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Lekha dodi
… Kabbalat shabbat ("Welcoming of the Sabbath"), a ritual developed by the kabbalists of Safed in the sixteenth century, is one of the most musically rich synagogue services. Its highlight is the … 1505-1584) that is sung to many different melodies in each Jewish community. The Western Sephardi tradition, however, …
Lied ohne Worte (chassidisch)
… Hassidim and among the people’s masses) sprouts the main Jewish characteristic, that of total dedication to the … Jews thrived and turned the Song without Words into pure music (is that a coincidence that a converted, assimilated … In Hasidic thought, expressing the yearning for a total spiritual experience is beyond words, even those of prayer. …
Maoz Tzur
… followed by the hymn commemorating the reestablishment of Jewish worship in the Jerusalem Temple by the Maccabeans. … The 'Ma'oz tzur' melody from the Verona Ashkenazi ritual is a variant of the tune transcribed by Benedetto … among Italian communities in Piedmont. … Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961) …
24. El buceador (CES)
… performed by his wife Alegra Attias-Alhanati) and the musical transcription in his Cancionero ( Attias 1972 , pp. … song was associated with the wedding events at the mikveh (ritual bath), an interpretation that makes sense given the …
A Liturgy within the Liturgy: The German Torah Service in Past and Present
… für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover (HMTMH) And the Jewish Music Research Centre, The Hebrew University of … Changing patterns of socialization within synagogue rituals, the aesthetization of the reading of scripture and …
Idelsohn's Obituary of Abraham Goldfaden
… , Idelsohn projected into this text his own vision of Jewish history and destiny as well as his take on prophecy … This real grace came too late because Goldfaden died a spiritual death already twenty years ago, on the day his … his own Gesamtkunstwerk, ‘Yiftah’, as ‘hizzayon negini’ (musical play). Modern Hebrew writers embraced the biblical …
Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel
… Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel is a spiritual guide, a Rabbi of the renewal Judaism, and the first … Senior Educator from 1996 to 1997 and earned a Masters of Jewish Studies Degree at Boston Hebrew College in 2003. Her music style was inspired by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who …
Fog al-Nakhal (فوق النخل): Multicultural and Transnational Journeys of an Iraqi Folksong
… history is complex, revealing a number of interrelated musical and textual settings. Looking into the information … number of different composers, such as the prominent Iraqi-Jewish musician Salah al-Kuwaity (1908-1986), and in some … performed during mawlid sessions - birth celebration rituals of the Prophet [See Appendix: Texts , “Fog al …
Shefa Gold
… Shefa Gold is a Rabbi, composer, and spiritual leader in the liberal Jewish denominations in the USA. She was ordained as a Rabbi … Energy & Ecstatic Practice. She is a composer of spiritual music and produced more than 10 albums. One of her famous …
A Moroccan Synagogue Service
… the article “ Liturgy: An Overlooked Space in the Moroccan Jewish Musical Map .” This extract is accompanied by the recordings … of the liturgy, that daily, weekly and yearly spiritual diet that is the duty of any observant adult male …