Esta noche es alabada (La noche alabada)

Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
Judeo-Spanish Songs for the Life Cycle in the Eastern Mediterranean
Esta noche es alabada

Rosa Avzaradel (Rhodes)


One of the coplas de parida sung during the last night before the circumcision. The text stresses that there should be plenty of light in the house. The prophet Elijah (the traditional witness of the circumcision) is mentioned as well as the patriarch Abraham, the first Israelite to be circumcised.

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