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Dvar Torah High Holidays Sephardic & other Music bkmark [1]
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Date: 2022-09-30
From 2020: “This was introduced to me in the mid 1980s by a Greek-Cuban-American Masorti rabbi-cantor whose home congregation sang it in harmony on the high holidays. I have a tape of it but couldn’t find that exact version online, so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpeSlaODSEo
Cuatro Canciones Sefardíes /Four Sephardic Songs. Song Cycle by Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre (1901 - 1999), lyrics: trad./anon., Ladino — Respóndemos,
Respóndemos, Answer us
Dio de Abraham, God of Abraham
respóndemos!
Respóndemos, Answer us
Él que respónde en la hora God who answers in
de voluntad, time of good will
respóndemos!
Respóndemos, Answer us,
pavor de Yitshak, Isaac’s dread
respóndemos!
Respóndemos, Answer us,
Él que respónde, en hora God who answers in
de angustia, time of anguish
respóndemos!
Respóndemos, Answer us,
Fuerte de Yaakov, strength of Jacob,
respóndemos!
Respóndemos, Answer us,
Dio de la merkava, God of the chariot
respóndemos!
Respóndemos, Answer us,
O Padre piadoso O compassionate and
y gracioso, gracious [One],
respóndemos! ...answer us...
Some interesting reading at this link
https://bostoncamerata.org/sacredbridge.html about the era, place, cultural contexts from which the above material originated.
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