… say: It is song” (BT Arakhin , 11a). He also mentions that Hasidic thought celebrated the verse from Psalms 100:2, … gladness, come before His presence with singing,” quoting a Hasidic story which explains why the liturgical confession … prayer “’ Ashamnu, Bagadnu ” (referred to in the Hasidic story above), during which Jews beat their chest …

Kevin C. Karnes and Emilis Melngailis, Jewish Folk Songs from the Baltics:…

Preface The history of the Jews, Heinrich Graetz, the great nineteenth-century German…