Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Akum Leshorer A 16Th Century Rosh Hashanah Poem Gets An Update By Young Modern Israeli Singers

"Moreover Rosh Hashanah beginning Wednesday the end of the day, we bring you a generous piyut (poem) for the holiday written in the 16th century and sung by Shirat Machar "(Tomorrow's Way of being), a group of eleven mild new singers from Israel, all with accomplished live through as babyhood leaders in the Masorti stage.

"Masorti", meaning traditional, is the Hebrew name for the stage of Parsimonious Judaism in Israel. The "Masorti "Tread, founded in 1979, is the sunshade company of "Masorti kehillot" (congregations), which manufacture the practice of traditional Judaism in the midst of Israeli men and women despite the fact that embracing modernity. In promoting the hang out beliefs of Parsimonious Judaism, deep mercy and Zionism, the Tread strives to nurture a amend, pluralistic, spiritual and decent create for Israeli group.

Today's music video, "Akum Le'Shorer" (I Will Get higher to Sty Speech) is a piyut written by Rabbi Avraham Bar Yaakov Ben Tuah, inherent in 16th century Algeria. A indigent man, a tremendous scholar, and an prized congressperson, he wrote the piyut as a special implore to be sung before the Prominent Drop in on prayers. The prayer handbook, without prejudice moments before arising to sing prayers on behalf of his convention, implored the God of legality and blessing to bump into and decision his prayers. This piyut turns also to the image of the One who sits in paradise as well as the image of the One who creates on the earth, and to all artisans who release newspaper to do their work and outward up in sing.

The video shows be more or less scenes of everyday life in modern Israel, and ends with the singers tossing chunks of currency inwards a watercourse, in the traditional "Tashlich" official for Rosh Hashanah.

Enjoy!

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"(A tip of the kippah to Shelly Allon for bringing this video to our underscore.)"