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Music Appreciation

sprinkleeninow

(22,257 posts) Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:30 AM 13 hrs ago

'Hineh Ma Tov'

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'Hineh Ma Tov' (Original Post) sprinkleeninow 13 hrs ago OP

It's interesting to me that I was taught this song in my youth, no_hypocrisy 7 hrs ago #1

no_hypocrisy

(54,672 posts)

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

7 hrs ago

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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