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== Vah Tah Mas: and death

== Vah Yeek Tzof: Anger

== Vayikra: Leviticus, the third book of the Torah

== Yarden: The Jordan River that Kal Yisroel crossed into Har Canaan

== Yartzeit: The anniversary of the day of death for parents or other relatives..

== Vav: The sixth letter of the Aleph Bais. Meaning: hook peg or nail, Gematria of six.

== Yericho: the city that Joshua and Kal Yisroel marched around for seven days then the walls came smashing into the ground.

== Yeshiva: Religious Jewish School for boys, young men and men

== Yeshiva Bocher: An unmarried young man attending a Jewish religious school

== Yetzer Rah: Evil inclination

=== Yetzer Tov: Good inclination

== Ye Shabbos: He {meaning Hashem} rested {from His creating}

== Yisroel: Nation of Israel

== Yid: Yiddish for Jew

== Yidden: Yiddish for Jewish

== Yiddishkeit: Yiddish for Jewish

== Yitzkor: Prayer in memory of the dead

== Yom Tov: Jewish Holy Day

== Yosief: The eleventh son of Yaakov

== Yom Kippur: Day of Atonement, the most holy day of the Jewish year. This is a day of total fasting and prayer.

== Yud: Tenth letter of the Aleph Bais. Gematria of ten.

== Zaftik: Pleasantly plump

== Zayde: Grandfather

== Zayin: The seventh letter of the Aleph Bais, the Gematria is seven.

== Zero'a: A shankbone from a kosher animal, nowadays a chicken, used for the Pesach Seder Plate.

== Zimri: A prince of Yisroel who was killed by Pinchas when he deliberately violated the Torah of Hashem by cohabitating with Cosbi and publicly flaunting their relationship.

== Ya'akov: Jacob the third patriarch, son of Yitzchok, grandson of Avraham

== Yechidah: the innermost of the five levels of the soul

== Yef Rawch: Blossom

== Yenta: A female gossip.

== Yerushalmi, Nedarim: A book in the Jerusalem Talmaud

== Yeshiva: Torah academy for advanced students

== Yeshiva Bocher: Am unmarried young man studying in Yeshiva

== Yesod; lit., foundation: the sixth of the seven Divine middos, or attributes, and of their corresponding mortal middos, or spiritual emotions

== Yetzirah, the World of; lit., `the World of Formation'): the third (in descending order) of the Four * Worlds

== Yiddishkeit; lit., `Jewishness'; Yid.): the Torah way of life

== Yisroel: Israel

== Yitzchak: Issaic the second patriarch, son of Avraham, father of Yaakov

== Yetzer Rah; Bad inclination

== Yetzer Tov Good; inclination

== Yom-Tov: festival

== Yom-Tov Sheni shel Galuyos: one of the days which only in the Diaspora is appended to each of the three Pilgrim Festivals

== Yud: tenth letter of the Aleph / Bais

== Yud-Beis and Yud-Gimmel Tammuz; `the twelfth and thirteenth of [the month of] Tammuz'): chassidic festival marking the anniversary of the release of the Rebbe Rayatz from incarceration and exile in Stalinist Russia in 1927

== Yud-Tes Kislev; `the nineteenth of [the month of] Kislev'): chassidic festival celebrating the liberation of the Alter Rebbe from capital sentence and imprisonment in Petersburg (1798), after having been slandered to the czarist authorities by his opponents

== Zaavan.: Son of Eitzer, brother of Akan and Bilhan see Genesis 36:27

== Zaw Cha: Arrogant, haughty, proud

== Zaw Kayn: Elder

== Zayde: Grandfather in Yiddish also an older man...

== Zayin: Seventh letter of the Aleph Bais, Gematria value of seven, meaning adorn or Arm..

== Zeyde: See Zayde

== Zero'a: A shank bone from a kosher animal now days a chicken

== Zeyde: See Zayde

== Zi Kay Nim: Elders

== Zohar; lit., `radiance'): classical work embodying the mystical teachings of the * Kabbalah

 
 
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