Jewish dance is part of the richest culture of the ancient people

Jewish dance can be called an integral part of the richest culture of this ancient people. According to legend, the Jews first began to dance immediately after they found Torah, at the foot of Mount Sinai. True, they say that the circumstances of their first dances were not as pious as they are supposed to be. People are simply tired of waiting for Moses to talk to the Lord, so they built an idol - a calf of gold, sacrificed to him, and then arranged around him dances and hymns. It was this behavior of the Jews that became the reason why the tables were broken: Moses was outraged by what he saw and threw them in anger with such force that they split about the mountain.

There is also a mention of how the Jewish princess Salome performed the Jewish dance of the seven veils before the king Herod. He was so fascinated that he swore to fulfill everything the girl wished. And she wished death of the prophet John the Baptist - and his head was brought to her on a platter. As for the history itself, it is known that the Polish noblemen, in the time of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, were very fond of amusing themselves by forcing every Jew to be caught dancing the wedding Jewish dance Mayufis for the Sabbath hymn. This was considered humiliating, and subsequently the phrase "dancing Mayutfis" became a common name and was used in the sense of "crawling around, groveling before someone."

Traditionally it is believed that Jews are not allowed to perform joint dances by religion, that is, women should not dance with men - only separately from them. But this is only partly true, since many of the currents of Judaism fully admit that the Jewish dance was performed all together. Moreover, it is even practiced to hold special dance evenings where young men get acquainted with girls in order to create a family in the near future (Jews do not take too long to meet and care, most often the guy after the first or second meeting is determined whether he will marry a specific Girl or not).

Particularly worthy of note is the dance "Khava Nagila". This name from Hebrew translates as "Let's rejoice", and initially there was only a song. It was written by Abraham Zvi Idelson, taking as basis Chassidic old melody. At one time he studied the folklore of his people and heard the melody of the future masterpiece by chance in 1915. He wrote it into his notebook, where a lot of other melodies, legends and legends had already gathered. He came up with the words to her later. He dedicated his song to the holiday, which came for all Jews at the time when the Balfour Declaration was promulgated, which gave the people the right to build their state on one of the plots that belonged to Palestine.

But since it was a song of joy, she simply could not but develop into Jewish dances. "Khava Nagila" is very simple in its performance. The lyrics of the song are just as simple as the dance movements, so even those who have never danced "Khava Nagila" will easily remember them. It is so incendiary that to this day it is sung and danced at every celebration, gathering in a friendly, cheerful dance. The beginning of the dance is slow, but gradually the melody accelerates, and after it the movements of the dancers speed up, which causes a lot of positive emotions.