Obj. ID: 45346
Sacred and Ritual Objects Shmirot Havdalah plate, Ukraine, 1875
The custom of shmirot, the making of objects using the silver of coins blessed by a Hassidic Rabbi, was usually carried out in the crafting of a Kiddush cup. In this example, the shmirot were used to fashion a small tray which is engraved with the phrase "Ne'esah me-Shmirot", or "Made from the blessed coins". This tray comes from the family of the Bohush Rabbi in Tel Aviv and was used for the Havdalah ceremony at the end of Shabbat. It is the type of object used by the Rebbe’s followers for the same ceremony.
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In Hebrew:
נעשה משמירות
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Weight: 158 g
Bohush is a Hasidic dynasty named for the town of Buhuși, Romania. The dynasty began in the mid-nineteenth century with Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman, the eldest grandson of Rabbi Yisrael Friedman of Ruzhin, and was based in that town until 1951, when his great-grandson, Rabbi Yitzchok Friedman of Bohush-Tel Aviv, moved the dynasty to Tel Aviv. In 1987 the Bohush beis medrash was transferred to Bnei Brak, where the dynasty is led today by Rabbi Yaakov Mendel Friedman, a great-great-grandson of the first Bohusher Rebbe.
Bohush is one of the branches of the Ruzhiner dynasty, together with Boyan, Chortkov, Husiatyn, Sadigura, and Shtefanesht.