Solitreo is a cursive form of the Hebrew alphabet. Traditionally a Sephardi script, it is the predecessor of the Ashkenazi cursive currently used for handwriting in modern Israel. The two forms differ from each other primarily in that Solitreo uses far more ligatures than the Ashkenazi script, creating a more flowing style resembling Arabic.
Historically, Solitreo was used in two parallel ways. In the Ladino language of the Balkans and Turkey, it served as the standard handwritten form that complemented the Rashi script character set used for printing. In Mizrahi communities in the Maghreb and Levant, it was used for manuscript documents in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. While both the Balkan and Mizrahi forms are called "Solitreo," they are quite distinctive, and readers familiar with one type may find the other difficult to read.
With the decline of Ladino and the dispersion of Mizrahi population centers, examples of Solitreo have become scarce. The February 2012 digitization of a Jewish merchant's memoir from late 19th century Salonica, Ottoman Empire (modern Thessaloniki, Greece) by scholars from Stanford University provided a new, high-quality resource for scholars of Ladino and Solitreo.
We're all off to meet our maker
And I know we won't go far
If there's a chance at life, it's not in sight
When you watch the world go dark
When you take a chance and you throw it up
If you watch to see where it falls
Even in the end it'll always end up small
So dont waste your time, just free your mind
Beyond this you can't look behind
Move on forth to a place above it all
Head up high into the sky
Just take a chance and try to fly
Leave it all and we will never fall
So ride on together til sunrise again
We ride on forever til the very end
We ride on together no matter the cost
No journey's too great and no chances are lost
Never hold back against a dream you wanted long
Keep on movin' on...
Look real hard into yourself and see if you can find
That burning light thats shining bright inside us all tonight
A wasted day to a wasted month to a wasted life you'll find
That without a dream you might as well be blind
Don't be left unsatisfied
Someday each of us will die
No turning back to see what's dead and gone
A challenge beard is a challenge shared
Just face your fear now, don't be scared
Hold your ground, no fate can hold us down
So ride on together til sunrise again
We ride on forever til the very end
So ride on together no matter the cost
No journey's too great and no chances are lost
Never hold back against a dream you wanted long
Keep on movin' on...
Each and all of us have time in their life
A self-realization that with all regret turns to light
So dont waste your time, just free your mind
Beyond this you can't look behind
Move on forth to a place above it all
No blessed truth can give you say
You alone decide the way
Hear the path from inside of your heart
So ride on together til sunrise again
We ride on forever til the very end
We ride on together no matter the cost
No journey's too great and no chances are lost
So ride on together til sunrise again
We ride on forever til the very end
We ride on together no matter the cost