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27. The Elegantly Adorned Bride
… household responsibilities. There is nothing identifiably Jewish in this song. In fact, Venus Lane notes two elements … color associated with Muslim weddings. According to Kerala Jewish custom, the bride’s family would often borrow costly … Nirit Singers enacted a scene of adorning the bride while singing this song, and the entire Nirit group performed it …
26. After the Bath
… bride, which also pervades song 28, may refer to the Kerala Jewish belief that when a bride emerges from the mikveh, her … the morning. They formed a procession from one end of the Jewish street in Kochi to the other—in effect announcing to … “Blessing Song.” … 52 … 7 … 44252 … Kochi … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk …
24. Blessing for the Bridegroom
… the noble People took it in their hands. With dancing and singing, they took the Torah, With joy in their hearts, and … and writing of a new scroll was always done by a trained Jewish sofer (scribe), and often it was commissioned and … of the entire community, also including guests from other Jewish communities. The second stanza of the song refers to …
23. Happiness to the Bridegroom
… he could hear the sweet sound: “Yoseph lives,” she was singing, “Yoseph lives, without a doubt!” Hearing her, he … The song features four of the different Malayalam Jewish names for God, while blessing the groom with … one has offered an alternative. … 52 … 7 … 44243 … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk …
22. Brit Milah (Circumcision) Song
… “’ El ‘Elyon ” (’ Areshet 1980, 358–359), sung by Kerala Jewish men just before a circumcision. Immediately … Group Singers, with members of three different communities singing in turn. ________________________________ [10] … Hezkiyahu in the Hebrew version … 52 … 7 … 44240 … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk …
21. Great God Who Has Fed Us
… eaten of your food, O King, and drunk the wine from You. By singing and by praising, we bless Your holy Name. Speaking … us the mikdash; fulfill us in Siyon. There we will go up singing, singing songs of praise. With blessings and … in Chendamangalam, and Rivka Wadekeotam from that Jewish community performed it from memory in Jerusalem in …
20. The Command Is Proclaimed
… than twenty notebooks, representing almost all the Kerala Jewish communities. Ruby Daniel chose it as a particularly … when he composed song 72, the Zionist song “Hope in the Jewish Heart.” The fourth is from the Hebrew piyyut “ … Mi Kamokha prayer. … 52 … 7 … 44236 … Kochi … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk …
19. As You Stand Before Us (Saturday Night Bride Song)
… (Gamliel 2009, 141). … 52 … 7 … 44233 … Kochi … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk songs … India … Kerala … Women singing … Cochin … Barbara C. Johnson … 19. As You Stand …
18. Our Food
… as did the table of Father Abraham. Looking for Kerala Jewish touches, in the last line of stanza 4 we translate a … “Our Food” is one of the most widely distributed Kerala Jewish songs, found in at least eighteen notebooks from all … … 52 … 7 … 44230 … Splendid Singing Birds: Songs for Special Occasions … Cochin … Folk …
17. Blessing Song
… with it, none claimed to understand well what they were singing, and Ruby Daniel herself despaired of translating … refrain that “wanders” through the corpus of Malayalam Jewish songs; it refers to the midrash about the young girl, … granted to Jacob's innocent granddaughter Seraḥ. [2] This Jewish song shares the first line and a few other lines and …