Creator Bio
Ḥayim Yom-Tob Magula
ca. 1690–ca. 1758
Ḥayim Yom-Tob Magula lived in Izmir (Smyrna), where he was the ḥazan at the Algazi Synagogue. Magula is known for his Ladino moralizing coplas (verses), some of which were published in Tokhaḥat megula (The Admonition of Magula; Smyrna, 1739). The author criticizes the leaders and rich members of the community for their lack of piety and lack of compassion for the poor and needy.
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Tokhaḥat megula (The Admonition of Magula)
Here is a song that I created,
well composed and uncomplicated;
you can call it a song or call it a dirge.
I’d like to tell you some of my troubles:
some men have problems by…