Blowing the shofar at the end of Yom Kippur, Seliḥoth (Jewish penitential prayers) and Tishʿa BeʾAv fasting

Name of speaker: 
Carmella ʾOḥayun (Nazima Sasson)
Gender of speaker: 
Female
Occupation of speaker: 
Housewife
Age of speaker at time of recording: 
88
Year of immigration: 
1951
Speaker's country of origin: 
Speaker's community of origin: 
Language: 
Conversation topics: 
Documentation: 
May Ḥasidian
Year of recording: 
2021
Translator: 
Nathan Himmelfarb and Dr. Assaf Bar-Moshe

Translation: 

When we fasted on Yom Kippur, they would whisle the shofar. We would all go to the synagogue. We would go, they would sound the shofar. I remember my uncle fasted in the time of Hitler. He fasted for two days. He couldn’t even speak. He fasted for them. At night, he would go at two or three o’clock. They would knock on the door (and say), “get up! Sasson! Slihot! Slihot!”. They would go. They would all fast…on Tisha B’Av. Also they would get up in the morning. We even had a tank with water in it. We would pour the water. It was even…we were fasting, cleaning, and everyone would say there was blood in it…the angel of death came and put blood in it. We would all clean it…until ten o’clock. (Then) we had to go to the market, to finish all our work.

 

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