Rosh-Yeshiveh (Rosh ha-Yeshiveh) (Heb.). Headmaster of a Talmudic Academy.
Scape-fowls (trl. of Kapporos). Roosters or hens used in a ceremony on the Eve of the Day of Atonement.
Seder (Heb.). Home service on the first two Passover evenings.
Seliches (Heb.). Penitential prayers.
Seventeenth of Tammuz. Fast in commemoration of the first breach made in the walls of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.
Shalom (Heb. in Sefardic pronunciation). Peace. See Sholom Alechem.
Shamash (Heb.). Beadle.
Shechinah (Heb.). The Divine Presence.
Shegetz (Heb.). "Abomination;" a sinner; a rascal.
Shlimm-Mazel (Ger. and Heb.). Bad luck; luckless fellow.