Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 238: Part of a collection of rahiṭim for Yom Kippur Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 238: Part of a collection of rahiṭim for Yom Kippur are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Verse endings are signified by a sof pasuḳ, piyyut endings are signified by a circles; Unknown raḥitim, some are followed by a few biblical phrases. A. on fols. 1-2 (recto), strophes ט-ת of a raḥit in which each letter has a four-verse strophe. The rhyme changes every two letters. The lead phrase of each verss י'י אקרא ויען. Ends תקיף ומרומם על כל ברכות. Fol.2v is blank, save for a writing exercise; B. on fol. 3 to verso l.9, verses ד-ת of a raḥit, one verse per letter, all rhyme רה-. The constant lead phrase is -וה[אדם] כ. Ends: ותקדמהו סליחה וכפרה; C., the next raḥit, on the remainder of fol. 3, to fol. 4 verso l. 9, is complete (א-ת). It starts: אמת תרעש הארץ. The constant lead phrase is וי'י אלהים; The remainder of the verso contains the beginning D. ordered תשר״ק, starts: התומך בכחו מעלה. The fragment ends at verse ס. Condition: consecutive, lacuna between fols. [2]-[3]; nearly complete; fol. 3 damaged with losses from external edge. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 238 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940419183503681 Hebrew Part of a collection of rahiṭim for Yom Kippur

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 15.2 X 10.4 cm Columns: 1; lines: 16-20, per page; ruling method: left rule generally unjustified, but occasionally filled with two characters from anticipated word. Hebrew Oriental semi-square Material applied: black ink

11th century-12th century?

Orient Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Amram. Yom Kippur , Liturgy , Texts