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Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis

… inspiring and expressing a state of religious spirituality” (2000, 14). The present analysis seeks to …

Marlena Fuerstman

… Marlena Fuerstman served as spiritual leader of Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation and is a …

… is manifested in the songs' themes, such as the internal spiritual world of the individual and one's relationship with … is part of the extensive series of Yemenite Jewish wedding rituals, whose number and length varies according to … between these two ceremonies the bride is led to the mikve (ritual bath) or a local stream by her mother, sisters and …

Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections

… rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine and spiritual leader of what became the National Religious … God.” [46] This challenge to Hatikvah by the undisputed spiritual leader of the National Religious Movement shows how … the red rather than blue and white flag) in its celebratory rituals during the peak of its power in the 1930s. The …

Karev Yom

… for the Passover Seder, the festive meal accompanied by the ritual reading of the Haggadah. It is the last stanza of the …

The Jerusalem-Sephardic Tradition

… accompanies prayer, the Friday night baqqashot song ritual, and all of the Sephardic and Eastern Jewish …

Tvile

… two generations previously, the bride had been led to the ritual pool accompanied by klemzorim. In the period which we … and after the marriage ceremony, the bride performed the ritual ablutions of nidah tevilah (purification of the …