Kabbalat Shabbat

We offer you these songs of water and healing, so that they may join you on your tashlich journey in whatever way feels right. 

Listen through headphones & let them wash over you as you cast crumbs or sticks into a river... Play them through your car speakers and sing your heart out as you drive to/from the water... Listen throughout Elul, and sing whichever ones float to your lips when you arrive at the stream... Teach a few of them to your kids or podmates and sing them together as you do a home-based water ritual...

However you engage with them, may these songs bring you the strength to dive into the depths, and may they guide you back home, to the wholeness that is you.

Wash Me Away | A Tashlich Offering

Original Tunes for Kabbalat Shabbat

nigunim

Jewish

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!)

Nign Shabbos V'Yom Tov (Chabad)

Psalm 96 - Shiru L'Adonai

16 - LECHU NERANENA

an upbeat, major key, fun alternative to what has become a standard Psalm 96 during kabbalat shabbat. 


Shiru ladonai shir chadash; shiru ladonai kol ha'aretz. 
Shiru ladonai barechu shemo; basseru miyom leyom yeshu'ato. 
Sapperu bagoyim kevodo; bekhol ha'amim nifle'otav. 
Ki gadol adonai umhullal me'od; nora hu al kol elohim. 
Ki kol elohei ha'amim elilim; vadonai shamayim asa. 
Hod vehadar lefanav; oz vetif'eret bemikdasho. 
Havu ladonai mishpechot amim; havu ladonai kavod va'oz. 
Havu ladonai kevod shemo; se'u mincha uvo'u lechatzrotav. 
Hishtachavu ladonai behadrat kodesh; chilu mipanav kol ha'aretz. 
Imru vagoyim adonai malakh; af tikkon tevel bal timot; yadin amim bemesharim. Yismechu hashamayim vetagel ha'aretz; yir'am hayam umlo'o. 
Ya'aloz saday vekhol asher bo; az yerannenu kol atzei ya'ar. 
Lifnei adonai ki va; ki va lishpot ha'aretz. 
Yishpot tevel betzedek; ve'amim be'emunat

Shiru L'Adonai: Psalm 96  (George Mordecai)

recording of Od Yenuvun by Hannah Shefsky & Batya Levine, sung at the Saturday night participatory concert of Let My People Sing!

Od Yenuvun - Hannah Shefsky & Batya Levine (sung live at Let My People Sing!)

let the rain soak soak soak your clothes
let the rain seep seep into your bones
let the rain drench drench drench your soul
let it in

*with the help of a bat and an egret and the pond in a powerful summer storm*

storm song

Tu Bshvat Nigun by Batya Levine sung live at Let My People Sing! 2018.

LMPS 2018

Tu Bshvat Nigun - Batya Levine - LMPS 2018

Tree Nigun by Noam Lerman, used at many Let My People Sing! gatherings.

Tree  Nigun - Noam Lerman

there is a concept in Jewish thought, that in a person's life, they need to have both hishtadlus and bitachon, learning to balance the two.

hishtadlus is personal effort, bitachon is trust.

this song is a tribute to the power and endurance it takes to do our own unique work in this lifetime.

photo by batya levine

Hishtadlus Nigun

68th Street Pier Nigun/Yedid Nefesh (Rena Branson)

Eel River Chant by Meredith Buck for the Soulful Singing Sisterhood

www.processSING.com

FULL Eel River Chant

Nigunim, Vol. V: Songs from the City of Brotherly Love

L'chu N'ran'na by Joey Weisenberg

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

Artist: Coco Love Alcorn
I learned at Adamah (Jewish Farming Fellowship) in 2014. The song was brought to the Isabella Freedman community from Let My People Sing; Batya and Noam taught it, and they learned it from Lia at a morning water ceremony at Standing Rock.

Sung at a song circle on February 22, 2020 on Chinook land/Portland, OR.

Lyrics:
Water heal my body
Water heal my soul
When I go down, down to the water
By the water I feel whole

Water Heal My Body (Coco Love Alcorn)

Menucha V'Simcha melody by Shlomo Carlebach

Shiru L'Adonai (Psalm 96) – תהילים צו - שירו לה' שיר חדש

Paschal Nigun - Shiru Ladonai (Psalm 96)

Nigun Esh - Mizmor Ledavid (Psalm 29)

Carousel Nigun – Lecha Dodi

Origin:
Melody by Nava Tehila
Sung by Batya Levine
Art by Naomi Weintraub & Etai Rogers-Fett

Tishrei Nigun - Nava Tehila

A scrappy recording of this original nigun, recorded at Linke Fligl Sukkos in 2018.

Shtetl Wedding Nigun

Let yourself fall into the seesawing of this melody and fall into a soft movement or body release through its repitition. Inspired by the feeling of journeying and embodied practice.

Carousel Nigun – Lecha Dodi

A Queer Nigun Project