lekha dodi
61Congregational Singing — Singing by lay congregants in a worship service. Most major religious traditions have some form, but the practice varies widely. At one extreme is a Buddhist burial service, which is sung entirely by the priest, and at the other might be an… …
62Piyyut — (pl. Piyyutim) Liturgical hymns of the Jewish tradition. Originally written to enhance prayers, they eventually became detached as those prayers became more and more the province of the professional hazan (cantor) by the sixth century. The… …
63GREECE — (Heb. יָוָן, Yavan), country in S.E. Europe. SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD (TO 330 C.E.) Although the earliest known Jews on the Greek mainland are to be found only from the third century B.C.E., it is highly probable that Jews traveled or were forcibly… …
64GUADALAJARA — GUADALAJARA, city in Castile, central Spain. A Jewish community already existed there at the time of the Visigoths, for the Jews are said to have been entrusted, by Ṭāriq ibn Ziyād, with the defense of the town after the Arab conquest in 714.… …
65ḤASIDISM — ḤASIDISM, a popular religious movement giving rise to a pattern of communal life and leadership as well as a particular social outlook which emerged in Judaism and Jewry in the second half of the 18th century. Ecstasy, mass enthusiasm, close knit …
66SHEKHINAH — (Heb. שְׁכִינָה; lit. dwelling, resting ), or Divine Presence, refers most often in rabbinic literature to the numinous immanence of God in the world. The Shekhinah is God viewed in spatio temporal terms as a presence, particularly in a this… …
67Ma'oz Tzur — …
