New Mexico Hispanic Latinos, the Spanish descendants of the Land Grants have a secret, a lost component of all their collective identities. We are Spanish, Latino, Chicano, Aztec, partially Moorish, Catholic but the big secret which has remained a secret is their long lost and buried Jewish roots. Only small traces remained of this truth in a handful of the Spanish colonial families. At long last was they have the ability to join their ancient ancestors in the ancient Hebrew prayers. This "enabler" enables the non-Hebrew speaker, non-Hebrew reader to utter the Hebrew prayers, in a liturgical service fully by means of using the English alphabet and phonetic sound to fully construct the prayers and service. Now Hispano/Judeo families can rejoin their ancestry without need of a Rabbi or even a synagogue just as they did in Spain and in Judea, thousands of years before.
This is a full Sabbath liturgy for Sephardic synagogue use completely rendered in phonetic, or, transliterated Hebrew. The purpose of this transliterated Western Sephardic liturgy as preserved by the Sephardic Jews of New York, is to make possible Hebrew prayer for crypto-Jews who never learned to read or pray in Hebrew. The liturgy and Sephardic rights have been returned to us through this work.
Details
- Publication Date
- Apr 7, 2007
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781794898905
- Category
- Religion & Spirituality
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Perry Pena
Specifications
- Pages
- 117
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- Pocket Book (4.25 x 6.875 in / 108 x 175 mm)