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In this table, giving the notation for chanting the Torah, the musical notes indicate the melody of each cantillation mark, while the Hebrew words below them indicate the name and shape of the mark.
The people recite teḥinot [supplications] during the morning prayers on the eve of the Tishah be-Av (Ninth of Av). They then dine before entering into the synagogue for the…
The princes of the peoples gathered together [see Psalms 47:10] to restore the crown to its former glory and to pray in the great synagogue before sunrise, as was done previously and in past times…
Inasmuch as the members of the mahamad [board of governors] consider it a vile practice among us today for youngsters to strike with…
“I’m called the offspring of the grape,” said the wine. “People drink me fervently, and I’m very fine. I can make people joke and jibe, I can drive away their terrible pains, I can delight their…
In Jewish tradition, the end of the Sabbath (or a festival) is marked by the ceremony of Havdalah, which includes the ritual smelling of spices (besomim). Many Jewish cultures approached the box…
Paper cuts were a distinctive Jewish folk art in Eastern Europe, where rural Poles and Ukrainians also practiced the craft. Jewish paper cuts had their own techniques and imagery and were used for…
By the window I lit a taper
A Hanukkah candle, gentle child.
Many are the memories
And the memories are brilliant.
A regiment of riders, mighty men,
If they appear before you,
Do not fear, gentle…
The only essential difference between Catholicism and Protestantism is that the second permits free inquiry to a far greater degree than the first. Of course, Catholicism by the very fact that it is…
This silver Torah pointer from Yemen is inscribed in Hebrew: “[The teaching of the Lord is perfect, renewing life; the decrees of the Lord are enduring, making the simple wise;] the precepts of the…
