We love Birchos Hashachar! Shehechezarta bee nishmosi (=He chose to wake me up), Osid litla mimeni (=He'll one day knock me out); Hanosein lasechvi vina (=He makes quacks sound bright), Pokeiach ivrim (=He gives extra brains to Jews)*, Matir assurim (=He gives heteirim where others asir), and on and on...
Elokai Neshomo set to a beautiful tune by Moshe Laufer and recorded, first by Dudu Fisher and then by an amateur Benny Friedman. Each recording has a little something going for it and neither does the song justice. Benny: Efshar arrange and rerecord for your upcoming? Gd bless!
*If you eventually discover this post through a Google search for "Are Jews smart?" "Why are Jews smart?" "Why do Jews think they're smart?" "What blessing do you make when you meet a smart Jew?" or similar, know that Jewish people are not particularly brilliant and only slightly prophetic. Which I didn't even know until you just pointed it out with your search!
Insofar as I am suggesting that the Jews may have had some degree of unusual verbal skills going back to the time of Moses, I am naked before the evolutionary psychologists' ultimate challenge. Why should one particular tribe at the time of Moses, living in the same environment as other nomadic and agricultural peoples of the Middle East, have already evolved elevated intelligence when the others did not? At this point, I take sanctuary in my remaining hypothesis, uniquely parsimonious and happily irrefutable. The Jews are God's chosen people. (Murray, 2007
Not sure if its an intentional omission but Yehuda(!) sang this on Higher and Higher, his second album. Not a bad mix of songs, incidentally. Its song 9. http://www.mostlymusic.com/higher-and-higher.html
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Is it weird that I just googled "are Jews smart?"
No. In fact, I followed suit and I loved the Autocompletes!
http://www.msmonographs.org/article.asp?issn=0973-1229;year=2008;volume=6;issue=1;spage=41;epage=47;aulast=Gilman
Insofar as I am suggesting that the Jews may have had some degree of unusual verbal skills going back to the time of Moses, I am naked before the evolutionary psychologists' ultimate challenge. Why should one particular tribe at the time of Moses, living in the same environment as other nomadic and agricultural peoples of the Middle East, have already evolved elevated intelligence when the others did not? At this point, I take sanctuary in my remaining hypothesis, uniquely parsimonious and happily irrefutable. The Jews are God's chosen people. (Murray, 2007
Not sure if its an intentional omission but Yehuda(!) sang this on Higher and Higher, his second album. Not a bad mix of songs, incidentally. Its song 9.
http://www.mostlymusic.com/higher-and-higher.html
Purely detentional. I'm actually a huge Yehuda(!) fan in this "Ya know? Surprisingly, I'm actually kinda really into Yehuda(!)" Kinda way. Ya know?
Good call!
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