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The smaller drum, played with the dominant hand, is sometimes called dayan lit. "right"; a.k.a. dāhina, siddha, chattū but is correctly called the "tabla."
Archive 2009-10-01 photographerno1 2009
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“Be’Tipul” in Hebrew that Means “Emmy” « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008
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Her father had been the dayan (associate rabbi) and a lavnik (alderman) of his municipality.
Personal Information for Bella Harkavy Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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Her father had been the dayan (associate rabbi) and a lavnik (alderman) of his municipality.
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As his daughter lovingly describes him, he was in constant movement, a one-man service combination, who cared for his flock from the cradle to the grave, as mohel (circumciser) and Bar Mitzvah teacher, as celebrant at weddings, as a dayan granting divorce, as leader of prayers and as a judge in the ghetto.
Mischket Liebermann. The Editors 2009
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The origins of tabla repertoire and technique may be found in all three and in physical structure there are also elements of all three: the smaller pakhawaj head for the dayan, the naqqara kettledrum for the bayan, and the flexible use of the bass of the dholak.
Archive 2009-10-01 photographerno1 2009
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Born in London in 1944, Zornberg, who has lived in Jerusalem since 1969, was steeped in a world of rabbinic tradition and scholarship (her father was a dayan and av bet din [head of a rabbinic court] in Glasgow).
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"But what'll we do all dayan 'to-night?" he asked, finally.
A District Messenger Boy and a Necktie Party James Otis 1880
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