Now available on 
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6wEGu8eYVGW5WJig24lrT5?si=ee938433a81043f4 
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGK-vw479k0
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/jewish-nigun-meditation-medley-how-can-i-mah-tovu-washougal/1618998865?uo=4
Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Y8WC274

This is an arrangement of three separate nigunim with added accompaniment. The individual tracks are:

Batya Levine - How Can I: https://soundcloud.com/batyalevine/how-can-i
Sol Yael Weiss - Mah Tovu: https://soundcloud.com/sol-yael/mah-tovu
Ary Solomon - Washougal Nigun: https://soundcloud.com/ary-solomon/washougal-nigun

Please check out and support these artists! In addition to SoundCloud:

- Batya Levine has a website here: www.batyalevine.com, a Bandcamp here: batyalevine.bandcamp.com/album/karov, and is on streaming services such as Spotify
- Sol Yael Weiss has a website here: www.solyaelweiss.com

Jewish Meditation Nigun Medley with Batya Levine, Sol Yael Weiss, and Ary Solomon (now on Spotify!)

Ariella is a Bushwick resident and G-Rebls member of Comida Pal Pueblo (Food for the People). Comida Pal Pueblo is an initiative collectively led by three Bushwick-based grassroots organizations: New York Boricua Resistance (NYBR), G-Rebls, and Mi Casa Resiste. Together, they work to distribute free fresh produce, prepared meals, PPE, clothing, and other essential items bi-weekly on Humboldt Street in between Moore & Varet in Bushwick, NY. This effort is organized by Bushwick natives and residents that know the struggles immigrant, latinx, and black families face not only from COVID-19, but also by poverty, systemic racism, and police oppression.

Ariella

WITHOUT YOU

Performed and written by Daryn Alexus 
Produced and Recorded by Dee Lilly
mixed by L10 of classik studios

Wild Flower (prod. dee lilly)

Music/ beat produced by Lord Haiti
Written and Performed by Brittany Nacole and Chai Tulani
Recorded and mixed at Solar 5

Say Somethin (ft. Chai Tulani)

Written by Aly Halpert on a summer morning 5778 at Eden Village Camp
Recorded on garageband spring 5779

original text:
modah/modet/modeh ani l'fanecha, ruach chai v'kayam 
(I am grateful before you, eternal living spirit)

english lyrics by aly halpert:
I was made for this morning
I was made to be here
All the life inside me is a gift
so we may heal

I was made for this morning
I was made to be here
All the life around me is a gift
so I may heal

I was made for this morning
I was made to be here
All the life inside me is a gift
so I may heal

I was made for this morning
I was made to be here
All the life around me is a gift
so we may heal

Aly Halpert's Album

Modah Ani (morning prayer)

Tune: an adaptation of the song 'Galeh' by Moshe Shur
Concept from Joseph Berman, Words by Joseph Berman & Batya Levine for the Neilah service on Yom Kippur

Open, open up the gates for 
All who gather here
Open up the gates for
all who seek your presence

Open, open up the gates of
Kindness and compassion
Open up the gates of
Wholeness and peace 
 
Open, open up the gates of 
Freedom and justice
Open up the gates of
Liberation

Open, open up the gates of
Change and release
Open up the gates of 
Transformation

Open, open up the gates of 
Healing and forgiveness 
Open up the gates of
Reconciliation

Open, open up the gates of
Listening and patience 
Open up the gates of 
Humility 

Open, open up the gates of 
Prayer and wisdom 
Open up the gates of
Intuition

Open, open up the gates of 
Equity and honor
Open up the gates of
Dignity
 
Open, open up the gates of
Torah and blessing
Open up the gates of
Gratitude and learning 

Open, open up the gates of
Love and connection
Open up the gates of 
Giving and receiving

Open, open up the gates of 
Trust and pleasure
Open up the gates of
Abundance

Open, open up the gates of    
Joy and resilience 
Open up the gates of 
Liberation

Open Up the Gates - Melody: 'Galeh' by Moshe Shur// english words by Joseph Berman & Batya Levine

kol ha olam kulu gesher tzar meo'd 
the whole entire world is a very narrow bridge
and the main thing to recall 
is not to fear fear itself

<3

gesher tzar

recorded by Aly Halpert, Sol Weiss & Margot Seigle

I believed in solid ground until I saw the earth in motion,
in the winds of steady change and in the ever-rolling ocean.

All moves on in perfect, perfect motion.
All is change and ever-rolling ocean.

from Annie: 
Blessed Motion is a 4-part acknowledgement of the nature of Life as an unpredictable, ever-changing movement toward itself. The melody came squatting on a rock next to a fast moving fork in the Trinity River, where salmon were in their first week of journeying to their spawning sites in northern California. Martin Prechtel said after surviving the Guatemala earthquake of 1976, during which he witnessed the ground beneath him rising up and swallowing people and villages whole, that solid ground is a myth believed by people who live on the earth rather than in it. This idea has stayed with me through the years and provided partial inspiration for this song. This is a big song! It travels through two dimensions, the first, a three or four part set of repeating lines, the second, a layered riff topped with a solo section.

Blessed Motion - Annie Zylstra

At Sixes And Sevens

Same Space?

SAVAGE MODE II

Rich Nigga Shit (feat. Young Thug)

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