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Piyyutim for the High Holidays
… by Yehudah Halevy. It is sometimes printed in Sephardi prayer books as reshut to Qaddish in the Yom Kippur Minhah … But Haim was not a full-time cantor who recorded some songs in Ladino. He moved into what we may today call the …
Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh (part 2)
… Holocaust) . The most obvious connection between the two songs is their almost identical opening line. However, a … cantor. It is monotonic and sad, and sounds like a Jewish prayer. This is a main difference from Brounoff's lyrical … The most important difference in the music of the two songs is the elaborated harmony. The complicated harmony in …
Ahavat ‘Olamim
… the experience of Jewish life in the cities of Morocco: in prayer, in life-cycle rituals, and in non-liturgical religious songs for the early morning vigils, called Shirat …
Hay ram galeh
… Eastern Sephardic tradition of turning secular Arabic songs into sacred Hebrew ones. Halevi is certainly not a … such texts, a talent that can be observed in other of his songs set to popular Egyptian tunes such as Yah retzeni ra h … the beautiful city [Jerusalem] And listen, my Rock, to my prayers, [as you listened] to my sacrifices and offerings. …
Kabalat Shabat
… the Friday evening service that precedes the regular Arvit prayer and welcomes in the Sabbath. This prayer begins before darkness and in some conservative … begin the Kabalat Shabat with the reciting ofthe Song of Songs. In modern day Israel, the ritual of Kabalat Shabat …
Seliha-Selihot
… for forgiveness for one's sins that appears in various prayers and services. The Seliha does not have a fixed form, … Adon Haselihot . In the plural form Selihot stands for a prayer service in which the participants ask for forgiveness … Lehanim , each of which is adapted to various different songs. For further reading about Siftei Renanot , see here . …
Society for Jewish Folk Music
… the classical and romantic composers. Aside from the two songs opus 91 by Brahms for viola, contralto and piano, the … almost nothing for this ensemble; Saints Saens wrote a few songs with violin/piano accompaniment, and Donizetti wrote a … in the world,/ What is love?” The poem is written like a prayer, addressed to God, but in the female form, expressing …
Priestly Blessing- Birkat Kohanim
… I will bless them.” [2] The priestly blessing is an ancient prayer that is both beautiful and classically simple. The … graciousness, and peace. The rhetorical strength to this prayer is found in its succinct form. The prayer is no more … Piyutim, others were adopted from secular Jewish songs, as well as from non-Jewish sources. Some of these …
Bene Israel [JIMF]
… of this unique branch of Judaism. Through stories, songs, family prayer and community ritual, the film introduces the viewer …
Elohim Eshala
… Folkways release by the Israeli singer Geula Gill “Yemenite songs and other Israeli folk songs.” Gill (b. 1932 in Tel Aviv as Geula Levavi from a … that characterizes the performance of Psalms and other prayers in Yemenite synagogues. A blessing to God or to the …