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29. The Noble Bridegroom
… kunkum, your veins and bangles will blush. This romantic wedding song is found in notebooks from both the … “Behold!” when first sighting the bridegroom in a wedding procession approaching from either direction along … , also translatable as “our neighborhood”). In fact, the wedding processions in Kochi used to travel the length of …
28. The Gold-Clad Bride
… is one of many songs traditionally sung the night before a wedding, at a women’s party, where the bride is adorned in her wedding finery. The mention of her dexterity in needlework … Kerala Jews believed that when a bride emerged from her pre-wedding bath in the mikveh, her face was shining with the …
27. The Elegantly Adorned Bride
… at a special women’s party on the Shabbat preceding her wedding and also at a women’s party the night before the wedding. In elaborate musical detail, it portrays a Kerala … in stanza 10, as green is the color associated with Muslim weddings. According to Kerala Jewish custom, the bride’s …
26. After the Bath
… to the required ritual bath (mikveh) on the morning of her wedding day, and the last lines as a blessing for her … of all three Jewish communities that this was to be her wedding day. We have not found any recorded memory of a horse involved in a Kerala Jewish wedding, though a bridegroom (not a bride) on a horse is …
24. Blessing for the Bridegroom
… for community festivities during the week following a wedding. The “ark with four legs” in stanza 3 must be a …
23. Happiness to the Bridegroom
… it would be better to use a tune more appropriate for a wedding, but no one has offered an alternative. … 52 … 7 … …
21. Great God Who Has Fed Us
… melody associated with a particular festive occasion—e.g. a wedding melody to celebrate the news of an engagement or a …
20. The Command Is Proclaimed
… on Ḥatan Shabbat , the “Bridegroom’s Shabbat,” after the wedding (Daniel & Johnson 1995, 188). She and her aunt, …
19. As You Stand Before Us (Saturday Night Bride Song)
… to the house in which she was to stay until the day of the wedding. From Daniel’s fuller description of the evening's … for a special meal for the bride on the Shabbat after the wedding. The song’s text contains many references to … hopes for the future, with no particular reference to the wedding or the bride. When this song was recorded in 1977 by …
17. Blessing Song
… a blessing for the family of the brit milah child (or the wedding couple), whereas the fifth stanza asks blessings for … song’s similarity to passages from “a long tradition of (wedding songs) in Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic poetry.” When …