Thus, in the first half of the tenth century, grammarians such as Yehuda Hayyuj, alias Ab? Zacharia Yahya ben David al-F?si, and Dunash Ben Labrat Halevi, born in Baghdad but trained in Fez, emigrated to Andalusia, where they were the forerunners of the Judeo-Spanish Golden Age of the tenth to eleventh centuries in the realm of Hebrew and Judeo-Ara

The Hebra is also responsible of the hilûla pilgrimage of Jewish saints. For example, it should be noted that a hilûla is held on the anniversary of the death of Rabbi Simon Bar Yohai. It is celebrated in all Jewish communities with a ceremony during which a part of his writings, the Zohar (Splendor) were recited. In Fez, this pilgrimage is celeb

they erected nwâlas or huts made of reeds covered with earth, in the manner of the nomads. There was no water and they had to buy it from the peasants who brought it from the wâdî located quite far. The dead had to be buried in a place far away from their new habitat, called al-Guisa, which was located upstream from Dhar l-Mehraz. Berbers from t

Mellah can also be a biblical expression that means “lasting”. It is in fact used in the text, “bereth melah” to designate a lasting covenant, which (Bereth melah ôlam – covenant of salt forever – Bamidbar 18/19). (5) If this explanation were true, the Jews themselves would have named their neighborhood Mellah to wish themselves a last

he 2022 City Perception Survey, compiled by the Mori Memorial Foundation, asked 200 people in each of the 48 cities included in the 2021 Global Power City Index to suggest three words associated with each of the 10 top cities in the ranking: London, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Singapore, Amsterdam, Berlin, Seoul, Madrid and Shanghai. For more informati