Re: Yerushalayim shel zahav

[robin hardiman <angel_in_exile...>]

ear Mr Cohen, there seems to have been some mistake.  I am not intersted in 
your discussions on god knows what.  Would you be kind enough to remove my 
address from your files.  Thank you for your time.


>From: "Robert Cohen" <rlcm17 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Yerushalayim shel zahav
>Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:47:26 +0000
>
>I don't mean or intend to get sidetracked into a discussion of settlements, 
>etc.--surely not the place--but I do want to note, 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]."
>
>Naomi Shemer may have appropriated the "Hashiveinu" line from Eits Chayim 
>and Tanach and conjoined it to "the good land"--in the original context it 
>refers to a more general "returning" (teshuvah) to G*d), so maybe that's 
>what Lori means; but that Jews should return to the Land of Israel is, 
>again, a core traditional value--not a political spin.
>
>--Robert Cohen
>
>
>
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