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Qad Zawajunī - Here I Was Wed
… as well as during events and ceremonies associated with the life cycle. However, the strictness of this gender-based … segregation was variable depending on the level of religious observance in each specific community. For … and rural Jewish women in Yemen. In accordance to the rigid religious lifestyle of the cities, the urban women were seen …
Na’aleh L’artzeinu – A Simple Melody with an Intricate Story
… choir were perhaps his first efforts in what would be a life-long devotion to modern Hebrew song. In 1922 Binder … in Binder’s book, would sound familiar to most Jews with a religious background but would be meaningful to secular Jews … L’artzeinu. The Yiddish lyrics of this song are deeply religious in nature and talk about the coming of the …
A centerpiece of the High Holydays liturgy: Shofet Kol Ha'aretz in Moroccan and Yemenite versions
… who wilt arraign The nations at thy judgment seat, With life and favor bless again Thy people prostrate at thy … accord; Deal kindly with Thy people's lot, And grant them life, our King and Lord. Let Thou the mark of life appear … liturgical context, and is transformed into an independent religious song, performed on a weekday with instrumental …
Debbie Friedman’s Shema’ Koleinu: An ancient prayer in a new musical garment
… youth first brought her music into the mainstream of Jewish life and into their synagogues, where many worshippers were … English translations and interpretations of liturgical and religious Jewish themes, educational songs for children, …
Four Melodies for Four Questions
… These additions also blurred the borderline between the religious and mundane spheres in this domestic Jewish … text phrase by phrase, a common learning technique in religious schools in Eastern Europe. Our website includes … Palestine in 1926. He was extremely active in the musical life of the Yishuv, working extensively also for the Israeli …
“Eli Eliyahu:” The Havdalah Piyyut and its Melodies
… to other parts of Christian Europe. Toward the end of his life he wandered to England, and most likely passed away … Translation from B’nai Jeshrun: http://www.bj.org/spiritual-life/music-of-bj/invitation-to-piyyut-na/el-eliyahu/ … the Sephardic version is included in a chapter of pizmonim (religious songs with refrain) not associated with a …
The medieval Hebrew song Kikhlot yeini and its Purim connections: New sources on its music
… That the major Hebrew websites respectively dedicated to religious and secular songs included Kikhlot yeini in their … one transcribed and published by Isaac Levy as a Sephardic religious song and recorded by Voice of the Turtle in 2000. … Kikhlot yeini . However, what about its previous “Jewish” life? The Jewish versions Ashkenazi lineage Ayelet …
El Incendio de Saloniki: The Song of the Fire
… the fire played a catalytic role in ending an era of Jewish life in Saloniki. Greek authorities viewed the fire’s … comprised of a few hundred vital years of cultural life, tragically bookended by the expulsion from Spain … this fire was punishment for the sins of not keeping the religious laws of Shabbat ( los pekados del shabbat ).” 8 El …
Rabbi Meir Eleazar Atiya
… been born and raised in Rabat but then spent most of his life in Israel, where he received his rabbinical education. … as Moroccan Jewry’s foremost paytan , an expert in the religious poetry sung as part of the liturgy, in … as well as in ceremonies celebrating the stages of the life cycle, such as circumcisions and weddings. He was not …
Self-Revelation and the Law - Arnold Schoenberg in his Religious Works
… The subject matter and the treatment of it are purely of a religious-philosophical kind'. So categorical a statement … Aaron - or, indeed, in any of Schoenberg's other works of religious and philosophical cast. But such a conclusion … Aaron - which preoccupied him during so many years of his life? Does not the 'dying statement' to Rufer, in a strange …