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tekhelet · 21 days ago
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Praying Jew in Sighet, Romania, late 19th century. The neckband of his Tallit (called the atara) features typical Ashkenazi "shpayner-arbet", a technique for decorating textiles.
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tekhelet · 21 days ago
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Pink artscroll machzorim for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
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tekhelet · 24 days ago
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Shabbat Shalom 🕯️🕯️
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tekhelet · 24 days ago
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Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia, Synagogue
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tekhelet · 24 days ago
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שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם עֲדַת בְּנֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵל ♡ אָמֵן
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tekhelet · 26 days ago
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1 Samuel 18
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tekhelet · 28 days ago
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Tehillim 61. Transl. Robert Alter.
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tekhelet · 2 months ago
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From משכן תפלה (Mishkan T'filah) World Union Edition (pp. 479)
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tekhelet · 3 months ago
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Two boards for learning the alef bet and the Torah, 1940s, wood; handwritten in ink on paper.
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tekhelet · 4 months ago
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“The History of the Bene-Israel of India,” depicting a group of shipwrecked Jews (the progenitors of the Bene Israel) reciting the Shema. 1897. (Published in 1937 in Tel Aviv).
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tekhelet · 6 months ago
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Tehillim 96
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tekhelet · 6 months ago
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Tehillim 121:6
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tekhelet · 7 months ago
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Sefer Yehoshua 24:15
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tekhelet · 8 months ago
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Chanukah candle blessings from Mishkan T’Filah.
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tekhelet · 8 months ago
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The Jews at Prayer by Ivan Trutnev. 1911.
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tekhelet · 8 months ago
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Jewish women praying at the Kotel, 1900.
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tekhelet · 8 months ago
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Shabbat 31a:6
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