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- TachanunTachanun (Supplication) is a prayer unit containing confessions of sins and petitions for God’s grace and mercy that is recited immediately after the reader’s repetition of the Amidah in the morning and afternoon prayer services on weekdays.
- tachrichimBurial garments, from the Hebrew word “to enwrap.”
- taharahThe ritual to prepare a body for burial. This name is also used for the "spiritual purification" pouring of water during the ritual. From the Hebrew root meaning to purify.
- tahorPure; spiritually bounded, integrated, wholely of itself.
- tallitJewish prayer shawl.
- tameiSpiritually vulnerable, diffuse, open. Sometimes used to mean "impure".
- tefilahPrayer, prayer service. Plural is tefilot.
- tikun olamA spiritual mandate to heal the world. Jewish practices include this value as a foundational basis for action in the world.
- treyfSomething inappropriate, not genuine, or not legitimate. Usually meaning not allowed by Jewish law.
- tzitzitFringes on a Jewish prayer shawl. These are tied in a specific way to include 613 knots representing the 613 mitzvot (commandments).
- Tzror ha HayyimThe bundle of life / the bond of life; often seen on grave markers and used in prayers at the gravesite.