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Ḥavvot Yair (The Villages of Yair): On Ceremonial Objects

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Question: A woman pledged, when she lay ill, to give her disukia, which is embroidered with gilt silver thread, to be made into a ceremonial object for the synagogue. The disukia is what is called in…

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Yair Ḥayim Bacharach

Places:

Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)

Date:

1699

Subjects:

Ritual objects, Dress, Synagogue, Holidays, Rabbis, Law, Responsa

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Law, Responsa

Hanukkah Lamp

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This brass Hanukkah lamp is thought to have been used in the First Mill Street Synagogue of Congregation Shearith Israel, which opened in New York in 1730 and was located on present-day South William…

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Artist Unknown

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New York City, British America and the British West Indies (New York, United States of America)

Date:

1730

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Ritual objects, Hanukkah, Ritual & observance, Holidays, Synagogue

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Ritual Objects, Decorative arts

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