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Yedid nefesh (Friend of the soul)
… Hebrew song Nitzanei shalom written by the Turkish Jewish poet and singer Yitzhak Eliyahu Navon (1859-1952) and set by …
Yah ribon 'alam (Lord, master of the world), version 2
… This lahan was composed by the Sephardi poet and musician of Jerusalem, Mordecai Halfon and is …
Yom zeh le-Yisrael ora ve-simhah (This day to Israel is joy and happiness)
… its real author was apparently a sixteenth century Hebrew poet from the Crimean Peninsula named Yitzhak Hendeli. The …
Lekha Eli Teshuqati: Experiencing total self-surrender to God in song
… become a staple of the trend of performing religious Hebrew poetry as Israeli popular music. This piyyut is among Ibn … lyrical creations, marked by a distinct classical poetic structure and profound spiritual content. The poem is a striking testimony to the way this poet, halakhist and biblical commentator of medieval Spain, …
Mizmor Shir le-Yom ha-Shabbat
… The poet describes the Shabbat from beginning to end. He …
The Soul Descends Into the Body
… not biblical. It seems to have been written by an unknown poet to an existing tune. The connection between the …
The Modernity of Piyyut Creativity: Ozreni El Hay Lehakhni'a
… the creation, transmission and performance of sacred Hebrew poetry in the modern period. This song is universally … most prolific authors and disseminators of Hebrew sacred poetry in the Levant of the late nineteenth and … of piyyutim edited by Hebron-born educator, publisher and poet Rabbi Yehuda Castel (1871-1936). The book was published …
Rahum 'ad matai (Pizmon Rahoum Ad Mataï)
… Pizmon composed by Rahamim Yosef Haim, a poet active in Jerusalem in the second half of the …
78. Golden Aliyah
… and highly precious in value. “The Golden Sickle” is a poetic love song in which the sickle carries a double … written by O.N.V. Kurup (1931–2016), a highly acclaimed poet, lyricist, and university professor of Malayalam; and …
71. Our Ancient Hope
… Jewish soul turning “to the east toward Zion,” the Kerala poet began his song by proclaiming “The soul of the Jewish …
69. So It Is Proclaimed and Declared!
… and declared! 12. Ignorance will vanish then, and poetic knowledge will grow. Science and culture will … Malayalam literature, skillfully making use of the poetic pāna style and metrical system, which inspires … “Herald of the Dawn” by Amshi Narayana Pillai, a Hindu poet and Gandhian freedom fighter (Andalattu1997, 20–22). …
58. Ahashverosh Song
… the Purim story. Composed by the medieval Andalusian poet Yehudah Halevy, it is sung on the sabbath before Purim …


