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Responsorial Singing
… 4:5; B. Meg. 24a) scholars have claimed that the Shema prayer and its blessings were recited responsorially. Before the advent of printing, few prayer books were available in the synagogue. To enable … of the ḥ azzan , it remained significant feature of Western Ashkenazic ( minhag ashkenaz ) synagogue song. The following …
Ki Hinneh Kahomer
… translation is taken from Philip Birnbaum's High Holiday Prayer Book (NY: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1951). This piyyut is a part of the Selichot prayers which are said on Yom Kippur eve in the Ashkenazi nusach. The poet uses a metaphor comparing the …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… to this day through performance, its presence in the Ashkenazi rite is obscured due to the general abandonment of … ha’aretz is a Sephardic poem that found its way into the Ashkenazi rite. As the High Holy Days season arrives, we … close association between Temple sacrifices and synagogue prayers. Since the loss of the Temple, prayer has fulfilled …
Prayer for the state
… Images: Score.doc Transcription of a recording of the “Prayer for the Well-being of the State of Israel” heard on … regarding its musical performance. Since the Eastern Ashkenazi cantorial tradition was the one adopted as the … the new prayer on the basis of a sui generis combination of Ashkenazi musical patterns that has no precise parallel in …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… Hashanah of Sephardic origins that is also sung in various Ashkenazi communities during the High Holy Days. As the High … we dedicate the song of the month to rare recordings of Ashkenazi melodies for this piyyut. The author’s first name … rhyming lines with a refrain). In the Ashkenazi order of prayers it appears as an epilogue (or, in certain rites, a …
Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)
… Kabbalistic Sabbath piyyut Benei heikhala by Isaac Luria Ashkenazi and the Hassidic piyyut Yah ekhsof by Aharon of Karlin, [6] , as well as other piyyutim and prayers such as Yah Ribbon by Israel Najara ( see third … of Hassidic music , p. 191. In reference to this term among Ashkenazic hazzanim, see: Avenary, The musical vocabulatory …
Zemirot
… and biblical verses recited during the Shacharit (morning) prayers: the Ashkenazic terminology refers to these Psalms as … in Neil Levin's Overview of his Z'mirot Anthology . 'In Ashkenazic tradition the term refers to z'mirot shel Shabbat …
Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)
… are mostly sung before performing a mitsvah or a special prayer. Some see this as a form of preparation, while others … sung before the Passover Seder and before the Leshem Yihud prayer of the Sefirat Ha’omer. It is also sung between … … Hassidim … Hasidic … Hasidism … Cantorate … Hazzanut … Ashkenazi … Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie) … יעקב …
Mitsve Tants
… Omer', taken from funeral services, as well as the prayer 'Misod Hakhamim u-Nevonim' from the High Holiday … Olam … 704 … Hasidic … 9565 … Hassidic … Dance Tunes … Ashkenazi … Mitsve Tants … יעקב מזור …
Minhah
… believed that the reason for having three daily prayers symbolizes the three patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and … translates to “converse” and is commonly interpreted as prayer. Additionally, the Min h a service is associated with … Ktoret, and Ana BeKoa h are recited before the Ashrei. Many Ashkenazi and some Yemenite Jews do not add any prayers …