Barbra Streisand has recorded more than 60 albums, almost all with Columbia Records. Her early works in the 1960s (her debut The Barbra Streisand Album which won two Grammy Awards in 1963, followed by The Second Barbra Streisand Album, The Third Album, My Name Is Barbra, etc.) are considered classic renditions of theater and nightclub standards, including her version of Happy Days Are Here Again. Beginning with My Name Is Barbra, her albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials.
Starting in 1969, Streisand tackled contemporary songwriters; like many talented singers of the day, she found herself a fish out of water in attempts to tackle rock, but her vocal talents prevailed and she gained newfound success with the pop and ballad-oriented Richard Perry-produced album Stoney End in 1971. The title track, written by Laura Nyro, was a big hit for Streisand.
Streisand's 1980 album, Guilty featured the songwriting, production and vocal talents of Barry Gibb and was the best-selling album of her recording career. During the 1970s, she was also highly prominent in the pop charts, with number-one records like The Way We Were, Evergreen, No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (her duet with Donna Summer), and Woman In Love; some of these came from soundtracks of her films. She recently took part in supporting Haiti in singing "We are the World 25th anniversary.
When the 1970s ended, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S. - only Elvis Presley and The Beatles having sold more albums. [1]
[1] In 1982, New York Times music critic Stephen Holden wrote that Streisand was "the most influential mainstream American pop singer since Frank Sinatra."
Avinu Malkeinu
Barbra Streisand Lyrics
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אבינו מלכנו חטאנו לפניך
אבינו מלכנו חמול עלינו
ועל עוללינו וטפינו
אבינו מלכנו
כלה דבר וחרב ורעב מעלינו
אבינו מלכנו כלה כל צער
אבינו מלכנו
אבינו מלכנו
כתבינו בספר חיים טובים
אבינו מלכנו חדש עלינו
חדש עלינו שנה טובה
שמע קולנו
שמע קולנו
שמע קולנו
אבינו מלכנו
אבינו מלכנו
חדש עלינו, שנה טובה
אבינו מלכנו
שמע קולנו
שמע קולנו
שמע קולנו
שמע קולנו
The lyrics to Barbra Streisand's song "Avinu Malkeinu" are a prayer to God, asking for forgiveness for sins and pleading for mercy and compassion. The prayer focuses on ending the suffering caused by war, famine, and disease, as well as hate and oppression in the world. The singers ask God to inscribe them in the book of life, a reference to the Jewish belief that God writes the names of those who will be granted life for the coming year during the High Holy Days. The final lines of the prayer ask for a good New Year and repeat the central theme of the prayer, imploring God to listen to their plea.
The lyrics are based on a traditional Jewish liturgical poem that has been recited during the High Holy Days in synagogues for centuries. The prayer is one of the most famous and beloved in Jewish tradition and has been set to music and recorded by many artists in both traditional and contemporary styles. Barbra Streisand's version, which was released in 1983, is one of the most popular renditions of the song and has become a staple of Jewish holiday playlists.
Line by Line Meaning
Hear our prayer
We implore you to listen to our plea
We have sinned before Thee
We confess that we have committed wrongdoings in your presence
Have compassion upon us and upon our children
We ask for mercy not only for ourselves, but also for our descendants
Help us bring an end to pestilence, war, and famine
We ask for your intervention in putting an end to the devastating forces of disease, conflict, and starvation
Cause all hate and oppression to vanish from the earth
We request for your divine intervention to eradicate all forms of discrimination and injustices from the world
Inscribe us for blessing in the Book Of Life
We ask for you to enroll us in the Book of Life for a year of happiness, prosperity, and good health
Let the new year be a good year for us
We pray for your favor and blessings in the approaching new year
Avinu malkeinu sh'ma kolenu
Our Father, our King, hear our voices
Avinu malkeinu chatanu l'faneycha
Our Father, our King, we have sinned before you
Avinu malkeinu alkenu chamol aleynu
Our Father, our King, be gracious to us
V'al olaleynu v'tapenu
And upon our yoke (burdens) and our prayers
Kaleh dever v'cherev v'raav mealeynu
Stay (or remove) pestilence, sword, and famine from us
Avinu malkeinu kalehchol tsar
Our Father, our King, put an end to all troubles
Umastin mealeynu
And remove (or avert) our sufferings
Avinu malkeinu
Our Father, our King
Kotvenu b'sefer chayim tovim
Inscribe us in the book of good life
Avinu malkeinu chadesh aleynu
Our Father, our King, renew us
Chadesh a leynu shanah tovah
Renew (or refresh) for us a good year
Sh'ma kolenu
Hear our voices
Avinu malkeinu
Our Father, our King
Chadesh a leynu
Renew (or refresh) for us
Shanah tovah
A good year
Avinu malkeinu sh'ma kolenu
Our Father, our King, hear our voices
Sh'ma kolenu
Hear our voices
Lyrics © TRANSCONTINENTAL MUSIC PUBLICATIONS
Written by: Max Janowski
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@danestewart-stuart8771
O my lady, He CERTAINLY hears you.
He neither slumbers nor sleeps...
O my lady, He KNOWS the thoughts of your heart, and He has been waiting upon you, and He LOVES you...
Thou dost understand my thought from afar.
³Thou dost scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And art intimately acquainted with all my ways.
⁴ Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O LORD, Thou dost know it all.
⁵ Thou hast enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Thy hand upon me. ⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
⁷ Where can I go from Thy Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Thy presence?
⁸ If I ascend to heaven, Thou art there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, Thou art there.
⁹ If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
¹⁰ Even there Thy hand will lead me,
And Thy right hand will lay hold of me. • Ps. 139
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
³ The LORD appeared to him from afar, saying,
“I have loved you with an everlasting love ;
Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.
⁴ “Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt,
O virgin of Israel!
Again you shall take up your tambourines,
And go forth to the dances of the merrymakers.
⁵ “Again you shall plant vineyards
On the hills of Samaria;
The planters shall plant
And shall enjoy them.
⁶ “For there shall be a day when watchmen
On the hills of Ephraim shall call out,
‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
To the LORD our God.’”
⁷ For thus says the LORD,
“Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
And shout among the chiefs of the nations;
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘O LORD, save Thy people,
The remnant of Israel.’
⁸ “Behold, I am bringing them from the north country,
And I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together;
A great company, they shall return here.
⁹ “With weeping they shall come,
And by supplication I will lead them;
I will make them walk by streams of waters,
On a straight path in which they shall not stumble;
For I am a father to Israel,
And Ephraim is My first-born. "
Yirmeyâhû (Jeremiah) 31
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
¹³ “Oh that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
¹⁴ “I would quickly subdue their enemies,
And turn My hand against their adversaries.
¹⁵ “Those who hate the LORD would pretend obedience to Him;
And their time of punishment would be forever.
¹⁶ “But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat;
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
• Psalm 81
*********************************
“Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again;
¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall NEVER thirst;
but the water that I shall give him
shall become in him
a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
¹⁵The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water,
so I will not be thirsty,
nor come all the way here to draw.”
¹⁶ He said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
¹⁷ The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”
(Yeshua)Jesus said to her,
“You have well said, ‘I have no husband’;
¹⁸ for you have had five husbands,
and the one whom you now have is not your husband;
this you have said truly.”
¹⁹ The woman said to Him,
“Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.
²⁰ “Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem
is the place where men ought to worship.”
²¹(Yeshua)Jesus said to her,
“Woman, believe Me,
an hour is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father.
²²“You worship that which you do not know;
we worship that which we know,
for salvation is FROM the Jews.
²³ “But an hour is coming, and now IS ,
when the TRUE worshipers
shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
²⁴ “God is spirit,
and those who worship Him
must worship
in spirit and truth.”
²⁵ The woman said to Him,
“I know that Messiah is coming
(He who is called Christ
Môshia(c)h /Cristos/ The Anointed One );
when that One comes,
He will declare ALL things to us.”
²⁶ (Yeshua)Jesus said to her,
“I who speak to you
am He.”
Yô(c)h ânân (John) 4
@user-uw8fr1jy6c
I am Jewish. In Yom Kippur when I am alone at home and listen to the unbelievably talented Barbra Streizand singing Avinu Malkeinu I feel like I am myself praying to God in the synagogue-and I believe God is hearing my prayer.
@BuyJuntoUS
Me too
@belladaniella5913
Je prie pour la Paix dans le monde, aucun division encouragée par les Gouvenrne qui mentent ne devrait nous arrêter de nous aimer les uns les autres. Paix et Amour à toi ♥♥♥
@bilqis8044
Je me tiens à tes côtés et je prie avec toi!
@danestewart-stuart8771
O my lady, He CERTAINLY hears you.
He neither slumbers nor sleeps...
O my lady, He KNOWS the thoughts of your heart, and He has been waiting upon you, and He LOVES you...
Thou dost understand my thought from afar.
³Thou dost scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And art intimately acquainted with all my ways.
⁴ Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O LORD, Thou dost know it all.
⁵ Thou hast enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Thy hand upon me. ⁶Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
⁷ Where can I go from Thy Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Thy presence?
⁸ If I ascend to heaven, Thou art there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, Thou art there.
⁹ If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
¹⁰ Even there Thy hand will lead me,
And Thy right hand will lay hold of me. • Ps. 139
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
³ The LORD appeared to him from afar, saying,
“I have loved you with an everlasting love ;
Therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.
⁴ “Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt,
O virgin of Israel!
Again you shall take up your tambourines,
And go forth to the dances of the merrymakers.
⁵ “Again you shall plant vineyards
On the hills of Samaria;
The planters shall plant
And shall enjoy them.
⁶ “For there shall be a day when watchmen
On the hills of Ephraim shall call out,
‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
To the LORD our God.’”
⁷ For thus says the LORD,
“Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,
And shout among the chiefs of the nations;
Proclaim, give praise, and say,
‘O LORD, save Thy people,
The remnant of Israel.’
⁸ “Behold, I am bringing them from the north country,
And I will gather them from the remote parts of the earth,
Among them the blind and the lame,
The woman with child and she who is in labor with child, together;
A great company, they shall return here.
⁹ “With weeping they shall come,
And by supplication I will lead them;
I will make them walk by streams of waters,
On a straight path in which they shall not stumble;
For I am a father to Israel,
And Ephraim is My first-born. "
Yirmeyâhû (Jeremiah) 31
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
¹³ “Oh that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
¹⁴ “I would quickly subdue their enemies,
And turn My hand against their adversaries.
¹⁵ “Those who hate the LORD would pretend obedience to Him;
And their time of punishment would be forever.
¹⁶ “But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat;
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
• Psalm 81
*********************************
“Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again;
¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall NEVER thirst;
but the water that I shall give him
shall become in him
a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
¹⁵The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water,
so I will not be thirsty,
nor come all the way here to draw.”
¹⁶ He said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
¹⁷ The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”
(Yeshua)Jesus said to her,
“You have well said, ‘I have no husband’;
¹⁸ for you have had five husbands,
and the one whom you now have is not your husband;
this you have said truly.”
¹⁹ The woman said to Him,
“Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.
²⁰ “Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem
is the place where men ought to worship.”
²¹(Yeshua)Jesus said to her,
“Woman, believe Me,
an hour is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father.
²²“You worship that which you do not know;
we worship that which we know,
for salvation is FROM the Jews.
²³ “But an hour is coming, and now IS ,
when the TRUE worshipers
shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
²⁴ “God is spirit,
and those who worship Him
must worship
in spirit and truth.”
²⁵ The woman said to Him,
“I know that Messiah is coming
(He who is called Christ
Môshia(c)h /Cristos/ The Anointed One );
when that One comes,
He will declare ALL things to us.”
²⁶ (Yeshua)Jesus said to her,
“I who speak to you
am He.”
Yô(c)h ânân (John) 4
@catherinethomas1276
He is ❤
@t.v.4551
I am NOT Jewish, and this song/prayer found a very deep place in my heart. So divine, so holy!!
Dear Israelites, we stand with and praying for you in these heartbreaking time! 💔🙏🙏🙏🇮🇱🕊️🕊️
@JaimeMesChiens
Thank you.
Your comment means so much.
Am Yisrael C’hai!
@Milunia14
This prayer is like a balm for my soul❤🙏
@barrywhite7784
@@Milunia14😊😊
😊