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18. Our Food
… to the sense of rescue from distress conveyed in some parts of the Hebrew blessing (2005, 205). “Our Food” is one …
17. Blessing Song
… also shalom. May your offspring increase and inhabit the earth— Possess it, divide it, and thereby survive. Be … they are raised up. All they desire, He knows in His heart. For the sake of His servants, all this He gave. Before … me go to Kerala and “find a professor,” it was at least partly in the hope of finding someone who could understand …
16. Song of the Ten Commandments
… Parur, she sang from memory and said she had forgotten parts of the song. In contrast to the two folk-style …
15. Sefer Torah Dedication Song
… and singing, they took the Torah, With joy in their hearts, and also with pride. A treasure you will gain by the …
13. Manacheri Women! Mattancherry Women!
… of Manacheri (probably Manjeri, in a predominately Muslim part of northern Kerala) as laborers who remove the coir … lungi ), and finally, the inedible antennae of prawns (no parts of which are kosher food for Jews). Each of the first …
12. North Side, South Side (A Visit from the Raja)
… is found in only one (Paradesi) notebook, as the second part of a riddle song (song 35, “A Green Bird”), perhaps …
11. Famous Kochi Harbor
… 8, the Kadavumbhagam-Kochi Synagogue song. Its first line partially echoes the first line of that song. …
10. Tekkumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… them: (x2) “You must try to build it, try with all your heart. 5. You must try to build it, try with all your heart. You’ll gain from your effort an extra reward.” (x2) … the precious paḷḷi, so splendid and fine. (x2) With heartfelt devotion, they praised God as one. (x2) With …
8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… the building of the oldest synagogue still at least partially standing in Mattancherry, Kochi. According to … There it was painstakingly restored, reconstructed as part of the museum, and opened to the public in 1995 (Fishof … by looking through the door and windows of the latticed partition linking their space with the balcony from which the …
9. Paradesi Synagogue Song
… Kochi, which was initially constructed in 1568, partially destroyed by the Portuguese in 1662, and rebuilt … similar version—but without stanzas 5–7 and lacking any particular reference to the Paradesi paḷḷi—was discovered by … in songs about the other two Kochi synagogues 8 and 10). Participation by the king of the land echoes royal patronage …