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Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… melody is also played in Tzfat (Safed) as part of the Abu [Torah Scroll] Procession [from Safed to Mount Meron]. The …
Eastern Ashkenazi Biblical Cantillation: An Interpretive Musical Analysis
… Introduction Jewish cantillation—the intoned reading of Torah, Haftarah, and other Biblical texts in liturgical … as in “Haftarah trope” (the mode of Haftarah reading) or “Torah trope” (the mode of Torah reading). The six sets of melodies are used as …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… and its relationship to some features of the Ashkenazi Torah chant. Placing the three sub-types of the “common” …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… the Jewish community for the plot on which the Talmud Torah, the main Jewish communal school, had stood before the …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… humbleness characterized his widespread activities as a Torah scholar, poet, performer, teacher, archivist and …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… passage is also ritually read in the synagogue from the Torah scroll on two annual occasions: as part of Parashat … here, whose subject is the circumcision as commanded by the Torah, is a Shalmonit piyyut , written in quatrains with … Böschenstein’s and Caspar Amman’s transcriptions of the Torah cantillation motifs at the beginning of the sixteenth …
Moshe Attias
… everything now made sense, as Meknes was a city of great Torah scholars. To honor Mwijo, Baba Sali asked Mwijo to …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… באנכי English Translation The Lord is our God gave us our Torah through Moshe Rabeinu [Moses] that begins with ‘Anoji’ … purpose, connecting it to the celebration of receiving the Torah on Shavuot. Furthermore, there is significant evidence … for ‘hotza’at sefer Tora le-sabu’ot ’ (‘The removal of the Torah scrolls [from the sacred ark for the festival] of …
The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… for performance on special occasions such as Simhat Torah and Shabbat Nahamu (when the anniversary of the …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… name was Raphael Antebi Ades Taboush, was a Kabbalist and Torah scholar from Aleppo. [4] Over the course of his life, … of the wheat harvest and commemorates the revelation of the Torah at Mount Sinai and which, besides Pesach (Passover) … Al Har Sinai, et Torato [Upon Mt. Sinai, (God gave us) the Torah]. Upon closer listening, one notices the presence of a …