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Ketubah for Shavuot
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In the Sephardic tradition, a “marriage contract” (ketubah), a symbolic betrothal of God and Israel, is read before the Torah reading on the first day of the holiday of Shavuot

Contributor:

Israel Najara

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)

Date:

Early 17th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Shavuot, Marriage, Ketubot, Allegory

Categories:

Magic & Mysticism, Mystical Texts, Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy
Page of Aramaic text with illustrations of figure on left side of text holding tablets and figure on right side of text with hat, tents above text, and animals and burning bush below text.
Tekhine imohos (Women’s Supplication of the Matriarchs)
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Riboyne shel oylem, Almighty God, You created heaven and earth and all creatures with great compassion within six days and with only ten words. And on the seventh day, which is shabes koydesh, You…

Contributor:

Leah Horowitz

Places:

Glogau, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Głogów, Poland)

Date:

Mid–18th Century

Subjects:

Women, Holidays, Sabbath, Rosh Ḥodesh, Piety

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology