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43. The Song of Mother Sarah
… Gamliel’s discussion (Zacharia and Gamliel 2005, 158–162, Hebrew) for a comparative analysis of the two variants. [4] …
42. Adam the First Person
… no Malayalam Jewish linguistic markers other than the many Hebrew words. Its style, melody, and contents (a list of …
41. The Ten Songs of King Solomon
… day each year. The final stanza of the song contains the Hebrew date 5521 (1760/61 CE), placing its composition in … honorific for King Solomon (H: Shlomo ha-Melekh) [2] Hebrew honorific: Adam the first person. [3] Hebrew honorific: Moses our teacher. [4] Hebrew: Joshua the …
38. Song About Love
… inclusion as a song for wedding celebrations. Whereas the Hebrew word for love, ahavah , is a feminine noun covering a … Malayalam form ābāh or ahabah (a transliteration of the Hebrew) generally refers to romantic love between a man and … with the sparks of Yah (also a transliteration of the Hebrew) may refer to the Kabbalistic doctrine of God’s …
37. Gorgeous Black-Haired Woman
… As white as snow. (x2) This Malayalam translation of the Hebrew piyyut “ Yefefiyah ” (“Most Beautiful Woman”) was the … woman—literally “black-haired woman”—to translate the Hebrew word. He praised the composer of the song for … Malayalam-ness to the extreme while remaining true to the Hebrew… and skillfully retaining the use of poetic …
36. O Woman Dwelling in the Field
… version of Shokhant baSadeh (’ Areshet 1980, 392), a Hebrew piyyut by the eleventh-century Spanish poet Solomon … where its romantic innuendos were enjoyed. The medieval Hebrew piyyut is imaginatively located in biblical … who toil there. The garden described in the original Hebrew version as “plundered” and in the Kerala Hebrew …
30. O Proud Singing Bird!
… “good constellation,” a literal translation of the Hebrew “ mazal tov .” In some notebooks this song is marked …
25. Song of the Four Crowns
… The third stanza of the Malayalam song is based on the Hebrew song Yismaḥ Ḥatani (’ Areshet 1980, 170), wishing …
24. Blessing for the Bridegroom
… that this second melody was also used for teaching the Hebrew alphabet to children. … below on song 52, “The Song of ’ Anokhi .” [2] The Hebrew term hakafah (circling around) refers to the custom …
23. Happiness to the Bridegroom
… members of her family, who sang it to the melody for the Hebrew piyyut ’El ‘Elyon , the same as for song 22, The Brit …