Pronunciations
| kedusha | (keh-DOO-shuh) | listen |
Definitions
n. Holiness, sanctity.
n. A responsive prayer sung by the shaliach tzibbur and congregation as part of the Amidah in a minyan.
Example Sentences
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"That's why this custom of a heykhe kdushe developed in the first place - so that people pressed for time and therefore unable to wait for a full-length chazaras ha-shatz could at least khap arayn the Kedushah with the chazzan before finishing the rest of the Shemoneh Esreh on their own."
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"When you meet one of these great rabbis, you feel an aura of kedusha about them." (Glinert)
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"Don't leave the tallit [prayer shawl] on the floor—it has kedusha!" (Glinert)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
Etymology
TH קדושה kedusha > Y קדושה kedushe
- Religious: Jews who are engaged in religious observance and have some Jewish education
- North America
- Great Britain
- South Africa
- Australia / New Zealand
- View More
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Yinglish: A Lexicon of Judeo-English by Aliza Bulow
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Alternative Spellings
kedushah, qedusha, k'dusha, Kedushah, Kedusha, kedushe
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