{"id":2073,"date":"2018-07-08T08:06:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T08:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/2018\/07\/08\/achot-ketana-a-sephardic-rosh-hashanah-piyut"},"modified":"2018-07-08T08:06:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T08:06:45","slug":"achot-ketana-a-sephardic-rosh-hashanah-piyut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/07\/08\/achot-ketana-a-sephardic-rosh-hashanah-piyut\/","title":{"rendered":"Achot Ketana: A Sephardic Rosh Hashanah Piyut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post presents the <a href=\"https:\/\/shofar.org\/67-holy-days\/rosh-hashanah\/239-achot-ketanah-piyut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lyrics<\/a> and a musical rendition of Achot Ketanah (Little Sister), a liturgical poem sung in many Sephardic communities\u00a0at the beginning of the Rosh Hashanah services. A love poem from the &#8220;Little Sister&#8221; (the People of Israel) to her beloved (God), the poem describes the suffering and darkness of exile, as well as a prayer for a good year and redemption.\u00a0Achot Ketanah was written by Rabbi Avraham Hazan Girundi in 13th century Spain. The images below present the Hebrew and English lyrics, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yA_enkz92WM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> features Asaph Ben Yair singing the first and last stanzas to a tune based on the traditional Moroccan melody.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u05d7<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2076 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/achot_ketanah_heb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/achot_ketanah_heb.jpg 541w, https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/achot_ketanah_heb-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2075 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/achot_ketanah_eng.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/achot_ketanah_eng.jpg 516w, https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/07\/achot_ketanah_eng-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post presents the lyrics and a musical rendition of Achot Ketanah (Little Sister), a liturgical poem sung in many Sephardic communities\u00a0at the beginning of the Rosh Hashanah services. A love poem from the &#8220;Little Sister&#8221; (the People of Israel) to her beloved (God), the poem describes the suffering and darkness of exile, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions\/2103\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2074\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matnasim.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}