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26. After the Bath
… which also pervades song 28 , may refer to the Kerala Jewish belief that when a bride emerges from the mikveh, her … the morning. They formed a procession from one end of the Jewish street in Kochi to the other—in effect announcing to the families of all three Jewish communities that this was to be her wedding day. We …
24. Blessing for the Bridegroom
… melody for each stanza to make use of four popular Kerala Jewish melodies associated with joyous celebration. [1] The … 1970 Thesaurus of Medieval Hebrew Poetry (4:337, NY: Jewish Theological Seminary) as a source for this piyyut. …
23. Happiness to the Bridegroom
… The song features four of the different Malayalam Jewish names for God, while blessing the groom with …
20. The Command Is Proclaimed
… than twenty notebooks, representing almost all the Kerala Jewish communities. Ruby Daniel chose it as a particularly … when he composed song 72 , the Zionist song “Hope in the Jewish Heart.” The fourth is from the Hebrew piyyut …
19. As You Stand Before Us (Saturday Night Bride Song)
The introduction to songs 18–20 is available here.
19a. Sarah Cohen, Seema Salem…
18. Our Food
… as did the table of Father Abraham. Looking for Kerala Jewish touches, in the last line of stanza 4 we translate a … “Our Food” is one of the most widely distributed Kerala Jewish songs, found in at least eighteen notebooks from all …
16. Song of the Ten Commandments
… This song was recorded by women from three different Kerala Jewish communities, each with a different melody and … shared by each version rather than the three very different musical presentations. Focusing on the translated words, we … listening to the recorded performances, we hear three. The musical transcriptions provide a connecting bridge. … 52 … …
11. Famous Kochi Harbor
… whole world the best harbor is Kochi, Where the honorable Jewish people came. With brightness You are shining, Lord … may simply signify a large number, or perhaps the estimated Jewish population of Kochi at whatever time it was composed. … see the commentary following song 22. The shofar is a musical instrument traditionally made of a ram’s horn and …
10. Tekkumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… (x2) A solid foundation for the paḷḷi they laid. (x2) Music rang out, with booming of drums, (x2) With fireworks … Torah ark is preserved in the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California, … celebration for everyone, with food, drink, fireworks, the music of drumming and women’s songs, and the sound of joyous …
8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… dwelled in its Torah ark (heikhal). I have also heard other Jewish elders from Kerala refer to the Shekhinah (Hebrew), … Lane recorded the song again in 2006 to facilitate its musical transcription. After the interior of this synagogue … a carpenter’s measure. [2] Tevah (pronounced teybah in Jewish Malayalam) is the Sephardi Jewish term for the raised …