HEKDESH Free hospital.
KABBALAH A mystical religious philosophy, much studied by the Chassidîm.
KADDISH Sanctification; a doxology. Specifically, the doxology recited by a child in memory of its parents during the first eleven months after their death, and thereafter on every anniversary of the day of their death.
KEDUSHAH Sanctification; an important part of the public service in the synagogue.
KISSUSH Sanctification; the ceremony ushering in the Sabbath or a holiday.
KLÄUS (Ger.). House of study; lit., hermitage.
KOHOL The community; transferred to the heads of the community.
KOPEK (Russian). Small Russian coin, the hundredth part of a ruble.
KOSHER Ritually permitted.
LÀMED-WÒFNIK. One of the thirty-six hidden saints, whose merits are said to sustain the world. Làmed is thirty; wòf is six; and nik is a Slavic termination expressing "of the kind."