the rest is commentary

strength and beauty are in his sanctuary

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Hello! This is my intro post for tags while I try to keep everything here organized. More to come later!

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Praying Jew in Sighet, Romania, late 19th century. The neckband of his Tallit (called the atara) features typical Ashkenazi "shpayner-arbet", a technique for decorating textiles.

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Pink artscroll machzorim for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

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Shabbat Shalom 🕯️🕯️

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Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia, Synagogue

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שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם עֲדַת בְּנֵי-יִשְׂרָאֵל ♡ אָמֵן

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1 Samuel 18

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Tehillim 61. Transl. Robert Alter.

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From משכן תפלה (Mishkan T'filah) World Union Edition (pp. 479)

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Two boards for learning the alef bet and the Torah, 1940s, wood; handwritten in ink on paper.

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“The History of the Bene-Israel of India,” depicting a group of shipwrecked Jews (the progenitors of the Bene Israel) reciting the Shema. 1897. (Published in 1937 in Tel Aviv).

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Tehillim 96

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Tehillim 121:6

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Sefer Yehoshua 24:15

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Chanukah candle blessings from Mishkan T’Filah.

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The Jews at Prayer by Ivan Trutnev. 1911.