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Jew vs Chametz - What's the difference?

jew | chametz |

As nouns the difference between jew and chametz

is that jew is an adherent of Judaism while chametz is food made from leavened grain flour. The Torah states that Jews are not permitted to eat or drink it during the festival of Pesach (Passover), nor own it or even be seen with it, but must remove it from their houses and land at the beginning of the festival.

As a verb Jew

is alternative case form of jew.

jew

English

(Jew)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An adherent of Judaism.
  • I don't have a religion, but my sister is a Jew and my brother is a Wiccan.
  • A person who claims a cultural or ancestral connection to the Jewish people (see secular Jew).
  • * William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (Act III, scene I)
  • Hath not a Jew' eyes? Hath not a ' Jew hands, organs
    dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
    the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
    to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
    warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer
    as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
    If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,
    do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

    Usage notes

    * The Jewish community overall has a common religion, culture, identity, and ethnicity, but individual Jews do not necessarily share all of these; therefore, a person might be a Jew by one standpoint but not by another. * Additionally, there are some religious groups that identify themselves as part of Judaism, but that other Jewish groups might not; hence, use of the term Jew often depends on the speaker's opinions. * The noun Jew'' is not offensive, and the overwhelming majority of English-speaking Jews use the noun ''Jew to identify themselves. * That said, it has become offensive for historical reasons to use the word Jew'' attributively, in modifying another noun (as in "Jew lawyer"); the adjective ''Jewish is preferred for this purpose. * Additionally, the derived verbs jew'' and ''jew down are considered offensive, as they reflect stereotypes considered offensive.

    Hypernyms

    * religionist, Abrahamist. theist, creationist

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Synonyms

    * Jewess (qualifier) * Hebrew (dated) * Yahudi (quranic) * Israelite (dated) * kike (derogatory) * Moses (qualifier) * yid (derogatory) * heeb (derogatory) * sheeny (derogatory) * hymie (derogatory)

    Hyponyms

    *halakhist

    Derived terms

    * Wandering Jew * Jewhatred * Jewsrael *ex-Jew

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (offensive) (jew)
  • chametz

    Alternative forms

    * chamets, chometz, hamets, hametz

    Noun

  • Food made from leavened grain flour. The Torah states that Jews are not permitted to eat or drink it during the festival of Pesach (Passover), nor own it or even be seen with it, but must remove it from their houses and land at the beginning of the festival.
  • * c.1998:' Rabbi Y D Webster, ''The Halachos of Pesach [http://web.archive.org/web/20000817182731/http://users.aol.com/rabbiyd/bedika.html#_1_2]'' - Any flour of the five species of grain (wheat, spelt, oats, barley and rye) ... which becomes mixed with water and allowed to ferment for more than eighteen minutes before being baked is considered ' chometz .
  • * a.2006:' Rabbi Lawrence Rigal, ''Jewish Customs and Practices: Pesach (Passover) [http://web.archive.org/web/20020201220213/http://www.rigal.freeserve.co.uk/jewish/passover/pesach.htm]'' - All ' chamets found is carefully bundled up and taken outside and burnt.
  • * a.2006:' London Borough of Barnet, UK, ''Street Cleaning Programme: Special Services [http://www.barnet.gov.uk/street-cleaning-programme#specialservices]'' - Every year we provide skips for the Jewish community to dispose of ' chometz (Passover waste).
  • * 2006', ''The Press, Barnet and Whetstone edition 6 April 2006'' - The [Barnet council] skips are to be used only to dispose of ' chometz and will be clearly marked.
  • Arrogance, pride, artifice (this usage is based on a disputed translation of the Hebrew source word)
  • * 2000 , Rabbi Zeitlin, Congregation Beth Ha'ari, Pesach 2000: Chametz [http://www.congregationbethhaari.org/hzchametz2000.htm] - The real chametz we want to eliminate is that within our personalities and actions.
  • References

    * The sources of the Rabbinical quotations above, accessed on 7 April 2006 English terms derived from Hebrew