Seder
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Seder is a Hebrew word meaning "order" or "sequence", and can have any of the following meanings:
For Jewish holidays
In the Hebrew Bible
Relating to Talmudic texts
In Jewish liturgy
In Jewish mysticism
For Jewish holidays
- Passover SederPassover SederThe Passover Seder is a Jewish ritual feast that marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. It is conducted on the evenings of the 14th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar, and on the 15th by traditionally observant Jews living outside Israel. This corresponds to late March or April in...
, a ritualized dinner observed during Passover - A seder for the minor Jewish holiday of Tu BishvatTu BishvatTu Bishvat or Tu B'Shevat is a minor Jewish holiday, occurring on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat . It is also called "The New Year of the Trees" or...
, modeled on the Passover Seder
In the Hebrew Bible
- A portion of a biblical bookSeder (Bible)A seder is part of a biblical book in the masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible.The division of the Torah into roughly 150 sedarim is related to the Babylonian Jewish tradition of a triennial cycle for Torah reading....
in the masoretic text of the TanakhTanakhThe Tanakh is a name used in Judaism for the canon of the Hebrew Bible. The Tanakh is also known as the Masoretic Text or the Miqra. The name is an acronym formed from the initial Hebrew letters of the Masoretic Text's three traditional subdivisions: The Torah , Nevi'im and Ketuvim —hence...
; this quantitative division is related to the triennial cycle for reading the TorahTorah readingTorah reading is a Jewish religious ritual that involves the public reading of a set of passages from a Torah scroll. The term often refers to the entire ceremony of removing the Torah scroll from the ark, chanting the appropriate excerpt with special cantillation, and returning the scroll to...
. - A colloquial term for the weekly Torah portion in the annual cycle of reading the Torah (in this context often pronounced sidra).
Relating to Talmudic texts
- One of the six orders (major sections) of the MishnahMishnahThe Mishnah or Mishna is the first major written redaction of the Jewish oral traditions called the "Oral Torah". It is also the first major work of Rabbinic Judaism. It was redacted c...
- A study session in a daily yeshivaYeshivaYeshiva is a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and Torah study. Study is usually done through daily shiurim and in study pairs called chavrutas...
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In Jewish liturgy
- An order of prayers that constitutes a liturgyJewish servicesJewish prayer are the prayer recitations that form part of the observance of Judaism. These prayers, often with instructions and commentary, are found in the siddur, the traditional Jewish prayer book....
In Jewish mysticism
- Seder hishtalshelusSeder hishtalshelusSeder hishtalshelus means the "order of development" or "order of evolution", where the word Hishtalshelus is derived from the reduplicated quadriliteral root ŠLŠL "to chain", and so literally means "the chain-like process"...
, a concept in kabbalah about the nature of God