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THE JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA

(The Dust of the Earth), a commentary on Jacob Algazi's " Ar'a de Rabbanan " (Leghorn, 1783). Bibliography: Literaturblatt des Inscriptions Tumulaires, pp. 85

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Orients, ix. 585; Bloch,

et seq.

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AZ SHESH MEOT

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poem of three stanzas by R. Elias Priscus, introduced in the northern liturgy at the conclusion of the piyyutam in the Additional Service on the Feast of Weeks. t

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paraphrase is given below of the two melodies associated with the poem: both are equally quotations

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and the persistence of the practise shows that his intention was widely understood and appreciated. The melody transferred already contained within itself a quotation, in the phrase between the points marked here " A " and " B, " which had been excerpted from the melody of Kol Nidkb. It had been introduced because at that point in the original text mention was made of the Day of Atonement, on which alone "Kol Nidre" is sung. For this employment of a snatch of tune associated with a particular service as a representative theme of some idea suggested by that service or enshrined in the object of the oc-

from the music of the Days of Penitence, and afford (the more usually followed intonation especially) an excellent illustration of the hermeneutical feeling

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casion, see the general article Music,

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Synagogal. F. L. C.

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