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The history of religious Jewish music is about the cantorial, synagogal, and the Temple music from Biblical to Modern times. The earliest synagogal music was based on the same system as that used in the Temple in Jerusalem. According to the Mishnah, the regular Temple orchestra consisted of twelve instruments, and the choir of twelve male singers.
Sometimes songs with original lyrics compiled in English, Hebrew or Yiddish deal with central themes such as Jerusalem, the Holocaust, Shabbos The Sabbath, Jewish Holidays, Jewish identity, Jewish diaspora, and the coming of Moshiach The Messiah. Jewish boys choirs became popular in the 1970's.
Large numbers of those calling themselves Messianic Jews are not of Jewish descent, [100] but join the movement as they "enjoy the Messianic Jewish style of worship". [101] Messianic perspectives on "Who is a Jew?" vary. The Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council says a Jew is one born to a Jewish mother or who has converted to Judaism.
The English-language song "Israelism", released by the Swedish group Army of Lovers in 1993, incorporates music and words from "Hevenu shalom aleichem". In 2008 "Hevenu shalom aleichem" was included in a concert given for Pope Benedict XVI at the Park East Synagogue in New York City during his first visit to the United States. [24]
Shalom Aleichem (Hebrew: שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם, 'Peace be upon you') is a traditional song sung by many Jews every Friday night upon returning home from synagogue prayer. It signals the arrival of the Shabbat , welcoming the angels who accompany a person home on the eve of the Shabbat.
The Zionist establishment saw music as a way of establishing a new national identity, and, on a purely pragmatic level, of teaching Hebrew to new immigrants. The national labor organization, the Histadrut, set up a music publishing house that disseminated songbooks and encouraged public sing-alongs (שירה בציבור).
"Day" is the Hebrew word for "enough" and the suffix "enu" means "our". The song goes through a series of gifts believed granted by God to the Israelites (such as Torah or Shabbat ), proclaiming that any of them alone would have been sufficient, to express greater appreciation for them as a whole.
One of the Songs of Ascents, Psalm 122 appears in Hebrew on the walls at the entrance to the City of David, Jerusalem.. Song of Ascents is a title given to fifteen of the Psalms, 120–134 (119–133 in the Septuagint and the Vulgate), each starting with the superscription "Shir Hama'aloth" (Hebrew: שיר המעלות, romanized: šir ham-ma‘loṯ, lit.