{"id":1995,"date":"2018-02-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/02\/06\/moroccan-havdalah"},"modified":"2018-06-12T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:38:21","slug":"moroccan-havdalah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/02\/06\/moroccan-havdalah\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan Havdalah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IekbztMhXiA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6 and a half minute long video<\/a>, Israeli singer of Jewish hymns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/moshelouk.singer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moshe Louk<\/a>, leads the Havdalah ceremony according to the custom of Moroccan Jewry.\u00a0A unique feature in the Moroccan tradition seen in this video is the recitation of the introductory song &#8220;Avarech et Hashem&#8221; (lit. &#8220;I shall bless [the Almighty&#8217;s name]). The chanting melody reflects Arabic musical influences.\u00a0<\/em><em>During\u00a0Havdalah, all sorts of fragrant herbs and spices are used in the Moroccan community, including fresh\u00a0spearmint\u00a0leaves, rose water,\u00a0cloves\u00a0and\u00a0myrtle\u00a0branches. Some include the recitation of the\u00a0Priestly Blessing\u00a0as well as the Torah portion dealing with Pinhas ben Elazar (Numbers\u00a025:10-25:12) as both of these portions have the theme of peace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 6 and a half minute long video, Israeli singer of Jewish hymns, Moshe Louk, leads the Havdalah ceremony according to the custom of Moroccan Jewry.\u00a0A unique feature in the Moroccan tradition seen in this video is the recitation of the introductory song &#8220;Avarech et Hashem&#8221; (lit. &#8220;I shall bless [the Almighty&#8217;s name]). The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[359],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}