It seems that Canada now has a Shira Hadasha-like minyan,
The minyan’s mission statement reads, in part, that the community “follows the approach of those Orthodox rabbis who have argued that the dignity of human beings (kavod ha-briyot) is a crucial halachic value that permits us, and in fact obligates us, to expand the roles of [...]
From H-Judaic:
The National Library of Israel, David and Fela Shapell Family Digitization
Project, is pleased to announce that a digitized version of the Library’s
manuscript “Catalonia Mahzor” is now available for public access.
The “Catalona Mahzor” is a Mahzor for Rosh Ha-Shana and Yom Kippur according
to the Spanish Catalonian Rite. It is dated approximately 1280.
The text includes liturgical [...]
From here.
Today was the Autumnal Equinox at 3:39 p.m.-3:44 p.m. UTC. There’s a disagreement as to the exact time, sounds familiar. See both here and here why this day is important for Jewish liturgical practice.
At Giluy Milta Balma there is a recent new post about Adjustments for Eretz Israel in Liturgy from the Genizah. These older questions again became relevant with the resettling of large numbers of Jews in the Land of Israel. In the siddur published by the Masorti Movement (Conservative) in Israel, ואני תפילתי, in [...]
This past Shabbat I had the chance to ponder a bit more a verse which I have read countless times in Hallel, yet probably have never really understood.
יָקָר בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָה הַמָּוְתָה לַחֲסִידָיו
This verse has been translated numerous ways:
NJPS: The death of His faithful ones is grievous in the Lord’s sight.
JPS: Precious in the sight [...]
With Tisha B’Av soon upon, the often asked question regarding the text of the “Nachem” prayer (see here p. 100) has been discussed once more. In a recent issue of Tzohar, vol. 32, R. Hayyim Navon has called for adopting the change that was first proposed by R. Hayyim David Halevi, that the word “שהייתה” [...]
Rabbi Jeffrey Hoffman was kind enough to send me a copy of an article of his which will be published in a forthcoming issue of the JQR. The article is on Akdamut, the Aramaic poem which is recited before the Torah reading on Shavuot. Below are some of his comments, and I also [...]
I would say that this is big news. From the JTA:
University of Vienna archeologists unearthed an amulet in a third century grave bearing the Shema prayer. The find in eastern Austria represents the earliest sign of Jewish inhabitants in present-day Austria, the university said in a news release.
The silver amulet contains a gold [...]
Daniel J. Lasker has given us the lowdown about the liturgical change of asking for rain which will soon be upon us. See his post at Seforim, and for those interested in more, the articles that he and his father have published on the subject are referenced in the notes.
In the manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud, Menachot 43b, we read,
Rabbi Yehudah [1] would say: A person is obligated to recite the following three blessings every day-[Praised are you...] who has not made me a Gentile (גוי); who has not made me a woman (אשה); [*] who has not made me an ignoramous (בור).
Yet if [...]
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