Rosh Hashanah postcard with an excerpt of the liturigical poem Unetanneh Tokef, which is recited during the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy : "But repentance, prayer, and righteousness avert the severe decree."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the Torah procession in synagogue. The text reads : "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together" (Psalm 34:4).
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the Torah procession in synagogue. The text reads : "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together" (Psalm 34:4).
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the Torah procession in synagogue. The text reads : "O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together" (Psalm 34:4).
Postcard with a black-and-white photographic portrait of David Ben-Gurion, Zionist and first Prime Minister of Israel, in uniform as a soldier in the Jewish Legion.
Raised relief Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting lifting the Torah in synagogue, with texts from Proverbs. Above, text excerpted from Proverbs 3:18 : "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her." The Torah scroll is opened to Proverbs 9:11 : "For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased."
Color postcard of educational institutions in Israel, including the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Technion in Haifa, the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Jaffa, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, and the girl's school in Neve Tzedek.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah. The text reads : "With trumpets and sound of the horn shout ye before the King, the Lord."
Postcard depicting a mother by her baby's cradle. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Calm in your cradle / Sleep, sleep, dear child / An angel spreads his wings / Mother's dreams are spun."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting a boy learning to lay tefillin before his bar mitzvah. The text reads : "And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes" (Deuteronomy 6:8).
Black-and-white photographic postcard of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld with President of Czechoslovakia Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk during Masaryk's 1927 visit to Jerusalem.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of tashlikh. The text, which is recited at the ceremony, is excerpted from Micah 7:19 : "He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of tashlikh. The text, which is recited at the ceremony, is excerpted from Micah 7:19 : "He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of tashlikh. The text, which is recited at the ceremony, is excerpted from Micah 7:19 : "He will subdue our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a black-and-white photograph of the tomb of Rabbi Simeon bar Yochai in Meron. The border features a drawing of Rabbi Simeon bar Yochai and his son Eleazar, with text from Shabbat 33: A miracle occurred and a carob tree was created for them.
Rosh Hashanah postcard showing ships marked ge'ulah (redemption) filled with refugees immigrating to the State of Israel. The banner at the top of the postcard reads : "Bruchim HaBaim LeIsrael" (Welcome to Israel).
Postcard with a black-and-white photographic portrait of author Yesha'yahu Bershadsky (originally surnamed Domashevitski), including a biographical note.
Postcard with a black-and-white photographic portrait of author Yesha'yahu Bershadsky (originally surnamed Domashevitski), including a biographical note.
Postcard by Hayyim Goldberg depicting the Yom Kippur ritual of kapparot. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Quicker, quicker, shochet / Quickly slaughter the kapores! / May with them disappear / All sorrow, and affliction, and trouble!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with text excerpted from the Avodah service on Yom Kippur : "They would kneel and prostrate themselves and give thanks and fall upon their faces."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The following is recited during the ceremony : "This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement. This rooster will go to its death, while I will enter and proceed to a good long life and to peace."
Romantic Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "I have long been captivated / By your beautiful look / I would have only one request / That you can be called 'mine.'"
Postcard with a black-and-white photographic portrait of author, editor, literary critic, translator, and poet David Frishman, including a biographical note.
Raised relief Rosh Hashanah postcard with a portion of the Ma Tovu prayer, recited by Jews upon entering the synagogue : "But as for me, let my prayer be unto Thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a portion of the Ma Tovu prayer, recited by Jews upon entering the synagogue : "But as for me, let my prayer be unto Thee, O Lord, in an acceptable time."