cheder
/ˈxɛdə
/(also heder)
noun (plural chedarim /xɛˈdɑːrɪm/, cheders)
A school for Jewish children in which Hebrew and religious knowledge are taught.Religious education was once taught in a heder, an eastern European elementary school for boys....
- Klausner was born near Vilna in 1874 and began his education in a traditional Jewish heder, or schoolhouse.
- I remember this; when I was about nine or ten, and fervent into my Jewish education (I used to go to extra cheder (Hebrew school) on Tuesday, just because I wanted to), I took Yom Kippur very seriously.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Hebrew ḥeḏer 'room'.
- get (or be) even
- get (or be given) a guernsey
- get (or be given) the gate
- get (or be) in on the act
- get (or be or go) beyond a joke
- get (or be) shot of
- get (or be) spliced
- get (or catch) it in the neck
- get (or give someone) a fair shake
- get (or give someone) ideas
- get (or give someone) the hook
- get (or give someone) the push (or shove)
- get (or go) back to nature
- get (or go) nowhere
- get (or have) a load on
- get (or have) one's ducks in a row
- get (or have) one's end away
- get (or have) one's (own) way
- get (or have or give someone) the hump
- get (or have) someone by the short and curlies (or short hairs)
- get (or have) the goods on
- get (or have) the jump on someone
- get (or have) the worst of it
- get (or keep) one's eye in
- get (or keep) one's hand in