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Menucha veSimcha is a piyyut which Ashkenazic Jews traditionally sing on Sabbath eve. The piyyut is acrostically signed "MoSHE", and some attribute it to Moses ben Kalonymus. The theme of the piyyut is praise of the Sabbath. The payyetan praises those who properly observe the Sabbath, whose acts attest to God's six-day creation of the world ...
D'ror Yikra (Hebrew: דְּרוֹר יִקְרָא ; also spelled Dror Yikra, Deror Yikra and Dror Yiqra) is a piyyut (Jewish religious song or hymn), of the kind known as zemer, traditionally sung during Sabbath meals, particularly the first meal on Friday evening.
This Sabbath is to be kept holy unto the Lord when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all the day from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly employments and recreations,[Exodus 20:8, Exodus 16:23-30, Exodus 31:15-17, Isaiah 58:13 ...
The poem has historically been a locus of intercommunal Rabbanite-Karaite dissent. Ibn Ezra, a Rabbinic Jew who opposed Karaite Judaism, incorporated some of his anti-Karaite beliefs in the text, visible primarily in the lyrics exhorting joy and pleasure on Shabbat (whereas Karaite doctrine requires a sombre and mournful approach on the sabbath, out of reverence for the loss of Jerusalem and ...
"Kol Meqadesh Shevi'i" [a] is an ancient hymn, possibly composed by Moses ben Kalonymus.The hymn is first found in Add MS 27200, a 13th-century copy of the 11th-century Machzor Vitry, as the first hymn for the Sabbath; because the section with hymns does not appear in superior copies of Machzor Vitry, it is likely a later addition. [1]
According to the Book of Exodus, the Sabbath is a day of rest on the seventh day, commanded by God to be kept as a holy day of rest, as God rested from creation. [1] Sabbath observance is commanded in the Ten Commandments: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy". The Sabbath was possibly influenced by Babylonian mid-month rest days and ...
Though one manuscript lists it at the end of the order for the Sabbath, Israel Isserlein (1390-1460) already sang it on Sabbath morning. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The poem's theme is singing praises to God, who gave complete physical and mental rest to his people.
Sabbath is given special status as a holy day at the very beginning of the Torah in Genesis 2:1-3. [15] It is first commanded after The Exodus from Egypt, in Exodus 16:26 [ 16 ] (relating to the cessation of manna ) and in Exodus 16:29 [ 17 ] (relating to the distance one may travel by foot on the Sabbath), as also in Exodus 20:8-11 [ 18 ] (as ...