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[Prayer for the deceased].
[תפלה לנפטר].
Library at the Katz Center - Archives Room Manuscript BII.31
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Jews.
- History.
- Dead.
- Judaism.
- Czech Republic.
- Dead--Judaism.
- Soul--Judaism.
- Soul.
- Funeral service.
- Jews--Czech Republic--History--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- prayers (document genre)
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn Provenance:
- Formerly in the collection of Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Karp.
- Physical Description:
- 1 leaf : paper ; 250 x 185 (165 x 165) mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Czech Republic or Poland], [between 1750 and 1799]
- [צ'כיה או פולין], [בין 1750-1799]
- Language Note:
- Hebrew.
- Summary:
- This is a manuscript of a prayer for the deceased; the prayer asks that the soul of the departed enter Eden, [the body] be guarded by God from Ḥibut ha-ḳever (beatings of the grave, a cabalistic notion of tortures the corpse undergoes during the first year following death), spared from Gehenna, and that the soul should live on with the souls of the righteous. Item written on a ream wrapper, previously folded.
- Notes:
- Ms. leaf.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Layout: Written in 19 long lines.
- Script: Written in a Ashkenazic cursive script; some ligatures and cross out in the text.
- Origin: Written in the Czech Republic (then Bohemia/Moravia) or western Poland during the second half of the 18th century.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Karp BII.31.
- OCLC:
- 1280350191
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