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Page with Hebrew text of illustrations of men in turbans on either side of the text; cherub, vines, and birds at top of page; and six men in prayer shawls walking to building at bottom of page.

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Psalms

Biblical Period

Two-panel drawing, the top of many people in interior room, some seated on right side under canopy, and the bottom of many people outside with a central figure with veil.

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Early Modern Religious Practices

1500–1750

Bronze bull figurine.

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Other Biblical Prayers

Biblical Period

Page of printed Hebrew text with word set in decorated border on top.

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Jewish Printing and Book Culture, 1500–1750

1500–1750

Drawing of kneeling figure with hands raised to shoulder height.

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Ancient Israelite Prayer

Biblical Period

Stone seal with two bearded men with their hands raised flanking an altar or pedestal with crescents above and below their hands, and Hebrew inscription at bottom.

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Seal of Shelomit, with Two Men Flanking an Altar

Iron Age IIB–IIC, Mid-8th–Mid-7th Century BCE

Coin with image of an ear with pronounced lobe.

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Coin with Ear

Persian Period, 4th Century BCE

Page with Hebrew title surrounded by wreath and two cherubs, above middle section with two columns with small pictures and Hebrew text in center, and Hebrew line at bottom of page.

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Cover of Kol tefila ve-kol zimra

David Franco Mendes

1792

Prayer shawl woven with bands of vibrant colors.

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B’nai Or Prayer Shawl

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

1956–1966

Six vertical tapestries woven in patterns in similar shades.

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Six Prayers

Annelise Albers

1965–1966

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The Meaning of Repentance

Abraham Joshua Heschel

1936

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The Vengeance of the Fathers

Yitsḥak Shami

1928