My Questions:
Are there any examples of these songs in Jewish folk music?
Was it a call and response song?
These songs seem to be a hiddush in the Gemara, the mishnah says they just danced and sang songs of praise. If that’s the case, where did the lyrics come from? Were these songs sung in Amoraic times?
(ו) אַף הוּא רָאָה גֻלְגֹּלֶת אַחַת שֶׁצָּפָה עַל פְּנֵי הַמַּיִם. אָמַר לָהּ, עַל דַּאֲטֵפְתְּ, אַטְפוּךְ. וְסוֹף מְטִיפַיִךְ יְטוּפוּן:
(6) He also saw a skull that was floating on top of the water. He said (to it): "Since you drowned [others, others] drowned you. And in the end, those that drowned you will be drowned.
My Questions:
Where is Luz? Is it in Lebanon near the Hatzbani?
How did Luz become associated with living forever?
Luz is mentioned as the location of the Jacob's Ladder incident.
In Joshua and Judges, it's a city that was captured by the House of Joseph.
(19) He named that site Bethel; but previously the name of the city had been Luz.
Where is Luz? The Rabbis have some ideas:
It is taught in a baraita: Rabbi Meir would say: There is coercion with regard to accompaniment, i.e., one who does not want to accompany another is nevertheless required to do so, as the reward for accompaniment is without measure. The proof of the importance of accompaniment is from a verse, as it is stated with regard to when the Jewish people laid siege to the city of Bethel: “And the watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him: Show us, please, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you” (Judges 1:24), and it is written: “And he showed them the entrance to the city” (Judges 1:25). And what kindness did they perform with him? It is that they killed the entire city by the sword, but that man and his family they sent free.