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Song of Songs (Cantique des Cantiques) by Gustave Moreau, 1893 The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים , romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.
It is referred to in the various Yalkutim and by the ancient Biblical commentators as "Midrash Shir haShirim," or "Aggadat Shir haShirim.". The De Rossi Manuscript No. 541, at Parma, was discovered by S. Buber to contain (among other things) midrashim on four of the five "megillot": Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes.
Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah (Hebrew: שיר השירים רבה) is an aggadic midrash on Song of Songs, quoted by Rashi under the title "Midrash Shir ha-Shirim". [1] It is also called Aggadat Hazita , from its initial word "Hazita", [ 2 ] or Midrash Hazita .
Front page of Pelech Harimon Hasidic discourses on Bereishis, Shemos, Vayikra, and Shir HaShirim, by Hillel of Paritch. Edition printed in Vilna 1887 Hillel HaLevi Malisov of Paritch , a levite by birth, commonly known as Reb Hillel Paritcher (1795-1864) was a famous Orthodox Jewish Chabad Rabbi born in Khmilnyk , Ukraine .
The Song of Songs (Hebrew: שיר השירים Shir ha-Shirim) is read publicly in some communities, especially by Ashkenazim, on the Sabbath of Passover. In most Mizrahi Jewish communities it is read publicly each week at the onset of the Shabbat (Sabbath). There is also a widespread custom to read it at the end of the Passover Seder.
As with other Sephardic communities, Shir Hashirim is chanted during Kabbalat Shabbat as well as at the end of the Seder. This too has its own unique cantillation in the Moroccan community. Megillat Ruth, which is traditionally read on Shavuot, has a tune which is
Shir Hashirim is Hebrew for the erotic poem The Song of Songs. Shir Hashirim may also refer to: Shir Hashirim, 2008 album of vocal music by John Zorn; Shir Hashirim, 1935 Yiddish-language film adaptation of the operetta; Shir Hashirim, 1911 operetta by Anshel Schorr with music by Joseph Rumshinsky
Shir Hashirim (2013) On the Torment of Saints, the Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits is an album of contemporary classical music by John Zorn , written in 2012, recorded in New York City in March & July 2013, and released on the Tzadik label in November 2013. [ 1 ]