This song is set around the time of the First Temple (Hence the month of Aviv- Spring, from the old calendar)
I see it as a woman singing goodbye to her home (Ashkelon, in modern Israel), which was occupied by Romans, cause her her husband and family to flee in fear of persecution.
There's a lot of Jewish references I can't go into all of them, but I think bedsheets and wedding shoes would have been gifts for the couple on their wedding, signifying their domestic life (the bedsheets, presumably from their marriage bed where their kids are made and born etc.) and hard work (typically leather shoes are forbidden on Shabbat and holidays because they're associated with leatherworking and trades, and you're supposed to be celebrating not working.)
This song gives me really complicated Jewish feelings and I love that the twins work their own family and their background into their music in such a beautiful way.
This song is set around the time of the First Temple (Hence the month of Aviv- Spring, from the old calendar)
I see it as a woman singing goodbye to her home (Ashkelon, in modern Israel), which was occupied by Romans, cause her her husband and family to flee in fear of persecution.
There's a lot of Jewish references I can't go into all of them, but I think bedsheets and wedding shoes would have been gifts for the couple on their wedding, signifying their domestic life (the bedsheets, presumably from their marriage bed where their kids are made and born etc.) and hard work (typically leather shoes are forbidden on Shabbat and holidays because they're associated with leatherworking and trades, and you're supposed to be celebrating not working.)
This song gives me really complicated Jewish feelings and I love that the twins work their own family and their background into their music in such a beautiful way.