Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Jewish prayer book for everyday use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Jewish prayer-book.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Judaism A
prayer book containing a set order ofdaily prayers .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Editing a siddur is a lot more difficult and time consuming when you are researching and debating changes to the siddur instead of just printing the traditional hebrew text.
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He posed a challenge for every Jew to find himself or herself inside the siddur, which is filled with beautiful poetry, meaningful philosophy and provocative theology.
Articles 2008
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I slink away to "SOC 4," and a class about how the siddur came into being, and after head over to get some tea in the Arts center, where I bump into Silvia Nacamulli, a 39-year-old Italian chef.
Danna Harman: What I Learned At Limmud Danna Harman 2011
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I was part of the committee of mostly rabbis that created a siddur for Shabbat morning called Or Chadash.
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Tefillah (Prayer) contains poems specifically written for a siddur (prayer book).
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And on the bima, I face the ark and hold my siddur (prayer book) against my chest and think about my life.
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And on the bima, I face the ark and hold my siddur (prayer book) against my chest and think about my life.
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The peddler melammed [teacher], going from door to door with siddur and Humash in hand, teaching boys and girls their aleph-bet, or the Old World rabbi confronting scores of boys in a basement heder, stood in stark contrast to the modern public school, with its imposing building and its corps of well-trained American teachers.
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A typical heder enrolled forty to fifty boys, often in wretched physical quarters, after public school hours to learn mechanical reading of Hebrew, siddur, hummash, and Mishnah.
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While quite radical in his willingness to change the traditional siddur (book of daily prayers), he never thought to make the siddur gender-neutral.
Mordecai Kaplan. 2009
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