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@JPoetryProject דער נײער קאָלאסוס | The New Collosus, a paean to the Shekhinah/”Mother of Exiles” by Emma Lazarus (1883, Yiddish translation by Rachel Kirsch Holtman 1938) https://t.co/aImrxzlmLw
בִּשְּׁבִיל דֵמוֹקרָטִיָה וְצֶדֶק | For democracy and justice: additions to the Amidah to add from now through US election day (and afterward), by Rabbi David Seidenberg (https://t.co/PAfCTtAmuv) https://t.co/Q3VAoJnj3A
@JPoetryProject The winter setting and reference to the Seven Dwarves reminds us of an early poem by a young, romantic Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik — Gamadei Layil (Gnomes of the Night) https://t.co/9PnbBW3Ffx
Between the attacks on the @InternetArchive and on the @britishlibrary (still recovering), and machinations in the US (and elsewhere?) against physical libraries requiring police interventions, we are worried nefarious actors have an effective pattern for reshaping our noösphere
The seven days of Sukkot start tomorrow. Sukkot is one of the three Jewish festivals on which the ancient Israelites were commanded to make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem.
This beautiful folio-sized machzor (prayerbook) for Sukkot according to the Provençal rite of Avignon, was written by the scribe David Tsoref in 1721. 1/
Sukkot begins at sunset on 16 October. Here a panel includes a depiction of a sukkah.
#Sukkot
BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.295r @BL_HebrewMSS@BLAsia_Africa