fortification

Guitar & melody vocals by Rachel Chang
5/23/2021

Nigun Tishrei by Nava Tehila

Origin:
Melody by Rabbi Shefa Gold
Words from morning liturgy
Sung by Batya Levine & Aliza Schwartz
Art by Naomi Weintraub & Etai Rogers-Fett

Words:
Ashrei yoshvei veitecha
Od y'hallelucha

Translation:
Happy are those that dwell in Your house
They keep on praising

Ashrei - Rabbi Shefa Gold

Brucha at Shekhina (Blessed are you, divine presence throughout the physical world) who grounds me
Brucha at Shekhinah who reminds me that I know
Brucha at Shekhinah who guides me
Brucha at Shekhinah who gives me courage to let go
Brucha at Shekhinah ruach ha'olam hameikhinah mitzadei isha
(Blessed are you, Shekhina, spirit of the universe, who makes firm a woman's steps)
-Ri J. Turner

From Siddur HaKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook by Rabbi Jill Hammer and Kohenet Taya Shere 

Available here: http://isabellafreedman.org/store/siddur-hakohanot%3A-a-hebrew-priestess-prayerbook-rabbi-jill-hammer-and-holly-taya-shere/dp/6432

Birchot haShachar by Ri J. Turner

The Rock from Whom we've eaten this food: faithful ones, bless! We're satisfied and made pure through God's word.
[a joyful song for after eating]

Tsur Mishelo Achalnu, Bar'chu Emunai, Sava'anu vehotarnu kidvar Adonai. 

Hazan et olamo roeinu avinu, 
achalnu et lachmo vyeino shatinu, 
al kein nodeh lishmo unhal'lo b'finu 
amarnu v'aninu ein kadosh kadonai. 

Tsur... 

B'shir v'kol todah n'varech leloheinu, 
al eretz chemdah tovah shehinchil lavoteinu. Mazon v'tzeidah hisbia l'nafsheinu, 
chasdo gavar aleinu v'emet Adonai. 

Tsur... 

Rachem b'chasdecha Al am'cha Tsureinu, 
al Tsion mishkan k'vodecha z'vul beit tifarteinu. 
Ben David avdecha yavo v'yig'aleinu, 
ruach apeinu m'shiach Adonai. 

Tsur... 

Yibaneh hamikdash ir tsion timaleh, 
visham nashir shir chadash uvirnanah na'aleh. 
harachaman hanikdash yibarach v'yitaleh 
al kos yayin maleh k'birkat Adonai. 

Tsur...

Tsur Meshelo - Lo Yisa Goy (p 72 in Mishkan benscher)

melody from a Sephardic liturgical poem asking for forgiveness.

Adon HaSelichot Niggun

Melody by IfNotNow member Arielle Korman and her father, Jerome Korman. This English translation is by Arielle. 
Rabbi Hillel, Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Ancestors 1:14. 
?אִם אֵין אֲנִי לִי, מִי לִי? וּכְשֶׁאֲנִי לְעַצְמִי, מָה אֲנִי? וְאִם לֹא עַכְשָׁיו, אֵימָתַי

Im ein ani li, mi li? 
Uchshe’ani l’atzmi ma ani? 
V’im lo achshav, ematai?
Im lo achshav, ematai?

If I am not for me, who will be? 
If I am just for me, what does that make me? 
And if not now, then when? 
If not now, then when

Im Lo Achshav / If Not Now

Vocals - Batya Levine
Percussion - Simcha Halpert Hanson

Nechama - Batya Levine

Yismechu v'malchuscha shomrei shabbos v'korei oneg

They will delight in your all empowering sovereignty - those who tend and care for shabbos and call it a joyous celebration
(translation by batya)

Vocals - Batya Levine
Percussion - Simcha Halpert-Hanson

Yismechu - Batya Levine

Art by Brandon Boyd in Support of Standing Rock

Voice Memos

May I Be Empty/Full

Tu B'shvat Nign

Tu Bshvat Nign (akon) [with B part]

we are good.
we are flawed.
we are the breath of an imperfect god.

returning to self. returning to source.
god is change. god is growth. the process, in all it's beauty and all it's mess, is god.

collage art by Chani Nicholas

we are good we are flawed

Be With Me by Koach Baruch Frazier, sung at Let My People Sing! 2017

LMPS 2017

Be With Me - Koach Baruch Frazier - LMPS 2017

Vahaviotim Niggun - composer unknown

Galeh

Sosne Nign by Jonah Meadows Adels z''l (recorded by Hebrew College)

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

Yismechu - Batya Levine

Batya Levine

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