La mujer de Terah 3

Jerusalem National Sound Archives placement: Y2091/4
Referenced and notated in: El ciclo de la vida, pg. 120, Editorial Alpuerto, 2013 Susana Weich-Shahak.

This copla, associated with the ritual of circumcision, tells the story of Abraham's birth. Like many coplas, it is rooted in a Talmudic legend. It describes how Terah’s wife, unaware of her pregnancy, wandered through the fields until labor pains overtook her and she gave birth in a cave. According to the Talmud, the child grew at an extraordinary pace, like other mythical figures, and was soon studying in a yeshiva. The final lines address the father of the newborn (parido), declaring: "You had the privilege to affirm the signature of our patriarch Abraham."

Text:
La mujer de Terah prenyada stava,
ni eya no savía el mal ke tenía,
salía por los kampos kom'a pedrida.

Dolores tenía parir kería,
¿ande lo pariera? en la me'ará,
meldando i skriviendo en la yeshivá.

Buen zehut tuvites sinyor parido,
ke afirmates la firma d'Avram avinu.

Translation:
The wife of Terah was pregnant,
but she herself did not know the burden she bore,
she wandered through the fields like a lost woman.

She was in pain, ready to give birth,
where did she give birth? In a cave,
studying and writing in the yeshiva.

You had great merit, father of the newborn
for you have confirmed the signature of our father Abraham.