Definitions
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- noun An elementary
school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our sense of personal past is necessarily impoverished if we see only the partially-accurate picture of the boys in cheder, men in Yeshivas, holy mystics, and bearded businessmen, philosophers, and doctors.
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April 10th, 2009 11: 15am stanley Jerusalem - sorry about my punctuation it was learned in a tyre repair shop next to the cheder, unt der rebbe nisht sprechen da lingo.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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In fact, many of the faculty had been brought up in homes rich in Eastern European Jewish culture: they knew Yiddish, ate the traditional East European foods, and went to "cheder."
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In fact, many of the faculty had been brought up in homes rich in Eastern European Jewish culture: they knew Yiddish, ate the traditional East European foods, and went to "cheder."
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Shall he waste his precious years helping his father teach _cheder_?
Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith
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Talmud he knew very little, having preferred to play with his gentile friends to wasting his hours in the _cheder_.
Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith
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True, the greater portion of the Jews of Kief still held tenaciously to their prejudices, absolutely refusing to learn anything not taught at the _cheder_.
Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith
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"We were fond of each other as children, when he first began his lessons at _cheder_," replied the girl, earnestly; "but it was only recently that he declared his love."
Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith
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How happy, how joyful, had this season been, when, after the termination of the Bible studies at the _cheder_, their father had taken them for a long walk through the fields and in his own crude way had spoken of the beauties of Nature and of the wisdom and beneficence of the Creator.
Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith
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At the age of five, the Jewish lad was sent to _cheder_ and his young years devoted to the study of the Bible.
Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith
azd commented on the word cheder
var. of heder
February 23, 2007
MottHaven commented on the word cheder
Definition:Comes A traditional Jewish religous school for boys.
Yiddish word, comes from Hebrew cheder which means room.
rhymes with Raider
CH is guttural as in Bach anx Loch
October 10, 2009