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You Want It Darker

Leonard Cohen’s Kadish

הקדיש האישי והלאומי

הקדיש האישי והלאומי

הקינה היהודית המסעירה ביותר שנוצרה
על ידי גדול היוצרים היהודים בדורנו.
קדיש אישי ולאומי של לאונרד כהן ,
המחבר את יום השואה , הזכרון והעצמאות .
חיבור ה”הנני” מסיפור האהבה של שלושת גיבורי עקידת יצחק
עם ה”הנני ” של הסנה הבוער ,
שסוף סוף שומע ונענה לזעקת עמו המתבוסס בדמיו  .
הקשיבו כאן 
תרגום השיר לעברית

תרגום השיר לעברית

אִם אַתָּה המְּחַלֵּק ,תן לי לצאת מֵהַמִּשְׂחָק
אִם אַתָּה הַמְּרַפֵּא, אֲנִי שָׁבוּר ורצוץ
אִם לְךָ הגדולה ,אָז לִי בושת הפנים
אתה רוצה באפלה ,אֲנַחְנוּ נכבה את הלהבה

יתגדל ויתקדש, שמך הגדול
צְלוּבִים ומְקֻלָּלִים, בְּצֶלֶם בְּנֵי אָדָם
מִילְיוֹן נֵרוֹת בוערים
לעזרה שֶׁמעולם לא הגיעה
אַתָּה רוצה באפלה..

הִנְּנִי הִנְּנִי
אֲנִי מוּכָן, אֵלִי

להמשך השיר כאן

Summary

If you are the dealer, I’m out of the game
If you are the healer, it means I’m broken and lame
If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame
You want it darker
We kill the flame

Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
A million candles burning for the help that never came
You want it darker

Hineni, hineni
I’m ready, my lord!

The Discussion

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Do you think that the Kadish fits the state of mind of mourning?

Kadish and Death

Kadish and Death

2 Comments
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    It depends on someone’s connection to God.  If someone does not believe in God, than it is likely that someone will not connect to the words.  However, the ending can be universal in the hope of peace.  Even connecting and believing in God, it can be difficult to have to praise God, when a loved one has just died. Alternatively, many people can find comfort in the idea of the Messiah and the fact that their loved ones will be brought back to life.

    Gilad Palley, Matthew Cleeman, David Darmon

    Gilad Palley, Matthew Cleeman, David Darmon

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    Leonard Cohen proclaims the opposite! In “I want this darker” his language is half ironic and half honest. He speaks to God, claiming he is “ready” for the darkness, to be crucified, vilified, yet arguing that if god is the “healer,” it means he’s “broken and lame.” He is caught between accepting the fate that God has given him and resisting it psychologically. Kadish doesn’t “fit this state of mind of mourning,” rather it shapes it. By saying Kadish, one adopts the frame of mind that one is “ready” despite the initial ambivalence.

    Contradict

    Gabrielle Amar

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What is the relation between “You want it Darker” and the  Biblical narrative?

Are there  code words that Leonard Cohen relates to?

(“the lover in story” Sanctified”, Crucified, “Kill the Flame” etc.)

The Akeda and “You want it Darker”

The Akeda and “You want it Darker”

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Gabrielle Amar
4.12.2017 0:16

Leonard Cohen proclaims the opposite!
In “I want this darker” his language is half ironic and half honest.
He speaks to God, claiming he is “ready” for the darkness,
to be crucified, vilified,
yet arguing that if god is the “healer,” it means he’s “broken and lame.
” He is caught between accepting the fate that God has given him
and resisting it psychologically.
Kadish doesn’t “fit this state of mind of mourning,” rather it shapes it.
By saying Kadish, one adopts the frame of mind that one is “ready”
despite the initial ambivalence.

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