Birkat Hamazon
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Birkat Hamazon, known in English as the Grace After Meals, is a set of Hebrew blessings that Jewish law prescribes following a meal that includes at least a kezayit piece of bread. It is understood as
Birkat Hamazon is recited after consuming a meal eaten with bread
The start of the blessing, in a siddur from the city of Fürth, 1738
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Psalm 126
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Psalm 126 is the 126th psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream". In Latin, it is kn
Psalm 126 in the Parma Psalter
St. Francis and St. Monica on a stained glass window at Little St Mary's Church, Cambridge, England. Monica's phylactery contains verse 5 of Psalm 126 in Latin, for she long prayed for the conversion to Christianity of her son Augustine.
Title page of the manuscript of Rameau's In convertendo (1751 version)