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Salaam (Hebrew: סלאם ) or Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu (Hebrew: עוד יבוא שלום עלינו ) is a peace song by Mosh Ben-Ari, composed while he was in the band Sheva. It is sung in Hebrew and Arabic and has gained popularity in Israeli folk music , especially within the context of the Arab–Israeli conflict .
Mayim Mayim (Hebrew: מים מים, "water, water") is an Israeli folk dance, danced to a song of the same name. It has become notable outside the Israeli dancing community and is often performed at international folk dance events.
Peace, Perfect Peace is a hymn whose lyrics were written in August 1875 by Edward H. Bickersteth at the bedside of a dying relative. [1] [2] He read it to his relative immediately after writing it, to his children at tea time that day, [2] and soon published it along with four other hymns he had written in a tract called Songs in the House of Pilgrimage. [1]
"Lay Down Your Arms" is a peace song originally in Hebrew language as תפילה לשלום (i.e. "Prayer for Peace") composed by the Israeli Doron B. Levinson in 1973 in the aftermath of Yom Kippur War when Levinson was temporarily blind at the time, having been injured during the war. The Hebrew lyrics are by Hamutal Ben Zeev-Efron.
Ma'oz Tzur" (Hebrew: מָעוֹז צוּר, romanized: Māʾōz Ṣūr) is a Jewish liturgical poem or piyyut. It is written in Hebrew, and is sung on the holiday of Hanukkah, after lighting the festival lights. The hymn is named for its Hebrew incipit, which means "Strong Rock (of my Salvation)" and is a name or epithet for God in Judaism. It ...
Sim Shalom (Hebrew: שִׂים שָׁלוֹם; "Grant Peace") is a blessing that is recited at the end of the morning Amidah [1] and the Mincha Amidah during fast days in the Ashkenazic tradition, and on mincha of the Sabbath in the Western Ashkenazic rite and most communities in Israel; during the evening service and the Mincha service of non-fast days (or sabbath according to some traditions ...
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The music may have preserved a few phrases in the reading of Scripture which recalled songs from the Temple itself; but generally it echoed the tones which the Jew of each age and country heard around him, not merely in the actual borrowing of tunes, but more in the tonality on which the local music was based.