#adon olam

[essaressellwye]

I don't know who needs to hear this but Adon Olam fits the tune of "99 Luftballons."

Also "Jolene"

[trojan-horse-girl]

I remember my Hebrew school teacher making us learn how to sing אדון עולם (Adon Olam) to the tune of Happy. I don’t remember exactly how it goes, but I remember telling my friends afterwards that I already knew the song because I heard it at a wedding and they said they knew it as well and my mind was blown. Had no clue it was in Despicable Me at the time.

[jessicalprice]

You actually can sing “Adon Olam” to any melody.

[lostthenfoundmyself]

I’m back on campus and have been engaging in my college’s Jewish community more than last year. It’s been really great to have people I can just talk with, without worrying or overthinking everything. At one event we are ice cream together and sat on a circle on the grass and just talked.

One of the seniors started up a reform/reconstructionist/secular group that meets on Shabbat at the same time as the conservative and orthodox minyans. We don’t have enough for a minyan yet, but we discussed the Torah portion and its relevancy and looked at some articles that interpreted one of the lines in a trans-friendly light, and then sang Adon Olam to the tune of a pop song I don’t know.

The classes I went to last year haven’t started up yet, but at Shabbat dinner the Hillel’s Rabbi taught me how to do the handwashing and blessing, so I did that for the first time.

So it’s been good. Really good.

[my-unorthodox-life]

last night at shabbat service we sang Adon Olam to the tune of Auld Lang Syne and maybe i'm just a music and prayer nerd but it was so pretty and fun that i wish we did it more than once a year

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I need to stop having epiphanies that absolutely shatter my constitution at the most random of times and for the weirdest of reasons.

This time, I was listening to a song, and part of the lyrics were just, "Thank You, HaShem," and this realization just hit me.

When I was younger, I was told to "just be thankful" as this form of toxic positivity so that I would be quiet about certain things. For the longest, it made me almost resent being thankful to g-d because I associated that with ignoring the sheer level of pain I always felt.

Just hearing them sing out "thank You, HaShem" made me reflect on that. I blamed g-d for certain things because people almost shunned my feelings away so that g-d could magic them away Himself. But that's not His fault. Thanking g-d means something different to me now. Thanking g-d means thanking Him for being there. He's my constant companion. He'd be the first One I would nudge on the shoulder after seeing something funny to ask, "did you see that?!". He hears my broken Hebrew as I pray with my people* - he heard the first time I sang Adon Olam perfectly, and heard when I started to remember the morning prayers. He's found no fault in my body; He turns His eye to my mind and does not shun away my suffering. And I don't need Him to magic away my past or my current pain and ailments because I don't need that. I need healing, and g-d knows I'll eventually figure that out in (albeit a long and painful) way.

I used to resent being thankful in that way because it came across to me as "just say 'thank you' and stop burdening us with the problems we don't care about." But now I'm realizing that isn't g-d's fault and He wants me to burden Him with these issues.

[unbidden-yidden-deactivated20240]

Jewish Song of the Day #56: Adon Olam

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Guys guys guys you have no idea how excited I am about the fact that this album is now out!!!

I first saw this teaser at the beginning of March and was so stoked that it would be coming out soon and now it's HERE!

About Kedmah:

Kedmah is an ensemble of musicians and prayer leaders excavating the power and beauty of Mizrahi Jewish expression through ancient poetry and song. Their debut album, Simu Lev, is currently in production, and this video of “Adon Olam” is the first glimpse of the project.

Led by Rabbi Yosef Goldman and Yoni Avi Battat, Kedmah honors the artists’ Iraqi, Syrian, and Yemenite ancestry in conversation with their intersecting musical influences. Their interactive performances, workshops, and recordings allow listeners to experience the spiritual and emotional depth of Middle Eastern piyyut (liturgical poetry) and the ages-old tradition of Arab melodies that adorn them. Part educational initiative, part performance group, the social and pedagogical impact of this project is strengthened by a commitment to musical creativity, historical accuracy, spirituality, and public performance at the highest level.

I hope you enjoy — I know I am!!

Edit: it seems I jumped the gun, just a bit. They have a few songs out, but the full album comes out April 9th. Get excited!!

[narcolepticgnome]

I'm on a cruise, and they provided things for a Shabbat service. I led the candle lighting, Shema, Mi Camocha, kaddish, and Oseh Shalom. Then this kid tried to lead Adon Olam (one I don't really know; my shul seldom does it) and faltered since he hadn't done it since his bar mitzvah. An old guy took over, singing it loudly with a gorgeous baritone voice. It was really meaningful. I'm glad I went.

Shabbat Shalom, everyone.

[ofpd]

wait i gotta choose an adon olam melody

leading musaf tmrw and was not informed of this until this afternoon lol

[greenflower21]

Rip Hunter you would have loved Wrapunzel

Rip Echo you would have loved Yehuda unsalted Matzos

Rip Tech you would have loved Daf Yomi

Rip Omega you would have loved the Hebrew school Purim Spiel

Rip Wrecker you would have loved throwing candy and lifting people on chairs

Rip Crosshair you would have loved Lag B’omer

Rip Rex you would have loved Jewish Geography

Rip Phee you would have loved searching for the affikomen on Pesach

Rip Batcher you would have loved eating the affikomen on Pesach

Rip Cody you would have loved the Rebbe

Rip Fives you would have loved the book of Daniel

Rip Wolffe you would have loved Lazar Wolffe

Rip Kix you would have loved “Mi Sheberach” by Debbie Friedman

Rip Soup clone you would have loved matzo balls

Rip Howzer you would have loved Nefesh Mountain

RIP Jesse you would have loved AEpi

Rip Boba you would have loved Adon Olam to the tune of Yankee Doodle

Rip Ventress you would have loved the tale of Yael and Sisera

Rip Fennec you would have loved starting arguments on Jumblr

Rip Obi Wan you would have loved Eicha

Rip Qui Gon you would have loved Mordechai Kaplan

Rip Yoda you would have loved Kollel

Rip Mace Windu you would have loved the ADL

Rip Plo Koon you would have loved the reform rabbis on TikTok

Rip Bo Katan you would have loved Yentl

Rip Satine you would have loved Art Scroll

Rip Korkie you would have loved the Prince of Egypt

Rip Din you would have loved the tunnels under 770

Rip Grogu you would have loved tot Shabbat

Rip Quinlan you would have loved Jswipe

Rip Padme you would have loved Hey Alma

Rip Thrawn you would have loved the conspiracies about the menorah being in the Vatican’s basement

Rip Zeb you would have loved wrapping tefillin in front of Kallus

Rip Kanan you would have loved drunken Zemirot

Rip Hera you would have loved JCC moms

Rip Dooku you would have loved the Essenes

… anyway, me and @labelma came up with these and I think we’re hilarious geniuses

[pargolettasworld]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z2EhLoJBX0

I was listening to a webinar about Darius Milhaud recently, and I’m so glad I did!  I’d never heard of this song cycle, the “Jewish Poems,” but the presenter talked about it, and I went to follow up and listen to more of it.  According to the webinar, the authorship of the poetry is unclear -- you can read translations of the poems here, and the presenter suspects that Milhaud and his friends might have deliberately obscured the origin of the poems to make them seem older and more traditional than they really were.  This one is the “Song of Zion,” and I’m less interested in the poetry than in the fact that I know this tune!

The tune isn’t entirely a Darius Milhaud original.  It’s his arrangement and adaptation of a really lovely French-Portuguese melody for “Adon Olam” that has become rather popular in American Ashkenazi synagogues -- including my own!  We sing this tune for “Adon Olam” all the time!  And how cool to hear what Milhaud did with it!  He grew up in Aix-en-Provence, and it makes total sense that he might have grown up hearing this tune in a local synagogue.  Perhaps he used it here to help underscore the Jewishness of the text?  Or maybe he used it because it’s a good, solid tune, and a lot of composers love incorporating folksong into their works.  Either way, it’s a great tune, and I love what Milhaud did with it.

[lyracreek]

me 6 months ago: okay I've googled "Hebrew Songs" and listened to a couple. I don't really think these are doing anything for me but that's okay

me now: I've got to start compiling my favorite renditions of Adon Olam in a playlist. God my Spotify Wrapped is going to be interesting this year

[buffleheadcabin]

Trio Mandili - Adon Olam

Gospel Sunday

[notaccurateornice]

Why do I have adon olam stuck in my head?