https://opensiddur.org/?p=45592שיר מזמור לפורים | Shir Mizmor l'Purim, an anti-Prohibition drinking song for Purim by Rabbi Sabato Morais (1889)2022-07-11 13:42:08This "Shir Mizmor l'Purim" by Rabbi Sabato Morais (we think) was first published in <em>The Jewish Exponent</em> on 15 March 1889. It was preserved by Rabbi Sabato Morais in <a hred="http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/pages/index.cfm?so_id=1661&PagePosition=515&level=1">his ledger</a>, an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. Textthe Open Siddur ProjectIsaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut)Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut)Aharon N. Varady (transcription)Sabato Moraishttps://opensiddur.org/copyright-policy/Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Purim19th century C.E.זמירות zemirot57th century A.M.PhiladelphiaAmerican Jewry of the United StatesProhibition in the United States
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Purim, Purim, be thou blesséd!
Thou can’st stay the parting soul—
Honored mayest thou live forever
In their hearts who love the bowl!
Cease shall holy day and high day
From their midst, whom Moses saved—
At time’s end. But thee to ransom
We again would be enslaved!
T’was of old decreed, when Haman
Dangled from the lofty trunk,
“Yearly to recall this wonder,
Let the crowd get jolly drunk!”
Fear not when the Prohibition
Leaders meet, the tongue to wag,
Wait till after the election,
They’ll not be so apt to brag.
This “Shir Mizmor l’Purim” by Rabbi Sabato Morais (we think) was first published in The Jewish Exponent on 15 March 1889. It was preserved by Rabbi Sabato Morais in his ledger, an archive of newsclippings recording material he contributed to the press, among other announcements. (Many thanks to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for helping to make this resource accessible.) Vocalization thanks to Isaac Gantwerk Mayer.
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Shir Mizmor l’Purim (Sabato Morais, Jewish Exponent 15 March 1889)
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Rabbi Sabato Morais (שבתאי מוראיס; April 13, 1823 – November 11, 1897) was an Italian-American rabbi, leader of Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia, pioneer of Italian Jewish Studies in America, and in 1886, co-founder (with Henry Pereira Mendes) of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America to preserve the knowledge and practice of traditional, historical rabbinic Judaism in the United States.
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