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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25986

Shelfmark:

Halper 224

Title:

Karaite essay on prayer

Treatise on prayer

Place:

Orient

Date:

10th century-12th century?

tenth century (dates CE) AAT

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Material:

consecutive, nearly complete

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): consecutive, nearly complete

Note:

The fragment deals primarily with the subject of prostration, the various types and their biblical sources. There is a digression dealing with the Rabbanites who raised the point that not all times are fitting for prostration.
See Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon: Kifāyat al-ʻābidīn / Nissim Dana [ed.]. Ramat Gan : Universiṭat Bar-Ilan, 1989, p. 160. This point is not raised in the polemic article there on this topic, ibid. pp. 147-183.
The author mentions the 6 places in the daily Karaite service in which the bending of the head is recommended.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Adler.

Keyword:

Early works

Posture in worship

Karaites--Liturgy

Religious disputations

Prayer--Judaism

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940419053503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3jd4q73w/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania