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Holy songs and poetry are often found in Tanach. Another meaning is that of ordinary Jewish songs.
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Origin of a tune to Baruch Kel Elyon
When I was growing up in the 1980s, I heard a tune to "ברוך קל עליון" that I've now reproduced to the best of my recollection, except that I sang it a bit faster than I recall it having been sung. Doe …
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Source of a common tune to "Adon olam"
The liturgical poem beginning "Adon olam" is often sung (including as part of prayer services) to the same tune as "The Poet and the Prophet". Was that tune originally to (i.e. written for) Adon Olam? …
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How do hats contrast with sounds?
The elegy "אש תוקד בקרבי", in the 9 Av liturgy, contrasts our exodus from Egypt after enslavement there with our exile from Jerusalem with the Temple's destruction. It comprises 23 couplets, each of w …
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Seeking info on a Simchas Tora song
While dancing on Simchas Tora, people sing a song with the following lyrics (except that I may very well have some of them wrong):
אַשְׁרֵינוּ מַה טּוֹב חֶלְקֵנוּ
וּמַה נָּעִים גוֹרָלֵנוּ
אַשׁ …
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Why "מלאכי השרת" in only the first stanza of "Shalom Alechem"?
The first stanza of the popular Friday-night song "שלום עליכם" calls angels "מלאכי השלום מלאכי השרת מלאכי עליון" (or, in other versions, just "מלאכי השרת מלאכי עליון"). The other stanzas call them mer …
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Why does אין כאלקינו differ on שבת?
נֻסח 'ספרד' says "אין כאלקינו" every day. On weekdays, it includes several paragraphs describing the makeup of the קטרת, followed by several פסוקים. On שבת, the description of the קטרת is cut short a …
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G'dalya Gumber provenance
There's a popular song about G'dalya Gumber (spelling?), who is "seventeen feet tall" and who "ain't gonna work on Saturday", not even for "double, double, triple pay". Who wrote and who published thi …
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Yom tov kiddush tune
There's a popular tune used for kidush on the nights of the shalosh r'galim. (It's available on YouTube (but ignore the "shehechiyanu" part of that recording).)
What's its origin?
Does it have the m …
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Singing part of kidush with the leader
Some people, although listening to another's kidush (Friday night), sing part of it along with him: specifically (in my experience), the lines starting "ki vanu vacharta" when recited with this tune. …
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הקדוש ברוך הוא אנחנו אוהבים אותך — or אותו?
There is a popular song some of whose lyrics are "הקדוש ברוך הוא אנחנו אוהבים אותך". Does anyone have a source — besides some recent lyricist — for these words precisely, or a source for any instance …
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Why are the kinos about Jeremiah's appeal to the avos out of order?
The kina (elegy, said on the ninth of Av) about Jeremiah's going to ask the avos to pray (kina 21 in at least some versions, 26 in the Artscroll edition) is said before the one about his being told to …
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והוא ידרוש לציון עיר ה...
In the song "ברוך א׳ עליון" (text) is the line:
וְהוּא יִדְרֹשׁ לְצִיּוֹן עִיר הַנִּדָּחָה
My grandfather, ע״ה, when singing this line, would replace הַנִּדָּחָה with another word (I think הַנִּ …
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