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The seven days of Sukkot start tomorrow. Sukkot is one of the three Jewish festivals on which the ancient Israelites were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.
This beautiful folio-sized machzor (prayerbook) for Sukkot according to the Provençal rite of Avignon, was written by the scribe David Tsoref in 1721. 1/
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Sukkot begins at sunset on 16 October. Here a panel includes a depiction of a sukkah.
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BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.295r @BL_HebrewMSS
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"You and I are Earth," 1661. The plate, discovered in a London sewer, is made of tin-glazed earthenware. It is now part of the Museum of London's collection.
The plate dates back to the mid-17th century, a time when London was recovering from events like the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666, which devastated large parts of the city.
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Sukkot begins at sunset on 16 October: here's depicted a sukkah and a man holding a lulav branch and an etrog.
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BL Or 5024; Pisḳe R. Yeshayah Aḥaron (Halakhic decisions of Isaiah of Trani, the younger); 1374 CE; Italy N; f.70v @BLAsia_Africa @BL_HebrewMSS
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Hauntingly beautiful rendering of the entire Machzor into Yiddish, 1465. Some 400 pages!
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Science is stranger science fiction:
Image of the Sun.
Taken at night.
Not looking up at sky but down through 8000 miles of the Earth to the other side.
Not with light but with neutrinos
Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig's words about Tisha Be'Av and Mental Health pierced me. This is what Rabbinic Leadership looks like: empathy and courage and clarity of conviction, close and careful read of our sacred texts for the sake of strength and holiness.
.@aharonium of @opensiddur made a terrific presentation at Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA) -- Aharon sleuthed out the earliest rabbi prayers in Congress, which aren't in the Congressional Record. See his research & findings: youtube.com/watch?v=7hY0MhAA…
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I went on a bit of a treasure hunt searching for prayers of rabbinic guest chaplains missing from the Congressional Record before 1904. Here's my presentation of initial findings at the American Jewish Archives this past Wednesday: youtube.com/watch?v=7hY0MhAA…
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I'm so sorry to hear about this loss. Ilana was an absolute force for Hebrew manuscripts and worked tirelessly to make the @BL_HebrewMSS collection available on so many levels. יהי זכרה ברוך
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Division of the Red Sea:
'They [the waters] were divided into many paths equal to the number of the tribes, as the appearance of a rounded bow'.
BL Add 14763; Miscellany of philosophical works including by Maimonides; 13th c; Italy (Viterbo); f.135r @BL_HebrewMSS
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On this Flag Day, I pray again — as I did in the Senate 21 years ago — that our pledge of allegiance to that flag becomes a prayer — and we live up to to the promise and vision of the Constitution for which it stands.
Mega credit to @aharonium for discovering & sharing for 1st time full text of Rabbi Dr. Abraham de Sola, Congregation Shearith Israel of Montreal, Canada prayer in the House, Jan. 9, 1872.
One paragraph in the prayer directly references the Alabama Claims opensiddur.org/prayers/colle…
Mega credit to @aharonium for discovering & sharing for 1st time full text Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes 4-24-1888 Senate prayer:
"nations to stand before Thee
may this people say
that the world work of the United States
was to make the world united nations"
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Mizrach - papier découpé
par Shalom fils de Chaim Halevi Horowitz -
Angleterre, 1891
Dédicace et prière pour la reine d'Angleterre et le prince héritier Édouard VII.
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British Library announces that it is aiming to restore access to digitised manuscripts by September 2024: blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge…
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דער נײער קאָלאסוס | The New Collosus, a paean to the Shekhinah/”Mother of Exiles” by Emma Lazarus (1883, Yiddish translation by Rachel Kirsch Holtman 1938) opensiddur.org/prayers/civic…
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A Proclamation on Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, 2024 | The White House. We must remember. We must learn lessons. The Nazi concept of “ life unworthy of life” begins with the thought that anyone’s life is less worthy/holy than mine. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
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