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The reason that the Sages of Israel enacted that the seven blessings of the prayer be abridged and recited aloud by the precentor (Heb. shaliach tzibbur) is explained by Rashi in Babylonian Talmud (Shabbat 24b) as being because of an assumed danger (סכנה ), namely, in order to delay a little those leaving the synagogue, so that those who arrived late may hear the blessings and leave ...
The "standing [prayer]", also known as the Shemoneh Esreh ("The Eighteen"), consisting of 19 strophes on weekdays and seven on Sabbath days and 9 on Rosh haShana Mussaf. It is the essential component of Jewish services , and is the only service that the Talmud calls prayer .
Seder is a transliteration of the Hebrew סדר, which means 'order' or 'procedure'. The name also expresses the conduct of the meal, all the dishes, the blessings, the prayers, the stories and the songs, written in the Haggadah, a book that determines the order of Passover and tells the story of the Exodus from Egypt.
The story of Passover is told in the Book of Exodus in the Torah—the body of Jewish religious teachings. According to the Hebrew Bible, God instructed Moses to take his people (the Israelites ...
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This year, Passover begins on April 22, so we’ve compiled a list of 59 Happy Passover greetings and wishes (some in Hebrew) that'll help make this holiday extra sweet!
The old Yemenite Jewish custom regarding the Sheva Brachot is recorded in Rabbi Yihya Saleh's (Maharitz) Responsa. [11] The custom that was prevalent in Sana'a before the Exile of Mawza was to say the Sheva Brachot for the bridegroom and bride on a Friday morning, following the couple's wedding the day before, even though she had not slept in the house of her newly wedded husband.
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