… Satan told her that Isaac had been slaughtered. Umma is a Malayalam word for “mother”, and the Hebrew title Abinu (our …

… Asher also appears at the conclusion of a number of other Malayalam Jewish songs (e.g. nos. .29, 30). Tunes: Part l …

… tell a story, in the style of classical and folk epics in Malayalam literature. The parrot addressed here is a special … —literally translated as a “green parrot,” and in Jewish Malayalam an epithet for a very beautiful woman— hence the …