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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
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, Theology

Categories:

Theology
Second Haman
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[In the royal palace. In the background stands the throne; on it sits the royal couple. To the left of the throne stand Klemens and the ladies of the court; to the right Count Lubecki and the…

Contributor:

Shomer (Nokhem Meir Shaykevitch)

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1896

Subjects:

Holidays, Purim, Antisemitism, Jewish identity, Performing arts

Categories:

Theater/Drama
Seder mitsvot ha-nashim (The Order of Women’s Commandments): On the Sabbath Eve
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Every woman is obligated to kindle lights on the eve of each Sabbath and Festival and this is a great mitzvah. And she makes the blessing, “Blessed are You God, our Lord, King of the universe. Who has…

Contributor:

Benjamin Slonik

Places:

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland)

Date:

1577

Subjects:

Women, Holidays, Sabbath, Ritual & observance, Sin, Theology

Categories:

Theology
Yontev-bletlekh: “Why Is This Night Different (Ma nishtanah)?”
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Passover is coming soon and I ask you to invite me to the seder. Let me in!I won’t cost you very much. I don’t eat kneydlekh! Don’t serve me maror, the bitter herbs—I was born with them!Do not ask me…

Contributor:

David Pinski, Y. L. Peretz

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1895

Subjects:

Holidays, Haggadah, Modernity, Passover, Jewish identity, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture