Regarding "Eli, Eli"

[Fred Blumenthal <xd2fabl...>]

There are, indeed, two Jewish songs beginning with the words "Eli, Eli." 
It would have been an anachronism for Judy Garland to sing the one with 
words by Hannah Shenesh, and also for her to have lip-synched it.  The 
other song, the one with which she could have had contact, is decades 
older, but comparably written after a pogrom.  But it's an extraordinary 
enough story as it is.  And to confuse the subject further, Jesus' famous 
seven last words from the cross also begin "Eli, Eli" - "Father forgive 
them for they know not what they do."  (I guess it's 7 words in the 
original Aramaic.)

Fred Blumenthal
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