Rema noted that the Shulchan Aruch was based on the Sephardic tradition, and he created a series of glosses to be appended to the text of the Shulkhan Aruch for cases where Sephardi and Ashkenazi customs differed ( based on the works of Yaakov Moelin, Israel Isserlein and Israel Bruna ).

Despite this, the tradition of most Ashkenazi Orthodox synagogues is to use Hebrew ( usually Ashkenazi Hebrew ) for all except a small number of prayers, including the Kaddish, which had always been in Aramaic, and sermons and instructions, for which the local language is used.

Rashi had no sons and taught the Mishnah and Talmud to his daughters, until they knew it by heart as Jewish tradition teaches, they then transferred their knowledge of original Mishnah commentary to the Ashkenazi men of the next generation.

According to Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, it is read in its entirety on Shabbat that falls during the intermediate days of Passover ( or on the seventh or eighth day if it happens to be Shabbat ).

Since the overwhelming majority of Ashkenazi Jews no longer live in Eastern Europe, the isolation that once favored a distinct religious tradition and culture has vanished.

In a religious sense, an Ashkenazi Jew is any Jew whose family tradition and ritual follows Ashkenazi practice.

By tradition, a Sephardic or Mizrahi woman who marries into an Orthodox or Haredi Ashkenazi Jewish family raises her children to be Ashkenazi Jews ; conversely an Ashkenazi woman who marries a Sephardi or Mizrahi man is expected to take on Sephardic practice and the children inherit a Sephardic identity, though in practice many families compromise.

Also Baraitha, Beraita, Ashkenazi Beraisa ) designates a tradition in the Jewish oral law not incorporated in the Mishnah.

Aside from the blowing of the shofar, the other major ritual practice during Elul is to recite selichot ( special penitential prayers ) either every morning before sunrise during the week before the last Wednesday before Rosh Hashanah ( Ashkenazi tradition ) or every morning during the entire month of Elul ( Sephardi tradition ).

* The musar tradition was revived by the Jewish ethics education movement known as the Mussar Movement that developed in the 19th century Orthodox Jewish European ( Ashkenazi ) community.

In the English-speaking world, Shylock has predominantly been portrayed as an Ashkenazi Jew ( a tradition still evident in Al Pacino's performance on film ), although the action is supposed to take place in Venice, reflecting the representations available to modern-day British and American artists and audiences rather than the time and place of the setting.

The Yemenite tradition is therefore separate from both the Sephardi and the Ashkenazi streams in Judaism.

The schnitzel tradition was brought to Israel by Ashkenazi Jews coming from Europe, among them some of German origin.

Arguably the most important and certainly most popular night of Selichot in the Ashkenazi tradition is the first night, when many women and girls as well as men and boys attend the late-night service on Saturday night.

Most residents are Ashkenazi Jews in the Lithuanian tradition, but there are also Sephardi Jews.

It was an act of integrating the Sephardic tradition and its accommodation into the Ashkenazi world, the confirmation of the authority and its undermining appearing on the same page.

An Ashkenazi Jewish tradition speaks of the Lost Tribes as Die Roite Yiddelech, " The little red Jews ", cut off from the rest of Jewry by the legendary river Sambation " whose foaming waters raise high up into the sky a wall of fire and smoke that is impossible to pass through ".

The Spanish and Portuguese synagogues of the United States conserve varying degrees of Sephardic tradition, but the majority of their membership is now ethnically Ashkenazi.

With this reference point, the linkage disequilibrium in the Ashkenazi Jewish population was interpreted as " matches signs of interbreeding or ' admixture ' between Middle Eastern and European populations ".

It is widely used as a reference and has mostly supplanted the Chayei Adam and the Aruch HaShulchan as the primary authority on Jewish daily living among Ashkenazi Jews, particularly those closely associated with haredi yeshivas.

Rabbi Isserles ' weaving " his comments into the main text as glosses, indicates – besides upholding the traditional Ashkenazi attitude to a text – that the work itself, meant to serve as a textbook for laymen, had been accepted in Rema ’ s yeshivah at Krakow as a students ’ reference book.

Reincarnation, called gilgul, became popular in folk belief, and is found in much Yiddish literature among Ashkenazi Jews.

The Book of Ruth (; Sephardic, Israeli Hebrew: ; Ashkenazi Hebrew: ; Biblical Hebrew: Megilath Ruth " the Scroll of Ruth ") is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, or Old Testament.

Ashkenazi Hebrew, originating in Central and Eastern Europe, is still widely used in Ashkenazi Jewish religious services and studies in Israel and abroad, particularly in the Haredi and other Orthodox communities.

Hasidic Judaism or Hasidism, from the — () in Sephardi Hebrew, () in Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish, meaning " piety " ( or " loving kindness "), is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that promotes spirituality through the popularisation and internalisation of Jewish mysticism as the fundamental aspects of the Jewish faith.

In some Ashkenazi communities it is customary to wear one only after marriage.

Food that may be consumed according to halakha ( Jewish law ) is termed kosher in English, from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew term kashér (), meaning " fit " ( in this context, fit for consumption ).

Many egg matzah boxes no longer include the message, “ Ashkenazi custom is that egg matzah is only allowed for children, elderly and the infirm during Passover .” Even amongst those who consider that enriched matza may not be eaten during Passover, it is permissible to retain it in the home.

Those who contend that Ashkenazi Jews should not eat egg matzah on Passover cite Rema ( Orach Chaim ibid., 4 ) ruling that the custom among the Ashkenazim is to refrain from eating egg matzah on Passover, unless it is necessary for children or the elderly who would have difficulty eating regular matzah.

Matzah brei is another popular dish of Ashkenazi Jewish origins made from matzo fried with eggs.

Israelis and Sefaradim pronounce the second vowel like English " ah "; Ashkenazi pronunciation is like " oh ".

According to Ashkenazi minhag one is not allowed to profit monetarily from the Torah, and must work.

The Ashkenazi rite is more common than the Sephardi rite in America.

It is notable that although many other traditions avoid using the poem " Anim Zemiroth " on the Sabbath, for fear that its holiness would be less appreciated due to the frequency of the Sabbath, the poem is usually sung by Ashkenazi congregations before concluding the Sabbath Musaf service with the daily psalm.

Shas was founded in 1984 prior to the elections to the eleventh Knesset in the same year, in protest over the small representation of Sephardim in the largely Ashkenazi Agudat Yisrael, through the merger of regional lists established in 1983.

In the same year, Ashkenazi himself traveled to Palestine and settled in Jerusalem, where he was recognized as their chief by both the Sephardim and the Ashkenazim.

ccxcvi ), appeared separately in Hamburg in the same year, with notes by Tzvi Ashkenazi.

The cantorial style of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews adheres to the general Sephardi principle that every word is sung out loud and that most of the ritual is performed communally rather than solistically ( although nowadays in the New York community, the zemirot throughout the year, Hallél on festivals or the new moon, and several of the seliḥot during Kippúr are chanted in a manner more similar to the Ashkenazi practice of reading only the first and last few verses of each paragraph aloud ).

That same year, Vital first became acquainted with the kabbalist Rabbi Yitzhak Ben Shlomo Ashkenazi ( Isaac ben Solomon Luria ) aka as " The Ari ", " Ari-Hakadosh ", or " Arizal, who would have a lasting influence on him.

He was known as one of the Charedi Ashkenazi supporters for Heter Mechira during the Shmita year.

His ancestry was Ashkenazi Jewish, with his paternal line having supplied the rabbis of Trier since 1723, a role that had been taken up by his own grandfather, Meier Halevi Marx ; Meier's son and Karl's father would be the first in the line to receive a secular education.

The intensity of debate spurred Catholic Church interventions against " heresy " and even a general confiscation of Rabbinic texts and in reaction, the defeat of the more radical interpretations of Maimonides and at least amongst Ashkenazi Jews, a tendency not so much to repudiate as simply to ignore the specifically philosophical writings and to stress instead the Rabbinic and halachic writings ; even these writings often included considerable philosophical chapters or discussions in support of halachic observance, as David Hartman observes Maimonides made clear " the traditional support for a philosophical understanding of God both in the Aggadah of Talmud and in the behavior of the hasid pious Jew " and so Maimonidean thought continues to influence traditionally observant Jews.

* Rice, often with saffron or raisins – Nearly all Sephardi Jews and many Mizrachi Jews consider rice to be an essential food for the Passover table ; Ashkenazi Jews and Hasidic Jews do not eat rice during Passover as a matter of minhag.

Shlomo Yitzhaki (), or in Latin Salomon Isaacides, and today generally known by the acronym Rashi (, RAbbi SHlomo Itzhaki ; February 22, 1040 – July 13, 1105 ), was a medieval French rabbi and long highly esteemed as a major contribution Ashkenazi Jewry gave to Torah study.

Rashi and his family survived the major anti-semitic outbreak when he was 45 years old ; many of his teachers who were some of Judaism's greatest Ashkenazi sages and his mentors did not survive.

Two authoritative versions of the Ashkenazi siddur were those of Shabbetai Sofer in the 16th century and Seligman Baer in the 19th century ; siddurim have also been published reflecting the views of Jacob Emden and the Vilna Gaon.

Each participant dips a vegetable into either salt water ( Ashkenazi custom ; said to serve as a reminder of the tears shed by their enslaved ancestors ), vinegar ( Sephardi custom ) or charoset ( older Sephardi custom ; still common among Yemenite Jews ).

Some Ashkenazi Jews in Israel who have married Sephardic Jews adopt the Sephardic custom ; this often occurs with Orthodox rabbinic approval — a noted leniency, since Orthodox rabbis usually hold that one may not reject the minhagim ( customs ) of one's parents.

These rabbis include: Shlomo Goren ( former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel ); Chaim David Halevi ( former Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Yaffo ); Dov Lior ( Rabbi of Kiryat Arba ); Yosef Elboim ; Yisrael Ariel ; She ' ar Yashuv Cohen ( Chief Rabbi of Haifa ); Yuval Sherlo ( rosh yeshiva of the hesder yeshiva of Petah Tikva ); Meir Kahane.

Kohanim living in Israel and many Sephardic Jews living in areas outside of Israel deliver the Priestly Blessing daily ; Ashkenazi Jews living outside of Israel deliver it only on Jewish holidays.

; 1525 – 1572: Rabbi Moshe Isserles ( The Rema ) of Kraków writes an extensive gloss to the Shulkhan Arukh called the Mappah, extending its application to Ashkenazi Jewry.

; 1720: Unpaid Arab creditors burn the synagogue unfinished by immigrants of Rabbi Yehuda and expel all Ashkenazi Jews from Jerusalem.

Ashkenazi Jews, also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim (,, singular:,, ; also, " The Jews of Ashkenaz "), are the Jews descended from the medieval Jewish communities along the Rhine in Germany from Alsace in the south to the Rhineland in the north.

The Star of David, known in Hebrew as the Shield of David or Magen David ( Hebrew ; Biblical Hebrew Māḡēn Dāwīḏ, Tiberian, Modern Hebrew, Ashkenazi Hebrew and Yiddish Mogein Dovid or Mogen Dovid ) is a generally recognized symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism.

# The invention of printing meant that Siddurim were printed in bulk, usually in Italy, so that a congregation wanting books generally had to opt for a standard " Sephardi " or " Ashkenazi " text: this led to the obsolescence of many historic local rites, such as the Provençal rite ;

Shalom () ( Sephardic Hebrew / Israeli Hebrew: shalom ; Ashkenazi Hebrew / Yiddish: sholom, sholem, shoilem, shulem ) is a Hebrew word meaning peace, completeness, and welfare and can be used idiomatically to mean both hello and goodbye.

Safed (, Tzfat ;, Safed, Ashkenazi: Tzfas ; Biblical: Ṣ ' fath, ISO 259-3: is a city in the Northern District of Israel.