Zeved habat

Zeved Habat / Fadas Ceremony (1687)[1]

Zeved habat (Hebrew: זֶבֶד הַבָּת - Gift of the Daughter) or Simchat Bat (Hebrew: שמחת בת‎ - Celebration of the Daughter)[2] is the Jewish naming ceremony for newborn girls.[1][3] The details of the celebration varies somewhat by Jewish community and will typically feature the recitation of specific biblical verses and a prayer to announce the name of the newborn child.

The ceremony is also known by other names including Fadas,[4][5] Brit Bat (Hebrew: ברית בת‎ - "Covenant of the Daughter")[2] or Brit Kedusha (Hebrew: ברית קדושה‎ - "Covenant of Holiness").[6] A medieval naming ceremony for girls, according to the custom of some medieval Ashkenazi communities, was known as a Hollekreisch (Yiddish: חול-קרייש‎),[7][8][9] or Shabbat Hayoledet ("Sabbath of the Birth Mother").[10]

  1. ^ a b Abuhav, Yitzchak (1687). "L'Zeved Habat". Meah Brachot. Amsterdam. pp. 181–182.
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  4. ^ "Fadas", Bulletin de l'Alliance (Alliance Israélite Universelle), 2 January 1888, page 88.
  5. ^ Harvey, L. P. (1973). The Alfaqui in la dança general de la muerte. Hispanic Review, 498-510.
  6. ^ Muchnik, M. (2014). 3 Language, Gender and Religion. In The Gender Challenge of Hebrew (pp. 83-130). Brill.
  7. ^ Hyman, P. E. (1993). Traditionalism and Village Jews in 19th-Century Western and Central Europe: Local Persistence and Urban Nostalgia. The Uses of Tradition,(Cambridge: Harvard 1992).
  8. ^ Hammer, J. (2005). Holle's Cry: Unearthing a Birth Goddess in a German Jewish Naming Ceremony. Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, (9), 62-87.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference tracht was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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