Small cup
- Inventory number:
- Мт-565
- Author:
- Jewelry Factory of Israel Yeselevich Zahoder
- Creation Date:
- 1891 - 1898
- Place of Creation:
- Ukraine, Berdychiv
- Provenance:
- Received from a private individual
- Technique:
- embossing, engraving
- Size:
- 44 cm
- Material:
- silver
- Type of object:
- Vessel
- Subject:
- Judaism
A Kiddush cups (glasses, goblets) is a common name for a whole group of objects that are united by the fact that there are Kiddush blessing is recited over them. These are items for the ritual drinking of alcohol during Jewish holidays and ceremonies. The most widespread of them are those from which wine was drunk four times on the Passover holiday (the 5th cup was left undrinked in memory of the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem). Passover glasses were often decorated with corresponding inscriptions or images that were supposed to be associated with Passover. Another type of goblet was small "kosis" glasses with the volume of an olive, "ke zaid" (about 27 milliliters). From them they drank kosher brandy, or, more often, peysahivka, homemade moonshine on raisins, and strictly speaking, they are not kiddush (because the blessing was not recited over them), although they were used for holidays and decorated like large glasses on Passover, and sometimes they signed "Pesach".
