Why do we sing Aishes Chayil on Friday night? What are the foundations of a Jewish Home? What traits did our illustrious mothers possess? How can I learn to appreciate life and live a more rewarding experience? What practical lessons can I learn from the women in Tanach and Jewish women of today? How can I become a greater person? The Aishes Chayil Song will shed much light and inspiration on all of these topics. The Aishes Chayil Song is a tribute which expresses the beauty of the Torah-based Jewish home as personified by the Woman of Valor and expressed in the verses of Proverbs Chapter 31. The Aishes Chayil Song will inspire and uplift while sharing deep and relevant topics of Jewish thought and the secrets of Jewish success.

Why do we sing Aishes Chayil on Friday night? What are the foundations of a Jewish Home? What traits did our illustrious mothers possess? How can I learn to appreciate life and live a more rewarding experience? What practical lessons can I learn from the women in Tanach and Jewish women of today? How can I become a greater person? The Aishes Chayil Song will shed much light and inspiration on all of these topics. The Aishes Chayil Song is a tribute which expresses the beauty of the Torah-based Jewish home as personified by the Woman of Valor and expressed in the verses of Proverbs Chapter 31. The Aishes Chayil Song will inspire and uplift while sharing deep and relevant topics of Jewish thought and the secrets of Jewish success.

Why do we sing Aishes Chayil on Friday night? What did Shlomo Hamelech – King Solomon – mean with this twenty-two verse poem that concludes Sefer Mishlei, the book of Proverbs? Is it only a tribute to the Jewish Woman or is there more? Would you be surprised to learn that there so are many deep levels of meaning – so many hidden secrets - behind every passage, every word, every letter? Now, for the first time, you can learn of the beauty of this timeless message, with this remarkable new book, “The Aishes Chayil Song.” Embark on a magical journey to unlock the meaning in every verse, as you join Rabbi Yosef Tropper, a noted author, speaker and educator, as he takes us through new discoveries you will enjoy on every page. What are the foundations of a Jewish Home? What traits did our illustrious mothers possess? How can I learn to appreciate life and live a more rewarding experience? What practical lessons can I learn from the women in Tanach and Jewish women of today? How can I become a greater person? The Aishes Chayil Song will shed much light and inspiration on all of these topics.

There have been numerous publications in the last decades on the Bible in literature, film, and art. But until now, no reference work has yet appeared on the Bible as it appears in Western music. In The Bible in Music: A Dictionary of Songs, Works, and More, scholars Siobhán Dowling Long and John F. A. Sawyer correct this gap in Biblical reference literature, providing for the first time a convenient guide to musical interpretations of the Bible. Alongside examples of classical music from the Middle Ages through modern times, Dowling Long and Sawyer also bring attention to the Bible’s impact on popular culture with numerous entries on hymns, spirituals, musicals, film music, and contemporary popular music. Each entry contains essential information about the original context of the work (date, composer, etc.) and, where relevant, its afterlife in literature, film, politics, and liturgy. It includes an index of biblical references and an index of biblical names, as well as a detailed timeline that brings to the fore key events, works, and publications, placing them in their historical context. There is also a bibliography, a glossary of technical terms, and an index of artists, authors, and composers. The Bible in Music will fascinate anyone familiar with the Bible, but it is also designed to encourage choirs, musicians, musicologists, lecturers, teachers, and students of music and religious education to discover and perform some less well-known pieces, as well as helping them to listen to familiar music with a fresh awareness of what it is about.

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This impressive semantic study, with a useful glossary of special and technical terms, develops an original methodology, bringing new insights into the meaning of a much-discussed word. Working with an immense amount of data, obtained by examining every occurrence in the Hebrew Bible of 35 field elements, the author achieves a new degree of semantic refinement based on meticulous quantitative analysis of distribution, collocations, parallels and syntagms. Sense-relations are formulated between hesed and other related terms. This study provides much material for a better understanding of this crucial term for Hebrew thought, and also makes an important theoretical contribution to Hebrew lexicography.