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Music Appreciation

no_hypocrisy

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1. It's interesting to me that I was taught this song in my youth,

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2026, 07:50 AM

Feb 2026

but never knew the meaning of the Hebrew.

Like most everything having to do with my family introducing me to Judaism, it was ornamental, not organic. (My mother was a fourth generation atheist and my father was Jewish but didn't know why.)

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'Hineh Ma Tov' [View all] sprinkleeninow Feb 2026 OP

It's interesting to me that I was taught this song in my youth, no_hypocrisy Feb 2026 #1