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HABDALA (lit. " separation ")

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 784 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
HABDALA (lit. " separation ") , a Hebrew
term
  chiefly appropriated to ceremonies at the conclusion of
Sabbath
  and festivals, marking the separation between times sacred and
secular
 . On the Saturday night the ceremony consists of three items: (a)
benediction
  over a cup of
wine
  (
common
  to many other Jewish functions); (b)
benediction
  over a lighted
taper
 , of which possibly the origin is utilitarian, as no
light
  might be kindled on the
Sabbath
  day, but the rite may be symbolical; and (c) benediction over a box of sweet-smelling spices. The origin of the latter has been traced to the bowl of burning spice which in Talmudic times was introduced after each
meal
 . But here too symbolic ideas must be taken into
account
 . Both the
light
  and the spices would readily fit into the conception of the Sabbath " Over-soul " of the mystics. (I. A.)


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