• Minhag (Hebrew: מנהג "custom", classical pl. מנהגות, modern pl. מנהגים, minhagim) is an accepted tradition or group of traditions in Judaism. A related...
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    The Palestinian minhag, (Hebrew: נוסח ארץ ישראל, translit: Nusach Eretz Yisrael translation: "Rite or Prayer Service of The Land of Israel") as opposed...
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  • Minhag Ashkenaz is the minhag of the Ashkenazi German Jews. Minhag Ashkenaz was common in Germany, Austria, the Czech lands, and elsewhere in Western Europe...
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  • Minhag Morocco (Hebrew:מנהג מרוקו) refers to the religious customs adopted by Moroccan Jewry, from the Hebrew "Minhag", or custom. Although in the Middle...
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    Minhag America is a siddur created in 1857 by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise that was intended to address conflict between sides supporting and opposing traditionalism...
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  • Minhag Polin/Minhag Lita (Polish/Lithuanian/Prague rite) is the Ashkenazi minhag of the Polish Jews, the Polish/Lithuanian or Eastern branch of Nusach...
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  • and traditions of Sephardi Judaism (but with some differences among the minhag "customs" of particular communities). That has resulted in a conflation...
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  • Bereavement in Judaism (Hebrew: אֲבֵלוּת, avelut, "mourning") is a combination of minhag (traditions) and mitzvah (commandments) derived from the Torah and Judaism's...
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    component buttressing Orthodox and other practice is local or familial custom, Minhag. The development and acceptance of customs as binding, more than disagreements...
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    Jerusalem Talmud instead of the Babylonian Talmud (see Palestinian minhag). This Minhag was once widespread in Southern Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Anatolia...
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    Italian nusach has been considered an offspring of the ancient Land of Israel minhag and it has similarities with the nusach of the Romaniote Jews of Greece...
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  • Muʾassasat ar-Risāla, Beirut, 1996. Bd. IV, S. 300. Digitalisat Ibn Taimīya: Minhāǧ as-sunna an-nabawīya. Ed. Muḥammad Rašād Sālim. Ǧamiʿat al-Imām Muḥammad...
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  • 1486 Ḥelek me-ha-maḥzor kefi minhag k”k Roma, Bologna 1540 Maḥzor ke-minhag Roma, Mantua 1557 Siddur mebarekhah: ke-minhag k”k Italiani, Venice 1618 Siddur...
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    Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: עובדיה יוסף‎, romanized: Ovadya Yosef, Arabic: عبد الله يوسف, romanized: ‘Abd Allāh Yūsuf; September 24, 1920 – October 7, 2013)...
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    Kabbalah Panentheism History Practices Torah study Mystical exegesis Mitzvot Minhag Customary immersion in mikveh Meditation Kavanot Teshuvah Deveikut Prayer...
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  • practices instituted by the rabbis not based (directly) on the commandments Minhag: Customs, community practices, and customary law, as well as the exemplary...
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    Retrieved 2013-02-18. Hamburger, Rav Binyomin Shlomo (2009). "Guide to Minhag Ashkenaz". Machon Moreshes Ashkenaz. Cohen, Tamara. "An Orange on the Seder...
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    and new observances established in a piecemeal fashion, as spontaneous minhag (custom) emerging by trial and error and becoming widespread if it appealed...
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    melodies used in the singing of prayers. Sephardim traditionally pray using Minhag Sefarad. The term Nusach Sefard or Nusach Sfarad does not refer to the liturgy...
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  • the ArtScroll Siddur as their standard prayerbook). The African Israelite minhag, which is the cultural expression of their Judaism, uses the upper register...
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    submitted to the bet din the manuscript of a prayer-book, to be titled the Minhag America, and to be used by all the congregations of the country. No action...
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    However, among Orthodox Ashkenazi and some Sephardic customs, the custom (minhag) during Passover is to refrain from not only products of the five grains...
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  • German or Western branch - Minhag Ashkenaz - used in Western and Central Europe, and the Polish/Lithuanian or Eastern branch - Minhag Polin - used in Eastern...
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  • of the community, including the musical rendition. It is one example of minhag, which includes traditions on Jewish customs of all types. Nusach Ashkenaz...
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    believed that opponents like Rabbi Yosef Karo likely repented of changing minhag at the end of his life. Dealing with the widespread practice of hiring gentiles...
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    brings forth bread from the earth"). The bread (one or two, depending on minhag) is sliced (or torn) and salted, and the pieces are distributed to each...
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    authorities during the 1960s. Among Mediterranean Jews there was a longstanding minhag of considering swordfish kosher. Swordfish was and possibly still is consumed...
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  • Right precedence in Judaism is a Minhag of Hasids to give precedence to the right side of things. A well-known exampled is putting on the right shoe before...
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    fish; the tradition of observing kashrut; and food customs and traditions (minhag) specific to Shabbat and other Jewish holidays. Examples of these foods...
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    customs and rites (minhag), the "minhag ha-Gra", named after him, and which is also considered by many to be the prevailing Ashkenazi minhag in Jerusalem.[citation...
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