comparemela.com

Latest Breaking News On - Yuzpa shamash - Page 1 : comparemela.com

Masquerading Masks and Phony Facials

Fake Faces | The Jewish Press - JewishPress com | Rabbi Reuven Chaim Klein | 13 Adar 5781 – February 24, 2021

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Long before the novel coronavirus made masks a fashionable part of a respectable wardrobe, Jews were wearing masks on Purim. And a thousand years before that, Moses covered his face with a mask because his face shone so brightly after descending from Mount Sinai (see Exodus 34:29-35). The word the Torah uses in the latter context is “ masveh.” The word early halachic authorities use in reference to masks on Purim is “ partzufim,” which literally means faces (see Mahari Mintz 17, Rema to Orach Chaim 696:8, and Rabbi Yuzpa Shamash’s account of the old traditions of the Jewish community in Worms).

© 2024 Vimarsana

vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.