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Am Yisrael Chai (Hebrew: עם ישראל חי; meaning "The people of Israel live") is a slogan of Jewish solidarity, popularized by several different songs which incorporate it. The Forward has placed "Am Yisrael Chai" second only to " Hatikvah ", the current national anthem of Israel , as "an anthem of the Jewish people".
At the end of "Hatikvah", British Army Chaplain Leslie Hardman shouts out, Am Yisrael Chai! ("The people of Israel is alive!") [6] In the Eurovision Song Contest 1983, which was held in Germany four decades after Shoah, Israel was represented with the song "Chai", performed by Ofra Haza, which includes the line Am Yisra'el chai.
There are various transliteration standards or systems for Hebrew-to-English; no one system has significant common usage across all fields. Consequently, in general usage there are often no hard and fast rules in Hebrew-to-English transliteration, and many transliterations are an approximation due to a lack of equivalence between the English and Hebrew alphabets.
English: The Hebrew slogan "Am Yisrael Chai" (=The Nation of Israel Lives) written in the Hebrew alphabet, accompanied by two Magen David symbols Français : "Am Yisrael Chaï" : Le peuple d'Israël est vivant
ח״י (chai) - 18; the gematria of chai, life. Commonly used to specify dates and currency amounts for tzedakah (ex. double-chai, chai times chai, etc.) חידושי, חי׳ (chidushei) - innovations [of Torah thought from/by] חיה, חי׳ (chayah) - [the soul-level of] chayah; the first aspect of the soul to emanate from the Ein Sof
Note: SBL's transliteration system, recommended in its Handbook of Style, [34] differs slightly from the 2006 precise transliteration system of the Academy of the Hebrew Language; for צ SBL uses ṣ (≠ AHL ẓ ), and for בג״ד כפ״ת with no dagesh, SBL uses the same symbols as for with dagesh (i.e. b , g , d , k , f , t ).
Shema Yisrael: שמע ישראל A centerpiece of Jewish prayer services which affirms belief and trust in the One God, the Shema is composed of three sections taken from the Torah. Emet Veyatziv: אמת ויציב The only blessing recited following the Shema during Shacharit Emet V'Emunah: אמת ואמונה
Am Yisrael Hai (Hebrew: עם ישראל חי, lit. "Am Israel Chai") Assi Dayan: Hanan Goldblatt: Drama [8] See also. 1981 in Israel; References External links ...