Citations:Elijah seat

English citations of Elijah seat

seat reserved for prophet Elijah

• 1987, Joel Salzberg, Critical Essays on Bernard Malamud‎^[1], G. K. Hall, →ISBN, page 219:

  But Cohn can and does extend "recognition," suspecting from the beginning a significant core of feeling in the immense isolato, seeing hints of a "true gentleman" and even going so far as to offer him the Elijah seat at the Seder.

• 2003 September 7, Bonnie Glassford, Living the Sacred Story: A Journey Into the Landscape of the Bible, iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, page 196:

  Because of my schedule of chores, the seder was half-over when I arrived and there was a choice of two seats: one right beside the rabbi, or else Elijah's seat, a chair that sits empty in case the prophet Elijah turns up with the Messiah in tow, on his donkey. I sat beside Michael as I am not Elijah, and I have absolutely no messianic pretensions or connections, and thus the Elijah seat implied responsibilities that I did not care to take on.

• 2004, Matilda Koén-Sarano, King Solomon and the Golden Fish: Tales from the Sephardic Tradition, Wayne State University Press, page 193:

  The Elijah seat on which the sandák sits and the performance of the brit at the synagogue as a religious ritual are elements that help affirm the link to Judaism.

(by extension) seat formally reserved for an absent special guest

• 2012 August 31, Andrew Beaujon, “Empty-chair interviews officially a trend after Clint Eastwood RNC speech”, in Poynter‎^[2]:

  More important, this was the fourth incidence of an Elijah seat on TV since the beginning of the year.