Posts by Nachshon Rodrigues Pereira
51 posts
Surprise + request! All the differences in Spanish between the Amsterdam and London version of the haphtara of 9 AvAs you may know I am working on a digital version of the 9 Av service in the Amsterdam tradition. The printed version has quite a lot of mistakes, also in the Spanish part of the haphtara. I would like to correct them. However, my ancient Spanish is a bit rusty ;) so I first compared...
**Request:**I'm looking for a digital text of the Targum of the Haftara for Tisha be'Av. As PDF or text. There is one in Roman letters and one in Hebrew letters, both would be great. Two books that may be available as pdf that include these texts are "Sifte Tsadikim - Vol. 6: Fast Day Service" by Isaac Leeser (1867), p. 174 תרגום ספרדית - א' and "Seder Hamesh Ta'aniyot" by Israel Costa (1836), p....
Two lectures at Bendigamos Amsterdam this weekend from Professors and of course a great S&P service!Shanim rabot!
Bendigamos offers a great program this weekend.With two famous guest speakers, cheese cake tasting, board games and of course a great S&P service!Boas Festas!
Asking for a friend: does anyone have an empty Portuguese Ketuba? Thanks a lot!
Urgent Question!At Bendigamos we have acquired a second-hand Sefer Torah. The question is: what does an S&P hachnasat Sefer Torah ceremony look like? What rituals and prayers does it contain? Looking forward to any information you may have about this!
Bendigamos update:Dear everyone,I'm very happy to announce that Bendigamos Amsterdam, the new S&P minyan, is growing quickly. During our last 5 shabbat morning services, we had an average of 85 congregants. We're also providing S&P specific education and events. Here are some pictures of our preparations for shabbat, when we had over 100 people for the service and lunch.Please always feel welcome ...
For everyone who will be in London this weekend!
Hi everyone!At the moment I'm working to create a digitalized version of the S&P Kippur services. I find the prayer books of London and New York very nice, but there are still quite some differences so we couldn't really use them in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam prayer books for Kippur are far from ideal, which is why I started this project.I was wondering:- Are there any communities that already have ...
Let's meet up!.Dear everyone,.Next week I will visit Israel for several days. It would be my pleasure to meet with some of you and talk about the future of the S&P traditions. I would also love to tell you more about the new congregation that we've started in Amsterdam about 11 months ago that is doing very well fortunately. I hope that perhaps some of you are willing to donate some talitot, humas...
Quick question: This shabbat someone will have 'Abrir as portas do Hechal' whose wife is in the 9th month of the pregnancy.I believe we have a prayer for him to say but it's not printed in the tefilot we use these days in Amsterdam. Does anyone have the text for me?Thanks a lot!
Seven Spanish-Portuguese songs from the Dutch Limmud last Sunday!Recordings from the second of three Bendigamos sessions at Limmud. 30 enthusiastic singers were introduced to our songs. We didn't have time to teach them the Amsterdam pronunciation of the Hebrew. Perhaps next year :).
Are you in Israel right now?As you may know I am currently occupied with building up a new S&P youth minyan in Amsterdam. So far we have had 4 shabbat services, with an average of over 40 visitors of which more than half is young. It attracts an equal amount of men and women.Tomorrow I'm flying to Israel for a few days. If you happen to have some spare humashim with translation or talitot for us, ...
Youth Minyan Progress.Dear everyone,As you may know, a few weeks ago a new independent S&P minyan - Bendigamos - has started, trying to attract more youth as our traditions are disappearing quickly among the younger generations in Holland.I'm very happy to let you know that Bendigamos Amsterdam has had a wonderful start.After three shabbat morning services we have an average of 45 visitors, 70% of...
Request: Humashim/Talitot Dear everyone,The new S&P minyan in Amsterdam (see below) will put a lot of effort in attracting the younger generations, to inspire and educate all visitors and to make sure that our special traditions will be continued.Fortunately, we already have a sepher Tora, a Hechal (until August), and plenty of siddurim. For now we could really use an amount of Humashim and Talito...
New S&P Minyan! (Any support is more than welcome)Bendigamos Amsterdam is a new Orthodox S&P minyan in Buitenveldert (in the South of Amsterdam).We offer shabbat morning services in a warm and pleasant atmosphere at the Moadon of Habonim.If you have any questions or remarks, please contact us at BendigamosNL@gmail.com .https://www.facebook.com/groups/Bendigamos/
Recordings of my session 'Sephardic Sing-Along' at Limmud 2014 in two playlists. Thanks to everyone (60+) who participated and made this into a wonderful evening.And of course thanks a lot to Sophie Mayer and Jonathan Hunter for recording this session.part 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-5q0aNfjVCn2KwE-XgLewLwT-DMMbOA7part 2: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-5q0aNfjVCl9NogjlTNP...
Cuba:Dear everyone. I'm visiting Cuba soon.I was told that the community might be in need of Judaica, like for example sidurim/talitot. Is there anyone here who could tell me more about their situation or how I could contact them to ask them?Thanks in advance!
Dear everyone,As you all probably know I'm the Hazzan of the Esnoga in Amsterdam. I'm considering to celebrate the High Holidays elsewhere next year and I would like to hear from you if you know of any community that might be looking for a Hazzan. Thanks in advance and kind regards,Nachshon
New (Dutch) Hanuka song! At Yesterday's pre-Hanuka party 13 young members of the Amsterdam S&P recorded a new song. Press the CC button and have Youtube translate the subtitles automatically to English to have an idea of the content.http://youtu.be/c3xEqbtSqOw
Good news: A Majority of Dutch Senators declared today in the final debate that they will vote against the proposal to ban the shekhita!(I can't find any English articles reporting about this yet, that's why I'm posting it)
Subject: Tefila ketsara Dear all, I would like to have some advice about a short (S&P) version of the amida.Next Sunday I am organizing a pre-Hanuka party in my synagogue. It will be mostly games, a (50% related to (sefardic) Judaism) quiz, singing a new Dutch hanuca song and to have some food. There will be somewhere between 10-20 boys/girls in the age 10 to 15. Most of them are not familiar at a...
Dear all,For your information:At this moment I am trying to raise some funds for education for the S&P community in Amsterdam. It is quite difficult to find money these days, and so I have sent a letter with an 'unorthodox request' to a couple of synagogues to help me out. I am not asking for a one-way favor though. In return I am offering them to lead the services, to read the parasha and to help...
subject: Sidur for dummiesDear All,After teaching a couple of youngsters in my community for a while and after guiding them through the Kippur services I noticed how difficult it is for most people these days, especially the young ones, to follow the whole service and participate, especially if they are no frequent visitors. To be able to follow everything will take many years and one has to be qu...
I took some pictures in the Kahal Zur synagogue in Recife.