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Raise Your Hand
So why are hand
gestures
virtually non-existent in Jewish ritual and prayer? We explore....In the Hebrew Bible, thirty
gesture
phrases and three phrases describing the cessation or redirection of a
gesture
are distributed in over two hundred textual passages. ...In contrast, Ugaritic, Aramaic, and Phoenician inscriptions provide some examples of
gesture
phrases, but a given
gesture
phrase typically occurs only once or, at best, a few times in a corpus. ...this task (of dedicating a chapter to hand
gestures
in Jewish prayer) we are confronted with an interesting reality: The existence of clasping hands (and hand
gestures
in general) which are a constent...No such
gesture
is prescribed when praising or thanking the Almighty.
GS
Geoffrey Stern
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