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Tikun li-kro’ laylah va-yom (A Tikkun to Read Day and Night)
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The frontispiece of this book of penitential prayers published in Amsterdam, Tikun li-kro’ laylah va-yom (A Tikkun to Read Day and Night) has a three-tiered illustration. The top level depicts Moses…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1666

Subjects:

Print, Prayer, Shavuot, Hoshana Rabbah, Messianism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Prayer & Liturgy, Print & Book Culture
Print of man holding up tablets on mountain before crowd of people on top of page, people around long table in the middle of the page, Hebrew title in center, and people sitting around round table on the bottom of page.
In Lighthearted Praise of the Holy Law in the Foundation of the Synagogue
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The Law has such a great house—oh, look what suitors she does have!Who can doubt they are illustrious,Since on such a grand house they call?Even the judges of the peoplehave engaged in wooing her,show…

Contributor:

Daniel Levi de Barrios

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1683

Subjects:

Theology, Synagogue, Justice system, Piety, Religious fundamentalism

Categories:

Literature, Popular Poetry, Prayer & Liturgy
Tekhine (Women’s Supplication): For a Pregnant Woman
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Lord of the world, my God, I humbly beg You, with a broken heart, And with my weak body, To confirm my baby in Torah, As a person of honor and riches.…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1648

Subjects:

Women, Parenthood, Blessings & curses, Prayer, Children

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy