Orah

Ansel and Orah Moore, another of Ansel’s students, suggested that he shorten his name to Cooksey-Talbott, and that's the name he's worked under ever since.

Cooksey-Talbott's Vertical Panorama Landscapes - Boing Boing 2009

The Shulhan Arukh rules that women are forbidden to fast on Rosh Hodesh (Orah Hayyim 418: 1) and it is a mitzvah for them to feast (Orah Hayyim 419: 1).

Festivals and Holy Days. 2009

Orah Hayyim 529: 2 decrees, “Men must buy their wives clothing and jewelry [for the festivals] in accordance with their means.”

Festivals and Holy Days. 2009

Ideally, the megillah should be read before a group of at least ten people, and women count in constituting this minyan (Orah Hayyim 690: 18).

Festivals and Holy Days. 2009

Indeed, according to the Shulhan Arukh (Orah Hayyim 271: 2), a woman may recite the kiddush on behalf of men, “since the Torah obligates women as it does men.”

Festivals and Holy Days. 2009

These commandments comprise dwelling in the sukkah and waving the four agricultural species that make up the lulav (palm, myrtle [hadas] and willow [aravah]) and etrog (citron) during festival worship (Orah Hayyim 640: 1 and 658: 9).

Festivals and Holy Days. 2009

In his book Arukh ha-Shulhan (Orah Hayyim 75: 7), R. Jehiel Michael Epstein (1824 – 1908) permitted “praying and reciting blessings in front of [married women] with uncovered hair, since the majority do so at present, and this is like the [usually] uncovered parts of her body.”

Modesty and Sexuality in Halakhic Literature. 2009

Women, like men, must not work during hol ha-moed, the intermediate days of Sukkot and Passover (Orah Hayyim 530).

Festivals and Holy Days. 2009

In some eras in the Jewish past, it was customarily observed by men as a one-or two-day holiday from work (Orah Hayyim 417: 1).

Festivals and Holy Days. 2009

Women are full participants in the ritual portion of the Passover seder (Orah Hayyim 472: 14).

Festivals and Holy Days. 2009