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The flowers selected are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, and gathering them together created a direct connection between the actual Land of Israel and descriptions of it in Scripture.
May 15, 2015 · It was surrounded by a court, called the Temple Court or azarah in Hebrew. In front of the Temple stood the Altar, the Laver (Basin) and the pillars and tables that were used in the preparation of sacrifices.
- Introduction
- Collections of Genizah Documents
- History of Genizah Discoveries
- Liturgy and Poetry
- Historical Discoveries
- Genizah Research, 1960s–1980s
- Bibliography
The 1896 discovery of the Cairo Genizahwas one of the greatest Jewish treasures ever found. It has provided the world with the some of the most important documents of the medieval Middle East. The term genizah is a word shortened from the rabbinical Hebrew phrase bet genizah. Its counterpart in late biblical Hebrew is genez (pl. genazim, ginzei) wh...
The largest and most usable collection of the Ben-Ezra synagogue's Genizah manuscripts is at University Library, Cambridge, where the individual fragments were set, at the beginning, either under glass or in bound volumes, or, in the case of some thousands, were placed loosely in large shelve-boxes. Holdings are dispersed: Cambridge University Libr...
Knowledge of the existence of the Cairo Genizah spread slowly to the West. The first traveler who appears to have been there in modern times was Simon van Geldern, a grand-uncle of Heinrich Heine, who in 1752 visited Egypt and recorded in his diary that he had been to the synagogue of Elijah and made a search through the Genizah, situated within it...
The poetic literature of the Genizah was especially prominent and its discoveries enabled new understanding of the history of Jewish worship as well as of the diversity of Jewish literature in the late Byzantine and Muslim periods. A new field of research emerged which is credited to the discoveries of Cairo genizot – the study of the Ereẓ-Israeli ...
In 1915, Jacob Mann began to search through the British collections. During 1915–20 he studied the fragmentary documents of the Genizah, gathering data for a history of the Egyptian and Palestinian Jews from the 10th to the 12thcenturies. There were extant remnants of the copies of letters of the Jewish community of Cairo-Fustat, once one of the le...
The following survey reviews in more detail some of the specific work that has been done from the 1960s to the 1980s in fields of scholarship which rely extensively on *Genizah sources. Only books and monographs have been taken into account, since the inclusion of periodical publications would have swelled the survey beyond permissible bounds. A co...
DOCUMENTS: S.D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, Vols. I (1967), II (1971), and III (1978); idem, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders (1973); M.A. Michael, The Archive of Nahray ben Nissim, Businessman and Community Leader in Egypt in the 11th Century (Hebrew), Ph.D. thesis, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1967); N.A. Stillman, East-West Relations in...
Jan 6, 2021 · Masterpieces of Hebrew literature : a treasury of 2000 years of Jewish creativity : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Sep 14, 2021 · In keeping with other Jewish legends that envision souls as bird-like (derived from the Biblical notion that the dead “chirp” – Isaiah 29:4), the Guf is sometimes described as a columbarium, [a dovecote], or birdhouse.
The Hebrew text is a register of 64 deposits of buried treasure supposed to be hidden in and around Qumran (in an area extending from Hebron to Mt. Gerizim). The objects listed include a silver chest, ingots of gold and silver, jars of all shapes and sizes, bowls, perfumes, and perhaps, vestments.
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According to the Mishnah in Shekalim, there were 13 collection boxes that were called shofarot, because they were shaped like a shofar with one end small enough for a coin to be placed into it and a larger end where the coins could be removed.
