From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Palestinian minhag
Palestinian minhag
The Palestinian minhag as opposed to the Babylonian http://books.google.com/
liturgy,
minhag, or Palestinian liturgy refers to rite and ritual of books?id=SVBTAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
medieval Palestinian Jewry in relation to the traditional [3] Eric Werner (June 1976). A voice still heard: the sacred
order and form of the prayers. songs of the Ashkenazic Jews. Pennsylvania State
A complete collection has not been preserved from University Press. p. 5. ISBN 9780271011677.
antiquity, but several passages of it are scattered in both http://books.google.com/
the Babylonian Talmud and Jerusalem Talmud, in the books?id=G_sXAQAAIAAJ. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
Midrashim, in the Pesiktot, in Soferim, and in some re- [4] Isaac Landman (1943). The Universal Jewish
sponsa of the Palestinian Geonim. Some excerpts have encyclopedia ...: an authoritative and popular
been preserved in the Siddur of Saadia Gaon and the presentation of Jews and Judaism since the earliest times.
Cairo geniza yielded some important texts, such as the The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, inc.. p. 170.
Eighteen Benedictions.[1] One fragment of a Palestinian http://books.google.com/
siddur discovered in the genizah was written in Hebrew books?id=XZ4YAAAAIAAJ. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
with various introductions and explanations in Judaeo- "Two groups of rituals, or Minhagim, are to be
Arabic.[2] distinguished, the Palestinian Minhag and the
Though the Palestinian Talmud never became au- Babylonian Minhag. 1. The Palestinian group
thoritative against the Babylonian, the Palestinian litur- includes: (a) the German ritual; this is itself divided
gy was destined to be accepted in Italy, Greece, Germany into two rituals, the Western or Minhag Ashkenaz,
and France, even in Egypt, against the Babylonian, owing and the eastern, or Minhag Polin. The Elbe River
to the enthusiasm of the scholars of Rome. The Babylon- forms the boundary between these two. (b) the
ian rite was accepted mainly in Spain, Portugal and the Italian Minhag, perhaps the oldest branch of the
southern counties.[1] Palestinian ritual, (c) the Romanic Minhag, or,
Ashkenazi Jews accepted many elements of the Pales- more accurately, the Rumelic or Greek ritual; this
tinian minhag which evolved into three distinct groupin- ritual of the Balkan countries has retained most
gs: the German ritual, itself divided into two rituals, the features of the Palestinian Minhag."
western or Minhag Ashkenaz and the eastern, or Minhag [5] Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc (2003). The New
Polin. Minhag Ashkenaz was introduced in Palestine it- Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
self during the 16th-century by German and Polish Kab- p. 157. ISBN 9780852299616.
balists.[3] The Italian minhag, perhaps the oldest branch http://books.google.com/
of the Palestinian ritual and lastly the Romanic Minhag, books?id=FP7iAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
more accurately, the Rumelic or Greek ritual; this ritual "Thus, the acceptance by the Ashkenazi Jews of
of the Balkan countries has retained the most features many elements of the Palestinian minhag and by
of the Palestinian minhag.[4][5] Saadya Gaon’s siddur re- the Sephardic Jews of many elements of the
flects the Palestinian minhag, which was in-cooperated Babylonian minhag resulted in distinctive rites,
in to liturgy of German Jewry.[6] which are also referred to as minhagim."
[6] Central Synagogue Council of the Zionist
References Federation of Great Britain & Ireland; Synagogue
Council of the Zionist Federation (1946). The gates of
[1] ^ Abraham I. Schechter; Dropsie College for Zion: quarterly review of the Central Synagogue Council
Hebrew and Cognate Learning. Rose Adler Fund of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain & Ireland. The
(1930). Studies in Jewish liturgy: based on a unique Council. p. 7. http://books.google.com/
manuscript entitled Seder ḥibbur berakot. Dropsie books?id=b5YSAAAAIAAJ. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning. p. 51.
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books?id=9WNbAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 24 June
2011.
[2] Shemuel Safrai (September 1987). The Literature of
the Sages. Van Gorcum. p. 407. ISBN 9780800606053.
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