Tehillim

It was with this critical work, Tehillim (the Hebrew word for psalms), that Steve Reich demonstrated that minimalism had the power to break out of its groupie ghetto and appeal to a broad audience of music lovers

AvaxHome RSS: Allende 2008

So I opened the Psalter in Hebrew Tehillim, to the only passage that throws around those numbers, Psalm 90, verse 10.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Van Biema 2012

The phrase from Tehillim Psalms 118, Hodu LaHashem Ki Tov, is generally translated as, "Give thanks to God because He is good."

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com S.R. Hewitt 2011

He wanted to write tonal music that reflected the steady beat of modern city life, though in later years the composer expanded his purview, exploring his Jewish heritage in pieces like "Tehillim," "The Cave" and "Different Trains."

P Barbara Jepson 2010

Psalms are comprehended under two heads, — "Tehillim", hymns of praise, and "Tephilloth", hymns of prayer, arranged for chanting in the Temple-services.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The Hebrews called it "Tehillim," praise - book or hymn-book, and the title exactly describes it; in the form in which we have it, it was a hymn-book prepared for the service of the later temple.

Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Washington Gladden 1877

But his evolving use of prerecorded speech about real-world events has lent meaning and variety to this trailblazing composer's work, just as the texts of the Psalms he used for "Tehillim" in 1981 led Mr. Reich to employ more pungent harmonies.

An Orchestra of Distant Voices Barbara Jepson 2011

God sat Eve in a wedding canopy (Midrash Tehillim [ed. Buber], 68: 4).

Eve: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

This discursive investment in circumcision can go so far as to turn it into a genetic marker of Jews: in the midrashic literature, a number of biblical persona — Jacob (Midrash Tehillim 9: 7) Moses (Sotah 12a a.o.), Joseph (Gen.R. 84: 6) and others — (Stern, 64) are born circumcised.

Gender Identity In Halakhic Discourse. 2009

To which God replied: “I put Abraham to ten tests, but I did not try you” (Midrash Tehillim [ed. Buber], 18: 25).

Bathsheba: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009