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Every Friday night, when Jews all over the world sit down to Shabbat dinner, they sing songs which reflect a wealth of traditions spanning a diverse diaspora. 

'Quando El Rey Nimrod' is a song sung in Ladino, or Judeo-Spanish. One of the languages of the Jews of the Iberian peninsula, then of the Sephardi diaspora from Morocco to Turkey, post expulsion in 1492. It speaks of elation of the birth of 'avinu' ('our father') Abraham. 

This version, sung at a Shabbat table in Jerusalem, mixes 'Quando El Rey Nimrod' with the traditional Hebrew song 'Shalom Aleichem', which is sung on return from praying in Synagogue and is also translated into Arabic.

Rob Abrams

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