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HABDALA (lit. " separation ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HABDALA (lit. " separation ") , a See also:Hebrew See also:term chiefly appropriated to ceremonies at the conclusion of See also:Sabbath and festivals, marking the separation between times sacred and See also:secular. On the Saturday See also:night the ceremony consists of three items: (a) See also:benediction over a See also:cup of See also:wine (See also:common to many other Jewish functions); (b) benediction over a lighted See also:taper, of which possibly the origin is utilitarian, as no See also:light might be kindled on the Sabbath See also:day, but the rite may be symbolical; and (c) benediction over a See also:box of sweet-smelling spices. The origin of the latter has been traced to the bowl of burning spice which in Talmudic times was introduced after each See also:meal. But here too symbolic ideas must be taken into See also:account. Both the light and the spices would readily See also:fit into the conception of the Sabbath " Over-soul " of the mystics. (I.

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