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Juspa Schammes [a] (Hebrew: יוזפא שמש; February 14, 1604 in Fulda – February 5, 1678 in Worms) was a chronicler of the Jewish community of Worms, Germany, synagogue caretaker (shammes), and a writer.
Gabbai in Biała Podlaska (Poland, 1926). A gabbai (Hebrew: גבאי), sometimes spelled gabay, also known as shamash (שמש, sometimes transcribed shamas) or warden (UK, similar to churchwarden), is a beadle or sexton, a person who assists in the running of synagogue services in some way.
This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).
The menorah differs from other candelabras because it includes an extra candle, called the shammes or shammash, used to light the other eight candles. According to Chabad, a Jewish organization ...
The menorah differs from other candelabras because it includes an extra candle, called the shammes or shammash, used to light the other eight candles. According to Chabad, the menorah lighting ...
Shammes or Gabbai, a term for the sexton or caretaker of a synagogue Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Shamus .
Anton Shammas was one of six children born to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother, who moved to Fassuta in the north of the British Palestine in 1937 to teach at the local girls' school.
Yuzpa Shammes, was a scribe and gabbai (warden of a synagogue) of the Worms community for several decades. His accounts intend to show that the Jews were not idle because they took action in order to prevent themselves from inevitably becoming scapegoats.