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… next musical phrase... Everyone circles to the left for 16 bars, or sometimes longer. During the last bar of the circling phrase, one person drops the hand he or … through. The two measures before the opening double bar line of the freylakh...are not a melody, but a set-up of …

… were certainly arranged with not only an accompanying  mitzvah  meal but also with the musical accompaniment of …

… by Rabbi Marshall Meyer. He also prepared the first Bat Mitzvah ceremonies in the Sephardic community during this …

This entry is part of the Lexicon of Klezmer Terminology (LKT). The LKT…

… it is customary to let a child who has not yet had his Bar Mitzvah chant the prayer. Some claim that the reason for …

… it is customary to let a child who has not yet had his Bar Mitzvah chant the prayer. Some claim that the reason for …

… a result, no one agreed to teach him in preparation for the bar mitzvah. Huri taught him without any question or doubt. He … the synagogue; songs for the life cycle (circumcision, bat mitzvah and wedding);  domestic ceremonies (end of the …

… the Land of Israel during the Middle-Ages (Rabbi Yehuda ben Barzillai, who lived in the 11 th century and early 12 th … to the life cycle such as marriages, circumcisions, Bar Mitzvahs, and others. These piyyutim are also performed …