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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
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
As on this month’s last day
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As on this month’s last day, the moon is waning, make my sins wane, O Lord, my merits flourish. I know my heart is hard— a wicked web whose threads are sin— and I deserve the fire for weaving wrong…

Contributor:

Leone Modena

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

17th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Rosh Ḥodesh, Prayer & liturgy, Sin, Piety, Poetry

Categories:

Popular Poetry, Prayer & Liturgy