Re: Yerushalayim shel zahav

[MaxwellSt <MaxwellSt...>]

In a message dated 9/23/2002 9:48:11 PM Central Daylight Time, 
rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com writes:


> in re Lori's comment on 
> (by comparison) "Al Kol Eyle," that "the last line of the chorus--"return 
> us 
> and we will be returned...to the good land"--expresses a core traditional 
> Jewish value, iterated and reiterated (as Shlomo Riskin used to say) 
> throughout the liturgy--including (Jewish calendar-wise) both the High 
> Holidays liturgy and the Regalim (e.g., Sukkot) liturgy.  Obviously some 
> may 
> find support in that lyric for a particular political position--which 
> really 
> means a particular priority--that not all share, but I'm not sure what Lori 
> 
> means by the "original more general [meaning]."
> 

I thought that I made it clear that, whereas there might not have been any 
particular political spin in the song--a song which I have often sung with 
great feeling but without particular political bent--Al Kol Eyle is an 
example of a song which, to a certain degree, has been coopted by people of a 
political viewpoint--in this case, support of the settlements.  One may sing 
any song that one chooses, but one should also be aware when it's become 
loaded by current politics.
Thas all.
Lori