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This is the prayer shawl that is worn during the morning services in synagogue by all male participants, and in many communities by the leader of the afternoon and evening prayers as well. A typical tallit bag. The Hebrew embroidery says tallit. Frequently the owner will add additional embroidery with their name.
Prayer shawl may refer to: Tallit, in Judaism; A prayer cloth in Christianity, used as a sacramental among adherents of various denominations. A mantilla in Christianity, used by women of the Catholic, Lutheran and Plymouth Brethren denominations
Canadian singer the Weeknd references this prayer in his song "Big Sleep" from his 2025 album Hurry Up Tomorrow, where featured artist Giorgio Moroder recites the lines "Now I lay me down to sleep, pray the Lord my soul to keep, angels watch me through the night, wake me up with light" in the second verse. [12] Film and television
The original author of this poem is unknown. There are several variations on this poem. Chris Farley (from Saturday Night Live and Tommy Boy) was known to have carried this prayer with him in his wallet. [1] [2] It commonly includes the following four verses: [3] [1]
[2] The poem is celebrated [3] for its re-imagining of the religious imagery of Judaism in terms of the settlers' Zionist pioneer construction ethic. An example is found in how prayer shawls and phylacteries are used as metaphors to describe the emotions of the pioneers as they build roads: "Dress me, good mother, in a glorious robe of many ...
Some [32] explain the black stripes found on many traditional prayer shawls as representing the loss of this dye. While there is no prohibition on wearing blue dye from another source, the rabbis maintain that other kinds of tekhelet do not fulfill the mitzvah of tekhelet , and thus all the strings have been traditionally kept un-dyed (i.e ...
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First page of Akdamut from the Mahzor of Worms, a 13th-century illuminated manuscript. Akdamut, or Akdamus or Akdamut Milin, or Akdomus Milin (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַקְדָמוּת מִלִּין ʾaqdāmûṯ millîn "In Introduction to the Words," i.e. to the Ten Commandments), is a prominent piyyut ("liturgical poem") written in Aramaic recited annually on the Jewish holiday of ...