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Elijah’s staff

(mateh Eliahu)

Yad

A special staff prepared for the Prophet Elijah next to the chair during a circumcision ceremony.

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Notes

An item specific to the Persian communities of Afghanistan, Bukhara (Uzbekistan), and the Caucasus.

Translations

  • Hebrewמטה אליהו
  • GermanElias-Stock
  • RussianПосох Элиягу
  • FrenchBâton d’Élie
  • DutchStaf van Elia
  • ItalianBastone di Elia
  • CzechEliášova hůl
  • HungarianIllés botja
  • SpanishBáculo de Elías
  • GreekΡάβδος του Ελιγιά
  • PolishLaska Eliasza
  • Arabicأدوات إلياهو
  • Yiddishשטאָק פֿון אליהו
  • LadinoBaston del profeta Eliyahu

Bibliography

Hanegbi, Zohar and Bracha Yaniv, Afghanistan: The Synagogue and the Jewish Home. Jerusalem: Center for Jewish Art and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 34-35, 81-82, 156-58.

Kurt, Zevulun. “The Staff of Elijah the Prophet.” Yeda-‘Am, vol. 25, 1961, p. 64.

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