[HANASHIR:16644] RE: hakafa?

[Guillaume175 <Guillaume175...>]

At our temple we always carry to the Torah around, "encircling" the 
congregation at the start of the Torah service.  It's a little chaotic, but it 
gives us musicians a chance to sing old favorites (Vehaeir Eneinu, V'taheir 
Libeinu, Eileh Chamdat Libi, the Sufi "Hal'lu", etc.) plus new favorites like 
Noam Katz's "Halleli". 
At family/kid services we sing "David Melech", "Yisrael V'oraita", "Am Yisrael 
Chai", etc.

Dennis Guillaume
B'nai Israel
Southbury, CT


"Adrian Durlester" <adrian (at) durlester(dot)com> wrote:

>Hakafa literally means "to encircle," or "to round off" or "circle around"
>and I believe it is also used to mean
>  "orbit" when it's being used as a verb. Thus it is a literal description
>of the activity involved in making hakafot, or circles around the bima (of
>course, that's hard to do in most synagogues these days, where the bima
>isn't in the center anymore.)
> 
>-Adrian
> 
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>Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:36 PM
>To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>Subject: [HANASHIR:16638] hakafa?
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>Can you tell me the definition of "hakafa"? Thanks!
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>Ellen (and Peter)
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