בשל תפוח [Beshel Tapuach] [English translation]

Do you want to know why I loved?

I loved because of an apple

For nobody knows the path of the wind

This is known already. Now I came

To bring evidence of my love

And I - do you know why I loved?

I loved because of an apple

My uncle had a beautiful orchard

And my uncle had a pretty-eyed daughter

And in the orchard there was a pond with water

Quietly flowing, fresh water

Like stolen water, like secret wine

My uncle had a beautiful orchard

And my uncle had a pretty-eyed daughter

And one day, as summer arrived,

In the heat of day, the clear day,

I, with Pnina my relative

went for a walk in the garden,

she was a young maiden, I want a young man

we laughed together in the summer breeze

In the heat of day, the clear day

And we laughed and rejoiced together

I and Pninamy relative,

we chanted, sang, behaved like children,

and in my joy were mixed together

both the song and the sweet fruit

And we laughed and rejoiced together

I and Pninamy relative

And with a loud voice "tweet tweet"

From between the branches, wings of song

were chanting in a foreign language

my intestines also sang like a heavenly nightingale

and brought to life a new song

And with a loud voice "tweet tweet"

started singing around the wings of song

And within a moment she returned, and in her right hand

a big, shiny, red apple

she tasted it, and fed me

from her hand the other half

I opened my mouth, sppechless

And she was standing, and in her had was

a big, shiny, red apple

And in the bare whiteness of the apple

My teeth followed the traces of her teeth

And my nose smelled her scent

But her scent, her scent intoxicated me,

Passed through me like a sweet wine

My heart stopped, I was out of breath

And since then - Pnina was mine.

• Artist:Shlomo Artzi