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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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"Poems" in Selichos. Names and structures of Pizmon and Shalmonis. Please explain
For Pizmon, the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l (in his notes at the end of the Chabad Selichos) summarizes the following explanations:
Something repeated over and over. (Responsa of Ri Migash #204)
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Shirei zimra in Yishtabach
R' S.A. Wertheimer (in Beur Shemos Hanirdafim, vol. 1, pp. קכז-קכח) defines שיר as vocal song, and זמרה as instrumental music. So שירי זמרה, he says, would mean the combination: שירים that are said al …
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What's wrong with using "Adoshem" for the name of G-d when singing?
The source for the statement that it's disrespectful is Taz, Orach Chaim 621:2 (and from there in Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 6:3). He writes:
ועוד יש ללמוד מדברים הנזכרים כאן
דבמקום שאין אנו רוצים לה …
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How a couple lines in Alenu fit the pattern
In R' Saadiah Gaon's siddur, the word שהוא (beginning of the sixth line) is missing, so you have five stiches of four words each from there until ככתוב. Which raises the possibility that this part isn …
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Shalosh Seudos song - B'Vo'o M'Edom/Yetzave Tzur Chasdo
The commentary on the "An Invitation to Piyut" site observes (my translation) that "the section beginning Yetzaveh... containing utopian descriptions of the Redemption, found its place in the atmosphe …
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Shabbos Zmiros author
There's no one answer to this, because they were authored by many different people.
Some of them are by famous Rishonim or early Acharonim, such as:
Dror Yikra, by Dunash ibn Labrat
Yom Shabbason, …
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Shir Urinanim- Whats the diffrence?
Well, there is the fact that רננים was needed to make the line rhyme. :)
R' Shlomo Aharon Wertheimer, in his ביאור שמות הנרדפים שבתנ"ך, says that רננה means the sound of a crowd of people (this from …
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Who wrote Shoshanat Yaakov?
This article has a writeup on the subject, speculating that it was written no later than about 500 CE (i.e., during the Talmudic era), based on its style.
Machzor Vitry in fact places it earlier, tra …
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Were Haman's possessions hung on a tree?
It's amazing what you can find on Hebrewbooks!...
In Sifsei Chachamim, by R' Avraham Abba Hertzel (Bratislava, 1899), he says that this is based on the Gemara's statement (Megillah 15b, top) that "th …
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fish before meat - why?
There is a Kabbalistic idea that fish (which live in the water, representing עלמא דאתכסיא, the hidden realm) is on a higher spiritual level than meat (which represent עלמא דאתגליא, the visible world). …
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