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63. Singing, Singing
… Amen, amen! This song incorporates elements from and elaborates upon one of the most universally known Hebrew …
57. In the India Kingdom
… also offers a dramatic story about the daughter of Haman, elaborating on a very brief mention in Targum Esther 5:1 …
54. David and the Mosquito
… scene described in stanzas 5 and 6 draws from the more elaborate biblical account of David’s killing of the giant (I …
53. Moshe and the Promised Land (Song of the Thirteen Sefer Torahs)
… the figurative language and dramatic effect with which it elaborates on the story—emphasizing the vehemence of the …
50. Little Sinai Mountain
… Kerala’s elegantly adorned brides (songs 27, 28) and the elaborate silver and gold crowns and hanging chains that …
43. The Song of Mother Sarah
… the women singers would have been the intensity of Sarah’s labor pains—contradictory to the midrash stating that the pregnancy and labor were without pain ( Tanḥuma Buber, Vayera 36). The …
36. O Woman Dwelling in the Field
… in a paddy field of rice, amidst the lowly huts of the laborers who toil there. The garden described in the …
27. The Elegantly Adorned Bride
… also at a women’s party the night before the wedding. In elaborate musical detail, it portrays a Kerala bride’s … custom of adorning the bride in traditional dress and elaborate jewelry at a community party the night before her …
24. Blessing for the Bridegroom
… to two other manara structures. One was the more elaborate temporary ark constructed in each synagogue to … and silver crowns and hanging chains that ornament the elaborate wooden or metal sefer Torah cases. … the community who carried all the Torah scrolls in their elaborate cases (Isenberg letter, Nov. 23, 1981). They sang …
19. As You Stand Before Us (Saturday Night Bride Song)
… in 1997, she explained that it was sung to accompany the elaborately dressed bride in procession at the end of Shabbat …