Link to recording of first Ivrit Kalah class (to sample or review): https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/XEcBBx9d8xS-pVKxlHaU0mrXoYJmQOvpTDwnCQDFbcL64ObbC1HX6wK7Bpa7F4ZmmEoXSvKzCX0qtaFD.67MjYwKCP0poOyWY?continueMode=true&_x_zm_rtaid=puBBb7qYTsS0eM2mImCr0A.1622569991024.9c7c970aac78d2d33ce96f01c73f49b6&_x_zm_rhtaid=195

was that nstatice?

What is the wildflower site that tells you what is blooming today in Israel?

so wonderful to hear the words clearly —lovely artful music!

So beautiful!

Super

Wonderful music.

Lovely

Beautiful thank you!

Thank you David!

so tender.

So poignantly sung;the singing and guitar complemented the poetry-Gail

Today Rabah! your singing brought the poem to life!

What wonderful singing!

What is The Tzuuta?

The Hebrew name on the upper right

tsvata is a chain of night clubs.

Tsavta means "together"

odah Rabe

Todah

I glanced and was harmed comes from the Talmudic story of the four who entered the Pardes (of esoteric knowledge)

Another word would be ‘pierced’

she was ‘struck’ ?

singed? pierced/struck seem too brutal for what she is trying to say

But there’s no idea of burning in the word

lit. wounded

when an angel touches you, it can burn

Like the Torah verses starting with “and”

there's also a great deal of the use of "and" in the Torah

and the ecstatic poet Christopher Smart

the sea turns blue from the sun illuminating its color

Water lillies like Monet’s famous paintings?

First line reminds me of Hallel: the hills skipped like lambs

That’s right!

song of songs: hair like goats streaming down mount Gil'ad

Higayon is logic

“muse” is pretty terrible in English…

From Deborah: River lilies are crimson and semi perennial. Is there any meaning in that? We think of lilies as white.

Should “muse” be the past participle mused, to be consistent with the direct, natural language of the poem?

I thought so. There was a problem with that word

Also the more so metaphysically, viz., the "Rock"--selah..

Simon and Garfunkel “I am a rock, I am an island”

The poem sounds like the ebb and flow of the sea, and a crashing wave at the end

In some ways like Amichai's "Open Closed Open"..

How cleverly and sensitively he plays with the sounds of the language to add emotion

Yes very true!

The sound of the music mimics the waves and the differences between gentle and stronger lapping of waves.

David has been pierced like Leah, in a way.

Beautifully said, Heather. He sings like a poet.

Beautiful David. Very sensitively presented.

very sensitive!!

Beautiful interpretation!

that was so beautiful, as though the poem pulled the music into itself rather than was "set to music"

emotion of the poem enhanced by mussic

Beautiful singing. Beautiful performance. So emotional and heartfult

Why the image of a wound in the rock?

the reference to "cracks in the stones" reminded me ofsomething Leonard Cohen wrote that it's the cracks that allow 'the Light' to come in-Gail Levine

why did they make her no lament?

Haray at mekuddeshet LI ... nine words he said.

The cracking of a rock (a relationship...)?

Howard, that is a wonderful observation

David, please share your music/contact information. I look forward to hearing much more of your artistry.

Just beautiful.

Gorgeous

So soulful-Todah Raba-Gail

are these your own melodies?

how superbly sensitive. Thank you David, a huge Bravo!

Loved it!

wonderful

Could that have been the abandoned husband who had injured his wife???

Very nice!

Isn’t עדנה also the menstrual blood. She died in childbirth, usually due to blood loss in childbirth?

Thank you so much for you appreciation and support. I'm touched.duduyzhaki@gmail.com

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6g40SRPIRvAwVx3noMLroR?si=-Ff8K6-6Saqbz41_DaAjqw

did musician write these melodies for poems?

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Rocks...responds to fragility...and a response to "Pride"

The first song is vomposed by the amazing Yehudit Ravitz.The second song pride was composed by me.And the third song by Shem tov Levi.

Experienced ?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9_A9MNbYiOFCMVtOF6CEUw

I’d be very interested in a session on translation too!

To "raise your hand"--virtually, go to "Reactions" at the bottom (or top) and click on "Raise Hand" [we lower it after you are recognized]

my version of Zoom doesn't have that option.

Would like to join discussion on translation as well.

Me too, would like to join discussion on translation as well.

She said “ship” not sheep

"green' sheep could also be young, immature

Did Dalia have any poems that are "happy" or funny, ironic, etc., and not so introspective.

From Deborah: I agree about the sea and lamb-woods. Lamb like woods, skittering down the slopes like lambs.

Skittering is an excellent translation.

not to forget about hair....also "se'ar golesh".

This was fabulous. Thank you so much. I’m sorry to leave but need to sign off before the end of class.

I keep raising my hand, I'm afraid you can't see me.

I read it as the rock was cracked and when the seal rubbed against it, it moved and the crack was revealed. By this warm touch that was more specific or intimate than the seaweed and the sea.

From Deborah: Her lack of expressing her feelings for many years was the rock. She was the rock.

timely!

Dalia (as a rock) had a crack there all the time...even if she seemed solid & calm from the outside.. the question then is what was the "little seal" that rubbed against her...

Perhaps some kind of warmth, feeling, reminding her of her father

Rav todot, Rachel.

Yes, warmth evoking longing, which unfulfilled is a wound. The loss of a beloved (I assume) father which led to her world breaking.

Marcia Falk had a question about where the Israeli wildflower website is...

Zelda has many such pseudo-references.

Interested in translation, but sometimes the poet intends ambiguity...

Thank you so much Rachel!