Miscellaneous

On this page we bring topics which are not related to any specific web page, or specific to many.

	Related to “about this site”
	Related to services in general
	General

Related to “about this site”

	Seder Chazzanut: versions and history
	Glossary of terms & wishes, greetings and expressions
	Contributors to this site
	List of all used Tefillot (prayer books)
	Rules for Pronunciation

Related to services in general

	When a Tallit is worn
	Chiyuvim (obligations) and Minhagim (customs) around the reading of the Torah.
	Names as used in the services
	Titles as used for Hashkavot
	Pregãos – announcements in Portuguese during the service
	Neginot (cantilliations) for Parasha & Haftarah
	Duchan on Shabbat, see also responsa on this topic and comment Haham Toledano.
	Hashkavot (memorial prayer)
	Reading of the Shirah and the Ten Commandments

General

	Santo Servico Recorings
	An interview (in Dutch) with Chacham Pereira (SRP) on the use of Spanish & Portuguese in Amsterdam
	Chacham Pereira’s (SRP) notes on Amsterdam Portuguese Mihagim
	“Wij Portugezen“, poem in Dutch written before the war by Abraham Alvares Vega.
	Inauguration of a Sefer Torah
	Order Mi Sheberach after “big Hashkavah” (Shabbat after burial) before Musaf
	Order shoveling at the Ouderkerk a.d. Amstel cemetery
	About Tekubal Beratson – תקובל ברצון at the end of each prayer (JBS)
	שירים at the inauguration of Chazzan J.D. Blanes in 1902
	Zecher lachurban in the Snoge (the fairytale about the splinter, Dutch, JBS)
	Language use and expressions among Amsterdam Portuguese Jews (JBS)

Places of officials

There are separate benches for the Chacham and the rabbis in both synagogues. Before the war rabbis were sitting on both sides of the Tebah (left picture; the small synagogue on the right picture is post-war).

Knocking

We have the mingah (custom) to knock three times on the door of the Snoga before we open it out of kawod (respect) for the Shechinah (Devine presence).