besamim

"Modern Israeli slang for illegal drugs" (JPS).

Spices

"Literally, 'spices.' It almost always refers to the spices in the spice box used for the Havdalah ceremony" (JPS).

boydem

attic

Kahal

(the people of) a Jewish community

Synagogue, shul, congregation

khurbn

"Destruction of the Temple" (Glinert)

Destruction, generally

the Holocaust