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  • The smaller drum, played with the dominant hand, is sometimes called dayan lit. "right"; a.k.a. dāhina, siddha, chattū but is correctly called the "tabla."

    Archive 2009-10-01 photographerno1 2009

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    2008 July « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008

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    “Be’Tipul” in Hebrew that Means “Emmy” « The Blog at 16th and Q 2008

  • Her father had been the dayan (associate rabbi) and a lavnik (alderman) of his municipality.

    Personal Information for Bella Harkavy Jewish Women's Archive 2010

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  • Her father had been the dayan (associate rabbi) and a lavnik (alderman) of his municipality.

    Personal Information for Bella Harkavy 2010

  • As his daughter lovingly describes him, he was in constant movement, a one-man service combination, who cared for his flock from the cradle to the grave, as mohel (circumciser) and Bar Mitzvah teacher, as celebrant at weddings, as a dayan granting divorce, as leader of prayers and as a judge in the ghetto.

    Mischket Liebermann. The Editors 2009

  • The origins of tabla repertoire and technique may be found in all three and in physical structure there are also elements of all three: the smaller pakhawaj head for the dayan, the naqqara kettledrum for the bayan, and the flexible use of the bass of the dholak.

    Archive 2009-10-01 photographerno1 2009

  • Born in London in 1944, Zornberg, who has lived in Jerusalem since 1969, was steeped in a world of rabbinic tradition and scholarship (her father was a dayan and av bet din [head of a rabbinic court] in Glasgow).

    Anglo-Jewish Writers: Twentieth Century. 2009

  • "But what'll we do all dayan 'to-night?" he asked, finally.

    A District Messenger Boy and a Necktie Party James Otis 1880

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