This article is about a type of Jewish religious music, Zemirot.
For the main article on religious Jewish music, see Religious
Jewish music Zemirot or Z'mirot (Hebrew: זמירות) (Yiddish:
Zmiros; Biblical Hebrew: Z'miroth; singular: zemer/z'mer) are
Jewish hymns, usually sung in the Hebrew or Aramaic languages,
but sometimes also in Yiddish or Ladino. The best known zemirot
are those sung around the table during Shabbat and Jewish
holidays. Some of the Sabbath zemirot are specific to certain
times of the day, such those sung for the Friday evening meal,
the Saturday noon meal, and the third Sabbath meal just before
sundown on Saturday afternoon. In some editions of the Jewish
prayerbook (siddur), the words to these hymns are printed after
the opening prayer (kiddush) for each meal. Other zemirot are
more generic and can be sung at any meal or other sacred
occasion. The words to many zemirot are taken from poems written
by various rabbis and sages during the Middle Ages. Others are
anonymous folk songs that have