shirah
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[edit]Noun
[edit]shirah (uncountable)
- (Judaism) Praise to god in the form of song
- 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 229:
- It is a day similar in solemnity to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur when shirah ("praise") is not offered, as the Musaf service on Rosh Hodesh reads, Zeman kapparah lekhol toldotam ("a time for forgiveness throughout their generations").
- 2001, Max Kadushin, Worship and Ethics: A Study in Rabbinic Judaism, Global Academic Publishing, →ISBN, page 149:
- Israel will imitate the angels by saying the shirah of the angels.