Psalm 57– SING & LEARN – Words of weapon are defeated by words of G-d’s praises

We are fortunate again to have Professor Victoria’s analysis to the chapter, Psalm 57. Below the analysis you can find the historical background for the Psalm. Last, there are few short comments I remember we brought up in the study. Psalm 55 – Analysis  The imagery in song 57 is very like that of song 55, …

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Psalm 55 – SING & LEARN

Gladly I added Victoria’s analysis to chapter 55. A different point of view from an English literature professor.  Below the analysis you can find the historical background. Last, there are few short comments i remember we brought up in the study. Enjoy ! — Psalm 55 – Analysis Three images dominate the poem: the VOICE of the …

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Psalm 51 – SING & LEARN – Teshuvah

below the recording of the song (Psalm 51:12) you’ll find a summary of our discussion, the Chapter itself and the story behind the Psalm that I googled out from some website (didn’t check it, so if you find it not a proper translation.. please tell me) The subject is Teshuva, remorse and the principles of …

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Psalm 37 – SING & LEARN

As we conversed in the last session, the verse of Psalm 37:25 is a very hard one to understand. If we look around us, we see all the time righteous people whom are ‘forsaken’, ‘begging for bread’. We suggested a different way to read the verse (with accordance to the one that follows – Psalm …

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Psalm 37 – SING & LEARN – Do not compete with the evildoers. Why not?

Summary for the first verse (psalm 37 1), please see below the video: לְדָוִד אַל תִּתְחַר בַּמְּרֵעִים אַל תְּקַנֵּא בְּעֹשֵׂי עַוְלָה Of David. Do not compete with the evildoers; do not envy those who commit injustice (Psalm 37:1) We started the study by posing the question: Why not compete (and maybe also defeat..) the evil-dowers? …

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Psalm 34 – SING & LEARN – Satisfaction already in the search for G-D

Thanks Sherri for the summary. Please see below the recording. We read this psalm (34) during P’sukei d’Zimrah every Shabbat.  The Rabbi explained that this was written after David ran for his life from King Saul – he left Israel (where everyone knew and venerated him as their hero for having killed Goliath) and fled …

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Psalm 30 – SING & LEARN – Can ‘bad’ turn to be ‘good’?!

Notes taken this week by Steve, below the video CHAPTER 30: I will exalt You, HASHEM, for You have raised me up from the depths, and not let my foes rejoice over me. HASHEM, my God, I cried out to You and You healed me. HASHEM, You have raised up my soul from the lower …

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Psalm 42 – SING & LEARN

Summary by Sherri, below the video 1. For the conductor, a maskil of the sons of Korah. 2. As a hart cries longingly for rivulets of water, so does my soul cry longingly to You, O God. 3. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when will I come and appear before God? …

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Psalm 24 – SING & LEARN

שְׂאוּ שְׁעָרִים, רָאשֵׁיכֶם, וְהִנָּשְׂאוּ, פִּתְחֵי עוֹלָם; וְיָבוֹא, מֶלֶךְ הַכָּבוֹד. Psalm 137  – Summary by Sherry: 1. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, we also wept when we remembered Zion. 2. On willows in its midst we hung our harps. 3. For there our captors asked us for words of song and our tormentors …

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Psalm 27 – SING & LEARN

אַחַת, שָׁאַלְתִּי מֵאֵת-יְהוָה– אוֹתָהּ אֲבַקֵּשׁ:    שִׁבְתִּי בְּבֵית-יְהוָה, כָּל-יְמֵי חַיַּי ACHAT SHA-ALTY ME-ET HASHEM, OTA AVAKESH, SHIVTI BE-VET HASHEM KOL YEMEY CHAYAY     One [thing] I ask of the Lord, that I seek-that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to see the pleasantness of the …

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