Rikudl (LKT)
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Romancero
Collection or corpus of romances (romanzas), which are narrative poems with a well defined textual and musical structure in a unidirectional order of verses.
Romanza - Romance
A unique genre in the Sephardic Jews musical tradition. A narrative poem, a ballad, originated in Medieval Spain. As a literally form, the text consists of an indefinite number of 16 syllables lines or verses, each one divided by a cesura into two isometric hemistiches of 8 syllables. The rhyme of…
Sarvers-tants (LKT)
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Seliha-Selihot
The word Seliha (plural- Selihot) means forgiveness in Hebrew.
In the singular form Seliha means a piyut of pleading for forgiveness for one's sins that appears in various prayers and services. The Seliha does not have a fixed form, and the themes that it deals with, are not exclusive to it.…
Semele (LKT)
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Semene (LKT)
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Shabos-tants (LKT)
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Shaharit
Morning prayer, the equivalent of the morning obligatory offering at the Temple. Its main part is comprised of Amidah (18 benedictions recited silently and later repeated by precentor) and Shema and its blessings, all preceded by a section of hymns, mainly Psalms and verses theirof. On Shabbat,…
Sheli'akh Tzibbur
lit. representative of the congregation. An insiders' name for any prayer leader or cantor leading the public throughout the liturgical service in the synagogue.
Shemele (LKT)
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Shemene (LKT)
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