The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2710 page)

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Yad F
ima
(symbol/charm of power):
Yad Vashem
(memorial to victims of the
Holocaust
): see
ASIDEI UMMOT HA-‘OLAM
.
Yahad
(Heb., ‘Unity’). A term used in the
Dead Sea Scrolls
to express the unifying spirit of the sect. The members of the group are described as ‘men of the yahad’.
Yahrzeit
(lit., ‘year's time’). The anniversary of a death in Judaism.
Kaddish
is recited, and a twenty-four hour memorial candle is lit.
Yahweh
.
The God of Judaism as the
tetragrammaton
, YHWH,
may
have been pronounced. By Orthodox and many other Jews, God's name is never articulated, least of all in the Jewish liturgy.

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