{"id":2501,"date":"2017-12-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2017\/12\/06\/alicia-jo-rabins-indie-folk-retranslation-eishet-chayil"},"modified":"2018-06-11T14:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T11:41:39","slug":"alicia-jo-rabins-indie-folk-retranslation-eishet-chayil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2017\/12\/06\/alicia-jo-rabins-indie-folk-retranslation-eishet-chayil\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Jo Rabins: An Indie-Folk Retranslation of Eishet Chayil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In this video, <a href=\"https:\/\/aliciajo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alicia Jo Rabins<\/a>\u00a0performs &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Q6NQYLX2d8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rubies<\/a>,&#8221; a modern adaptation of Eishet Chayil, which she describes as a love song to the mother of the family that also makes a wonderful lullaby. Rabins retranslated the text of Proverbs 31, added some of her own interpretations, and set the lyrics to an American folk melody. The lyrics can be seen on the screen and below. Rabins is a writer, musician, composer, performer and Torah teacher. Her work explores the intersection of ancient wisdom texts with everyday life.\u00a0She\u00a0is the creator and performer of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlsintroublemusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Girls in Trouble, <\/a>an indie-folk song cycle about the complicated lives of Biblical women.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Rubies&#8221; Lyrics<\/h2>\n<p>Like a merchant ship, strong and wide,<br \/>\ngold and oranges deep inside<br \/>\nmore than rubies, more than pearls,<br \/>\nthe one I love.<\/p>\n<p>With purple silk and tapestry,<br \/>\nshe weaves a blanket to cover me<br \/>\nmore than rubies, more than pearls,<br \/>\nthe one I love.<\/p>\n<p>The world is woven through us<br \/>\nand I cannot forget<br \/>\nhow her fingers hold the thread.<\/p>\n<p>She buys a field, she plants a vine<br \/>\ncome the autumn she makes her wine<br \/>\nmore than rubies, more than pearls,<br \/>\nthe one I love.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>Let it rain, let it storm<br \/>\nshe keeps her babies safe and warm<br \/>\nmore than rubies, more than pearls,<br \/>\nthe one I love.<\/p>\n<p>Grace can lie and beauty\u2019s vain<br \/>\noh but she calls me by my name<br \/>\nmore than rubies, more than pearls,<br \/>\nthe one I love.<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, Alicia Jo Rabins\u00a0performs &#8220;Rubies,&#8221; a modern adaptation of Eishet Chayil, which she describes as a love song to the mother of the family that also makes a wonderful lullaby. Rabins retranslated the text of Proverbs 31, added some of her own interpretations, and set the lyrics to an American folk melody. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[527],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501\/revisions\/2601\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}