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59. The Document Box
… (x2) Tanĕ tanĕ, may our God be blessed. x(2) The basic story in this song echoes events in chapters 2 and 6 of the …
58. Ahashverosh Song
… 4–8. It also incorporates elements from midrash. The story told in stanzas 1 and 2 is one example, expounded by … Ginzberg (1968, 6:468) also cites Targum Esther 4:1 for the story that the prophet Elijah was sent from heaven as a … Kamokha ,” a lengthy Hebrew piyyut recounting the Purim story. Composed by the medieval Spanish poet Yehudah Halevy, …
57. In the India Kingdom
… go! This song begins by placing the events of the Purim story in India ( Hodu in Hebrew), as it is stated in the … 1 and related midrash, the song also offers a dramatic story about the daughter of Haman, elaborating on a very …
56. The Song of Ruth
… be blessed. This popular ballad recounting the biblical story of Ruth appears in twelve Jewish song notebooks from …
55. David and the Spider
… a number of opaque words and phrases, and also because its story line is less cohesive than that of the Mosquito song. … (Ginzberg 1968, 4:90). However, rather than telling that story in detail, the narrator jumps in stanza 3 to partially recount a different story about David hiding in a cave. In this biblical story …
53. Moshe and the Promised Land (Song of the Thirteen Sefer Torahs)
… Hebrew volume that was available to Jews in Kerala. [2] One story expands on God’s decree that Moshe should not enter … Whereas the version sung in Kochi concludes with the story of the thirteen Sefer Torahs, Esther Abraham’s version begins with that story—echoing the chronology of the midrash, in which Moshe …
52. The Song of “Anokhi”
… was assisting us with the translation, she re-told another story that she had learned at home about how diamond sheets …
51. When Moshe Received Knowledge
… filled with interesting elements—its unusual slant on the story of Moshe’s receiving the Torah, its reference to … from Seir.” I have not found reference elsewhere to the story of incense being gathered from all over the world and … suddenly heavy tablets. Ginzberg recounts a version of this story (1968, 3:129) and cites contradictory midrashic …
50. Little Sinai Mountain
… of God (See Ginzberg 1968, 3:94, 4:38n207). The midrashic story portrayed in stanza 4 is a narrative that Ginzberg … 1968, 3:95, 6:39n110). In contrast to this awe-inspiring story, the Malayalam song rather playfully personifies the …
48. Hidden God
… but it takes on special meaning in relation to this story of “twice seven worlds.” In Hindu cosmology, there is …