Wow. Thanks!

Schecharchoret is a piece of music more sophisticated and rich than the original Morenika (That is the original name) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/asd7gNuVnMDPYKc.html, Besides Ladino is a dead language with 51K speakers, and shares the same context as Yiddish of being a bastard language to the enemies of the Jewish people (Germany and Spain) Hebrew is the language of the Jewish people, not need to use oppressors' languages anymore.

Ladino is not neccessarily dead. Art is not dead, it has this magnificent capacity of living on as long as these songs are sung. Which they should. Why not? Yiddish is a normal language, and a beautiful one. And music is music. L'chaim!

​@@SUomiist Yiddish is still spoken for example in the Jerusalem Quarter "Mea Shearim"! People there don't want to speak Hebrew, because it is the language of the Torah. It is a holy language for them.

​ @chavaler.9718 Yiddish is spoken at best by 200,000 Hasidic out of 10 million Hebrew Speakers, incidentally Hasidics speak Hebrew perfectly and use to communicate outside their sect. It is relevant as to drive any conclusion from the Cajun French in the US.

עופרה

Tudo que é bom assemelha se ao ouro joias que guardamos no coração

There is also an Israeli dance choreographed for this song.

Essa galera hebraica canta pra gente inteligente Eu devo conservar este modelo perfeito porque o atual seja em Israel ou Brasil virou bagunça as regências atuais e mesmo uma vergonha não tem sentido ainda bem que temos reserva 😂😂😂😂😂😢😢😢😢😢🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

Ich habe gerade das Gefühl als würde ich meine eigenen Worte lesen. Und, " mein Freund der Baum" war in meiner Kindheit einer meiner Favoriten. Liebe Grüße von ❤ zu ❤

I used to dance to this song, as well. It's a lovely, lovely dance, and Ester's voice is a joy, as is the musical accompaniment.

You're not the only one enamored with Esther's splendid voice

+Dirk Kelle me too Many memories dancing to this song. ALSO a beautiful cover of this song is sung by the late great singer Ofra Haza ( R I P ) beautiful haunting song very romantic folk dance to this as well.

Engelsgleich. Großartig

Thank you so much for writing the text plus translation down here! I like to sing along, but don't always the whole text by heart. Although there's one small writing error - probably a typo - in the line before the last one of the Hebrew text: instead of "yikre'uni" it's again "yikre'eni". Maybe you would like to correct it? Thanks again!

Sorry, now I made a typo: I meant "yikre'uni" is supposed to be "yikre'eni"

Can you please give me a translation in english. I have not found any on youtube. I really feel this song, but i do not know the words.

Thank you so much!

did you see the translation, that Urbach Mikael wrote, right under the Hebrew transliterated words?

In Hamburg in Germany and sometimes very rarely she gives concerts still as far as I know

As I've remembered from Ladino variant Morenica me te llaman (I am called Morenica) Mas blanca naci (While I was born white) The tune and rythm is adsolutely identical for both variants

עופרה שרה את זה לא פחות יפה

קולה אלוהי ביצוע מהמם אין עוד קול כזה

עופרה חזה

אני חושב שעופרה חזה שרה את זה יפה יותר מה דעתך ?

ללא ספק ! הוצאת לי את המילים מהפה !!! היא שרה מקנה הנשימה ! נדירה ! אדירה !

me too ofcurse

conmad24 merci !

It's a Ladino song about Jewish beauty

Sheharhoret it is dark haired woman, not dark skined. The origin of this song is from ladino.

@@TheWinnergroup Dark skinned. "Dark one" they call me, but I was born white-skinned... Cf. "...I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me..." (Song of Songs) I don't think the Song of Songs' female voice is the Queen of Sheba given the whole story line, however, the allusion of the Sephardic song is clearly to the Song of Songs...

@@olterigo nicely answered, but as a Hebrew speaker, the song is about dark haired women. Shahor in Hebrew is black. There for sheharhoret ... ok? :)

@@queeneggplant = Morenita or MORENICA

Morenika (or ca or any way you like to write the K sound) as the Turkish Sefaradim would spell it (ataboy, Ataturk!) IS THE ORIGINAL. The Hebrew is a translation of one of the popular versions of this folk song. There are several melodies for the Djudeo-Spanish (aka Ladino) LYRICS, sung by the sephardim whose ancestors were expelled from 1492 era Spain, and, happily, welcomed into the large Ottoman Empire (capital, Istanbul) by the ruler Suleiman, who was way smarter than those proto-fascists Ferdinand & Isabella who destroyed the rich culture of the "Golden Age". By contrast, Suleiman welcomed a population of educated Jews and Muslims to settle into lands from Morocco to the Arabic-speaking lands and north to Turkey and the Balkans. BACK TO THE SONG: so a sefardi community lived on the island of Rhodes; another the great metropolis of Salonica (saloniki, Salonique, etc); many in the capital Istanbul, others on the Turkish coastal city of Izmir, etc. They were far distant and had no recording equipment. Itinerant musicians learned from each other across all ethnic groups, geographic origins, etc. When someone learned the song Morenika from folks hanging out in their plazas in Rhodes, he tried to remember it as he traveled to the mainland, to Istanbul and someone else also learned it who returned home to Salonika, etc. By this means a folk song spreads and is changed along the way. The essential story of a beautiful Morena (dark colored eyes/hair/tan skin--can be any of those) who hung out on the docks waiting for something interesting to change her life....dreams of sailors calling her (in the versions I know, Los Marineros); then ups her game to imagine 'el hijo del Rey' the son of the King calling her and taking her away on his plendid vessel, away from the boredom....JUST read ALL the entries in WIkipedia for Esther Ofarim and Abi Ofarim, separately to learn about THEIR origins and careers. Her family from Syria, his from Germany, both born/raised in Safed, Gallilee, mandatory Palestine between end of WWII and the 1948 war. Keep listening, enjoying, searching and researching to learn about the one world that is possible when people are willing to learn languages and histories and music styles from each other. One answer leads to more questions and I, for one, enjoy the search and will sing (yes, I do sing in many languages) better because of all this. In memory of my father, with whom I sang since early childhood. A loving man, both learned and wise, and always affectionate and proud of my brother and me. Rav Abraham N. Winokur 1915 - 1996, he lives in us for eternity.

@@shanaw5390 Thanks!

@@shanaw5390 That's amazing

Totalmente!! La Mejor Ofra Haza