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6. Parur Synagogue Song
… Pĕśakillātĕ peḻa poṟuṃ taṃburānĕ 1. May Almighty God be the source of my help To do this without any … Jewish community until the mass aliyah of the 1950s. Beginning in 2009, an ambitious renovation of the Parur … associated with royal buildings and high-status Hindu temples. Though not found in the contemporary Parur paḷḷi, …
A Flowering Debate: A Judeo-Spanish Song (not just) for Tu BiShvat
… El debate de las flores (Debate of the Flowers) is the name provided by scholars to a long … as “the new year of the trees.” This celebration of the beginning of the agricultural cycle at the end of winter is … this world Rebuild my House of Worship [i.e. the Jerusalem Temple]. About everything one should praise the Living God, …
The Music on Comtat-Venaissin
… Revised and annotated translation from the French by Edwin Seroussi Note: This article appeared in … flourishing on the trade of the Mediterranean before the beginning of the Christian era. They were then the only … arriving via Rome after the destruction of the Second Temple, they formed the bulk of the Jewish population of …
4. Las Tablas de la Ley (The Tablets of the Law)
… This is a song or copla belonging to the cycle of Moses, catalogued by Elena Romero under the … and as a refrain, it adds the traditional blessing of the beginning of the year which, as we have seen above, is taken … tidings); misvot = precepts; Beit Hamiqdash = Jerusalem’s Temple; menorá = candelabrum; qorbanot = sacrifices; misbeaj …
2. El Merecimiento de Isaac (Im Afes Rova Haqen)
… Si el servicio de los sacrificios fue abandonado (If the ritual of the sacrifices was cancelled) This copla is a … a description of the suspension of the sacrifices at the Temple of Jerusalem after its destruction. Despite this … this melody has been recorded commercially at the beginning of the twentieth century by several prominent …
Nuestro Señor Eloheinu/Las tablas de la Ley: A Song for Shavuot
… Our song of the month concerns a Sephardic song commonly sung on the … within the Italian Sephardic communities as early as the beginning of the 18th century, and perhaps earlier. It could … of the stanzas are concerned with the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem and of the Messianic era. Two of these …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… ‘Akedah is an Ashkenazi melody firmly associated with the Binding of Isaac, which was sung to texts in both Hebrew … The text underlay is very unclear, providing only the beginning of the lines. We reconstructed the remainder of … Reform movement, who advanced the new ritual of the Hamburg Temple. His transcription is a purely pentatonic melody with …

A.Z. Idelsohn: A Pioneer in Jewish Ethnomusicology
… ' … In the beginning of the twentieth century, the study and research of Jewish … of the Jewish people after the destruction of the Second Temple, Jewish music underwent a process of diversification …

The Biblical NEBEL
… The ne b el , mentioned 27 times in the Bible, is generally … were much later than the Biblical or even the Second Temple period (Hieronymus at the beginning of the fifth century CE, or Se’adyah Ga’ôn in the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… 4 Baer 1 Baer 2 Baer 3 Shofet De Sola … דוד צובירי … The piyyut Shofet kol ha’aretz (‘Judge of all the Universe’) … last word is a reference to the perpetual sacrifice in the Temple in Jerusalem. The refrain (from Numbers 28:23), … (IMHM, PH 6651). Fragment 1 of this manuscript includes the beginning stanzas of Shofet kol ha’aretz. Another much more …