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Halikha LeKesariya (Eli, Eli) Lyrics

Eli, Eli, shelo yigamer le'olam
Ha'chol veha'yam
Rishrush shel ha'mayim
Barak hashamayim
T'filat ha-adam

Ha'chol veha'yam
Rishrush shel ha'mayim
Barak hashamayim
T'filat ha-adam
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gingerale On Dec 22, 2008
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Cover art for Halikha LeKesariya (Eli, Eli) lyrics by Regina Spektor

An incredibly elegant piece. God, I love Regina's voice.

Translated to English, the lyrics read: -My God, My God, I pray that these things never end: -The sand and the sea, -The rush of the waters, -Lightening of the Heavens, -The prayer of Man

If you want to hear this song, there is a good recording here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZXLpDe6O0

This piece is beautiful.

Cover art for Halikha LeKesariya (Eli, Eli) lyrics by Regina Spektor

My bad, gingerale. That was supposed to be a comment.

This piece was written by a woman named Hannah Szenes. She was a Hungarian Jew who was taught by the British army how to parachute into Yugoslavia during WWII so that the Jews in Hungary could be saved from being deported to Auschwitz.

It's so beautiful.

Yeah, the composer went back to her home country to try and rescue her mother from the Holocaust, but, in a bout of tragic irony, she was captured and murdered by the Nazis and her mother survived the Holocaust.

Cover art for Halikha LeKesariya (Eli, Eli) lyrics by Regina Spektor

This song makes me want to speak Hebrew =]]

 
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