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38. Song About Love
… terms for the qualities of God, and in the concluding verses, which are typical of other devotional hymns. Gamliel …
32. Prosper, Prosper (Our Bridegroom, Our Bride)
… wedding gifts. For this song, the women alternated verses about the bride and the groom, and they also improvised verses of praise to the donors of gifts (Daniel and Johnson … Narayanan and Daniel mention the practice of improvising verses for polika songs; their comments shed light on the …
28. The Gold-Clad Bride
… in stanza 5. This translation is a composite, combining verses from the three variants textualized by Zacharia …
20. The Command Is Proclaimed
… Hebrew grace after meals. In terms of content, most of its verses stress the need to obey and depend on Periyavan, the …
17. Blessing Song
… used as a multi-purpose blessing, with different phrases or verses selected, depending on the occasion. Despite its … as a Malayalam linguist, he assumed that while singing verses in an old Malayalam which they did not understand, … 5:356). Though neither Seraḥ nor Jacob is named in the verse, it is likely that all hearing it would have been …
11. Famous Kochi Harbor
… Paradesi notebooks, appended in one as a kurukan or “short verse” immediately following song 8, the Kadavumbhagam-Kochi …
9. Paradesi Synagogue Song
… be the maṇamāra-mādam mentioned in the second part of the verse, where the “prominent people” sit and pray. The …
5. Mala Synagogue Song
… Here the welcoming ruler wants to include Jews among the diverse “Peoples” he likes to have in his land. To translate …
Rabbi David Buzaglo
… as the congregation). This section ends with the biblical verses from Numbers 14, 19-20: “Forgive the sin of these … songs retell the Book of Esther in Judeo-Spanish or Hebrew verse. Buzaglo sings this Hebrew song to the traditional … joined text and melody. The song, with different texts in diverse languages, became a staple of the repertoire of the …
3. Song of the Second Temple’s Destruction (Leaving Kodungallur)
… 1968, 3:442). The brilliant light described in the second verse is compared to the light of the full moon, with the … community, who spontaneously recalled only the fourth verse (having discussed the text some years earlier with …