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Music Appreciation

sprinkleeninow

(22,260 posts) Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:30 AM Yesterday

'Hineh Ma Tov'

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'Hineh Ma Tov' (Original Post) sprinkleeninow Yesterday OP

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

no_hypocrisy

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

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Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:50 AM

Yesterday

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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