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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 … Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political …
Selihot according to Siftei renanot
… Rabbi Micha Assis … As the High Holidays approach, the Jewish Music Research Centre dedicates the Song of the Month … 18th ICTM Colloquium “Musical Exodus: Al-Andalus and its Jewish Diasporas” held at the Corpus Christi College in … on July 20-23, 2008. Selihot is a special nightly prayer for fast days and for the days preparatory to the …

Prayer for the state
… Images: Score.doc Transcription of a recording of the “Prayer for the Well-being of the State of Israel” heard on … for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.” The Jewish Oral Law, the Mishnah, carried on the same idea: … world,” which are a plea for the reunification of all the Jewish people. … Kol Yisrael … Kol Israel … Israel … …
Shofet Kol Ha'aretz
… rhyming lines with a refrain). In the Ashkenazi order of prayers it appears as an epilogue (or, in certain rites, a … language like pentatonics, but uses a strongly profiled Jewish prayer mode whose foremost characteristic is a stock … Hanoch Avenary, “The Aspects of Time and Environment in Jewish Traditional Music,” Israel Studies in Musicology, IV …
Cleaving tune (Niggun Dvekut)
… by Aharon of Karlin, [6] , as well as other piyyutim and prayers such as Yah Ribbon by Israel Najara ( see third … sound example ), the Passover piyyut Brah dodi and the prayer Heye im pifiyot from the mussaf service of the Day of …

Zemirot
… and biblical verses recited during the Shacharit (morning) prayers: the Ashkenazic terminology refers to these Psalms … and leaned heavily on Liturgical modes and formulae. 2. Non-Jewish folk tunes served as the music for the Zemirot texts; … Bohemian, Hungarian and Polish secular songs and dances. 3. Jewish melodies either newly composed or already in use in …

Tenu'a (yd. pronunciation: tnue, tnie)
… are mostly sung before performing a mitsvah or a special prayer. Some see this as a form of preparation, while others … sung before the Passover Seder and before the Leshem Yihud prayer of the Sefirat Ha’omer. It is also sung between … place on the Sabbath: the third during the 'Arvit (evening) prayer before the Silent Amidah, and the fourth before the …

Diwan
… were literate. The writings began as a supplement to the prayer-book Tikhlal, and included a collection of poems, … written by Sephardi authors. When the poems of the great Jewish-Yemenite poet Shalem Shabazi began to appear, these …
Mitsve Tants
… to eastern Europe in the 18th century at the latest. In Jewish musar literature and minhagim books of the 17th and … Omer', taken from funeral services, as well as the prayer 'Misod Hakhamim u-Nevonim' from the High Holiday …
Minhah
… at twilight and is one of the three daily services of the Jewish liturgy. It is commonly thought that the term Min h a … believed that the reason for having three daily prayers symbolizes the three patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and … Lakol Shavi'i.” After the Shmona 'Esre Prayer In many Jewish communities, especially those in Israel, it is …