chad gadya

The name of a song sung at the end of the Passover seder.

chumrah

a religious stringency

duchen

A ritual where the kohanim recite the Priestly Blessing (Num. 6:24-26), blessing the rest of the congregation.

gemara

"A compilation of 300 years of rabbis' legal and ethical commentaries on the Mishnah...together, the Gemara and the Mishnah comprise the Talmud." (JPS)

get

a writ or deed of divorce

girsa d'yankuta

That which was learned as a young child.

halevai

"Would that it be so" (Steinmetz, Yiddish and English)

I wish!

If only

ipcha mistabra

"the opposite is more reasonable"; "you have it backwards"

kallah

bride

Jewish communal gathering, conference

sidra

weekly Torah portion

tenai

"A condition of circumstance upon which a certain effect is predicated: Stipulation" (Weiser).

(pl. form tenaim only, used as sg.) "The original prenuptial contract, the tenaim dates from the 12th century. It is the detailed dowry and other financial arrangements, the date of the wedding, and the penalty if anyone backed out. Some traditional and Hasidic Jews still prepare a tenaim and read it aloud at an engagement party or sign it before the wedding ceremony, at the same time the ketubbah is signed" (JPS).

A condition, especially one made as part of an agreement.

(pl. form tenaim only, used as sg) "A traditional name for an engagement party" (JPS)