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Topic: HaTikvah ("The Hope")
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Paula
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When I read this post, it brought back memories of the first time I heard HaTikva. I was a young girl, and one of my friends used to sing this melody over and over, many times to me until I learned it. To this day, I have never forgotten it. The words will remain in my heart forever. In any language, HaTikva conveys a most beautiful sentiment with its message of hope.
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Caretaker
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HaTikvah ("The Hope")
Israel's National Anthem
The words to Israel's national anthem were written in 1886 by Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet originally from Bohemia. The melody was written by Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia. Cohen actually based the melody on a musical theme found in Bedrich Smetana’s "Moldau."
As long as the Jewish spirit is yearning deep in the heart,
Kol ode balevav P'nimah -
With eyes turned toward the East, looking toward Zion,
Nefesh Yehudi homiyah
Then our hope - the two-thousand-year-old hope - will not be lost:
Ulfa'atey mizrach kadimahAyin l'tzion tzofiyah
To be a free people in our land,
Ode lo avdah tikvatenuHatikvah bat shnot alpayim
The land of Zion and Jerusalem.
L'hiyot am chofshi b'artzenu - Eretz Tzion v'Yerushalayim
HaTikvah
Kol ode balevav P'nimah -
Nefesh Yehudi homiyah
Ulfa'atey mizrach kadimahAyin l'tzion tzofiyah.
Ode lo avdah tikvatenuHatikvah bat shnot alpayim:
L'hiyot am chofshi b'artzenu - Eretz Tzion v'Yerushalayim.
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A Servant of Christ,
Drew
1 Tim. 3:
16: And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh..
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