Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 251: Maḥazor for Hoshaʹna raba, Shemini ʹatseret, ʹSimḥat Torah Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 251: Maḥazor for Hoshaʹna raba, Shemini ʹatseret, ʹSimḥat Torah 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 denoted by a punctus; The first title page bears the inscription, in large, bold characters: חלפון, and instructions in Judeo-Arabic on the verso. The next title page bears two titles: פזאמין [ליו]ם ערבה and פזאמין ללהושענה; Fols. 3-4 are fragments from the end of the Hoshanah service of Hoshana Rabba (here: יום ערבה), concluding with the headline of the following segment צלוה שמיני עצרת. Fols. 5-7 recto include the central Blessing from the 'Amidah for Mussaf of Shemini Atseret; This version assumes the possibility of the Festival occurring on Sabbath, as the day mentioned here is יום המנוח הזה ויום שמיני עצרת הזה and the Mussaf sacrifice mentioned includes that of Sabbath; Fols. 7 verso-9 contain an expanded version of the daily Blessing on the Torahאשר נתן לנו , the supplement startsאשר בגלל אבות בנים גידל (Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew poetry / Israel Davidson. New York, JTS, 1924, 8188א; Goldschmidt, Maḥazor Sukot, Shemini ʾatseret ṿe-Śimrhat Torah / Ernst Daniel Goldschmidt [ed.]. Jerusalem : Koren, 1981, p. 471), an alphabetic acrostic, for Sim.hat Torah. Condition: consecutive, complete; fraying, loss, along bottom edge of fol. ?. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 251 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940419313503681 Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew Maḥazor for Hoshaʹna raba, Shemini ʹatseret, ʹSimḥat Torah former owner Ḥalfon

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 5 X 12.5 cm Columns: 1; lines: 4-5. Hebrew Oriental semi-square Material applied: black ink

12th century-14th century?

Orient Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Amram. H?alfon. Sukkot , Liturgy , Texts