{"id":33288,"date":"2025-03-10T05:57:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33288"},"modified":"2025-03-10T05:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T05:59:47","slug":"onos-beit-midrash-studies-ethiopian-jewish-liturgy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/news\/onos-beit-midrash-studies-ethiopian-jewish-liturgy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono\u2019s Beit Midrash Studies Ethiopian Jewish Liturgy"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<h3><strong>Ono\u2019s Beit Midrash Studies Ethiopian Jewish Liturgy<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Beit Midrash for the Study of Ethiopian Jewish Religious Texts at Ono Academic College hosted guest lecturer Shoshana Ben Dor, a veteran researcher and retired director of NACOEJ-Israel. Ben Dor discussed her work on Beta Israel heritage, including a filmed prayer meeting where Keis Avraham helped transcribe and translate prayers. She also described efforts to publish &#8220;Tanza Snebet,&#8221; a unique Shabbat-focused book written in the Ge\u2019ez language. She noted the need for better translations of related Bete Israel liturgical manuscripts. Ben Dor highlighted her collaboration with Granam Berger starting in 1977 to bring Beta Israel Jews to Israel and her subsequent research into their liturgy, which includes three prayer collections\u2014&#8221;Mashaf Kahanat,&#8221; &#8220;Saatat,&#8221; and &#8220;Mashaf Asterai&#8221;\u2014a seven-Shabbat cycle of prayers, with origins tracing back to Second Temple times, preserved in a literarily rich prayer book compiled during 15th-century persecution of Ethiopian King Zera Yaakov.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-33289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Beit-Midrash-2.25.jpg\" alt=\"Ethiopian Beit Midrash Studies Bete Israel Liturgy\" width=\"388\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Beit-Midrash-2.25.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/Beit-Midrash-2.25-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beit Midrash for the Study of Ethiopian Jewish Religious Texts at Ono Academic College hosted guest lecturer Shoshana Ben Dor, a veteran researcher and retired director of NACOEJ-Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":33289,"menu_order":74,"template":"","class_list":["post-33288","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categories_news-updates_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}