22. "Loy Sevoyshi, Di Eydo Ha-Kdoysho"

^{Zevi Mastboim, Jerusalem, 11 October 1961. Recorded by Avigdor Herzog.}

This Yiddish song, part of the repertoire of Bobover Hasidim, is based on the second part of the hymn "Lekhah dodi" (see above, nos. I, 11-12). The Yiddish text is interpolated between the words of the Hebrew poem (enclosed in the following translation in quotation marks). It was written by Yehezkel Rotenberg, a Bobover Hasid, a scholar who used to amuse members of the community on the Purim festival and at weddings; he was also the gabbai (beadle) of the Bobover Rebbe, R. Ben-Zion Halberstam (1873- 1941). It is sung at a "Seven Benedictions" feast on the Sabbath, sometimes also at the Purim feast. The song was printed, with slight variations, in the anthology Zemirot Yisra'el, 1963, pp. xiv and 5.