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August 18, 2006
Shabbat Shalom! from Sfat
Some Shabbat music for you, from Shira Chadasha, the feminist Orthodox minyan in Jerusalem. (This is from a CD and I can't find order info online - will post it when I do.)
[L'cha Dodi] was composed in the 16th century by Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, a Kabalist in Safed. As was common at the time, the song is also an acrostic, with the first letter of the first eight stanzas spelling the author's name. The author draws much of his phraseology from Isaiah's prophecy of Israel's restoration, and six of his verses are full of the thoughts to which his vision of Israel as the bride on the great Sabbath of Messianic deliverance gives rise.You mean, there were Zionists living in Israel in the 16th c. ? Zionism wasn't invented by Theodore Herzl in 1896?
BTW Alkabetz' home town Safed (or Sfat) received some of the worst shelling in the recent war.
Judith | 08/18/06 at 06:27 PM | Categories: - Holy Days
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Zionism merely expreses the ancient longing of the Jewish people (Ps. 137) in the language of late 19th century European ideology.
P.S. In Hebrew the name of the town mentioned above is spelled tzade fe tav. Shouldn't it be transliterated Tzfat?
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| August 19, 2006 01:44 PM
I wouldn't call them Zionists. There's a difference between expressing hope for messianic redemption in the future and trying to make it happen during our lifetimes.
This is really nice, Judith. Nice and powerful. Thanks.
Jeremiah | August 19, 2006 10:17 PM
I know, I was cheating a bit. But I think mystical Zionism and political Zionism are not two different animals. There is certainly not a hard-edged line between them. They have existed on parallel tracks since 586 BCE, each overlapping the other, each facet emphasized at different times, depending on what was possible given geopolitical conditions.
Sure, Alkabetz & Friends thought in mystical terms, but they did go to live there and establish a community. Physical residence meant something to them.
Judith | August 20, 2006 01:36 AM
Transliteration consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Judith Weiss | August 20, 2006 10:14 PM
