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L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim (Hebrew: לְשָׁנָה הַבָּאָה בִּירוּשָלָיִם), lit."Next year in Jerusalem", is a phrase that is often sung at the end of the Passover Seder and at the end of the Ne'ila service on Yom Kippur.
Israel is a country deeply riven by political differences, and music has often become associated with different political factions. Gush Emunim supporters have taken a repertoire of old religious songs and invested them with political meaning. An example is the song "Utsu Etsu VeTufar" (They gave counsel but their counsel was violated).
Jews commonly refer to the Land of Israel as "The Holy Land" (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ הַקוֹדֵשׁ Eretz HaKodesh). [11] The Tanakh explicitly refers to it as "holy land" in Zechariah 2:16. [12] The term "holy land" is further used twice in the deuterocanonical books (Wisdom 12:3, [13] 2 Maccabees 1:7). [14]
Beulah Land, 1876, lyrics by Edgar Page Stites (1836–1921) and music by John R. Sweney. First line: "I've reached the land of corn [grain] and wine". [2] In this hymn, several themes from The Pilgrim's Progress are developed. The song talks about today's Christian life as one that borders heaven and from where one can almost see heaven.
The term Ben Ezer used for such songs— הזמר העברי hazemer ha'ivri "Hebrew Song"—refers to a certain genre of Israeli music, also known as שירי ארץ ישראל shirei eretz yisrael "Songs of the Land of Israel" (SLI). This is a genre of Israeli national ‘folk music’ developed in the pre-state period and gradually ...
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland. Verso Books. ISBN 978-1-84467-947-8. Schweid, Eliezer. The Land of Israel: National Home Or Land of Destiny, translated by Deborah Greniman, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1985. ISBN 978-0-8386-3234-5. Sedykh, Andreĭ. This Land of Israel, Macmillan, 1967. Stewart, Robert Laird.
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Additionally, they maintain the view – based on the Babylonian Talmud [33] – that any form of forceful recapture of the Land of Israel is a violation of divine will. They believe that the restoration of the Land of Israel to the Jews should happen only with the coming of the Messiah, not by self-determination.