Introduction - הקדמה

Introduction

The following pages contains many words of praise of Pizmonim by our Hakhamim of the past. Image below, a summary chart of the entire "Shir Ushbaha Hallel VeZimrah" Red pizmonim Book is reproduced from "Let Jasmine Rain Down" by Kay Kaufman Shalamay.

Index of Pizmonim

Pizmon	Page	Song	Commentary
6000	I2	Shir Ushbaha Hallel VeZimrah	Published in Jerusalem in 1964 for the Aleppo Jewish community of Brooklyn, New York.
6001	I3	Zemirot Yisrael	Title Page of "Zemirot Yisrael," By H Israel Najara, Safed, circa 1600.
6002	I4	Attiah Manuscript	Yehuda Attiah pizmonim manuscript of Aleppo, 1858. Courtesy of his descendent, Sofer Alberto Attia.
6003	I5	Miqra Qodesh	Miqra Qodesh Baqashot book of 1873. Composed in Aleppo, by H Mordekhai Abadi, Eliahou Hamaoui and Eliahou Dahab.
6004	I6	Baqashot of Shabbat	Baqashot book from Beirut, 1913.
6005	I7	Shir Ushbaha	Composed by H Raphael Haim Cohen and published in Jerusalem in 1921. Includes the compositions of H Raphael Antebi Tabbush.
6006	I8	Miqra Qodesh	Baqashot book from the Syrian community of Cairo, Egypt in the 1930s. Published by Obadia Antar, Abraham S Shehebar, and Yosef A Ashkenazie.
6007	I9	Shirei Zimrah	Haim Shaul Aboud. Used in Israel in the 1950's and 1960's.
6008	I10	Baqashot of Shabbat	Baqashot title page of Haim Shaul Aboud's book.
6009	I11	Gate of the Song	The following is a chapter from H Abraham Antebi's "Ohel Yesharim," 1820, which deals with pizmonim.
6010	I13	Introducion to Shir Ushbaha	Introduction to "Shir Ushbaha" by H Raphael H Cohen.
6011	I15	Dibre Torah about Pizmonim
6012	I16	H Ben Sion Uziel
6013	I17	H Yaaqob Ades
6014	I18	H Obadia Yosef
6015	iii	Introduction to SUHV
6016	v	Gate of the Songs	Preface by Rabbi Dr H Jacob S Kassin, Chief Rabbi of the Syrian Community of Brooklyn, New York
6017	xi	Photograph of Raphael Antebi Tabbush
6018	xii	Photograph of Moshe Ashear
6019	xiii	H Moshe Ashear Introduction	Introduction of "Hallel VeZimrah," by H Moshe Ashear. Reprinted in SUHV pizmonim book.
6020	xv	H Saleh J Mansour Introduction
6021	xvi	H Haim S Aboud Introduction
6022	xviii	Pizmonim Committee	These people were in charge of selecting which pizmonim to include in the SUHV publication. Circa 1959.
6023	xix	Officers
6024	xx	In Memoriam
6025	xxi	Biography of H Moshe Ashear
6026	xxiv	Donors
6027	xxxi	Photograph of Gabriel A Shrem
6028	tawil	Family of Abraham and Yael (Shrem) Tawil
6029	elnadav	Raphael Yair Elnadav