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‖ shehecheyanu|ʃɛhɛxɛˈjɑːnuː|
Also shehechyoni, etc.
[Heb., lit. ‘that has sustained us’.]
A Jewish benediction pronounced on the evening of a principal holy day and on new occasions of thanksgiving.
1892I. Zangwill Childr. Ghetto II. xvi. 53 He was wondering whether he ought to say Shehechyoni—the prayer over a new pleasure. 1959R. S. Brookes Dict. Judaism 213 She'hechiyanu, a blessing recited on the first evening of festivals, on eating the first fruits of the season and on donning a new raiment [sic] for the first time. 1966L. Davidson Long Way to Shiloh xv. 227 When they..told me that the possibility existed, that by some miracle of God's grace, the holy Menorah was still in Eretz Yisroel..I said a shechayanu. 1972C. Raphael Feast of History i. 23 The Seder ceremony was an occasion for joy... We thanked God—in the famous She'heheyanu prayer—that he had ‘kept us alive and sustained us and brought us to this moment’. 1980Jewish Chron. 28 Mar. (Passover Suppl.) p. iii/1 He'd done the kiddush and the shehecheyanu. |
