Psalm 137
* school jewishstudies- JUDAISM HAS A LARGE CONNECTION WITH THE TEMPLE
1. By the rivers of babylon
- The song has been used as an anthem of opressed throughout the world
- African-american communtiies used the song to lament their experience as slaved and the exile from their african homelands
- The psalm was made into a pop song(Boney M)
- We learn about the pain of exile
- Traced back to the Full Babylonian exile in 582 BCE
- Memory now becomes a big thing in judaism
2. The song commemorated the temple
- They were crying as they remembered the temple
If i do not keep jerusalem in my memory
Even at my happiest hour
- In the jews mind, they thought that this was the end
- They felt completely defeated
- The song mounred jerusalem
- It symbolized the jewish desire to return to israel
- This psalm influences Collective Memory by giving us a desire to return to israel
3. The importance of memory
- The song discusses the importance of memory
4. Elsewhere
4.1. References
4.2. In my garden
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