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Yom Kippur machzor translated for Brazilian Jews

By JTA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010 11:42

A Yom Kippur machzor translated for the first time into Portuguese will be distributed to Jews in Brazil's Amazon.

The prayer book includes the traditional Hebrew text of the Yom Kippur prayer services, together with a transliteration and translation into Portuguese. It incorporates the customs and prayers of the Moroccan Sephardim, which were brought to Brazil in the 19th century by Moroccan Jewish immigrants.

Until now, Brazil's Jews of the Amazon were inserting the special prayers into their own machzors as separate, hand-written pieces of paper, according to Shavei Israel, a Jerusalem-based group that helped publish the machzor.

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