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Liturgical traditions

This is an archive of articles, including primary sources, describing particular nusḥaot (liturgical “rites”, i.e., regional formulations and arrangements of prayers for communal public prayer services) — historic and contemporary.

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📄 הגדה לסדר פסח | The Ritual of the Seder and the Agada of the English Jews Before the Expulsion (1287)

Jacob b. Jehuda of London, the author of that valuable contribution to the literary side of Anglo-Jewish history, the Talmudical compendium Etz Chaim, so providentially rescued and preserved for us, never dreamt, when he noted down, in the year 1287, the Ritual and Agada of the Seder Nights according to English usage, that he was fixing a permanent picture of what was doomed to destruction, and was recording not a mere portion of the liturgy, but a page of Jewish history. Faithfully copying his great prototype, Maimonides, the English Chazan also embodied in his work the texts of the Recitations on the Seder Nights in the form customary among his countrymen, and appended the correlated rites according to Minhag England. . . .

Categories: Liturgical traditions, Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ

Tags: 13th century C.E., 51st century A.M., English Jewry, Nusaḥ Anglia, Nusaḥ Ashkenaz

Contributor(s): Dávid Kaufmann and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Rules of Etiquette for Public Prayer, by Isaac Seligman Baer (1868)

The impetus for writing this monograph came from a long-time observation that most worshipers and, by extension Shalechei Tzibur [prayer leaders], are either generally unaware of certain basic Laws regarding Public Prayer and Conduct in the Synagogue or simply lax in their proper observance. As such, I felt that there is a need to refresh in the minds of the general public certain fundamental regulations in these areas. I have chosen to translate the prefatory pages relating to these matters from the classic Siddur Avodas Yisroel by Dr. Seligmann Baer, published in Rödelheim in 1868. His summary is terse, yet comprehensive, and very closely aligned with the accepted Halochoh. Although, in those instances where there is a difference from commonly accepted practice and custom, I have tried to augment his text with instructions found in the popular Siddur Tefilas Kol Peh (TKP, Shaliach Tzibur edition, published by Eshkol, Jerusalem, and which was prepared in accordance with the Mishne Berura) and other sources. . . .

Categories: Liturgical traditions

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Nusaḥ Ashkenaz

Contributor(s): Isaac Seligman Baer and Reuven Brauner

Stable Link: https://opensiddur.org/index.php?cat=766

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