Posts by Daniel Halfon
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https://youtu.be/zTRI4kaKKjI# Vezot Hatorah | LondonAs many of you will know, Hagbaha or Levantar is not taken lightly in the Spanish and Portuguese tradition.For a Snogeiro, the performance of the Mitsva of Levantar constitutes a specialist calling. Its performance is restricted exclusively to members of the 'Santa Irmandade dos Levantadores', a sacred brotherhood to which admission is approved o...
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWUB11gMDek...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWUB11gMDek&list=PLvd3h2QBHjxSY0jN_KUzyYXelfzOD1ILh&index=1&fbclid=IwAR3iZ8iDI0J0LYp5LK-kXpELCL46r9bBjyILky4jo4d089qchvhYmjqQlrM)# Pesach PlaylistWith Pesach just a few days away, here is a playlist of Spanish and Portuguese melodies associated with the Holiday.מועדים לשמחה ותזכו לשנים רבות
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWUB11gMDek...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWUB11gMDek&list=PLvd3h2QBHjxSY0jN_KUzyYXelfzOD1ILh&index=1&fbclid=IwAR3iZ8iDI0J0LYp5LK-kXpELCL46r9bBjyILky4jo4d089qchvhYmjqQlrM)# Pesach PlaylistWith Pesach just a few days away, here is a playlist of Spanish and Portuguese melodies associated with the Holiday.מועדים לשמחה ותזכו לשנים רבות
https://youtu.be/r9f2muRTMqE# Eleh Mo'adei Hashem | New YorkThe chanting of specific Pesukim just prior to the recitation of the Amidah on the eves of Shabbatot and Mo'adim hallmarks the particular holy day in question. It also functions as a timely mnemonic device, reminding us to read the appropriate Tefilah.The melodies used in both London and Amsterdam for Eleh Mo'adei Hashem have been a part ...
https://youtu.be/r9f2muRTMqE# Eleh Mo'adei Hashem | New YorkThe chanting of specific Pesukim just prior to the recitation of the Amidah on the eves of Shabbatot and Mo'adim hallmarks the particular holy day in question. It also functions as a timely mnemonic device, reminding us to read the appropriate Tefilah.The melodies used in both London and Amsterdam for Eleh Mo'adei Hashem have been a part ...
https://youtu.be/sDGH6sWzQno# Yigdal - BeethovenThe Spanish and Portuguese musical repertoire has, with some success, borrowed material from the western classical canon. A couple of examples are a selection from Mendelssohn's Elijah, applied to Hashem Malakh (Psalm 93); and one from Handel's Judas Maccabeus, to which En Kelohenu is sung on Shabbat Hanukkah.A novel and untried candidate for inclus...
https://youtu.be/sDGH6sWzQno# Yigdal - BeethovenThe Spanish and Portuguese musical repertoire has, with some success, borrowed material from the western classical canon. A couple of examples are a selection from Mendelssohn's Elijah, applied to Hashem Malakh (Psalm 93); and one from Handel's Judas Maccabeus, to which En Kelohenu is sung on Shabbat Hanukkah.A novel and untried candidate for inclus...
https://youtu.be/ATZ4abRbxsQ# It Starts Today - Countdown to Purim# Ish Yehudi - Megillat EstherIt may very well be that what we know today as a ‘book trailer’ was invented within the Spanish and Portuguese tradition.At the close of Shachrit on the weekdays leading up to Pesach, Shabou’ot, Tisha BeAb and Purim, Pesukim from the Megillot associated with those days are chanted as a sort of ‘preview’...
https://youtu.be/ATZ4abRbxsQ# It Starts Today - Countdown to Purim# Ish Yehudi - Megillat EstherIt may very well be that what we know today as a ‘book trailer’ was invented within the Spanish and Portuguese tradition.At the close of Shachrit on the weekdays leading up to Pesach, Shabou’ot, Tisha BeAb and Purim, Pesukim from the Megillot associated with those days are chanted as a sort of ‘preview’...
https://youtu.be/JFCHqcCAMGA# Hashkibenu | Morocco Across the Sephardi world, Hashkibenu on Shabbatot is invariably sung as a spirited congregational piece. A conspicuous exception to this practice is the London Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi community where it is chanted as a recitative by the Hazzan.In the New York Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue where it is sung by the congregation, it is for...
https://youtu.be/JFCHqcCAMGA# Hashkibenu | Morocco Across the Sephardi world, Hashkibenu on Shabbatot is invariably sung as a spirited congregational piece. A conspicuous exception to this practice is the London Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi community where it is chanted as a recitative by the Hazzan.In the New York Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue where it is sung by the congregation, it is for...
https://youtu.be/CTYRN4NsHO4# The Maghrebi Origins of a New York MelodyAmong the many curiosities in the musical canon of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi Synagogue in New York, are the Berachot preceding the Keriyat Shema of Arbit on Shabbatot and Mo’adim. They are read in part in an undertone, before concluding with an interchange between the Hazzan and choir. Th...
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https://youtu.be/wDqFEIIDelcIn honour of Shabbat Shira here is repost of a recording I made some years ago.The Shirat Hayam - Az Yashir Moshe - is perhaps the earliest recorded communally performed song in the Jewish tradition. D.A. de Sola cites an unnamed medieval source that identifies the melody, then known in Spain, as the very one sung by Miriam and her companions following the crossing of t...
https://youtu.be/wDqFEIIDelcIn honour of Shabbat Shira here is repost of a recording I made some years ago. The Shirat Hayam - Az Yashir Moshe - is perhaps the earliest recorded communally performed song in the Jewish tradition. D.A. de Sola cites an unnamed medieval source that identifies the melody, then known in Spain, as the very one sung by Miriam and her companions following the crossing of ...
https://youtu.be/deCj8pFBwvo# Yimlokh Hashem Le’olam - Wasserzug | London & New YorkThis melody for Yimlokh is sung in the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi communities of both London and New York. It was composed by Haim Wasserzug, who served as the first cantor of the North London Synagogue from 1867 until 1882.
https://youtu.be/deCj8pFBwvo# Yimlokh Hashem Le’olam - Wasserzug | London & New YorkThis melody for Yimlokh is sung in the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi communities of both London and New York. It was composed by Haim Wasserzug, who served as the first cantor of the North London Synagogue from 1867 until 1882.
https://youtu.be/meprhVibZGU# Vaya’abor - Ki Bayom Hazeh | LondonIn the Sephardi tradition, during the course of Yom Kippur, the Almighty's 13 attributes of mercy (Exodus 34: 6-7) are enumerated a total of 26 times. On each occasion they are followed by the verse ‘Ki Bayom Hazeh’ (Leviticus16:30). Attesting the power of this designated day to confer atonement on the people of Israel, this stirring...
https://youtu.be/meprhVibZGU# Vaya’abor - Ki Bayom Hazeh | LondonIn the Sephardi tradition, during the course of Yom Kippur, the Almighty's 13 attributes of mercy (Exodus 34: 6-7) are enumerated a total of 26 times. On each occasion they are followed by the verse ‘Ki Bayom Hazeh’ (Leviticus16:30). Attesting the power of this designated day to confer atonement on the people of Israel, this stirring...
# https://youtu.be/9UbX_8mguyM# Halleluyah - Ps 150 Rosh Hashanah | New YorkPsalm 150 has an obvious thematic connection with Rosh Hashanah. Within its verses are contained two of the key terms we associate with our annual Yom Hadin - ‘Shofar’ and ‘Teru’ah’.As well as being a day of judgment, Rosh Hashanah is also the anniversary of the creation of the world, whose enduring existence has been ensu...
# https://youtu.be/9UbX_8mguyM# Halleluyah - Ps 150 Rosh Hashanah | New YorkPsalm 150 has an obvious thematic connection with Rosh Hashanah. Within its verses are contained two of the key terms we associate with our annual Yom Hadin - ‘Shofar’ and ‘Teru’ah’.As well as being a day of judgment, Rosh Hashanah is also the anniversary of the creation of the world, whose enduring existence has been ensu...
https://youtu.be/nJoq1iNrUWg# En Kelohenu - Yamim Nora’im | Amsterdam, London and New YorkThis chant, often referred to by musicologists as ‘Lachan Yedei Rashim’, is one of the musical mainstays of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur repertoire. It provides the setting for the Reshuyot sung before the Barechu introducing Shachrit: Yedei Rashim (R Yehuda Halevi),Yah Shimkha (R Yehuda Halevi) and Shin...
https://youtu.be/nJoq1iNrUWg# En Kelohenu - Yamim Nora’im | Amsterdam, London and New YorkThis chant, often referred to by musicologists as ‘Lachan Yedei Rashim’, is one of the musical mainstays of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur repertoire. It provides the setting for the Reshuyot sung before the Barechu introducing Shachrit: Yedei Rashim (R Yehuda Halevi),Yah Shimkha (R Yehuda Halevi) and Shin...
https://youtu.be/F-EOkNA5h8s# Ashamnu | LondonThe Ashamnu formula first appears in the 8th century Seder Tefilot of R. Amram Gaon. In addition to being recited in many Sephardi communities whenever Tachanun is said, it is a central feature of the liturgy on the Day of Atonement.The present recording is of the London variant as sung on Yom Kippur. Characteristically, the musical treatment - while s...
https://youtu.be/F-EOkNA5h8s# Ashamnu | LondonThe Ashamnu formula first appears in the 8th century Seder Tefilot of R. Amram Gaon. In addition to being recited in many Sephardi communities whenever Tachanun is said, it is a central feature of the liturgy on the Day of Atonement.The present recording is of the London variant as sung on Yom Kippur. Characteristically, the musical treatment - while s...