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Barukh she'amar (Hebrew: בָּרוּךְ שֶׁאָמַר, romanized: bāruḵ šeʾāmar, lit. 'Blessed is He who said' or other variant English spellings), is the opening blessing to pesukei dezimra, a recitation in the morning prayer in Rabbinic Judaism. As with many texts in Judaism, it takes its name from the opening words of the prayer.
When the snake-charmer released a number of his venomous snakes upon the ground, they perished after crossing the first and the second lines; when more venomous snakes were released, they died after crossing the fifth and the sixth lines. The snake-charmer then set loose his most venomous snake, called Saṃkhapāla.
There is a clear resemblance between the riff and the French song Colin prend sa hotte (published by Christophe Ballard in 1719), whose first five notes are identical. Colin prend sa hotte appears to derive from the lost Kradoudja, an Algerian folk song of the 17th century.
The Tz'enah Ur'enah (Hebrew: צְאֶנָה וּרְאֶינָה Ṣʼenā urʼenā "Go forth and see"; Yiddish pronunciation: [ˌʦɛnəˈʁɛnə]; Hebrew pronunciation: [ʦeˈʔena uʁˈʔena]), also spelt Tsene-rene and Tseno Ureno, sometimes called the Women's Bible, is a Yiddish-language prose work whose structure parallels the weekly Torah portions and Haftarahs used in Jewish prayer ...
Snake charmer in Jaipur (India) in 2007 Snake charming is the practice of appearing to hypnotize a snake (often a cobra ) by playing and waving around an instrument called a pungi . A typical performance may also include handling the snakes or performing other seemingly dangerous acts, as well as other street performance staples, like juggling ...
Praised is the Sovereign God, Sovereign of all the world, who hallows the House of Israel and the Day of Remembrance." Shehecheyanu The Shehecheyanu is a prayer that Jews say to mark special ...
HaAderet v'HaEmunah (Hebrew: האדרת והאמונה, 'The Glory and the Faith'), commonly referred to as LeChai Olamim (Hebrew: לחי עולמים), is a piyyut, or Jewish liturgical poem, sung or recited during Shacharit of Yom Kippur in virtually all Ashkenazic communities, and on Shabbat mornings in Chassidic communities.
This single paragraph contains an acrostic in which each of 22 consecutive words begin with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, covering all 22 letters in order. On Shabbat (and holidays as well in the Sephardic tradition), a longer version of the blessing is recited, with the same beginning followed by the paragraph Hakol yodukha .