"Le-fellaḥ ha-rimon" (To a segment of the pomegranate)

Wedding zaffa in the form of a girdle poem by Yehuda Halevi: the groom praises his wife's beauty, and tells of the pangs of love.

Menahem Arussi and two of his young pupils sing four of the five stanzas of the poem, omitting the fourth stanza. Arussi begins and from the second verse they sing in a responsorial manner: Arussi sings the opening and the children the closing hemistich. In each stanza the first three verses are sung to one motif, and the fourth verse to another. In the first two stanzas the first melody, the wedding tune, is sung, but the third stanza is sung to a different melody. The first melody is repeated in the fifth stanza and in the concluding blessing.