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Baladi-rite Temani Jews had it as a custom to read the scroll after the haftarah reading on Shabbat Hanukkah. [18] The Hebrew text with an English translation can be found in the Ha-Siddur Ha-Shalem of Philip Birnbaum, published in 1949 and still in widespread use in English-speaking Orthodox and Conservative synagogues. [19]
The Talmud, after recounting the story of the miracle of the cruse of oil, continues, "The following year these [days] were appointed a Festival with [the recital of] Hallel (Jewish praise, recited on all festivals) and thanksgiving." [1] Since then, the festival of Hanukkah has been celebrated each year, beginning on the 25th of Kislev. During ...
Hanukkah is coming! The "Festival of Lights" dates back to 164 BCE after the Temple in Jerusalem was rededicated by the Maccabees. They were a group of Jews leading a rebellion against Antiochus ...
The Hanukkah story. According to Jewish tradition, after the winning back Jerusalem, they found that the Temple had been destroyed. They began to clean it up and wanted to light the menorah (a ...
Hanukkah’s purifying of the temple from idolatrous worship would, for most Jews, preclude any embrace of Christian claims about a trinity, a divine God-Man, and the abrogation in such a person ...
Carey A. Moore argued that the Greek text of Judith was a translation from a Hebrew original, and used many examples of conjectured translation errors, Hebraic idioms, and Hebraic syntax. [6] The extant Hebrew manuscripts are very late and only date back to the Middle Ages. The two surviving Hebrew manuscripts of Judith are translated from the ...
Because Hanukkah and Christmas fall around the same time of year, people often wonder if Hanukkah is a Jewish version of Christmas. At least religiously speaking, it is not. Whereas Christmas ...
Nusach primarily means "text" or "version", the correct wording of a religious text or liturgy. Thus, the nusach tefillah is the text of the prayers, either generally or in a particular community. In common use, nusach has come to signify the entire liturgical tradition of the community, including the musical rendition.