Welcome: New Website Features

• Listen to pizmonim recordings integrated into the digital pizmonim book
• Integrated pizmonim manuscripts
• Use the search box at the top of any page to search pizmonim in hebrew
• Indices of pizmonim by maqam, holiday, author/hazan, prayer application etc.
• Ideal with the iPad!

WE ARE MISSING 89 PIZMONIM RECORDINGS

• PRESERVATION: Help us locate the following melodies on PAGES: 109-II, 111-I, 112-I, 112-II, 113-I, 122-I, 122-II, 132-I, 132-II, 134, 139, 145-I, 147-I, 155-I, 160, 163-I, 163-II, 170-II, 170-III, 173-II, 174-I, 174-II, 175-I, 177-I, 177-II, 178-I, 178-II, 188-I, 188-II, 191-I, 196, 208-I, 208-II, 209-II, 214-I, 219-I, 226-II, 229, 230, 245-II, 247-II, 248-I, 249-I, 256, 257-I, 259, 266-II, 270-II, 287, 294, 304, 308, 317, 318, 321-I, 336-II, 340-II, 343-II, 351, 366, 367-II, 378, 391-II, 392, 396, 398-I, 414-I, 414-II, 424a, 430-I, 441-I, 448-I, 449-I, 453, 457-I, 458a, 459-I, 467-II, 468-I, 474, 476-I, 477-II, 479-II, 497-I, 498-I, 499, 503-II, 504, 507
• HAZZANIM RECORDINGS AND ARCHIVES: Please contact us if you have any private recordings (including wedding ceremonies) or any other significant contributions not already on this website.
• PHOTOGRAPHS: If your family has a pizmon in the Red Book that is in honor of a Birth, Bar Misvah, or Wedding, please contact us.

Parashat Behar-Behuqotai:  בהר - בחקותי

Generally, when Behar-Behuqotai are combined (Leviticus 25:1-27:34), there are three major opinions: (1) Maqam Mahour, to replace a missed Maqam Rast next week for Shabbat Bemidbar which falls out the Shabbat prior to Shabuot (Hoseni). (2) Maqam Nawah, as per most sources, because the perasha begins with discussing the Shemita (Sabbatical rest year), and Nawah is the maqam reserved for Qaballat Shabbat. Also Nawah is typically applied for the last perasha of a Humash. (3) Maqam Nahwand to commemorate Yom Yerushalayim (celebrating Israel's victory in the Six Day War). Some will apply one of the above opinions, and then switch to Nahwand to transpose "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav" for one of the prayer pieces. ALIYOT: All the curses (26:14-26:46) are read in the seventh aliyah. The Torah Reader or the Shamosh customarily volunteer to receive this undesired aliyah and it is chanted in a softer, but audible, tone. MISHMARA: Tractates Shevi'it & Arachin (Sources: Moshe Ashear, Isaac J Cabasso, Mordechai Nadaf, Sephardic Pizmonim Project, www.pizmonim.com).

ISRAEL: THIS SHABBAT, PERASHAT BEHUQOTAI ALONE WILL BE READ IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL. MAQAM NAHWAND.

Pizmon for Jerusalem: Yerushalaim Shel Zahav

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