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Another version of "Eli Refaeini" ("God, Heal Me") performed by the world-music ethno-classic ensemble Tikra Li Sihara ("Call Me Moon") - this time without percussion - to Rabbi Yehuda Ha'Levi's text.
Rabbi Yehuda Ha'Levi (c. 1075 in Toledo Spain - 1141 Jerusalem) was one of the greatest Middle Ages poets and philosophers, aside being a physician. His Arabic name was Abu El-Khasan El-Lawi. As a poet he was known especially for his religious and love songs. One can see his marble statue (among others) in Ralli Museum 2, Caesarea, which commemorates the golden-age of the Jewish Sefaradi in Spain.
The translation below does no justice to the pleading-prayer notion in the antique Hebrew, based on Psalm:
A - God, heal me, and I'll be healed.
B- Don't be angry, (and in one Hebrew word:) and it will be the end of me.
My drugs (e.g. medicine) and pharmacy are for you,
if good or bad, strong or weak.
A - You are the one who will chose, and not me.
B - On your knowledge the ugly and the beauty.
Not upon my medicine am I leaning,
only towards your healing am I looking forward (in Hebrew: also anticipating).

Dorin Margalit: composition and guitar
Rosa IVered) Wol.: vocals
Dima Mitgratz: Turkish Saz
Riva Wol.: keyboard
Home made recording, Tel-Aviv, April 2015