Translator name :magdalena.krężałek
Muzeum Historyczno-Etnograficzne (Museum of History and Ethnography) in Andrychów houses a permanent exhibition documenting all spheres of religious and secular customs of Polish Jews. Over 300 different pieces of Judaica have been collected by the Museum. One can find there candle holders (the synagogue, Sabbath and Hanukkah ones), Torah scrolls, tallitot (prayer shawls), tefillin (clip-on cassettes with the text of the Pentateuch), Talmud books, elements of clothing and items of everyday use (spoons, utensils).
Simultaneously, the documentation on the life of Andrychów Jews, in particular from the interwar period, is being stored here as well.
Muzeum Historyczno-Etnograficzne (Museum of History and Ethnography) in Andrychów
Podgórska St.3, 34–120 Andrychów
Phone no. / fax: 33 875 24 88, 33 875 41 01; 503 928 225
E-mail: ziemianstwo@poczta.onet.pl
Sabbath
Shabat, shabas, shabes [Hebrew, "rest"]
A day of rest after a week of work; one of the oldest and most enduring holy days in the Jewish tradition.
The Sabbath is a commemoration of the day the Creator rested after the creation of the world. The Ten Commandments included a command to observe this day: "Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh(...)
Talmud
[Hebrew, Instruction]
After the Bible, Judaism's most important book. It contains commentaries on the Holy Scripture, rabbinical discussions, moral instructions and parables. These cover subjects such as the essence of God, cosmology, the afterlife, resurrection, the Final Judgement, the Messiah, the essence of man, the human soul, sin and repentance, reward and punishment, faith and prayer,(...)
Torah
[Hebrew, "instruction", "law"]
The Five Books of Moses [Greek, Pentateuch], which constitutes the main part of the Hebrew canon of the Holy Scriptures. The Torah contains the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and is also commonly known as the Chamash. In Hebrew, these books are known by their first few words, thus: Be-reshit [Hebrew, "In(...)
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