water-drawing

The water-drawing festival is a time-honored tradition held in the Hasidic courts of the capital for decades.

the taliban of meah shearim 2008

The water-drawing festival is a time-honored tradition held in the Hasidic courts of the capital for decades.

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It is related that whosoever has not seen the joy at the annual ceremony of the water-drawing, has not seen rejoicing in his life.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

There was not a court in all Jerusalem that was not lit up by the illumination of the "water-drawing."

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

Then every day, from dawn until the evening prayer, the men are busy at their water-drawing, transformed for the time into tireless machines, with muscles that work like metal bands.

Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Pierre Loti 1886

But suddenly, at some bend of the river, the old Pharaonic rigging disappears, to give place to a succession of steam machines, which, more even than the muscles of the fellahs, are busy at the water-drawing.

Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Pierre Loti 1886

And there was not a court in Jerusalem that was not lit up by the lights of the water-drawing.

Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

The (Sages) said, “he who has not seen the joy (268) of the water-drawing, has never seen joy in his life.”

Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

That is to say, the pipes of the water-drawing, which supersedes neither the

Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880

The persons are very different: the one a learned Rabbi of reputation, influence, and large theological knowledge of the then fashionable kind; the other an alien woman, poor -- for she had to do this menial task of water-drawing in the heat of the day -- and of questionable character.

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868