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	Topics Shuckling Topic Home *Shuckling, from the Yiddish word meaning "to shake" (also written as shokeling) is the ritual swaying of Jew Jew A Jew* is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.... ish worshippers during prayer Jewish services Jewish services are the prayer recitations that form part of the observance of Judaism. These prayers, often with instructions and commentary, are found in the siddur, the traditional Jewish prayer book.... , usually forward and back but also from side to side. This practice can be traced back to at least the eighth century, and possibly as far back as Talmud Talmud The Talmud is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Halakha, Jewish ethics, customs, and history. It is a central text of mainstream Judaism.... ic times. It is believed to increase concentration and emotional intensity (Eisenberg 2004:360). In Chassidic lore, shuckeling is seen as an expression of the soul's desire to abandon the body and reunite itself with its source, similar to a flame's shaking back and forth as if to free itself from the wick (Tanya Tanya Tanya is a book more commonly known by its opening word although titled Likkutei Amarim , an early work of Hasidic Judaism, written by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad, in 1797 CE.... chapter 19). The 12th century Jewish philosopher and poet Yehuda Halevi Yehuda Halevi Judah Halevi, in full Judah ben Shemuel Ha-Levi, also Yehuda Halevi, or Yehuda ben Samuel Halevi was a Sephardic philosopher and poet.... wrote that the habit began as a result of a shortage of books, forcing people to hover over a single codex Codex A codex is a book in the format used for modern books, with separate pages normally bound together and given a cover. It was a Roman invention that replaced the scroll, which was the first form of book in all Eurasian cultures.... laid on the ground, each one bending in turn to read a passage (The Kuzari Kuzari The *Kuzari* is one of most famous works of the medieval Spain Jewish philosopher and poet Rabbi Yehuda Halevi. Divided into five essays , it takes the form of a dialogue between the Paganism monarch of the Khazars and a Jew who was invited to instruct him in the tenets of the Judaism.... , ). External links