פעמי משיח | Pa'ame mashiah | Signs of the Coming of the Messiah (1912)

Artist: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn (1882-1938)

Hebrew translation (PDF)

This text was published in the second volume of Yaakov Cohen's Sefer Ha-Shirim (Warsaw, 1905: p. 15).

“Pa'ame mashiah” describes the signs of the arrival of the messiah in accordance with the Jewish aphorism: "Even iIf you don't hear him [the messiah] or see him, he is still coming”. In the song, the messiah might stand for the return of the Jewish people to Zion.

Idelsohn (Ben-Yehuda) composed a melody in a minor key.

Included in

• Sefer ha-Shirim (Book of Songs)

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