{"id":7712,"date":"2018-12-27T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/12\/27\/maureen-nehedar-beautiful-heights"},"modified":"2019-01-23T10:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T08:48:57","slug":"maureen-nehedar-beautiful-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/12\/27\/maureen-nehedar-beautiful-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Maureen Nehedar: Beautiful Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aPOXnOHpxfI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aPOXnOHpxfI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This video<\/a> features Persian Jewish singer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maureennehedar.com\/en\/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%95%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%94\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maureen Nehedar<\/a>, singing an emotive melody for a moving song about Jerusalem, with lyrics by Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher, Rabbi Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141), and Yemenite Jewish poet and scholar, Rabbi Zecharia al-Dhahiri (1531-1608). An English translaion of the lyrics is provided below.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Beautiful Heights<\/h2>\n<p>Beautiful heights, city of a great King,<br \/>\nFrom the western coast my desire burns towards thee.<br \/>\nPity and tenderness burst in me, remembering<br \/>\nThy former glories, thy temple now broken stones.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could fly to thee on the wings of an eagle<br \/>\nAnd mingle my tears with thy dust.<br \/>\nI have sought thee, love, though the King is not there<br \/>\nAnd instead of Gilead&#8217;s balm, snakes and scorpions.<br \/>\nLet me fall on thy broken stones and tenderly kiss them\u2014<br \/>\nThe taste of thy dust will be sweeter than honey to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video features Persian Jewish singer, Maureen Nehedar, singing an emotive melody for a moving song about Jerusalem, with lyrics by Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher, Rabbi Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141), and Yemenite Jewish poet and scholar, Rabbi Zecharia al-Dhahiri (1531-1608). An English translaion of the lyrics is provided below. Beautiful Heights Beautiful heights, city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":7713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2403,1643],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/"}],"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\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9192,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions\/9192\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7713\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}