{"id":13174,"date":"2011-04-20T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T17:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13174"},"modified":"2011-04-20T10:44:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T17:44:12","slug":"yaalili-by-8th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13174","title":{"rendered":"Ya&#8217;alili by 8th Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mother sent me the link to this music video by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my8thday.com\/index.html\">8th Day<\/a>. The music is great, but what made me smile the most was the little boy in peyos and a sweatshirt with a Batman patch bopping to the beat. I also really appreciate the mixing of Sephardic and Ashkenazic language\/references throughout. Discussion of lyrics, etc. is below the video. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3fXIMUyrw7s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to this discussion on <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishlyrics.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/yaalili-eighth-day-chasing-prophecy.html\">Jewish Lyrics<\/a>, Ya&#8217;alili:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>is a combination of the sepharadic &#8220;Ya&#8217;lah&#8221;, a common phrase in sephardic songs which roughly translates as &#8220;come on&#8221;, and &#8220;li li li&#8221;, a common filler in yiddish songs (BTW, the word for &#8216;song&#8217; in yiddish is &#8220;leid&#8221;).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The lyrics&#8211;though it&#8217;s worth reading the whole discussion at the above link&#8211;can be roughly translated as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYa&#8217;alili, dance my beloved<\/p>\n<p>It should be fortunate, may it be,<br \/>\nG-d willing, it will be<\/p>\n<p>The bridegroom, sephardi<br \/>\nthe attractive bride, ashkenazi<\/p>\n<p>Mother Imeinu [our mother] sephardi,<br \/>\nMama Rachel, ashkenazi<\/p>\n<p>Baba Salli [a famous rabbi] sephardi,<br \/>\nRabbi Nachman, ashkenazi<\/p>\n<p>It should be fortunate, may it be,<br \/>\nG-d willing, it will be<\/p>\n<p>Ya&#8217;alili, dance my beloved<\/p>\n<p>Gina Gina sephardi<br \/>\nmay we hear more ashkenazi<\/p>\n<p>Yosef our father, sephardi<br \/>\nthe eith day, ashkenazi<\/p>\n<p>days for joy, sephardi,<br \/>\nhave a good yom tov, ashkenazi<\/p>\n<p>It should be fortunate, may it be,<br \/>\nG-d willing, it will be <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\">Cross posted on It&#8217;s All Connected<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother sent me the link to this music video by 8th Day. The music is great, but what made me smile the most was the little boy in peyos and a sweatshirt with a Batman patch bopping to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=13174\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13176,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13174\/revisions\/13176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}