- Painting by Marco Marcuola (1740–93) of a circumcision in Venice (1780). The baby is
held by two men who each wear a tallit (prayer shawl). The raised chair on the left of the
picture is reserved for the prophet Elijah. The operation on the child is out of sight of the
women, who are seated along the wall on the right of the picture. - (above left) Wine and candle for the havdalah ceremony depicted in a miniature in the
Barcelona Haggadah, which dates from the fourteenth century. There was a widespread
custom for a child to be given the candle to hold. - (above right) Spice boxes of pewter and silver made in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries in Germany and eastern Europe for the havdalah ceremony. Such ritual objects
were precious domestic possessions, along with Sabbath candles.
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