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At a Seder service given to a number of friends, their wives and older children, the thought occurred to me that the service was marred because of typographical blunders, bad grammar, and mis-translations which abounded in the books used, and, as I knew, in all the books obtainable in this country. I
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Lillie Cowen was not the first to shy away from the traditional phrase "Nine months of pregnancy". The
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determined, therefore, if the Lord spared me, to issue in the near future a
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In “Who Knows” some liberty has been taken with numbers eight and nine, in view of the fact that this part of the service is especially designed for the children.
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Jewish year. Lillie's "solution" to use the 9th of Av instead, can be traced back to much older “Ashkenazi” translations, e.g. in the 1712 Amsterdam
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