I am a Yemenite Jew this reminds me of so many times with my grandfather who was born in Yemen in the city of badan God Rest his soul anf my father God Rest his soul at the Shabbat table saying Kiddush and singing the traditional yemenite songs unfortunately now that is gone and all I have is memories but I will always remember the beautiful treasured priceless yemenite Jewish culture that I was blessed with from my father and my grandfather God bless all yemenite Jews everywhere
I am a Yemeni Muslim from Baadan and i am so honored by our Jewish brothers. I have been to the holy land recently and seen many Yemenites and was amazed at how much of the Yemeni culture is still practiced even by 3rd generation Yemenites. Like chewing qat or the food and many other things. Your ancestors come from one of the most beautiful places in all of the Middle East. Look up ibb Yemen and see where your people hail from. My grandfather used to tell me stories of the jews who lived in our village and the friendship they had. Don’t believe the media and the negativity the Yemenite jews were and will forever be loved by us Yemenis. You don’t understand the joy and love that I feel whenever I talk to a Yemenite jew. I love you guys and hopefully after the war you guys can come visit just like how Moroccan jews visit they’re homeland. Please do more research into the glorious history of our people. At one point all of Yemen was Jewish and we were the biggest Jewish kingdom bigger then ancient Israel. Much love and respect from your brother in your grand fathers village
Wow. Your traditions are so different from Ashkenazi (which are my) traditions. Very beautiful music. I was a big fan of Ofra Haza, so I know of that Shabbat song:)
I found it quite interesting they eat loaves that seem the matzah bread of Passover, we name in Portuguese of Pão Ázimo, I know this bread. The challah is more part of the Ashkenazi tradition. But some Sephardim also eat this bread. It is amazing how the Jewish groups can be different and the same, as part of one Israel. Only God can do something like this. And greetings from the land of Brazil 🇧🇷🦜 Shabbat Shalom I hope you have a great Shabbat
Where was this filmed? In 1973 i often went for wonderful shabbat with my yeminite boyfriend to his parents in yeminite village of kfar chabad...his family had no electricity and his father was (one of?) the rabbi of the community... Every shabbat was beautiful.... With this same energy.... with candles and oil lamps, and sometimes electrics from a generator... Lovely memories... Thank you 🤝💞
This is absolutely beautiful to watch. But I am curious as to why the men are wearing the tallit gadol if this is Shabbat night. Is this a custom on Shabbat?
It is the custom of yamanite Jews to wear tallit all day as there was no such a thing as Tzizit Katan. In fact during the time of the Torah there was only a tallit as it was their garment this never changed in Yemen but as Jews moved to Europe and adopted western dress they had to invent an additional garment so that they could fulfill the Commandment all day therefore what you see here is the authentic original commandment as was practiced by Jews thousands of years ago and never changed in Yemen. If you go to a yemenite synagogue today you will see that the men wear the tallit morning afternoon and evening
The Jews of Yemen moved to Yemen from the Kingdom of Judah as early as the days of the First Temple. Their tradition is thousands of years old, Ezra who was a leader in the days of the Second Temple asked them to return to the Kingdom of Judah and they did not want to because the Yemenite Jews saw in the Holy Spirit the destruction of the Second Temple. Many Jews returned to the Land of Israel from the 19th century onwards...
There are ways to go about it Buy ticket and travel to Bahrain, or Dubai, and do make contact with Jewish organisations and they will help you . I do know Adeni Jewish woman who was married to an rich Arab man. She bought ticket to Addis Ababa. From there she flew to Israel. She was reconversion and became Jewish and married Jewish religious man
I love this song & tradition of the teimanim! 🤔❓Who is filming this on a shabbat? And why at very end of the video is the man in uniform motioning with his hands to everyone to stop singing? Thank you 💞🤝
@@mdhr_i I agree with you I did a DNA test for my father who is a full yemeni Jew and he has like you said 80% Arabian ancestry but so what Jews and Arabs are related and always were and we come from the same people so why shouldn't we have the same genetics. In Yemen it is clear there was the original Jewish Community which came thousands of years ago and intermarried with the native Arab population who converted to Judaism and there was a Jewish Kingdom in Yemen as you know and so we are a mix of original Jewish ancestry a small amount because not a lot came to Yemen and Arab converts with a tiny bit of Ethiopian which most yemenis have
The Hadith version comes إن الله لعن الخمر or الخمر لُعِن and not قد لعن that alcohol was cursed before so in little quantity alcohol was allowed before and was even sacred in holy temple rituals of Torah and drunkenness was always condemned then alcohol became altogetherly forbidden when the Religion was completed through Muhammad s.a.w and was declared cursed. It is gracious seeing the people of Torah from the people of the Scripture and Jews celebrate and praise God in his appointed Rest Day. For the holiness of Torah and praise of God as is with the Bible and Christian song praising God confirming to what the Quran says on then gave my respect and as sole authority of my view scriptural and ordained approved by his righteous people I got authority from God to preach his truth
May I ask you something? Is yemeni jewish vulture still practised today by the yemeni jews? Are there yemenite synoguoge's? Do you guys still eat yemeni food? Do you guys still makenalot of jewelry?
The Temanim Jews (Yemenis) are the true "Semitic" Jews as they left a trace of their DNA in Ethiopia. Do you want to hear the real Hebrew pronounced the way it was supposed to be pronounced? Just listen to a Yemenite Jew reciting the Torah.
No, there are no "Semitic" people. "Semitic" is only still used in academia in linguistics for one branch of Afroasiatic but it's unfortunate they kept the biblical term instead of choosing a more neutral one like for instance Levantine, Sinaitic etc. As for Yemenite Jews, they mostly descend from converted Arabians, as Arabia was filled with Jews until Muhammad and its terrorist and totalitarian ideology ethnically cleansed them. The Himyar Kingdom (the area around modern Yemen) famously converted en masse to Judaism around the year 380CE. With the maintained links with other Jews of the Near East, Yemeni Jews carry trace amounts of actual ancient israelite ancestry thanks to very small but constant geneflow, so there is at least some genealogical link with Israel. The fact they have way less ancient israelite ancestry than Ashkenazis do for instance doesn't make them any less Jewish. As for Ethiopia, most of its Eurasian ancestry is from their Cushitic ancestors which ultimately originated during the neolithic somewhere around modern Egypt. There is later Eurasian introduced by Arabians, probably in different waves, which led to the spread of Ethiosemitic languages to the highlands of Abyssinia, but this minor Arabian ancestry has nothing to do with Jews and is also present in other non-Semitic East Africans like the Somalis, the Afar etc... As for the Hebrew language, while the Yemenite pronunciation is among the most conservative, it is absolutely not identical to the various stages of Hebrew before Jews switched to Aramaic, which is a language that became the lingua franca of the Near East.
Always an Arab lingering around trying to divide people haha. They’re just as “true Semitic Jews” as other Jewish diaspora groups. In fact, Jews in Yemen have more outside genetic admixture than many other Jewish diaspora populations, but of course you wouldn’t know that because you only look at appearances and like to revise history.
This is beautifull to 🖐️❤️.Father In Heaven i ask you in Jesus Name to Save all the beautifull People of Yemeni and Palestina and Israel and all the Other serounding nations and all tribes of people in all the countries of the World and i hold on to youre promise that we all shall celebrate Shabbat on the Seventh day .Please Father in Heaven let the wars stop in Jesus Name .❤️🙇🏻♀️
Yemeni Jews pronounce Hebrew more accurately than the European Jews. However I'm not sure they have more Iron Age Israelite ancestry than the Sephardi or Ashkenazi. I'd argue that the Karaite Jews of the Levant and Egypt are the "truest" Jews, from a genetic perspective. The Ethiopian Jews however seem to be just random Ethiopians who decided to call themselves Jews. There's no clear link between them and the rest of the Jews. Many Ethiopian Christians claim Hebrew ancestry as well, and the irony is that the Christian Ethiopians seem to have more Levantine DNA than the Ethiopian Jews. However the Levantine DNA in Ethiopians pre-date the Iron Age, thus it has nothing to do with Israelites.
It was not. The archealogy has found the oldest Hebrew writing and oldest Tanakhs (the dead sea scrolls are basically the same as what is found in a modern synagogue -book of Esther-vowels) all are found in Israel. Temani Jews have amazing pronunciation, grammar, high standards of scholarship despite their poverty, but the indigenous language of Yemen was Sabean and a few other poorly attested southern Semitic languages-not Hebrew. Oddly Hebrew is more closely related to Canaanite than it is Aramaic, Arabic or Sabean.
Very sad that you are a bigot. The Arab countries' governments cleansed their Jewish community in a number of places. They had angst towards the Jews after Israel was established. No excuses for Arab governments! Israel didn't force a Jew to move, lol. Egypt in the 1950's ordered expulsions of Jews. Fast forward to the year 2023, 2024. People targeting all Jews because they're mad at Israel. Jews that don't even live in Israel, have no connection to Israel. I've heard people shouting ethnic slurs at Jews. Awful bigots.
