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Responsorial Singing

… it remained significant feature of Western Ashkenazic ( minhag ashkenaz ) synagogue song. The following were recited …

… in Constantinople in 1576 and Tahanunim ve-Selihot ke-minhag italiyani , Venice, 1587. This last appearance in the … of our piyyut appears in the Mahzor mi-kol Hashanah Minhag Polin , Altona, 1826, p. 326. This prayer book includes an appendix titled ‘Minhagim (“Customs”) written by the Gaon Our Master Rabbi Isaac …

Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the Proselyte

… notation. The additional hymn texts Wa-Eda’ mah and Baruk’ Hag-Gever were labeled according to the first words of the … … Manuscripts … Neumes … Obadiah the Proselyte … Ovadia HaGer … Piyyut … Piyyutim … Ovadiya HaGer … Mi-al har horev from the manuscripts of Obadiah the …

Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)

… and p. 60, no. 9. [3] Yaakov Mazor, Koho Shel Haniggun Bahagut Hahassidit Vetafkidav Bahavay Hadati Vehahevrati , pp. …

Fal

… A famous extraordinary niggun is the ' Niggun Ezkerah Hagadol' (the great Ezkerah niggun ), composed by the …

Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)

… Ha’omer. It is also sung between sections of the Passover haggada and between the different parts of the Sefirat … the Silent Amidah; and the third is during the Passover haggada between the Hallel Psalms. One of the pan-hassidic …

Mitsve Tants

… century at the latest. In Jewish musar literature and minhagim books of the 17th and 18th century, the ritual is …

Baqqashah (Pl. Baqqashot)

… prior to Purim) in Moroccan communities, and until Shabbat Hagadol (the one prior to Passover) in Allepian communities. …

Haggadah

… Lit. “telling.” The Haggadah is a set of prayers, midrashic commentaries and … are twenty components which make up the narration of the haggadah as well as ritual acts interspersed such as hand … eating of the bitter herbs etc… Chanting and singing of the Haggadah texts is generally observed in all communities. … …