Word: torah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale began these rival groups sent prices up at the rate of $15,000 a minute. The first 60 paintings went for $1,800,000; Rembrandt's Man with a Cleft Chin, probably a portrait of his son, brought $200,000; his picture of a Man holding the Torah...
...program for these services will be as follows: Organ Prelude: a Prelude in G major Bach b Pastoral Symphony from The Messiah Handel Choral: "O my Deir Hert" Bach Carol: "Christmas Song" Holst Carol: "When He was born" Neapolitan Melody Carol: "The First Noel" Traditional Carol: "Bring a Torah Jeanette, Isabella" French Melody Carol: "Christ Is Born of Maiden Fair" Gauntlett Congregational Hymn: "Adeste Fideles" Reading Carol: "Le Miracle de St. Nicolas" Lorraine Melody Carol: "Les Anges dans Nes Campagnes" Old French Melody Chorus: "How Beautiful are the Feet" from The Messiah Handel Organ Postlude: Halleujah Chorus, from The Messiah...
...living in thatched huts, as did their ancestors on pilgrimages to Jerusalem. Deprived of an outdoor areaway, ghetto-crowded Jews have been known to rip holes in their roofs, holes which they covered with corn stalks or twists of grass. On the last day of the feast, Simkhat Torah, the yearly reading of the" Law is completed. Then there is a riot of rejoicing which the Mishnah, Talmudic commentary on Mosaic Laws, reflects in the phrase: "He who has not seen the joy of the libations of Tabernacles has never in his life witnessed...
...think of him but as a Jew and a Jewish teacher who attempted to do what all religious leaders attempt to do--to recreate and revitalize the religious thought and life of his times. He never intended to depart from the Jewish customs or from the teachings of the Torah. Only his death at the hands of some of the Jews has raised the question of the relation between him and Judaism. There is no need to attempt to bring about a reconciliation between the real Christians and the real Jews. The Christian's own religion teaches friendship, while...