cheder
Americannoun
noun
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(in Western countries) elementary religious education classes, usually outside normal school hours
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more traditionally, a full-time elementary religious school
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informal a place of corrective instruction; prison
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of cheder
literally: room
Example Sentences
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Kecel had no yeshiva, so Menahem gained an elementary knowledge of Hebrew and Jewish law and ritual at a cheder, a Jewish primary school.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2022
One of twelve brothers & sisters, he went to school in the one-room village cheder, where the rabbi's goat stumbled about among the drying wash and tumbling babies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of the Talmud he knew very little, having preferred to play with his gentile friends to wasting his hours in the cheder.
From Rabbi and Priest A Story by Goldsmith, Milton
When I had gone with her to the cheder nebilin, when I had used my sepet-ram to save life, she had perceived in me feelings and impulses to which all her own nature responded.
From A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by De Mille, James
Why is it that when I come from "cheder," and do not find Busie I cannot eat?
From Jewish Children by Berman, Hannah
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