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Mahr
(dowry):
Ma
zor
(Heb., ‘cycle’). Jewish festival prayer book. The term ma
zor distinguishes between the prayer book for festivals as opposed to the
siddur
, which is the daily
prayer
book.
Ma
zor Vitry
.
Jewish
halakhic
-liturgical book. The
Ma
zor Vitry
was composed by Sim
ah ben Samuel of Vitry, a pupil of
Rashi
, in the late 11th cent. CE. The book gives the halakhic rulings of the
liturgy
for the annual cycle of weekdays,
Sabbaths
, and
Festivals
.
Mai Chaza's Church
.
Church founded, among the Shona-speaking Manyinka in Zimbabwe, by Mai (Shona, ‘mother’) Chaza (d. 1960), after a mystical experience of death and resurrection while in a coma early in the 1950s. Initially remaining within
Methodism
, development as a separate body began in 1955, based on her new village, Guta Ra
Jehovah
(‘city of Jehovah’), as the first of a series of holy cities which served as famous faith-healing centres, especially for barren women. Her works and teachings, as related to those of Jesus, have been collected in a Guta Ra Jehovah Bible. The movement's adherents have declined to no more than 3,000.

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