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magidLJ writing prompt question: What is your favorite holiday carol or song?
It's a hard choice, really.
For Pesach, I'm fond of Echad Mi Yode'a (Who Knows One, a counting song that we always sung in Hebrew, each verse in one breath) and Had Gadya sung in English. Despite their being appended to the end of the seder, though, they're not particularly thematically linked to the holiday.
One of the kinot on Tisha b'Av has couplets comparing leaving Egypt and leaving Jerusalem after the destruction of the Temple, which I find particularly memorable because it's a singable tune amongst a lot of impenetrable medieval Hebrew stuff, and it's appropriately evocative.
For Yom Kippur, Mar'ei Kohen (The Face of the Cohen [Gadol]) makes the day easier (also on Simchat Torah).
I'm sure there are other seasonal songs I like; these are the ones that come to mind first. (Hallel doesn't count, because it's not particular-holiday specific.)
And my favorite Carol is Carol Burnett, I think. Oh, and Carroll Connor.
It's a hard choice, really.
For Pesach, I'm fond of Echad Mi Yode'a (Who Knows One, a counting song that we always sung in Hebrew, each verse in one breath) and Had Gadya sung in English. Despite their being appended to the end of the seder, though, they're not particularly thematically linked to the holiday.
One of the kinot on Tisha b'Av has couplets comparing leaving Egypt and leaving Jerusalem after the destruction of the Temple, which I find particularly memorable because it's a singable tune amongst a lot of impenetrable medieval Hebrew stuff, and it's appropriately evocative.
For Yom Kippur, Mar'ei Kohen (The Face of the Cohen [Gadol]) makes the day easier (also on Simchat Torah).
I'm sure there are other seasonal songs I like; these are the ones that come to mind first. (Hallel doesn't count, because it's not particular-holiday specific.)
And my favorite Carol is Carol Burnett, I think. Oh, and Carroll Connor.