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  • Lastly, Here is the close of the solemnity with a hymn (v. 30); They sang a hymn or psalm; whether the psalms which the Jews usually sang at the close of the passover-supper, which they called the great hallel, that is, Ps. 113 and the five that follow it, or whether some new hymn more closely adapted to the occasion, is uncertain; I rather think the former; had it been new, John would not have omitted to record it.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • Women are exempt from time-bound mitzvot decreed by the rabbis such as hallel and would also have been exempted from Hanukkah candle lighting, the four glasses of wine at Passover, eating bitter herbs after the destruction of the Temple and other practices at the seder including hallel and reading the Megillah on Purim, were it not for the fact that women are also included in those miracles (Encyclopedia Talmudit, Isha 257: 2).

    Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female. leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • Ps. 113-118, inclusive, constitute the "hallel" recited at the three great feasts, at the new moon, and on the eight days of the feast of dedication.

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • How do you balance the psychological and halakhic issue of not being able to wear tefillin and tzitzit during shaharit & hallel against the ability to daven them at the kotel or, more precisely, in the main section?

    Nashot HaKotel Adar - Danya Ruttenberg 2007

  • (Matthew 21: 9,15; Mark 11: 9,10; John 12: 13) The Psalm from which it was taken, the 118th, was one with which they were familiar from being accustomed to recite the 25th and 26th verses at the feast of tabernacles, forming a part of the great hallel.

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • The first passover requires hallel (179) during eating, but the second does not require hallel during eating.

    Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

  • Both require hallel in their preparations, and the paschal sacrifices must be eaten roasted on unleavened bread with bitter herbs, and they both abrogate the Sabbath.

    Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

  • HUD will take evryone. .free insurance for all … let say hallel tomorrow

    YESHIVA WORLD NEWS 2008

  • Sprenger (Leben Moh.iii. 527) and Lagarde have rightly correlated the Hebrew _hallel_ with the Arabic _ahalla_ (to call out,

    Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

  • When the attendants mixed for him the third cup (188) he says the blessing for his food, with the fourth cup he finished the hallel, and said over it the blessing of the Song. (

    Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

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