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Bergstein's grandfather, Ya’akov Bergstein, was the Nagid of the Jewish community in his town. She had six siblings: David, Isaac, Effie, Haya Dirnal, Hannah Broner, and Rivka. [1] At the start of World War I in 1914, the Bergstein family fled to Vienna, Austria. Bergstein's parents emigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1938. [1]
Shavuot is harvest time (Exodus 23:16), and the events of Book of Ruth occur at harvest time. [54] Because Shavuot is traditionally cited as the day of the giving of the Torah, the entry of the entire Jewish people into the covenant of the Torah is a major theme of the day.
The dance was created in 1937 for a festival to celebrate the discovery of water in the desert after a seven-year search. The choreographer was Else I. Dublon. [1] The dance is sometimes known as "Ushavtem Mayim", after the first words of the lyrics, or simply just "Mayim", but "Mayim Mayim" is the original and most common name.
The Horah is a Jewish circle dance typically danced to the music of Hava Nagila. It is traditionally danced at Jewish weddings and other joyous occasions in the Jewish community. [ 5 ] The popularity of Horah in Israel is attributed by some to the Romanian Jewish dancer Baruch Agadati .
The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Three Pilgrim Festivals, sometimes known in English by their Hebrew name Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, romanized: šāloš rəgālīm, or חַגִּים, ḥaggīm), are three major festivals in Judaism—two in spring; Passover, 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentecost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles', 'tents ...
Many more modern dances incorporate folk-inspired dance moves into their dances. [4] Today, there are groups in Israel whose jobs are to preserve the Israeli folk dance as a manifestation of pan-Jewish cultural heritage. About 100,00 people dance on a regular basis at least once a week and an additional 100,000 dance several times a year. [4]
Religious Jewish Music in the 20th century has spanned the gamut from Shlomo Carlebach's nigunim to Debbie Friedman's Jewish feminist folk, to the many sounds of Daniel Ben Shalom. Velvel Pasternak has spent much of the late 20th century acting as a preservationist and committing what had been a strongly oral tradition to paper.
The name "Tikkun Leil Shavuot" comes from the Zohar book, where the Aramaic word "tikkun" appears, which in Hebrew means "adornment". The idea is that the people who recite the "tikkun" are the groomsmen who adorn the bride-the Torah, during the night, in preparation for her entering the wedding canopy the next morning, at the time of the reading of the Ten Commandments.