bechina
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n. Examination, particularly for rabbinic ordination.
Example Sentences
"I only have one more bekhine before finishing smicha."
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
Etymology
בחינה
- Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)
- North America
- Great Britain
- Yiddish and English: A Century of Yiddish in America, by Sol Steinmetz (Tuscaloosa, 1986).
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Alternative Spellings
b'china, behina, bekhina, bekhine
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