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Religiously significant to all three Abrahamic religions for centuries, Jerusalem has been artistically associated with widely varied concepts. There are many songs about Jerusalem from various time periods, especially nationalistically-themed songs from the time of the Six-Day War, when East Jerusalem passed from Jordanian control to Israeli.
Dayenu page from Birds' Head Haggada. Dayenu (Hebrew: דַּיֵּנוּ , Dayyēnū) is a song that is part of the Jewish holiday of Passover.The word "dayenu" means approximately "it would have been enough," "it would have been sufficient," or "it would have sufficed" (day-in Hebrew is "enough," and -ēnu the first person plural suffix, "to us").
Pages in category "Songs about Jerusalem" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Religious Jewish Music in the 20th century has spanned the gamut from Shlomo Carlebach's nigunim to Debbie Friedman's Jewish feminist folk, to the many sounds of Daniel Ben Shalom. Velvel Pasternak has spent much of the late 20th century acting as a preservationist and committing what had been a strongly oral tradition to paper.
Jerusalem of Gold performed by Ofra Haza. The melody of Yerushalayim Shel Zahav is largely based on the Basque lullaby, Pello Joxepe. [1] [2] Naomi Shemer first heard the melody during a visit by Paco Ibáñez to Israel in 1962, where he performed the song to a group that included Shemer [2] and Nehama Hendel.
On 31 September 2006, Matisyahu released a music video for "Jerusalem (Out of Darkness Comes Light) ". The video uses extensive imagery from the Holocaust and Eastern European Jewish History, and the Civil Rights Movement, as well as using pictures to create a central composite of the Western Wall.
Jerusalem was not divided among the tribes — Yoma 12a; A snake or scorpion never injured anyone in Jerusalem — Yoma 21a; Whoever did not see Jerusalem in her glory has never seen a beautiful city — Sukkah 51b; Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, Jerusalem took nine — Kidushin 49b; Jerusalem is the light of the world ...
The project, founded by David Matouk Betesh, is dedicated to the memory of his great-grandfather, cantor Gabriel A Shrem, a former instructor at Yeshiva University's Cantorial Institute (Philip and Sarah Belz School of Jewish Music), cantor of B'nai Yosef Synagogue and editor-in-chief of the "Shir uShbaha Hallel veZimrah" pizmonim book. The ...