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The “Jewish Baroque”: The Allure of a Modern Musical Affair
… Intended for performance on special occasions such as Simhat Torah and Shabbat Nahamu (when the anniversary of the …
Nahum Heiman
… calls Nahum Heiman a priest. His name, Heiman , is from the Torah, and Heiman elaborates: 'In The Book of Chronicles I, …
Mitsve-tants (LKT)
… repertoire in ZK, and the use of tunes taken from the Simhat Torah festival for the bridegrooms dance in TA. The common …
Yom Yom Odeh: Towards the Biography of a Hebrew Baidaphon Record
… name was Raphael Antebi Ades Taboush, was a Kabbalist and Torah scholar from Aleppo. [4] Over the course of his life, … of the wheat harvest and commemorates the revelation of the Torah at Mount Sinai and which, besides Pesach (Passover) … Al Har Sinai, et Torato [Upon Mt. Sinai, (God gave us) the Torah]. Upon closer listening, one notices the presence of a …
Idelsohn’s trilingual autobiography and Yiska Idelsohn’s oral memoire
… was a Chasid and a Ba'al Tefilah, one who chants when the Torah is read from and a shochet, a ritual slaughterer of …
"Ahuv mehar hamor natan li morasha" (My beloved from the mountain of Myrrh has given me an inheritance)
… Other poems, such as Abraham ibn Ezra's poem for Simḥat torah, Atzula lefanim bekhiseh 'aravot , are also sung to …
Niggun ‘Akedah: A Traditional Melody Concerning the Binding of Isaac
… passage is also ritually read in the synagogue from the Torah scroll on two annual occasions: as part of Parashat … here, whose subject is the circumcision as commanded by the Torah, is a Shalmonit piyyut , written in quatrains with … Böschenstein’s and Caspar Amman’s transcriptions of the Torah cantillation motifs at the beginning of the sixteenth …