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Kiddush cups are used for the ritual blessing over wine. This one, partially made of gold, was crafted in Nuremberg, Germany, and was used in a synagogue in Lublin, Poland. The engraved plant and…
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Michael Müllner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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This silver kiddush cup is believed to have belonged to Judah Loew. Known as the Maharal of Prague, Judah Loew ben Bezalel spent twenty years as rabbi in Moravia, moving in 1573 to the Bohemian…
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1600
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An eruv (or eruv ḥatserot, merger of domains) is a symbolic expansion of an area outside a single home into a larger private domain. Within that eruv, certain activities prohibited in the public…
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Artist Unknown
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Central Europe)
Date:
18th Century