jewish people did not annul the oath.) hagashah (a korban minchah is brought by the Kohen to the southwest corner of the Mizbeach) hakhel (the reading of the Torah by the king after the first day of Sukkos on a year following a Shemitah year) Halachah lMoshe miSinai a law handed to Moshe at Sinai
Hashakah - The immersion here is valid based upon hashakah, which means that any water connected to the mikvah water is regarded as being part of the mikvah.]hefker (a renunciation

of ownership allowing anyone to take the object) hekeish (halachos that are taught regarding one subject apply to another one as well)

ir hanidachas (if most of the city worshipped idols, the city must be completely burnt)
ir hanidachas (a subverted city; one that was condemned to be destroyed by fire on account of a majority of its residents worshipping idols)

iska - An ordinary iska is one where an investor gives goods to a merchant to sell. The arrangement is that all profits and losses will be split evenly between them. Since the merchant is responsible for half of the merchandise, it is regarded as a loan to him. When he pays back the investor for the initial capital and he adds half the profits, it does not constitute ribbis, for it was offset by the risk he accepted on half of the losses. In Mechoza, they estimated what the potential profits would be and wrote half of that amount into the document. The investor is guaranteed this amount (even if the profit is less), but he also waives his rights to any potential higher profits. kablan (a guarantor who accepts full responsibility, even if the debtor does not default) kal vachomer (literally translated as light and heavy, or lenient and stringent; an a fortiori argument; it is one of the thirteen principles of biblical hermeneutics; it employs the following reasoning: if a specific stringency applies in a usually lenient case, it must certainly apply in a more serious case) Katafreis if a liquid from a pool flows down a board on a slope into a pool of liquid which is tamei, the upper pool remains tahor. Kelaf parchment Kelayim (the prohibition against planting together different species of vegetables, fruit or seeds; kilayim of a vineyard is forbidden for all benefit) the proclamation serves as a warning to uproot any shoots of other seeds that appear among the grain kemitzah (the Kohen scoops a portion of flour from the minchah)

kim leih bidrabbah minei (whenever someone is deserving of two punishments, he receives the one which is more severe)
kisuy hadam (with reference to the mitzvah of covering the blood with earth after the slaughtering of a bird or non-domesticated animal) kiyor (the copper water basin located in the Temple Courtyard)

klal uperat - look at Shevuos 4, Nazir 35, Bava Kamma 64

kodashim kalim (sacrifices of a lesser sanctity; they may be eaten anywhere within the city of Yerushalayim) (shelamim, todah, bechor, maaser and pesach) kodshei kodashim (sacrifices of a higher sanctity; they may only be eaten within the Courtyard) (most-holy offerings; such as chatas, asham, olah and communal shelamim)

kofer (redemption money- money paid when a muad ox kills a person)

komeitz (the scoopful of flour from the minchah offering that is burned on the altar) korban olah vyoreid - (certain sins which require a korban chatos, he either brings an animal, bird or flour offering depending on his status - this is called a fluctuating korban)
koy (an animal whose classification is uncertain either its an animal or a beast (chayah))

Labor on Chol Hamoed - There is a dispute among the Rishonim if the prohibition against performing labor on Chol Hamoed (the intermediate days of Pesach and Sukkos) is Biblical (Rashi) or Rabbinic (Tosfos). There are many different categories of labor that is permitted on Chol Hamoed. The first Mishna discusses the permissibility of performing labor on Chol Hamoed when otherwise, the person will suffer a substantial loss. Even in such cases, one cannot perform labor that involves excessive exertion.

leket (one or two ears of grain that fall from ones hand while harvesting must be left for the poor) linah (when the meat or sacrificial parts of an offering are left past their time)
maamer (when a yavam betroths his yevamah; it is regarded as a Rabbinical kiddushin) maaser ani (a tenth of ones produce that he gives to the poor in the third and sixth years of the Shemitah cycle) maaser beheimah (a person, every year, must tithe all newborn offspring from his animals; every tenth animal is offered as a korban)

maaser rishon (a tenth of ones produce that is given to the Levite)

maaser sheini (a tenth of ones produce that he brings to Yerushalayim and eats there in the first, second, fourth and fifth years of the Shemitah cycle; it can also be redeemed with money and the money is brought up to Yerushalayim, where he purchases animals for korbanos) mamzer or mamzeres (product of forbidden relations upon punishment of death or kares)

Mashkeh tofeiach a moist trough has two pools of liquid on opposite sides; one of them tamei and one of them tahor. Although the trough is damp enough that it can moisten anything that touches it, the tamei pool does not contaminate the tahor one. mechusar kippurim (one who was tamei, but has immersed himself in a mikvah, and has waited until nightfall; he is just lacking atonement until he brings his offerings the next day) meilah (one who has unintentionally benefited from hekdesh or removed it from the ownership of the Beis Hamikdosh has committed the transgression of meilah, and as a penalty, he would be required to pay the value of the object plus an additional fifth of the value; he also brings a korban asham)

melikah (the Kohen slaughters the bird by piercing the back of the birds neck with
his thumbnail) metzora (a person with a certain skin disease which makes him tamei; in order to become pure, he is required to bring two birds one is slaughtered and the other is set free)

migu (believe me what I am saying, for if I would want to lie, I could have said a better lie)
miun (A girl whose father had died could be given in marriage while still a minor (under the age of twelve) by her mother or older brother. This marriage is only valid Rabbinically. As long as she has not attained the age of twelve, she may nullify the marriage by refusing to live with her husband. This act of refusal, referred to as miun nullifies the marriage retroactively.) mu'ad (an ox that gored already at least three times) Nasin or Nesinah (descendants of the Gibeonites; people who fooled Yehoshua into allowing them to convert; Dovid HaMelech prohibited them from marrying into the congregation) nazir (one who must abstain from wine and contact with dead people in a way where one becomes impure) neta revai (the fruit that grows from a tree in its fourth year; it must be brought to be eaten in Yerushalayim, or it can be redeemed and the money used in Yerushalayim to buy food) neveilah (carcass of an animal that was not slaughtered properly) Nichsei melog - (usufruct property - the property which the woman brings in with her from her father's house, and which is not recorded in the kesuvah, as well as property

which comes to her by inheritance or as a gift after the marriage; this property is hers, and her husband is not responsible for it, since he may only usufruct (the right to use and enjoy the profits and advantages of something belonging to another as long as the property is not damaged or altered in any way) it; the term nikhsei melog is derived from the Aramaic word meligah, plucking, i.e., the husband plucks the property just as a chicken is plucked) Nichsei tzon barzel - (ironclad property) -- the property which the wife brings in to her husband in the dowry, and which the husband records in the kesuvah. The husband makes use of this property as he wishes, its profits or losses are his, and he is responsible for it. Hence the name, "ironclad property": the principal remains as does iron, for if it is lost, the husband is required to pay.

nirva (an animal on which an act of bestiality has been performed)

Nitzok if one pours liquid from a tahor vessel into a tamei one and the flow of the liquid is uninterrupted between them, it is not regarded as a connection to make the upper vessel tamei. nossar (sacrificial meat that has been leftover beyond the time that the Torah designated for its consumption) oleilos (a small, underdeveloped cluster of grapes)
omer (a minchah made of fine barley flour offered on the sixteenth day of Nissan, which permitted the eating of the new crop of grain)

onaah - If a person makes a profit equaling one-sixth of the total value of the item that he is selling, without the purchaser's knowledge, the transaction is valid, but the seller must return the profit to the purchaser. If the profit is less than one-sixth, he does not need to return it. If the profit is more than one-sixth, the sale is invalid even if the profit is returned.

Onein (one whose close relative passed away and has not been buried yet) orlah (the fruit that grows from a tree; the first three years of its life, they are forbidden for all benefit) peah (a corner of the field is left over for the poor)
peras (a half a loaf of bread approximately the volume of four eggs; the time is somewhere between three and nine minutes depending on various views in the Rishonim)

peret (one or two grapes that fall off from the cluster during the cutting, which must be left for the poor)

Pesuchos opened the first words from the new paragraph would begin on a new line piggul (a korban whose avodah was done with the intention that it would be eaten after its designated time)

pruzbul (after shemitah all debts are cancelled unless the lender wrote a pruzbul; a document which transfers all of ones personal loans to the Beis Din, and their debts are not cancelled after shemitah) ribuy umiut look at Shevuos 4, Nazir 35, Bava Kamma 64 rovea (an animal which has performed an act of bestiality)
saris (a male who cannot mature sexually) sedeh achuzah - A sedeh achuzah, an ancestral field is one that has been in his family since the original division of Eretz Yisroel in the times of Yehoshua. If he consecrates such a field, he has the right to redeem it before Yovel. If he chooses not to, it may be sold to anyone, and the field is returned to hekdesh by the next Yovel. They, in turn, give the field to the Kohanim, and it then becomes their sedeh achuzah.
semichah (the owner places his hands on the head of the sacrificial animal before it is slaughtered and leans on it with all his weight)
Setumos closed the last words from a paragraph end on the beginning of a line; there is then a gap of empty space and then the first words from the new paragraph would begin on the end of that line

Shatnez a garment which has a mixture of wool and linen; it is forbidden to wear it shechiv mera - dying man (whose verbal assignment is valid and requires no deed or formal acquisition, for the Rabbis were concerned that otherwise, his anxiety would speed up his death) sheratzim (the Torah enumerates eight creeping creatures whose carcasses transmit tumah through contact) shichchah (one or two bundles that are mistakenly left behind during the gathering of the bundles are left for the poor)
shissin (a deep hollow located under the southwest corner of the Altar, into which the water and wine libations flowed)

Shomeres yom kneged yom (This is the law during these days: If she saw blood only one day, she must observe one day in cleanness, corresponding to the day of uncleanness, i.e., she immerses on the day following the day of uncleanness, and if she does not see blood on this day, then she is clean in the evening.)

Sirtut scored lines; a horizontal etching on every single line tam (an ox that did not yet gore three times) techeiles (blue wool that is dyed with the secretion of the chilazon (type of fish); used for tzitzis) temurah (the owner illegally attempts to exchange a different animal with the original korban; the halachah is that the temurah animal gets the same sanctity as the original one, and both animals must be brought as a korban) tenufah (some korbanos were waved by the owner together with the Kohen)
tereifah (an animal with a physical defect that will cause its death; it is forbidden to be

eaten even if it was slaughtered properly) tereifos (animals with physical defects that will cause their deaths; they are forbidden to be eaten even if they were slaughtered properly)
Terumah the separation of a certain amount of produce which is then given to a Kohen

The separation of the ash, which was the first service performed in the Temple every morning; they would separate ash from the maarachah the pyre on which all offerings were burned. This would be placed on the floor of the Courtyard near the Altar. The remaining ashes were gathered and piled into a mound in the middle of the Altar. These would eventually be removed and taken out to the place of ashes, outside Yerushalayim.
Terumas hadeshen -

terumas maaser (the Levite takes one tenth of his maaser received, and gives it to the Kohen; it has the sanctity of terumah)

tevel (untithed produce)

tevul yom (one who was tamei, but has immersed himself in a mikvah; he is considered a tevul yom until nightfall) Thirty-nine melochos + hasraah - There are thirty-nine main categories of labor that are forbidden on Shabbos and in order for one to be liable to receive a punishment for intentionally performing a prohibited labor on Shabbos; he must receive a legal warning prior to performing the act not to perform this specific labor. tumas ohel (if the tumah source and a person or object is under the same roof) tumas tehom (a tumah of the deep; a tumah source, that in all likelihood, nobody knew about it)

midras tumah (if a zav or a niddah rest their weight on something, it contracts tumah)
tumtum where a thick membrane covers its genitals, and therefore the gender is not known

tzad hashavah (the common characteristic of two or more halachos) tzaraas (a group of skin conditions, for which the Torah decrees tumah; the person is regarded as an av hatumah) There are times when it was unclear if the person was

indeed inflicted with tzaraas. He was then kept in isolation for one or two weeks until the Kohen could decide if he was a metzora or tahor. Once the tzaraas goes away, the metzora gets sprinkled from the blood of a bird together with water. Afterwards, he is required to have all the hair on his body shaved with a razor. He then immerses in a mikvah, counts seven days, and on the seventh day shaves again and immerses himself in a mikvah. On the next day, he brings the special korbanos and becomes tahor. The Mishna mentioned two cases of a metzora. When the Mishna said, the days that a metzora is counting, that is referring to the seven days which are in between his two shavings. When the Mishna said, the days that he is closeted, that is referring to the time after the Kohen declared that he was a metzora until the tzaraas went away.
tzeis hakochavim (the moment in time where three medium-size stars appear in the sky)

tzon barzel iron sheep (this is an investment arrangement, where an investor provides a commodity to a recipient, at an appraised monetary value; at the end of the term of the loan, the recipient must repay the appraised value of the commodity, as well as half of any profits; since the original appraised value must be paid back, this arrangement is called iron sheep metaphorically stating that their value is immutable like that of iron) Urim VTumim (names of Hashem written and inserted in the breastplate of the High Priest) viduy maasros , confession of the tithes (before Pesach on the fourth and seventh years of the shemitah cycle, he must make sure that all tithes from the previous years were given to their proper destination; on the final day of Pesach, he must declare that he has removed all the holy things from his house) yiush (the abandonment by the owner of the hope of recovery) yoledes - [A woman who gives birth to a girl is temeiah for the next fourteen days. After she immerses in a mikvah, any bleeding, for the next sixty-six days does not make her tamei. A woman who gives birth to a boy is temeiah for the next seven days. After she immerses in a mikvah, any bleeding, for the next thirty-three days does not make her tamei.]

Yovel (the 50 year after seven cycles of Shemittah years it is the year that on Yom free and ancestral fields are returned to their owners)

th

Kippur, slaves go

Zaken Mamrei (a rebellious sage who issues halachic rulings opposite those of the Sanhedrin even though Sanhedrin has told him he is wrong)

zav (a man who has an emission similar but not identical to a seminal discharge) zav of two emissions (who is classified as an av hatumah and must observe seven clean days and then he immerses himself in spring water)
A zav is a man who has an emission similar but not identical to a seminal discharge; he is tamei and he transmits tumah only through contact. He immerses in a mikvah on the same day and he is tahor by nightfall. If he experiences two emissions, he is classified as an av hatumah; he transmits tumah through contact and by being carried. He must observe seven clean days and then he immerses in spring water.

zavah (a woman who sees blood during the eleven days which followed her seven days of niddah; if she sees for three days in a row, she is a major zavah and she must count seven clean days and becomes tahor after immersing in a mikvah; if she sees for less than three days, she is ruled to be a minor zavah and she observes one day of cleanliness and then she is tahor)
zomemin (when witnesses offer testimony and other witnesses refute them claiming that the first set of witnesses could not possible testify regarding the alleged crime since they were together with them at a different location at the precise time that they claimed to witness the crime somewhere else; the Torah teaches us that we believe the second pair in this instance; the first witnesses are called "eidim zomemim" -- "scheming witnesses," and they receive the exact punishment that they endeavored to have meted out to the one they accused)

chilazon - (the sea creature which produces the techeiles dye) tzitzis - (four-cornered garment with fringes hanging from each corner) minchah (meal offering) nesachim (libations for the altar)
chavitin (daily minchah offering of the Kohen Gadol) log a measurement of oil used for a minchah offering tamid daily offering; one lamb is offered in the morning and one in the afternoon isaron an amount of flour used in a minchah offering
Terumah the separation of a certain amount of produce which is then given to a Kohen

komeitz - the scoopful tumah spiritual contamination tahor ritually pure tamei ritually impure

machavas (the loaves are hard, for they were fried on a shallow, flat griddle, and the fire burns off the oil) marcheshes (the loaves are soft, for they are fried in a deep pan, and the fire doesnt burn off the oil) simanim pipes (the trachea and the esophagus) tzaraas - a group of skin conditions, for which the Torah decrees tumah; the person is regarded as an av hatumah shechin- inflammation michveh - burn Gris size of a bean Shechitah - slaughtering