timelets

This is my new meditation song. As the ancients believed, chanting prayers/poems in their original form, even if you don't understand them, carries a greater power than a translation.




Iz di goldene pave gefloygn, gefloygn.
Un di nakht hot geefnet di goldene oygn,
Likhtiker mayner, shlof ayn.

Di nakht hot geefnet di goldene oygn,
Bin ikh fidl gevorn un du der boygn,
Umruiker mayner, shlof ayn.

Bin ikh fidl gevorn un du der boygn,
Un doz glik iber undz hot farlibt zikh geboygn,
Tsertlekher mayner, shlof ayn.

Un dos glik iber undz hot farlibt zikh geboygn,
Gelozt undz aleyn un farfloygn, farfloygn,
Troyeriker mayner, shlof ayn.


--- Anna Margolin (1887 - 1952)

Interesting, how the story of David and Bethsabee made it into the Arabian Nights:

There was once a King of the Kings, a potent man and a proud, who was devoted to the love of women and one day being in the privacy of his palace, he espied a beautiful woman on the terrace-roof of her house and could not contain himself from falling consumedly in love with her.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54525/54525-h/54525-h.htm#c129

Cf:

2 And it came to pass at eventide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

2 Samuel Chapter 11.
https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt08b11.htm

And of course, it made it into modern popular culture:



There's something deep in this narrative. I wonder what it is and how I could use it.

I like this version the most