Vol VII, 1981 – Sukkot, Shemini Ngatseret, and Simhat Torah
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Introductions

  1. Acknowledgement of Maurice Gaguine and other English leaders
  2. Facsimile of a manuscript page of Keter Shem Tob
  1. Intro p. 4
  2. Intro p. 5

Sukkot in General

  1. Building and decorating the sukkah, and preparing for Sukkot
  2. Ngarbit
  3. Kiddush, LeSheb BaSukkah, and SheHeheyanu
  4. Where to build and bless over a Sukkah, Lehem Mishneh, and celebration
  1. Pages 1 - 6, in 7 sengifim
  2. Pages 6 - 13, in 7 sengifim
  3. Pages 13 - 24, in 8 sengifim
  4. Pages 24 - 37, in 4 sengifim

Lulab and Etrog

  1. The origin of the Mitsvah of the 4 Minim and when we bless over them
  2. Why we bless in the way we do, as opposed to other formulas
  3. The proper manner of performing Netilat Lulab
  4. Binding the Minim together
  5. Hallel and shaking the Lulab
  6. Minim during war, on Shabbat, and on Shemini Ngatseret
  7. Variant texts of "Kakh haya minhagam shel anshe Yerushalayim"
  1. Pages 37 - 43, in 5 sengifim
  2. Pages 43 - 50, in 4 sengifim
  3. Pages 50 - 58, in 7 sengifim
  4. Pages 58 - 62, in 4 sengifim
  5. Pages 62 - 86, in 13 sengifim
  6. Pages 86 - 88, in 3 sengifim
  7. Pages 89 - 92, in 1 sengif

Hakkafot, Hoshanganot, and Torah Reading

  1. Halakhot and customs of the Hakkafot and Hoshanganot
  2. Order and textual variants of the Hoshanganot
  3. Torah on the first two days of Sukkot
  4. Torah on Hol HaMonged
  5. Torah on Shabbat Hol HaMonged
  1. Pages 93 - 103, in 7 sengifim
  2. Pages 104 - 122, in 8 sengifim
  3. Pages 122 - 131, in 6 sengifim
  4. Pages 131 - 136, in 3 sengifim
  5. Pages 136 - 139, in 5 sengifim

Hoshanganah Rabba

  1. Overall concepts
  2. Sephardic and Ashkenazic customs of the service
  3. Beating the Ngarabot
  4. Sephardic and Ashkenazic customs after the service
  1. Pages 139 - 145, in 4 sengifim
  2. Pages 145 - 158, in 9 sengifim
  3. Pages 158 - 165, in 6 sengifim
  4. Pages 165 - 174, in 6 sengifim

Shemini Ngatseret, Tikkun HaTal, Simhat Torah

  1. Ngereb Shemini Ngatseret
  2. Shaharait of Shemini Ngatseret
  3. Why HaZaL called Shabungot "Ngatseret"
  4. Tikkun HaTal
  5. Kohelet, customs in Baghdad, and SheHeheyanu
  6. Simhat Torah evening and Hakkafot
  7. Torah, Hatanim, Haftarah, and customs
  1. Pages 174 - 181, in 4 sengifim
  2. Pages 182 - 185, in 2 sengifim
  3. Pages 185 - 186, in 1 sengif
  4. Pages 186 - 193, in 5 sengifim
  5. Pages 193 - 197, in 3 sengifim
  6. Pages 197 - 208, in 8 sengifim
  7. Pages 209 - 242, in 20 sengifim

Extras

  1. Topical index (in order of appearance)
  2. Poetical celebration of the completion of Keter Shem Tob
  • Pages 243 - 249
  • Page 250

The Jews of Cochin

  1. Poetical dedication to Gaguine's departed wife Rosa (née Blattner)
  2. Acknowledgement of Cochin's leaders; contents
  3. Prose introduction
  4. Poetical introduction
  5. Ch. 1 – Overview of the diasporic experiences of the Jewish community
  6. Ch. 2 – The 10 Lost Tribes, and the letter of "Bene Moshe" to Jerusalem
  7. Ch. 3 – The rediscovery of the Jews of Cochin
  8. Ch. 4 – The early history of this group and its contacts with the wider world
  9. Ch. 5 – "White Jews" (Paradesi) and "Black Jews" (Malabari); sages
  10. Ch. 6 – Customs and synagogue architecture in Cochin
  11. Ch. 7 – 8 questions about Cochin custom, and Gaguine's responses
  12. Ch. 8 – Simhat Torah, Obadyah HaKohen, Kaddish
  13. Ch. 9 – Habdalah, Ephraim ben Salah, circumcision, and marriage
  14. Ch. 10 – Purim, Rosh HaShanah, and Kippur
  15. Several interesting photographs from the community
  1. Frontispiece
  2. Title page
  3. Pages 4 - 5
  4. Page 6
  5. Pages 7 - 8
  6. Pages 9 - 17
  7. Pages 18 - 20
  8. Pages 21 - 30
  9. Pages 31 - 36
  10. Pages 37 - 38
  11. Pages 39 - 46
  12. Pages 47 - 51
  13. Pages 52 - 59
  14. Pages 59 - 75
  15. Only appear in the 1952 stand-alone volume; not in the 1998 set of KST

Bonus Material

  1. Rabbi Gaguine's commentary to Sefer Bakashat HaLamdin (1937)
  2. Shir Mizmor of his grandfather, Rabbi Shalom Moses Hai Gagin
  3. Biography of Rabbi Gaguine by Rabbi M. D. Gaon
  1. 20 pages
  2. 7 pages
  3. 2 pages