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Come, my beloved, to meet the bride, we’ll greet the Sabbath’s arrival.Observe and remember in a single utterance the singular Lord instructed us; the Lord is One, and One is His Name, for glory, for…
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Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
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Our God is one. You are my God: Hallelujah!
Who created me, body and soul: Hallelujah!
You created Heaven and earth: Hallelujah!
We will praise You forever: Hallelujah!
You…
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Rebecca Tiktiner
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Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)
Prague, Czech Republic
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Second Half of the 16th Century
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Her bitter soul is anguished, because of her ailing wound.
The city one teeming with people is desolate, the Holy City that she had inherited.
For the glorious, sweet land, tears descend like a…
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Netanel Crescas
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Ottoman Empire (Algeria)
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First Half of the 17th Century
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27. On the eve of the Sabbath they light the oven in the home of the beadle, where they bake cakes and roast what is required for the Sabbath. They also boil the pots for the needs of…
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Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
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17th Century
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Human follies, silver and gold and possessions,
Last only shortly on earth, and like flies, they fly away.
Wealth flowers like abundant grain, or like a tree’s boughs,
It bears recognizable fruit…
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Joseph Yedidya Carmi
Places:
Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
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During the days of Shavuot, quite a number of householders, accompanied by their sons, their wives and their infant children, would rise early each morning and walk outside the city, and outside the…
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The Jewish Community of Corfu
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Corfu, Venice (Corfu, Greece)
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ca. 1700
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[ . . . ] Based on the above reasoning, you can see how wrong those people are who fast on the day of the birth of the new moon, as the whole reason for…
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Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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1731/32
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Rosh Hodesh is celebrated only eleven times a year. Tishre, the month Rosh Hodesh coincides with Rosh Hashanah, is omitted. If Rosh Hodesh falls on two days, the ceremony may…
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Arlene Agus
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1976
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“But what is dayenu? What is sufficient for us?” asks the Wise Daughter.
Dayenu
If Eve had been created in the image of God
and not as helper to Adam,
it would have sufficed.
Dayenu.
אִילוּ נוֹצְרַה…
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E. M. Broner, Naomi Nimrod
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Detroit, United States of America
Date:
1993
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The people recite teḥinot [supplications] during the morning prayers on the eve of the Tishah be-Av (Ninth of Av). They then dine before entering into the synagogue for the…
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Judah Leib Kirchheim
Places:
Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1631