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Song for Simkhes Toyre
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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…

Contributor:

Rebecca Tiktiner

Places:

Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)

Date:

Second Half of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Simḥat Torah, Prayer & liturgy, Women, Piety

Categories:

Prayer & Liturgy, Poetry
Seder nashim (Order of Women): On Welcoming the Sabbath
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Near sunset one shall light a Shabbat candle and before saying the blessing it is necessary to say “I am not receiving Shabbat” even if one already lit it, until it is Shabbat. And then…

Contributor:

Meir Benveniste

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

ca. 1565

Subjects:

Holidays, Sabbath, Women, Prayer & liturgy, Piety

Categories:

Prayer & Liturgy
Hymns Written for the Use of Hebrew Congregations. Charleston, Congregation Beth Elohim
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While man explores, with curious eye,  The works of nature and of art, He passeth real wisdom by,  Nor cares to read the human heart. A stranger to…

Contributor:

Penina Moïse

Places:

Charleston, United States of America

Date:

1867

Subjects:

Morality, Prayer & liturgy, Holidays, Passover, Women

Categories:

Prayer & Liturgy