{"id":5495,"date":"2018-05-23T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T08:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/05\/23\/if-i-forget-thee-o-jerusalem-a-chuppah-song-2"},"modified":"2019-01-21T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T09:54:00","slug":"if-i-forget-thee-o-jerusalem-a-chuppah-song-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/05\/23\/if-i-forget-thee-o-jerusalem-a-chuppah-song-2\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem: A Chuppah Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This emotive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ljb7sSoMUVI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>\u00a0features\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elioritzkovitz.co.il\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elior Itzkovitz Cohen<\/a> singing &#8220;If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem,&#8221;<\/em><em>\u00a0a Hebrew song o<\/em><em>ften sung under the chuppah prior to the breaking of the glass, reminding us of\u00a0the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem even in our greatest moments of joy.\u00a0<\/em><em>The Hebrew, English and transliterated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hebrewsongs.com\/?song=imeshkachech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lyrics<\/a>, shared below, are from\u00a0Psalm 137:5-6.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u05d0\u05b4\u05dd-\u05d0\u05b6\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05d7\u05b5\u05da\u05b0 \u05d9\u05b0\u05e8\u05d5\u05bc\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05dc\u05b8\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u05d0\u05b4\u05dd-\u05d0\u05b6\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05d7\u05b5\u05da\u05b0 \u05d9\u05b0\u05e8\u05d5\u05bc\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05dc\u05b8\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd&#8211;<br \/>\n\u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05db\u05bc\u05b7\u05d7 \u05d9\u05b0\u05de\u05b4\u05d9\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9.<br \/>\n\u05ea\u05bc\u05b4\u05d3\u05b0\u05d1\u05bc\u05b7\u05e7-\u05dc\u05b0\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05b9\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9, \u05dc\u05b0\u05d7\u05b4\u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9&#8211;<br \/>\n\u05d0\u05b4\u05dd-\u05dc\u05b9\u05d0 \u05d0\u05b6\u05d6\u05b0\u05db\u05bc\u05b0\u05e8\u05b5\u05db\u05b4\u05d9:<br \/>\n\u05d0\u05b4\u05dd-\u05dc\u05b9\u05d0 \u05d0\u05b7\u05e2\u05b2\u05dc\u05b6\u05d4, \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea-\u05d9\u05b0\u05e8\u05d5\u05bc\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05dc\u05b7\u05b4\u05dd&#8211;<br \/>\n\u05e2\u05b7\u05dc, \u05e8\u05b9\u05d0\u05e9\u05c1 \u05e9\u05c2\u05b4\u05de\u05b0\u05d7\u05b8\u05ea\u05b4\u05d9.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">If I forget Thee, O Jerusalem<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If I forget thee, O Jerusalem,<br \/>\nLet my right hand forget her cunning.<br \/>\nLet my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth,<br \/>\nIf I remember thee not;<br \/>\nIf I set not Jerusalem<br \/>\nabove my chiefest joy.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Im Eshkachech Yerushalayim<\/em><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Im eshkachech Yerushalayim,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Tishkach yemini.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Tid&#8217;bak leshoni lechiki,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Im-lo ezkereichi:<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Im-lo a&#8217;aleh et Yerushalayim<br \/>\n<\/em><em>al rosh simchati&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This emotive\u00a0video\u00a0features\u00a0Elior Itzkovitz Cohen singing &#8220;If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem,&#8221;\u00a0a Hebrew song often sung under the chuppah prior to the breaking of the glass, reminding us of\u00a0the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem even in our greatest moments of joy.\u00a0The Hebrew, English and transliterated lyrics, shared below, are from\u00a0Psalm 137:5-6. \u05d0\u05b4\u05dd-\u05d0\u05b6\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05d7\u05b5\u05da\u05b0 \u05d9\u05b0\u05e8\u05d5\u05bc\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05dc\u05b8\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05b4\u05dd-\u05d0\u05b6\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05d7\u05b5\u05da\u05b0 \u05d9\u05b0\u05e8\u05d5\u05bc\u05e9\u05c1\u05b8\u05dc\u05b8\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd&#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":5496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/"}],"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\/81\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7332,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/7332\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5496\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}