12. Hāle Luya Wanevāvo

A prayer in Ge’ez for two occasions related to Shavuot according to the Beta Israel calendar, Hedar Ma’arir and Ma’arir Seni. It combines close variations on several Biblical passages. It firstly states the prescriptive pattern which is to be found throughout the Pentateuch when God sees Moses as the one who transmits the divine commandments. The text then lists several obligations, among them: the writing of the second Tables of the Law (Exodus 34:1; Deuteronomy 10:1-5), the public reading of the Torah every seven years (Deuteronomy 31:10-13), and the continuous studying of the Torah (Joshua 1:8). As in ‘Elohe ‘Amlāka ‘Avrǝhām (track 7), this piece opens with an unmeasured section followed by a measured one. However, Hāle luya wanevāvo differs from ‘Elohe ‘Amlāka in that both sections of the former are in the hemiola pattern.