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Hebrew (Transliteration) Hebrew English Translation “Morenika” a mi me yaman Yo blanka nací Y del sol del verano Yo m’hize ansí. Shecharchoret yikre'uni tzach haya ori umilahat shemesh kayitz ba li shechori שחרחורת יקראוני צח היה עורי. ומלהט שמש קיץ בא לי שחורי. The dark girl, they call me
The song is about a melamed teaching his young students the Hebrew alphabet. By the end of the 19th century it was one of the most popular songs of the Jews of Central and Eastern Europe , and as such it is a major musical memory of pre- Holocaust Europe.
The Seven Species (Hebrew: שִׁבְעַת הַמִינִים, Shiv'at HaMinim) are seven agricultural products—two grains and five fruits—that are listed in the Hebrew Bible as being special products of the Land of Israel. The seven species listed are wheat, barley, grape, fig, pomegranates, olive (oil), and date (date honey) (Deuteronomy ...
The fig tree is the third tree to be mentioned by name in the Hebrew Bible.The first is the Tree of life and the second is the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve used the leaves of the fig tree to sew garments for themselves after they ate the "fruit of the Tree of knowledge", [1] when they realized that they were naked.
The song's name is a distortion of the Syrian Arabic حرب وضرب, meaning "mayhem", "war strike", [3] or "swords and strikes". In Hebrew, the phrase evolved through criminal slang [4] [5] and means "to destroy an enemy" [6] or "raining hell on one's opponent". [5] In a post on Instagram, Soroker and Levi wrote "We are back in the studio ...
This practice may have arisen out of a Jewish prohibition of singing songs of the non-Jews (due to the secular character and lyrics of the songs). This was true in the case of Arabic songs, whereby Jews were allowed to listen to the songs, but not allowed to sing them with the text. In order to bypass the problem, many composers, throughout the ...
Bikkurim (Hebrew: בכורים, / b ɪ ˌ k uː ˈ r iː m, b ɪ ˈ k ʊər ɪ m /), [1] or first-fruits, are a type of sacrificial offering which was offered by ancient Israelites. In each agricultural season, the first-grown fruits were brought to the Temple and laid by the altar, and a special declaration recited.
Ma'oz Tzur" (Hebrew: מָעוֹז צוּר, romanized: Māʾōz Ṣūr) is a Jewish liturgical poem or piyyut. It is written in Hebrew, and is sung on the holiday of Hanukkah, after lighting the festival lights. The hymn is named for its Hebrew incipit, which means "Strong Rock (of my Salvation)" and is a name or epithet for God in Judaism. It ...