Round 9: Tossup 2

Note to players: The answer to this question is a string of three consonants. A word formed from this root and juxtaposed with “zonah” in Hosea 4:14 and the Tamar (-5[1])and Judah story is controversial evidence for a type of sex work in Israel. In 1916, Henrietta Szold wrote a letter refusing a friend’s offer to perform a practice named from this root on her behalf. Congregants rise on toes to repeat a word formed from this root three times during the third amidah prayer, which quotes Isaiah 6:3’s vision of angels praising the enthroned Lord. This root forms the name of a (*) prayer which can end by asking for peace with the “Oseh shalom bimromav” stanza. This three-letter root names the blessing over wine and an Aramaic prayer beginning “yitgadal v’yitkadash,” which can be recited over a yahrzeit candle. For 10 points, what three-letter root meaning “holy” forms the name of a “Mourner’s” prayer? ■END■ (0[2])

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