The Order of the Circumambulations (haḳafot) for the Festival of the Celebration of the Torah / Śimḥat Torah, by Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED) The custom of carrying out seven joyous circumambulations on the Festival of the Celebration of the Torah (Śimḥat Torah) took shape in the circle of ...
Liturgical items for various occasions, composed, adapted, translated, or collected by Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor. Or 17051 (1). (Hebrew) A series of three penitential prayers. Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED) adapted the first two and seems to have composed the third. His purpose was to elicit...
One of Hakham Ezra Dangoor's transcriptons of the work of his teacher, Hakham Abdallah Somekh, on the Kosher laws. At least the first two folios are lacking; and the final folios are lacking. This work was first published in two volumes, in Baghdad, in 5659 Anno Mundi = 1898/9 CE, a decade af...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1863-1899
Extent:
1 oblong notebook with added quires, 315 folios plus fragments of the subsequent folio (or folios)
This handbook is by Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor, who, in the Baghdad Jewish community, gave instruction on kosher slaughter. Draft, with deletions, additions, and transpositions. This fragment begins at the end of the section on ‘Pressing’, the second of the five acts that disqualify slaughte...
This handbook is by Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor, who, in the Baghdad Jewish community, gave instruction on kosher slaughter. Contents: The five acts that disqualify slaughter from being kosher: 1) Pausing (folio 1r-v); 2) Pressing (folios 1v - 2r); 3) Dragging (folios 2v - 3r); 4) Burrowing (f...
Jewish law: responsa, brief guides, and glosses; giving concepts, applications, and practices
Scope & Content:
Jewish law: responsa, brief guides, and glosses; giving concepts, applications, and practices. Each of these items is either explicitly or implicity connected with Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor (HED) - as author, scribe, participant, contributor, etc. [Or 17055 (1) – Or 17055 (3): Laws of Blessing...
Or 17056 (1). Answers to educational / Torah riddles from the ‘Ose Pele / עושה פלא section of the work Imre bina / אמרי בינה by Rabbi Yosef Ḥayim ben Elijah of Baghdad (renown as the author of Ben Ish Ḥay / בן איש חי). On chapter 2, numbered 1 - 50; on chapter 3, numbered 1 - 87; on chapter 4, nu...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1860-1930
Extent:
2 separate items, each consisting of a single sheet
Full text of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor’s work on Hebrew grammar. Contains occasional editorial changes throughout. (Manuscript Or 17058 contains a later version of the first 14 sections, incorporating into the main text most of the relevant editorial changes noted here.) Contents of the Number...
A later draft of the beginning of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's work on Hebrew grammar. The full work is contained in Manuscript Or 17057, in an earlier version. In the present manuscript, Hakham Dangoor incorporates into the main text most of the editorial changes that he noted in Manuscript Or 1...
Fragments of drafts of Hakham Ezra Reuben Dangoor's work on Hebrew grammar (a complete draft of which is contained in Or 17057). Or 17059 (1): [Note: it is unclear whether folio 1 is part of the same original unit as folios 2 and 3.] Folio 1v. Contains a corrected fair copy of Exercise (lit...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew
Date Range:
1860-1930
Extent:
10 sheets of paper, forming between 3 and 5 distinct units. (See discussion of content, below.)