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Definition of cheder in English: cheder(also heder) nounPlural chedarim, Plural chedersˈxɛdəˈKHedər A school for Jewish children in which Hebrew and religious knowledge are taught. Example sentencesExamples - Klausner was born near Vilna in 1874 and began his education in a traditional Jewish heder, or schoolhouse.
- Back then, I was pretty good in cheder, so the Jews of our community thought they would do a wonderful thing and collect enough money to send me to a yeshiva to become a rabbi.
- Like those around him, my father went to cheder, spoke Yiddish, and led a religious life.
- 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.
- Religious education was once taught in a heder, an eastern European elementary school for boys.
- The consecration of the building in Brighton Road also provided a new home for a cheder, or school where Sutton's children could learn Hebrew.
- My father tells me that when he was in heder in Brooklyn, he showed the rabbi a book with pictures of dinosaurs, which the rabbi promptly declared a ‘goyishe bubbemiseh’ (gentile old wives' tale).
Origin Late 19th century: from Hebrew ḥeḏer 'room'. Definition of cheder in US English: cheder(also heder) nounˈKHedər A school for Jewish children in which Hebrew and religious knowledge are taught. Example sentencesExamples - Like those around him, my father went to cheder, spoke Yiddish, and led a religious life.
- The consecration of the building in Brighton Road also provided a new home for a cheder, or school where Sutton's children could learn Hebrew.
- Klausner was born near Vilna in 1874 and began his education in a traditional Jewish heder, or schoolhouse.
- My father tells me that when he was in heder in Brooklyn, he showed the rabbi a book with pictures of dinosaurs, which the rabbi promptly declared a ‘goyishe bubbemiseh’ (gentile old wives' tale).
- 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.
- Religious education was once taught in a heder, an eastern European elementary school for boys.
- Back then, I was pretty good in cheder, so the Jews of our community thought they would do a wonderful thing and collect enough money to send me to a yeshiva to become a rabbi.
Origin Late 19th century: from Hebrew ḥeḏer ‘room’. |