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60. Hanukkah Song
… Malayalam phrase referring to the Messiah. According to midrash, both prophet and angel will be present at the … is another example of clever wordplay, referring to a midrash about the carcass of the ram that was slaughtered …
59. The Document Box
… in bundles and kept in sturdy wooden document boxes. The midrash about Haman’s daughter and the chamber pot is found … song, “In the India Kingdom.” She is not given a name in midrash, nor in either of these Malayalam songs. Stanza 13 … Reference to the sole of Mordecai’s shoe points to the midrash that the bond of Haman’s slavery was written on …
58. Ahashverosh Song
… of Esther, chapters 4–8. It also incorporates elements from midrash. The story told in stanzas 1 and 2 is one example, …
57. In the India Kingdom
… as told in the remainder of Esther Chapter 1 and related midrash, the song also offers a dramatic story about the …
56. The Song of Ruth
… In addition to local cultural references, its elements from midrash reveal Kerala Jewish familiarity with the Talmudic … meeting place to “fulfill the law” in stanza 9 echoes the midrash that he confirmed his position as the redeeming …
55. David and the Spider
… to the mosquito, “what use is the spider?” According to midrash, at one time when David was fleeing from King Saul, … 4 with his sighting of a deer—probably referring to the midrash that Satan, in the form of a deer, lured him into … Malayalam narrative coincide with or echo biblical and midrashic stories. David’s escape by pretending to be a …
54. David and the Mosquito
… useless thing did I ever create.” This exchange echoes a midrash, where the two insects mentioned by David in his … of King David, not David himself. [3] Though the midrash about the spider is similar to the narrative in song 55, the midrash about the wasp does not refer to David’s battle with …
53. Moshe and the Promised Land (Song of the Thirteen Sefer Torahs)
… about the last day of Moshe’s life on earth, told in Midrash Petirat Moshe (Ginzberg 1968, 3:439–442; … begins with that story—echoing the chronology of the midrash, in which Moshe wrote the Sefer Torahs in the … is the Esther Abraham variant closer to the text of the midrash, but it is also richer in the figurative language …
52. The Song of “Anokhi”
… song follows the Hebrew piyyut in its reference to the midrash that Moses went up to heaven from Sinai to receive … Song). This is a reference to several passages in midrash stating that the tablets were made of precious … the straightforward Hebrew statement in the piyyut and midrash that the giving of the Commandments was accompanied …
51. When Moshe Received Knowledge
… the story of Moshe’s receiving the Torah, its reference to midrash, its particular mixture of Hebrew and Malayalam … said, contradicting the biblical account and also several midrashic stories in which Moshe purposely destroyed the … version of this story (1968, 3:129) and cites contradictory midrashic sources about the breaking of the tablets (1968, …