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FESTIVALS

Rosh Hashanah (New Year)

Pesach (Passover)
Purim (Feast of Esther)

Sukkot (Tabernacles)
Hanukah


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ROSH HASHANAH


£65.00 Rothschild Miscellany folio 132folio 132
Zahrenu prayer, recited at the New Year, 'Remember us for life O King….inscribe us in the Book of Life…'




£55.00 Rothschild Miscellany folio 137folio 137
A man is blowing a shofar (ram's horn) within a minyan (a group of at least ten males) to depict 'Yom Teru'ah', the day of the blowing





£55.00 Rothschild Miscellany folio 139folio 139
Confessing sins on The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)




£55.00 Rothschild Miscellany folio 142folio 142
A beautifully decorated page containing part of the Amidah recited during Yom Kippur.




£55.00 Rothschild Miscellany folio 143folio 143
Ne'ilah, the closing prayer on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)




£55.00 Rothschild Miscellany folio146folio146
A beautifully illuminated leaf containing part of the Amidah recited during Yom Kippur



PESACH
All leaves from the Barcelona Haggadah and Rothschild Haggadah

PURIM



£55.00 Rothschild Miscellany folio 125folio 125
Prayers recited at Sukkot (Tabernacles)





£55.00 Rothschild Miscellany folio 165folio 165
Piyyutim for Passover. The four miniatures depict Abraham entertaining the angels, Gabriel hurling fiery rocks over Sodom, Esther and Haman.



SUKKOT



£55.00 Rothschild Miscellany folio 125folio 125
Prayers recited at Sukkot (Tabernacles)




£65.00 Rothschild Miscellany folio 147folio 147
Hosha'not poetical prayers recited during Sukkot, (Tabernacles) 'Please save us!'



HANUKAH


£55.00 Rothschild Miscellany folio 113folio 113
Al Hanissim 'for the miracles and the redemption'. A man lights the Menorah at Chanucah.