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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
A Supplication for the Day of Atonement
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For Yom Kippur, with the help of God, may He be praised. Another supplication [teḥinah]. I have founded it as the former ones, have established it, and upheld it. I the young one, Meir, son of our…

Contributor:

Meir de Boton

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1565

Subjects:

Holidays, Yom Kippur, Prayer & liturgy, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Prayer & Liturgy
Turkish Music in the Synagogue: Objections of a Rabbi
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The sinyor Rav h"r Shaul had a strong aversion to the Turkish language to the extent that he would excommunicate anyone singing Turkish songs. Not only Turkish songs, but even a Jewish liturgical…

Contributor:

Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Palestine (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1881–1890

Subjects:

Adolescence, Holidays, Synagogue, Prayer & liturgy, Muslim-Jewish relations, Politics

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand accounts