Ben Adam from M'ayin Yavo by Orit Perlman

This is my own somewhat whimsical rendition of Ben Adam - a poem for the Jewish High Holidays - Human being, why are you asleep? Arise, pour out your heart, and ask for forgiveness. This is traditionally sung during the month of Elul in most Sepharadic communities as the first poem to be sung during the very early morning service of Slikhot, so that the meaning of Lama lekha Nirdam, why are you asleep, takes on a literal as well as symbolic meaning. Another clear association, is from the book of Yonah, which is read duing the Minkha service of Yom Kippur, where the captain of the flailing ship calls to Jonah to wake up and call his God: בן אדם מה לך נרדם, קום קרא לאלוהייך

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