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According to the Talmud, there were 48 prophets and 7 prophetesses of Judaism (Hebrew: נְבִיאִים Nəvīʾīm, Tiberian: Năḇīʾīm, "Prophets", literally "spokespersons"). [1] [2] [3] The last Jewish prophet is believed to have been Malachi.
Samuel, last of the Judges and first of the Prophets; Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah, Judaism's Four Matriarchs; Tamar, daughter-in-law, and then levirate wife, of Judah; Tamar, daughter of David, raped by Amnon; Yoav, relative of King David, impulsive military leader; Zilpah and Bilhah, additional wives of Jacob, mothers of four of the ...
The Song of Songs (Hebrew: שיר השירים Shir ha-Shirim) is read publicly in some communities, especially by Ashkenazim, on the Sabbath of Passover. In most Mizrahi Jewish communities it is read publicly each week at the onset of the Shabbat (Sabbath). There is also a widespread custom to read it at the end of the Passover Seder.
Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893. The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים , romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.
Jewish liturgical poems (4 C, 47 P) P. Passover songs (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Songs in Hebrew" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total.
These are the latest books collected and designated as "authoritative" in the Jewish canon. [5] These scrolls are traditionally read over the course of the year in many Jewish communities. The list below presents them in the order they are read in the synagogue on holidays, beginning with the Song of Songs on Passover.
For the purposes of Wikipedia categories, "Hebrew Bible" refers only to those books in the Jewish Tanakh, which has the same content as the Protestant Old Testament (including the portions in Aramaic). The deuterocanonical books of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox biblical canons are categorized under Category:Deuterocanonical books.
The Jews of Yemen maintained strict adherence to Talmudic and Maimonidean halakha [2] and "instead of developing the playing of musical instruments, they perfected singing and rhythm." [3] (See Yemenite Jewish poetry. For the modern Yemenite-Israeli musical phenomenon, however, see Yemenite Jewish music.)