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23. Happiness to the Bridegroom
… May He help you with His favor and answer all your prayers. 2. May He always protect you. May He guard you … The song features four of the different Malayalam Jewish names for God, while blessing the groom with …
22. Brit Milah (Circumcision) Song
… and praises be turned toward you, As Isaac turned in prayer to God. May the Lord Tambiran, Who always does … Eliyahu the Prophet bring you good luck. May all of your prayers always be heard, Like Elisha’s prayer at Jordan’s … “’ El ‘Elyon ” (’ Areshet 1980, 358–359), sung by Kerala Jewish men just before a circumcision. Immediately …
20. The Command Is Proclaimed
… than twenty notebooks, representing almost all the Kerala Jewish communities. Ruby Daniel chose it as a particularly … when he composed song 72, the Zionist song “Hope in the Jewish Heart.” The fourth is from the Hebrew piyyut “ … Are the Only One,” echoing the Hebrew liturgical Mi Kamokha prayer. … 52 … 7 … 44236 … Kochi … Splendid Singing Birds: …
17. Blessing Song
… including further familiar phrases from the Hebrew prayer book. The final stanza is just one occurrence of a … refrain that “wanders” through the corpus of Malayalam Jewish songs; it refers to the midrash about the young girl, … granted to Jacob's innocent granddaughter Seraḥ. [2] This Jewish song shares the first line and a few other lines and …
16. Song of the Ten Commandments
… This song was recorded by women from three different Kerala Jewish communities, each with a different melody and … kuṃbiṭu (bowing down) to refer to the liturgical ‘ Amidah prayer of eighteen blessings, which should be recited three … day while standing, with bowing at designated points in the prayer. The Hebrew term kahal kadosh (holy congregation) …
15. Sefer Torah Dedication Song
… and writing of a new scroll was always done by a trained Jewish sofer (scribe), and often it was commissioned and … be a reference to the manara in the home. After a night of prayer and singing in the home of the sefer Torah donor, the … of the entire community, also including guests from other Jewish communities. The second stanza of the song refers to …
11. Famous Kochi Harbor
… whole world the best harbor is Kochi, Where the honorable Jewish people came. With brightness You are shining, Lord … [1] With the sound of shofar and the sound of drum. With prayer may eight hundred of Your servants come. Be the One … may simply signify a large number, or perhaps the estimated Jewish population of Kochi at whatever time it was composed. …
8. Kadavumbhagam—Kochi Synagogue Song
… as one, Looking through three openings, they can see the prayers. 5. Delicate and fine are the carvings of wood. … dwelled in its Torah ark (heikhal). I have also heard other Jewish elders from Kerala refer to the Shekhinah (Hebrew), … a carpenter’s measure. [2] Tevah (pronounced teybah in Jewish Malayalam) is the Sephardi Jewish term for the raised …
9. Paradesi Synagogue Song
… and explained in footnotes. The song opens with an extended prayer that members of the community be united in their … translated here as “some others,” might come from the Jewish Malayalam saying, “Why don’t you ask four people?”—a … in order to represent the synagogues of as many Kerala Jewish communities as possible. Venus Lane set it to a …
7. Tekkumbhagam-Ernakulam Synagogue Song
… of the two synagogues in Ernakulam begins and ends with a prayer that the singers’ hearts be filled with the wisdom … there are two synagogues near each other in what was a Jewish residential and commercial center until the … or “by the shining silver lamp.” [2] “Jutapaḷḷi” means Jewish paḷḷi. … 52 … 7 … 44193 … Moshav Taoz, Israel … …