Matisyahu's Jerusalem lyrics!
Question: Matisyahu's Jerusalem lyrics
In Matisyahu's song "Jerusalem" the chores says "Jerusalem if I forget you, let my right hand forget what it's suppose to do"!. What does Matisyahu mean in this chores!. Do Jews have a tradition they conduct with they're right hand!?!? Please elaborate!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Answers:
It comes from a prayer often used at the beginning of synagouge prayer or worked into the service, and in many Christian services as well!.
The song chorus in Jerusalem by Matisyahu is very much a "translation" of Psalm 137, one of the most commonly used/known Biblical psalms!. Psalm 137 (from which The Melodians et al derived the lyrics for Rivers of Babylon, which the psalm is now commonly known as) describes the exile from Zion, and the despair at the loss of the "perfect and holy Promised Land"!.
You may have heard Sublime, Bony M, Seoniad O'Conner, etc sing Rivers of Babylon:
"By the Rivers of Babylon, where he/we/I sat down;
and there he/we/I wept, when he/we/I remembered Zion!.
The wicked carried us away to captivity,
they required from us a a song!.
How can we sing a holy/the Lord's/King Alpha's song in strange land!?"
That song/poem/pslam goes on to say:
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand forget her cunning!.
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,
If I remember thee not;
If I set not Jerusalem
Above my chiefest joy!.
(There are other translations of this in other faiths, but this is the most commonly used in Judiasm)
This is what Matisyahu is transliterating in his song Jerusalem!. The rest of the lyrics should be self explanatory
In the Jewish faith, to which Matisyahu belongs (he is a member of a specific chasidic group in Crown Heights, NY), it is used, especially by the Orthodox faiths such as the chasids, as an after meal grace for 9 days before the ritual fast Tisha B'Av, which honours/marks the burning and destruction of Temples in Jerusalem!. It symbolises the comittment to remembering and honouring the past and holding it alive in the present, and nothing good shall come if that is forgotten!.
The psalm and it's ideas endure because the message appeals to bithh the secular and non-secular (religious or not) world!. Variations of the poem and it's phrases have been used in numerous musical adaptations!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
The song chorus in Jerusalem by Matisyahu is very much a "translation" of Psalm 137, one of the most commonly used/known Biblical psalms!. Psalm 137 (from which The Melodians et al derived the lyrics for Rivers of Babylon, which the psalm is now commonly known as) describes the exile from Zion, and the despair at the loss of the "perfect and holy Promised Land"!.
You may have heard Sublime, Bony M, Seoniad O'Conner, etc sing Rivers of Babylon:
"By the Rivers of Babylon, where he/we/I sat down;
and there he/we/I wept, when he/we/I remembered Zion!.
The wicked carried us away to captivity,
they required from us a a song!.
How can we sing a holy/the Lord's/King Alpha's song in strange land!?"
That song/poem/pslam goes on to say:
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,
Let my right hand forget her cunning!.
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,
If I remember thee not;
If I set not Jerusalem
Above my chiefest joy!.
(There are other translations of this in other faiths, but this is the most commonly used in Judiasm)
This is what Matisyahu is transliterating in his song Jerusalem!. The rest of the lyrics should be self explanatory
In the Jewish faith, to which Matisyahu belongs (he is a member of a specific chasidic group in Crown Heights, NY), it is used, especially by the Orthodox faiths such as the chasids, as an after meal grace for 9 days before the ritual fast Tisha B'Av, which honours/marks the burning and destruction of Temples in Jerusalem!. It symbolises the comittment to remembering and honouring the past and holding it alive in the present, and nothing good shall come if that is forgotten!.
The psalm and it's ideas endure because the message appeals to bithh the secular and non-secular (religious or not) world!. Variations of the poem and it's phrases have been used in numerous musical adaptations!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
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