单词 | rejoicing of the law |
释义 | > as lemmasRejoicing of the Law Rejoicing of the Law n. (usually with the) the Jewish festival at the conclusion of the Feast of Tabernacles (Succoth), celebrating the completion of the annual cycle of reading the Pentateuch; also with in, over, and other prepositions; = Simchat Torah n. [After post-classical Latin laetitia legis (1575 in the passage translated in quot. 1625) and its model post-biblical Hebrew śimḥat tōrā Simchat Torah n.] ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > Jewish seasons and feasts > Feast of Tabernacles, Succoth > [noun] > feast concluding Rejoicing of the Law1625 1625 S. Purchas tr. Peregrination Beniamin in Pilgrimes II. ix. v. 1460 Both these [sc. the Babylonians and the Israelites] after a solemne manner, twice in the yeere powre forth their prayers together, to wit, vpon the day of the reioycing of the Law [L. die..laetitiae legis], and on the Festiuall day of the Law giuen. 1704 Dictionarium Sacrum seu Religiosum at Tabernacles The Feast of the Rejoycing of the Law, which is Celebrated the Day following, makes a part of the Feast of Tabernacles. 1807 S. Burder Orient. Customs II. 355 They read through the whole [sc. the five books of Moses] in the course of a year; finishing at the feast of Tabernacles, which they called ‘the rejoicing of the law’. 1861 J. T. Bannister Temples of Hebrews 390 Tisri..[Day] 23. The rejoicing for the law, a solemnity in memory of the covenant that the Lord made with the Hebrews. 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 134 It was the Rejoicing of the Law, and the Sons of the Covenant had treated him to rum and currant cake. 1903 W. Rosenau Jewish Ceremonial Instit. v. 101 On the Day of Rejoicing Over the Law special inducements are held out to the younger members of the congregation to participate actively in the public service. 1953 T. H. Gaster Festivals Jewish Year vi. 100 Not impossibly, the custom of celebrating the Rejoicing in the Law as a wedding was inspired by the idea of sublimating to a more spiritual plane the..staging of a mock wedding at harvest festivals. 1962 B.-Z. Abrahams tr. Glückel of Hameln Life iii. 52 Her companions were not to return before Simchat Torah..Festival of the Rejoicing of the Law. 2000 S. M. Lowenstein Jewish Cultural Tapestry 87 Examples of such practices are the bar mitzvah ceremony, the rejoicing of the law of the ninth day of Tabernacles (Simchat Torah), and the tashlich ceremony. < as lemmas |
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