Posts by Salomon Vaz Dias
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Among the Spanish and Portuguese Congregations of the Western Sephardim, the season of Elul has ever been marked by the commencement of the recital of Selihot, the prayers of contrition and mercy. Each evening after the Ngamidah and each morning before the Zemirot, from the second day of Elul until Yom Kippur, and in some homes also on Hoshanganah Rabba, these supplications have been uttered in th...
Dear Friends,This coming Sunday marks the beginning of the Tres Semanas, or Three Weeks (Ben HaMesarim) which spans from the 17th of Tammuz to the 9th of Ab. This period is traditionally observed as a time of mourning, remembering the tragedies that befell the Jewish people, culminating in the destruction of both Temples in Jerusalem.This year, the 9th of Ab (Tishnga B’Ab) falls on a Sunday, so th...
INVITATIONDear friends,The World Council of Western Sephardi Congregations invites you to take part in an online international prayer service for Israel. Especially in this crucial time, when the brave soldiers of the Jewish State are fighting our enemies on multiple fronts, we need to unite and beseech the Almighty to bless and protect our people, and to establish a lasting peace in the Middle Ea...
Join Professor Claude (Dov) Stuczynski (Bar-Ilan University) for a memorial lecture in honor of the historian of Portuguese Jewry, Prof. Herman Prins Salomon. Stuczynski will offer an analysis of Salomon’s personal attachment to the Portuguese people and their rich culture and illustrate how it informed his approach tothe history of Western Sephardim and the Inquisition. This event is cosponsored ...
HAZAN SIMON DUQUE
https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-826877
Hoshanganah Rabah in New York
Rabbi Jakob Baruch visited Fort Lauderdale Florida
Ma Nishtana by Haham Salomon Rodrigues Pereira
Monday August 12th, 2024 commences 9 Ab, the Fast Day of the Fifth Month. It lasts like Yom Quipur for 25 hours. Spanish & Portuguese Israelites enjoy traditionally a meal with bread and hard boiled eggs prior to evening services. Like on Yom Quipur we may not eat or drink. We may not wear leather shoes or festive clothing. Shoes made of cloth, rubber, or plastic are permitted, but leather shoes m...
Amigos e Companheiros,Once again I received inquiries about the so-called “nine days” and the “shabuang shekhalbo”. For the good order Rosh Hodesh Ab, the beginning of the fifth month of the Hebrew year, will be on Monday, August 5, 2024. Ab is the fifth month of the Hebrew year and corresponds this year to August on the Gregorian calendar.We Western Sephardim do not observe any particular mournin...
Reminder: Class tomorrow with Hakham Isaac Sassoon at 12pm EDT. Details are at the bottom of this message:For those not able to join in person here is the Zoom info:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81805504565?pwd=DGT0h9zh12x213a54JUmlGjik3Gj9g.1Meeting ID: 818 0550 4565Passcode: 078929
There will be a class with Hakham Dr. Issac S. D. Sassoon next week, Tuesday July 23rd at 12pm EDT. Topic: ‘Did the RaMBaM (Mamonides) Ever Disown Himself?’ For those not able to join in person, a Zoom link will follow next week. The location is at the office of Bentex – 34 West 33rd Street – 2nd Floor. Please RSVP to ebenun@bentex.com.
Reading for ShabungotBy Arnold FRodrigues Pereira
Music during the OmerRabbi Steve Golden | Published: 24 April 2009Each year, as we prepare to celebrate Israeli Independence Day on the 5th of Iyar, we hear murmurings as to the halachic appropriateness of playing music at these events. What is behind these murmurings? In some people’s minds the period between Pesach and Shavuot is somehow associated with mourning, hence the qualms as to the propr...
Today it is פסח שני. The 14th of the month of Iyar. We S&P or Western Sephardi Jews have the custom not to get married until after the 32nd day of the Homer. The exception is this day. Many others don’t share that tradition so I am mentioning it here. For the good order we S&P do not observe any kind of mourning in this period. That’s an Eastern European tradition.
The Parnas president of Congregation Talmud Tora in Amsterdam greets His Majesty King Willem Alexander at the entrance of the main sanctuary.
By Dr. Yair van DijkThe funeral of Haham Selomoh Salem (1781)On September 5, 1781, Chief Rabbi (Haham) Solomon / Selomoh Salem passed away after serving as the Haham of Amsterdam for 20 years. Salem was succeeded on August 2, 1782, by Haham David Cohen d'Azevedo. In the Amsterdamse courant of September 1781, I found a very detailed account of the funeral of this, (I believe, originally Turkish?) r...
Dear friends,I look forward to our next topic: Maoz Tzur in Light of the Crusades.Hoping to see you on Sunday, December 10, at 9AM New York time;(4PM Israel time; 5 PM Uganda time)The Zoom link is: https://shorturl.at/jpGJUor: https://us02web.zoom.us/s/4943982357?pwd=Vm5HeGI2dkg2TnNGRndGM3libzNDUT09Meeting ID: 494 398 2357Password: 13579SdHRECORDINGS OF PREVIOUS CLASSES...
The Reverend Simon Duque, Hazan of Congregation Talmud Tora in Amsterdam until 1943 when he was murdered by the Nazis.
The unveiling of the permanent monument on the grave of the late Prof. Dr. Herman Prins Salomon will be on Sunday December 3rd at 1 Pm at the fourth Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York City: 2 Cypress Hills St., Brooklyn, New York.
Dear friends,Tomorrow morning, I look forward to continuing with our course on Medieval Hebrew Poetry.We did make a small start with the topic of Andalusian Poetry, but this is so long ago that I propose to start with this topic from scratch, and then continue from there.Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow morning (Sunday), November 11, at 9AM New York time; (4PM Israel time; 5 PM Uganda time)T...
Thank you very much to Sofia and Dora of Talled di Setainfo@talleddiseta.com, Via Catalana 2A, 00186 Roma, Italy, for my beautiful new Talleth
Yah Shemang by the Rev. Alexander Alvares Vega - Amsterdam Version.