????????? ??? (???????????)? | The People’s Blessing (a/k/a Te?ezaqnah), by ?ayyim Na?man Bialik (1894)
Contributed by: Eugene Kohn, the Ben Yehuda Project (transcription), Ḥayyim Naḥman Bialik, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Before HaTikvah was chosen, ?ayyim Na?man Bialik’s “People’s Blessing” (????????? ???, also known by its incipit ???????????? Te?ezaqnah) was once considered for the State of Israel’s national anthem. Bialik was 21 years old when he composed the work in 1894. It later was chosen as the anthem of the Labor Zionist movement. We hereby present the first ever complete English translation of this poem. […]
