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If thrones have been seated in heaven: For Rosh Hashanah
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This poem expresses the idea that since today is the day when seats are set up [for judgment], since the Jewish people has declared the New Month, therefore we need to run to God and prostrate…

Contributor:

Joseph Yedidya Carmi

Places:

Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)

Date:

1626

Subjects:

Holidays, Rosh Hashanah, Prayer & liturgy, Mysticism, Poetry, Theology

Categories:

Theology, Liturgical poetry
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.