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D'ror Yikra ( Hebrew: דְּרוֹר יִקְרָא ; also spelled Dror Yikra, Deror Yikra and Dror Yiqra) is a piyyut (Jewish religious song or hymn), of the kind known as zemer, traditionally sung during Sabbath meals, particularly the first meal on Friday evening. [1] [2]
יִשָּׂשכָר. Issachar ( Hebrew: יִשָּׂשכָר, Modern: Yīssaḵar, Tiberian: Yīśśāḵār, "There is reward") [2] [3] [4] was, according to the Book of Genesis, the fifth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah (Jacob's ninth son), and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Issachar. However, some Biblical scholars view this as an ...
Ahinoam. Template:Usde dmy dates Ahinoam ( Hebrew: אֲחִינֹעַם ʾăḥīnōʿam) is a Hebrew name literally meaning brother of pleasantness, or my brother is pleasant, thus meaning pleasant . There are two references in the Bible to people; who bear that name;
Former Sons of Abraham Synagogue at 23 Coral Street. Most of the charter members of Shaarai Torah had left Congregation Sons of Abraham, Worcester's second-oldest synagogue, because they felt it did not meet the needs of the younger generation. One of the major issues was the use of English in the synagogue.
Psalm 84 is the 84th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in the English of the King James Version: "How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!". The Book of Psalms forms part of the Ketuvim section of the Hebrew Bible [1] and part of the Christian Old Testament. In the slightly different numbering system of the Greek Septuagint ...
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero. Cordovero's grave in Safed. Moses ben Jacob Cordovero ( Hebrew: משה קורדובירו Moshe Kordovero ; 1522–1570) was a central figure in the historical development of Kabbalah, leader of a mystical school in 16th-century Safed, Ottoman Syria. He is known by the acronym the Ramak ( Hebrew: רמ״ק ).
Congregation Beth Israel (Hebrew: בית ישראל) is an egalitarian Conservative synagogue and congregation located at 15 Jamesbury Drive in Worcester, Massachusetts, in the United States. Founded in 1924 as an Orthodox synagogue, the congregation formally affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism in 1949, [6] and ...
The Mi Shebeirach for olim (those called to the Torah) was for a time the central part of the Torah service for less educated European Jews. Since the late medieval period, Jews have used a Mi Shebeirach as a prayer of healing. In the 1800s, Reform Jews abolished this practice when their concept of healing shifted to one based in science.