Kiddush cup
- Inventory number:
- Мт-1110/2
- Author:
- Wilhelm Binder Jewelry Factory
- Creation Date:
- circa 1900
- Place of Creation:
- Germany, Schwabische Gmünd
- Provenance:
- Police department of Shevchenkivskyi district in Lviv
- Technique:
- embossing
- Size:
- 8.9 cm
- Material:
- silver
- Type of object:
- Vessel
- Subject:
- Judaism
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". The object was found in the treasure at Khimichna str., Lviv, 1985, at the same time transferred to museum.
