Yemeni Jewish Dance

Yemeni Jews singing and dancing: A performance of the Yemenite Troupe.
Here is a "simple" translation of the Yemeni Dialect part--I need help with the Hebrew part (some words are translated based on the way the performers pronounce them, which is in some parts "questionable")
Note: the words in parentheses are added for clarification:

Down (the hill or mountain) I went
To the stream
To water my horse--
My foot slipped
And I fell into the water.
I went to propose (engagement)
But they rejected me,
(and) my "qat" (a stimulant)
And the "mada3ah" (water-pipe)
Although I'm the son of a Chief
The son of a Jew.
I went to propose
Carrying my qat and the mada3ah
But the bad guys
Made a fool of me.
Sweet heart and the apple of my eye
Tell those who made you
Think bad of me:
Who of you would entertain me?
From the early dawn
She got angry with me
And went cry--
Got angry--oh darkness (of the night)
Out of sight is my beloved.
For a year and two months,
Never returned.
Alas people
She left
And deserted me.
To whom shall I complain,
And would understand me?
Before whom shall I cry,
And would pity me?
And who of you
Would entertain me.

[@maguli__]

From Yemen here (non Jewish) but GOD!!!! This makes me happy and very proud to be from a country with an ancient and cultured civilization! Prosperity to the people of Yemen, and to ALL!!!! ❤️ ✌🏻

[@maguli__]

Mark McElroy ❤️ thank you, and to you too

[@sandranyawa]

Next generation yemeni muslim, should preserve their beautiful culture

[@sinzlicht]

Peace and Love ♥ I am Jewish Yemenite from Canada and I pray that we should love each other and not hate after all we are cousins and brothers alike.

[@akaaral-nemri8380]

sinzlicht True. Wish you all the best in your life. Peace to you. How many as jews Yemeni people are there in Canada?

[@antowalk2743]

sinzlicht are they alot of Yemenite Jews in Canada and where are the communities

[@antowalk2743]

sinzlicht why are Yemenite Jewish women so beautiful

[@Mike.....]

Hi beautiful sister, im a Dutch christian by choice with jewish roots by fathers side his grandfather was killed in Auschwitz. Once i met a very sweet yemenite jewish women in Rotterdam selling falafel in a small kiosk/toko she said eat as much you can for 1 price

[@yashfini_20.10]

Hi🙋🏻‍♀️

[@erraticsnow]

I'm Arab (from Iraq) and I've noticed a trend that the most talented musicians and vocalists are usually Arab Jews... they are very talented. Nice video. Hope all Yemeni Jews live in peace. I love the Yemeni people :) so kind and sweet, exactly how our beloved Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) described them. Long live Yemen!

[@ionah7187]

We are just jew, not « arab jew »

[@abdibgm5748]

​@ionah7187 I mean they are singing in Arabic

[@indiamakinucci4355]

Nope

[@indiamakinucci4355]

Middle East is Middle East , Jew , Muslim whoever ….

[@LitLMeaNie]

@@ionah7187there is difference.

[@jamilasalaam]

MaShaAllah .. we Jews & Arabs are so much more the same .. then we are different !! salaam shalom

[@stellavista6893]

the youyou come from Leah's, Rachel and Jacob story, was half a mask to Leah for the bride because she was the eldest and she was to be married before Rachel, and the people to prevent it was Leah rachel and not under the mask sing soon LEA, LEA ,LEA ... speed LEA LEA LEA and the youyou :)

[@mr.q8608]

They are Arabs Jews and Arabs at the same time

[@pirouznahavandi1587]

@@mr.q8608 an Arab speaks Arabic, Jewish people speak Hebrew. But they are both Semites.

[@samyay4432]

This is beautiful.

[@kingofheartsxyz]

but then stupid Islam came and called the people of the book the WORST of all CREATIONS !

[@al-hiemyari1000]

I feel sad about our brothers Yemeni Jews they were getting treated bad in their won country Yemen . Hug to all Yemeni Jews . And I hope one day we all go back to our beautiful Yemen

[@green4760]

ameen

[@jamilasalaam]

ya rab, ameen ♡

[@ajsuflena156]

Hummus Binshawarma you’re weird

[@generaldistrust]

Wish I could go to the land of my great grandparents land to feel this place

[@wewenang5167]

not just jewish but everyone is badly treated there because of what the Saudis and US been doing there. These proxy war between Iran and US and Saudi is the reason for it all, Muslim, Jews and Christians been living together in Yemen for thousands of years without any problem. But after the age of British colonial all these shit started!

[@chickenburger9820]

Yemen is an ancient land where different communities coexisted beside each other for centuries. Sunni Muslims lived side by side with Shiite Muslims and with Jews as well as other foreign communities like the Indian and the Turkish. So sad to see what Yemen have come to

[@yos5499]

The last song in Hebrew says. We will go up to our land, with song and praise and with splendor and majesty

[@pistisbalu2021]

Eshal elohai

[@Boratman84]

Wow this is Incredible! The Yemenite Israeli singing group A-wa popularized and hip hopped this folk song "habib galbi" my beloved heart. Its great to hear the OG version

[@Metrojock2]

I love this. This is so awesome, nice to see our brothers in Israel are keeping it alive. Whoever posted this: Thank you and Shalom if you're jewish, Salam is if not. It's all the same. =) ... By the way, I'm a28 yr old American-Yemeni in the USA. Whether we're Yemenites or Yemenise, Jewish or Muslims,who cares, we're all brothers.

[@alkaff2008]

Its so so nice music and dance of Yeminis Jews in their traditional dance and songs in a wedding celebration mixed into two language arabic/hebrew.Thanks to my sister and brothers Jews of Yemen in performing this nice songs and dance in which we can feel of past and present and future also for remaining on that tradition culture is still alive in their hearts and gains our hearts too.

[@ashrafawad601]

from egypt with love . nice song

[@adem19782009]

IM Yemeni Muslime and i Love Yemenis jewish Yemen One Nation love u all

[@JohnJE123]

The Hebrew verse they sing at the end is the last verse of the song, "Eshal Elohai" ("I Will Ask My G-d,") by Shalom Shabazi (16th Cen. CE). Approx. Trans: We will go up to our land (i.e., Land of Israel) with song and melody, and music and praise.

[@rosewater94]

تحفة.. عاش تراثنا المشترك.. مسلمين ويهود ..💕💕

[@Edwin-pj7pt]

this is AWESOME

[@zeekosuave6812]

I luv yemini Jewish music

[@guitarlawyer75]

Reminded me of the late Ofrah Haza R.I.P.

[@cc_ysd]

Indeed, it was thanks to her music I’ve learn more about Yemenite-Jewish culture

[@user-ib8jb2dh9n]

ما شآء الله صوت جميل ودافئ وان شاء الله من حسن الى احسن

[@aidroooos]

beautiful dance n music ..the culture never die.. a 60 years old country won't last so long.... viva yemen

[@donaldseigel4101]

Both Yemen and Israel are thousands of years old.

[@mohammadaladlani8144]

شكرا على جهودكم في حمل التراث اليمني المشترك بين مسلمين اليمن واولاد عمهم من الديانه اليهوديه

[@BKL900]

يمنيات اصيلات. محتشمات.. فوق راسي كل يمنيه محتشمه شواء كانت يهوديه او مسلمة

[@eileenh28]

Absolutely spellbinding. Thank you for posting this.

[@Hageulah]

Beautiful Music and Dance, I love it very much ! We dance the Yemenite Style too, for Example the Dance "Achei Bnei Teiman", "Ayuma Behar Hamor", "Lechu Neranena", "Sacred Shabbat". Shalom from Mirjam Germany/Berlin

[@ajsuflena156]

what jew are u ? moroccan ? if u dance similar to this

[@Shayma1977]

wow,beautiful. wish there was more videos to reflect the yemeni jewish traditions..thanks for posting this, it is really amazing...

[@shulalavy1698]

the woman sing in Arabic but the male sing Hebrew [most longing to home(israel).they pray every day (3000 years in the diaspora !)]

[@poppymu]

Magnificent. Thanks for putting it here!

[@sandranyawa]

Next generation yemeni , should preserves their ancient beaitiful culture

[@شيماءالصيادي]

احنا اليمنيين اكثر ناس محافظه على عاداتها وتقاليدها وتراثها

[@EleazarYoshua]

Argh... I miss them so much... Greeting from me, Yemenite Jews in Federation Of Malaysia.

[@yojan9238]

Yemenite Jews in Malaysia? Really?!

[@amirbenshams3550]

@@yojan9238 Malaysia only banned Israel not the jews from any other countries.

[@adem19782009]

i love this really niceeeeeee and i love who every yemeni who is proud to be yemeni love you all

[@yokhanan]

Todah for posting this :)

[@TShilo12]

Yes, Yemenite Hebrew is very distinctive (an gentle on the ear).

[@abdibgm5748]

This Arabic dialect spoken by Jews who settled in Norther Yemen very similar to the Sa'dani Yemeni Arabic dialect

[@danielicolors]

Beautiful words, brother. "Be the peace you wish to see in the world."

[@Jewcygrl]

This is beautiful! I want to learn more about this community. I'm tired of the misunderstandings between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi cultures. We're one family.

[@Ecuaruby]

Great song, every time I hear it I feel like dancing! From the little I know of Yemeni culture, it has a very rich culture, beautiful jewelery, clothes, music, and landscape. It's kinda strange to see Jews who actually look Arab and dancing to Arab music, since most people are only exposed to Askenazi (European Jews). Wonderful video thanks for posting.

[@goldenmind5760]

Well, but this is the heritage of the Jews of Yemen, and they are Arabs

[@avishargi]

I'm a yemeni jew from israel but pretty asli ^^ I love my yemeni traditions and songs and i think 2000 years in yemen makes us Arabic Yemeni Jews since we were at the times where alot of the arabic culture and traditions started. I love to see how you think and how openminded you are about others.. thats how muslims and jews should think.. because we warship same god and there is no closer religion to islam then judaism if you look up to it

[@dangterrat5684]

They are arab yes no doubt about it. The traditions you still hold are also still in yemen and we won't forget you my brothers, a yemeni is a yemeni no matter what

[@TheSeptuagint]

The early Christian church was almost indistinguishable from Judaism. Most believers in Yeshua were Jewish

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

Such good music I attended a Shabbos in Jerusalem at a yemeni Jewish family's home, they are delightful people and their music more so I'd heard that yemenite Jews provided security to the yemeni Royal family Is this sung in yemenite Arabic or a Jewish language besides ladino? Too bad that no one talks about the pain that Yemen is going through at the hands of its fellow Muslims. Shalom!

[@avishargi]

I'm proud yemeni jew and happy with my traditions would never choose to be anything else. very well said. from my poor knowledge i can tell that islam says to respect other religions.. we are all a5ua ^^ bne Ibrahim brothers fight but after all we are brothers. unfortunatly many muslims talk bad about jews and israelis and see them as different. i agree jews do too.. but im happy to see people like you! inshalla more will be like you. a part of yemeni song for end "salam salam, ma a7la al salam"

[@goldenmind5760]

👍

[@sharala1]

@klueklue1 Thank you. How wonderful to hear something good!!! Bless you

[@stevenjfrazelle6145]

I, and all of the world, miss Ofra Haza, pbuh. I am from USA but live in Samarqand. I appreciate your commanding comments, ProudLad87, Avishar Giat, and those who need not be of the faith of Judaism nor Islam. Music is from the soul, and music heals. Let the Prophets, the Qur'an and the Torah be our guide to peace in Yemen. May peace be unto all Yemenites of all faiths. Thanks 4 posting, my friend. Shalom ve sala'am.

[@Kabeyavictoria]

Proud Yemeni right here

[@stellar6666]

Very beautiful!

[@benHodah]

Simply.,beautiful !!!

[@kidmedia1]

proud to be a yemenite jew (not zionist ) . salam ya shabab :)

[@claudiareed6702]

In 1949 and 1950 the government of the fragile new state of Israel sent planes to airlift some 47,000 Yeminite Jews from Yemen, where they were under attack, to Israel, where they settled, bringing their music with them.

[@jamilasalaam]

ameen

[@datukrajo1807]

+jamilasalaam hal enti Yahud minal yaman ??

[@datukrajo1807]

+jamilasalaam are you yemeni jews ??

[@kuroneko1374]

Thumbs up for the not a Zionist part

[@islamenlightenment]

Thank you for sharing! :)

[@marhaza1]

@klueklue1 beautiful words! i am also arab... i am christian.... i love jews, christians, and i wish every muslim thought like you--i would love to have a friend like you!

[@lior2]

toda raba for this video.great music,mille merci.

[@remhenshaw4313]

so beautiful!

[@KOQluvr09]

Instead of focusing on political and religious differences, how about we focus on the reason why we visited this page: to appreciate the beauty of the music and dance that is intrinsic to the Yemenite Jewish culture. At the end of the day if you open us up, we are identical on the inside. One heart, two lungs, etc. Speaking of Yemenite music, can anyone kindly tell me the name of this song? I think Daklon or Moti Nahari also did a rendition of this song, and I've been trying to look for it.

[@YemenDesign2008]

Thank you so much (:

[@TheBChicka]

Awesome, my school mates perfomed this type of dance at our Uni cultural night, it was amazing seeing it live, I always watch the dances on youtube, but sseing it live is way better :)

[@hanastop]

amazing! beautiful!

[@MissMaughan]

Very pretty music!

[@kidmedia1]

this is not "sepharadic" , this is yemeni music .like no other . i'm yemeni :)

[@myofficed]

I'm a Yemen Hadrami, and the Houthis are the real culprits that caused our Jewish brothers to leave Yemen

[@gabesimmonds8421]

My maternal grandfather was of Yemenite origin. His grandparents left Yemen around 1860 and arrived to Holland.

[@jigold22571]

Attah Bachartanu. Heart Sings❣🕊🔥🙏

[@abdulsamadalsalahi8213]

This is the best like from a Yemeni. I like all Yemenis either Jewish or Muslim. The most important thing that they are Yemeni.

[@mesifootboler4363]

20 minutes of habbani yemmen song so you can dance kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXbHh2Cci8Zjmac

[@abdulsamadalsalahi8213]

@@mesifootboler4363 Thank you so much

[@bwworld]

Mesmerizing, beautiful, part of the rich tapestry of Judaism!

[@MsChristianmommy]

@Zebeerdy I am sorry to hear that, G-d's blessings to you.

[@yam60]

Great,thanks

[@JV-cy6gu]

Now thats dope❤

[@myofficed]

Yemen needs to rebuild a country based on community, gender equality, ethnic equality with the spirit of brotherhood, diversity, peace, and culture so that it can become the most beautiful place that causes anyone and wherever people want to live there.

[@iamsheel]

If only we could have it in better quality

[@DunyaTaghlibiyya]

I love this song! Why the quality is so poor?! I wish I could sing and dance like them...

[@cacamarba]

Salam/Shalom to all. To understand zionism pls read 'the weight of 3000 years of jewish history' written by prof israel shahak

[@timboslayer]

Thanks to you.

[@katharinahuth4242]

heywa teymani shir arabit tov meod ve jafe old jewish songs from arabic countries are gold

[@HendrikKabubuDBera]

high quality please,, i need it, thankyou

[@madygaming2638]

Sublime....😍

[@kingofkings1313]

Yehudi, much respect to you brother

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

Beautiful people wow ❤

[@bintyyy]

Sheba's queen(sheba is the name of the kingdom,and there were many shebean kings in the history of yemen),on her name Bilkis was the queen of yemenis aswell,but most of them still doesnt identify themselves as jews..but call themselves shebeans..i do not know a lot about how the habasha people(ethiopians,eritreans) identify themselves but i know they have a great history aswell and we share a queen,Bilkis with them..

[@BKL900]

قوة القوه .نساء اليمن محتشمات اين ماكانوا يهود ومسلمين.

[@timboslayer]

Thanks to you, too.

[@OfraSongsHaza]

You are right and Thank you for this video . I am also from Yemen from Hujariah Taiz . I would love to say that Yemen the land is the mother of All Arabs and Jews . Even , all the Earth planet Humans and Nations . Arabs and Jews are essentially from one grand Pa then they became cousins .

[@PRDebbie1]

I to am Jewish, sephardic. I love seeing how beautiful am diverse our different cultures are, it's so refreshing. I was wondering if anyone could translate this into English or Spanish?

[@PRDebbie1]

emperor7772 I'm really saddened by all the arguing and fighting among us. It's all just for power and influence. The things happening in Israel are atrocious and the way the Ashkenazim are dealing with the Yemeni and Ethiopian Jews and other ethnic Jews is just straight up racism (things no one wants to talk about). All these things are why we don't have our country or our temple. We are all suppose to be united...

[@emperor7772]

LeeltDevorah Tafari Yes you are right. It is about power and political interests/agendas. Many Jews and Muslims were worrisome that establishing a one state religion in the Holy Lands will send shock waves throughout the world and that wars will continue to ravage this blessed land. The Ottoman Empire and those before solved the problem by giving each faith a quarter in the old city of Jerusalem. To the extent they helped to reconcile between the feuding religious groups/ideologies within Christianity and Judaism. They also allowed the people to adhere to their religious laws without any hindrance by state. So Muslims use their Shariah, Jews use their Beth din and Christians use their Biblical laws. This was a consensus that all the Abrahamic faiths agreed upon. So be honest my friend, people need to fear God and the coming the day of judgement. It is forbidden to do injustice and oppression even if someone does not belong to your faith group. I don't see no resolutions or solutions coming from politics. Things will only get worse. They only way is when Scholars/Religious representatives of all 3 faiths get around a table and discuss a practical way forward for their future. Politicians have their own agendas and many people don't trust them. They say sweet words but no actions.

[@PRDebbie1]

You know nothing of what I am. I'm a biracial latina and not with any Beta Israeli. My whole family are Spanish jews, and we all look different some darker than me and some lighter. Just because someone isn't white skinned does make them not Sephardic or not Jewish. You're ignorance is amazing. Good day

[@jaredknows7090]

***** I don't understand. How could she not be biracial? She's from the new world, so the chances of her being multi-racial, if not truly "biracial", are high. If you could see the avatar of a lighter-skinned, different-textured (or maybe similar) haired women who claimed to be ashkenazi/sephardi, would you fret? This is clear inner-religion racism. The lighter women could be just as mixed with Brit, Slav, Roman, Spanish, etc. as the lady above is with darker pigmented groups. But beside that, if she claims her family is Jewish, could not her mother be Jewish? What is the problem? What about the Jewish communities around the world which partially descend from ancient mother converts and Jewish men? These are the interpretations of man anyway. Patrilineage clearly has a more important role in the Torah, and intermarriage from both men and women can be seen. Obviously certain groups don't even follow this custom (Karaite). I'm not on either side, but why are we so quick to judge this women?

[@PRDebbie1]

Asks Questns THANK you! These people's ignorance doesn't bother me I've heard it all before. I really don't care about their personal opinions and racist remarks they have no real knowledge, only assumptions.

[@yemenreform2]

A friend of mine really liked this video. Nice video for more on Yemeni issues and youtube yemeni entertainment videos look up the YSAA on google Yemeni Student Association Abroad

[@scarletcloth]

Thank you for posting this. I need some new tunes to praise our heavenly father with. What is the language that this song is in? Is it from the Bible? I assume that it is.

[@origworld]

great song & dance!

[@zsofika77]

I like this video very much! I like it's song, music, and dance. This is realy mistic, ancient music. (I think.) :)

[@azubliss]

This must have been how it looked when the Bible says Miriam and the women sang praises to G-d during the Exodus ❤️

[@TheSeptuagint]

Amein

[@Mike.....]

whats the name of the group and do they still perform,Amazigh Berber music has alot of similarities to,many Jews of the diaspora went to northAfrica.God bless ya,ll

[@edsonflorenciogoncalves3960]

I AM Yahudim, you are my brothers ❤️🇮🇱

[@madygaming2638]

Habib egualbi....wiya 3ainiiii🥰 Limanabki waliman nechki... Oui mi yefhamni .

[@m0th1ana74]

What is the name of this song? Can you re-upload the video for better picture quality?

[@KOQluvr09]

Actually, if you read your history books closely, Christians did not always get along with Jews. When the Christian crusaders took over Jerusalem, they only let Christians enter and worship there. However, when Salah ad-Din (who was Muslim) captured it from the Christians, he allowed any follower of an Abrahamic religion to live and worship there. In fact, Maimonides was his royal physician.

[@kuroneko1374]

KOQluvr09 Muslims and Jews were in the past in better terms than either of them with Christians I think. Its probably bc jewdasium and Islam are both monolithic religions but Christianity has a lot of mixing up with Jesus being god/the son of god and its all very confiding.

[@jorgeandrew]

Really, really wonderful. I guest the dancers are from Israel, and no from the teocratic Yemen. They sing in arabic and anciente hebrew, it's cool when they change the word "galbi" (my heart) by "galabi". In fact, fantastic dancers and rythms of yemeni jewish.

[@TB8080]

@722erodz there is a translation. Under the video, click "show more" and there it is. I don't know if it was added after your comment or not...

[@user-ht4gb2fw4e]

love it!!5*****

[@shilojan]

sooo sweet! mazal tow

[@Yemenigreen]

Hi I'm muslim yemeni girl, I love yemeni jews

[@yos5499]

The Hebrew part at the end Translates "Go up to the Land with song and praise, song and splendor

[@Jordana1018]

I love this. So beautiful. People of the world don't know much about Sephardic music or it's culture, the world could learn how we jews of these wonderful lands and cultures got along and not got along so well and grow from this, NOT ALL JEWS EAT PASTRAMI AND GEFELT FISH. There is a beauty untraveled by many here. Love

[@TheSeptuagint]

Yes as much as Hellenic Jews adopted Greek culture, modern Jews in the West have adopted American and western as well as European cultures…Yemeni Jews have preserved many ancient traditions from Abraham Isaac and Jacob imho

[@tozza7777]

i love all jews

[@OfraSongsHaza]

In Hujariah Natural district , you will find a tree called Al Ghareb or the Strange whose age is since the earth was created and nobody was able to burn or to cut , Chinese Scientist found that this one and another it's sister in Ethiopia consist of strange elements which cannot be destroyed ....... God may keep the family of Humans

[@OfraSongsHaza]

Yemenis and Jewish Yemenis used to marry from each other because they are from the same family and Society Until 1918 . As I knew from my English Language American Teacher , he said that Jews look at themselves as God's chosen People , it is not prohibited but this means that there is extra duty on them ........

[@hikarieikovkei]

preciosa musica!!! judia yemeni

[@klueklue1]

alslam alikom im from Saudi and i think this is very beautiful and i really enjoyed the vid and im muslim (sunni) and i just love to see people when they're happy i love Yemeni ppl and i have nothing against Jewish ppl and i have a wish that i really want it to be true that everyone should understand that Saudi ppl and muslims everywhere dont hate Jewish people WE DONT CONTROL OUR GOVERNMENTS ,GOVERNMENT ITSELF DOES

[@goldenmind5760]

ياشيخ 😂 لاتكذب

[@jorgeandrew]

I know two song. "Habibi Galbi" singing by Zion Golan (women singing) and "Tzur Menti" (one part of "Horashoot") singing by Ofra Haza (men singing). All my respect for the yemeni jews, the mizhari jews, the best bridge between Arab world and Israel.

[@RonenBraverman]

Studies has shawn that Yemenis merged as a community after the first Temple so they brought many ancient song and it's possible to find them in the Yemeni Diwan!