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Book of Prayer of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation, London (5 vols.): Oxford (Oxford University Press, Vivian Ridler), 5725 - 1965 (Hebrew and English; since reprinted) Book of Prayer: According to the Custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, David de Sola Pool: New York, Union of Sephardic Congregations, 1941, 1954, 1979 (Hebrew ...
Megillat Taanit (Hebrew: מגילת תענית, romanized: məḡillaṯ taʿaniṯ), lit. "the Scroll of Fasting," is an ancient text, in the form of a chronicle, which enumerates 35 eventful days on which Jews either performed glorious deeds or witnessed joyful events.
The minor fasts are mentioned in the Book of Zechariah as fasts in memory of the destruction of the First Temple. Zechariah 7 mentions the fasts in the fifth and seventh months, [10] and Zechariah 8 mentions four dates: "the fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth". [11]
Saint Augustine's Prayer Book defines "Fasting, usually meaning not more than a light breakfast, one full meal, and one half meal, on the forty days of Lent." [15] Abstinence, according to Saint Augustine's Prayer Book, "means to refrain from some particular type of food or drink. One traditional expression of abstinence is to avoid meat on ...
Along with fasting, obligatory prayer is one of the greatest obligations of a Baháʼí, [2] and the purpose of the obligatory prayer is to foster the development of humility and devotion. The obligation of daily obligatory prayer was prescribed by Baháʼu'lláh , the founder of the Baháʼí Faith , in his book of laws, the Kitáb-i-Aqdas .
Cultural appropriation is a welcome characteristic in Jewish culture and is commonly used in the 'Blue Book'. Two examples are: Va’anachnu is arranged to no. 19 – “Open the Heavens…” from the oratorio Elijah; and Hodo Al Eretz which is based on Hear my Prayer/O for the wings of a Dove (Psalm 55) by Felix Mendelssohn. DMD chose to ...
Only in 1955 did the church set up the Liturgical Commission and ten years later the Church Assembly passed the Prayer Book (Alternative and Other Services) Measure 1965. A series of books followed, most becoming authorised for use in 1966 or 1967: the Series 1 (formally "Alternative Services Series 1") communion book scarcely differed from the 1928 book (as was the case with its wedding service).
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