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However, face veils are known historically to have been worn by Jewish women. Marc B. Shapiro has written that there are some traditional sources which describe and praise the custom of modest Jewish women covering their faces, [53] including the Babylonian Talmud, [54] [55] Jerusalem Talmud, [56] Mishnah, [57] and Mishneh Torah. [58]
Writing in vaybertaytsh from the first page of the Konstanzer Chumash, the first Yiddish translation of the Chumash (c. 1544). Unlike Yiddish block or square print (the script used in modern Hebrew, with the addition of special characters and diacritics), vaybertaytsh is a semi-cursive script, akin to the "Rashi" script.
Judaism, under Halakhah (Jewish Law), promotes modest dress among women and men. Many married Orthodox Jewish women wear a headscarf (mitpahat or tichel), snood, turban, shpitzel or a wig to cover their hair. The Tallit is commonly worn by Jewish men, especially for prayers, which they use to cover their heads in order to recite the blessings ...
In North American and other diaspora Jewish communities, the use of "shiksa" reflects more social complexities than merely being a mild insult to non-Jewish women. A woman can only be a shiksa if she is perceived as such by Jewish people, usually Jewish men, making the term difficult to define; the Los Angeles Review of Books suggested there ...
Woman of the Haredi burqa sect in Mea Shearim, a Jewish neighbourhood in Jerusalem, 2012 The " Haredi burqa sect " ( Hebrew : נשות השָאלִים Neshót haShalím , lit. ' shawl-wearing women ' ) is a community of Haredi Jews that ordains the full covering of a woman's entire body and face, including her eyes, for the preservation of ...
Yiddish Used as a greeting for the holidays. [2] Often spelled Gut Yontif or Gut Yontiff in English transliteration. Gut'n Mo'ed: גוטן מועד: Good ḥol hamoed [ˈɡutn̩ ˈmɔjɛd] Yiddish As above (as a greeting during the chol ha-moed (intermediate days) of the Passover and Sukkot holidays), but Yiddish/English L'shanah tovah or Shana ...
A Book of Jewish Women’s Prayers : Translations from the Yiddish / Selected and with Commentary by Norman Tarnor (1995) ISBN 1-56821-298-4; Kay, Devra. Seyder Tkhines : the Forgotten Book of Common Prayer for Jewish Women / Translated and Edited, with Commentary by Devra Kay. (2004) ISBN 0-8276-0773-3
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 ...