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Mah Tovu מַה־טֹּֽבוּ
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| Tutti | |
| Solo |
Sheet Music:
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Score |
Lead |
The text of מַה־טֹּֽבוּ Mah Tovu comes from פָּרָשַׁת בָּלָק Pàràshat Bàlàq in the Torah [Numbers 24:5], wherein בִּלְעָם Bil'am (Balaam), a pagan prophet hired by בָּלָק Bàlàq (Balak) to curse the Israelites, praises them instead. The melody is derived from an ancient Slavic harvest round, known in the English-speaking world as "Hey, Ho, Nobody Home."
The text was set to this melody by renowned Jewish musicologist Judith Kaplan Eisenstein (1909..1996), the first American to have a public bat mitzvah celebration.