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50. Little Sinai Mountain
… the giving of the Torah combines several narratives from midrash with unique and charming Kerala flourishes. The … servants of God (See Ginzberg 1968, 3:94, 4:38n207). The midrashic story portrayed in stanza 4 is a narrative that … The remainder of the song is built on a tradition from midrash that the people of Israel were struck dead with …
48. Hidden God
… The account of divine revelation in this stanza echoes a midrash found in Rashi’s commentary on Deuteronomy 4:35 and … Gamliel 2005, 210–11n148 for these citations and related midrashic sources. See Ginzberg 1968, 1:8–11 and 5:9–12 for …
48. Hidden God
… The account of divine revelation in this stanza echoes a midrash found in Rashi’s commentary on Deuteronomy 4:35 and … Gamliel 2005, 210–11n148 for these citations and related midrashic sources. See Ginzberg 1968, 1:8–11 and 5:9–12 for …
47. In the Egypt Kingdom
… riverbank when little Moshe came floating by. According to midrash, the royal daughter caressed him constantly, and in … Malayalam Jewish songs expounding in greater detail on midrash about Moshe’s childhood are III-4 and III-19, the …
46. Baby Moshe Taken from the Water
… riverbank when little Moshe came floating by. According to midrash, the royal daughter caressed him constantly, and in … Malayalam Jewish songs expounding in greater detail on midrash about Moshe’s childhood are III-4 and III-19, the …
45. Joseph’s Robe
… stories from the Bible (Genesis, chap. 37–47) and related midrash, conveying them in greater detail and with … in notebooks from Kochi. This first section refers to a midrash in which God saves Joseph by confining the snakes …
44. Joseph the Righteous
… Jacob that Joseph was still alive. Both stories are from midrash Sefer ha-Yashar (Browne 1876). [2] Part III The …
43. The Song of Mother Sarah
… creative incorporation and transformation of stories from midrash. The colloquial style brings to life conversations … conceiving Isaac (stanza 8) is probably an allusion to the midrash that she began to menstruate again as soon as she … the intensity of Sarah’s labor pains—contradictory to the midrash stating that the pregnancy and labor were without …
24. Blessing for the Bridegroom
… The second stanza of the song refers to two stories from midrash. One tells how the Torah was inscribed on a diamond …
17. Blessing Song
… the corpus of Malayalam Jewish songs; it refers to the midrash about the young girl, Seraḥ bat Asher, who gently—by …