GLOSSAKY AND NOTES 595
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. SEDEB (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 Nebuchad- nezzar. 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. SHOFAB (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. SHOMEB. Pseudonym of a Yiddish author, Nahum M.
Schaikewitz.
SHOOL (Ger., Schul'). Synagogue. SHULCHAN ABUCH (Heb.). The Jewish code. SILENT PRAYEB. 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.
