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Ketubah for Shavuot
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In the Sephardic tradition, a “marriage contract” (ketubah), a symbolic betrothal of God and Israel, is read before the Torah reading on the first day of the holiday of Shavuot

Contributor:

Israel Najara

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)

Date:

Early 17th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Shavuot, Marriage, Ketubot, Allegory, Mysticism, Prayer & liturgy

Categories:

Mystical Texts, Prayer & Liturgy
Page of Aramaic text with illustrations of figure on left side of text holding tablets and figure on right side of text with hat, tents above text, and animals and burning bush below text.
The Love of the Sabbath
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The love of the Sabbath    “Remember and Keep”    Preparing my way    For Intellect and Soul,To greet the bride,    Give joy to the tribes    In mercy draw    And say to my soul,     My thoughts, my…

Contributor:

Shalem Shabazī

Places:

Taiz, Qasimid State (Taiz, Yemen)

Date:

ca. 1679/80

Subjects:

Holidays, Sabbath, Piety, Mysticism, Marriage

Categories:

Liturgical poetry, Poetry