• SabbathShabbat in Hebrew, a day of rest on the seventh day beginning at sundown every Friday.
  • SederHebrew word for “order” or “arrangement,” but also referring to the meal and ceremony on the first and second nights of Passover.
  • Hebrew word for “order” or “arrangement,” but also referring to the meal and ceremony on the first and second nights of Passover.
  • ShavuotHebrew for “weeks.” Denotes the Feast of Pentecost, or the Feast of Weeks, celebrating when God gave Moses the first five books of the Old Testament on Mount Sinai.
  • ShemaHebrew word for “hear.” First word of the daily Jewish prayer that says, “Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.” (See Deuteronomy 6:4.)
  • SukkotHebrew word, plural for “booth” or “hut.” Signifies the Feast ofTabernacles, celebrated for seven days after Yom Kippur. A reminder of when Israel lived in the wilderness in makeshift tents, and later worshipped in a portable tabernacle, a forerunner to a permanent temple.