ASHMURAH:
A special term (compare "a watch in the night," Ps. xc. 4) in the synagogal rite of Avignon, denoting the early morning service on Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles.
Bibliography:
- Zunz, Ritus der Synagoge von Avignon, in Allg. Zeit. des Jud. 1839, p. 118.
