Reconstructionist KAP

Recordings from Congregation T'chiyah's 2020 High Holiday services, broadcast from The Light Box. 
https://www.lightboxperformance.org/ 

Recorded from livestream by Three Lyons Creative 
https://www.threelyonscreative.com/

PERSONNEL:
Jake Ehrlich - vox + guitar
Raya Samet - vox
Kendra Watkins - vox

17. Hashiveinu

8. We Let The Love Wash Over Us

A chant to lean into Elul in three parts

Part one: I'm going deep, deep within, mmmmmm (inspired by the practice of cheshbon hanefesh and teshuva during Elul)

Part two: I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine (acronym of Elul from Song of songs 6:3)

Part three: Whom shall I fear? Nobody! (inspired by Psalm 27, the psalm read/chanted daily during Elul)

Elul Chant 5781

A lullaby melody for day turning to night

Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu
Ruach haolam asher bid’varo 
maariv aravim

B’chochmah potei-ach sh’arim, 
uvit’vunah m’shaneh itim 
umachalif et haz’manim, 
um’sadeir et hakochavim 
b’mishm’roteihem barakia kirtzono. 

Borei yom valailah, 
goleil or mipnei choshech, 
v’choshech mipnei or. 
Umaavir yom umeivi lailah, 
umavdil bein yom uvein lailah, 

Adonai Tz’vaot sh’mo. 
El chai v’kayam, 
tamid yimloch aleinu l’olam va-ed. 
Baruch atah, Adonai, hamaariv aravim.

Maariv Aravim Lullaby

Where You Go by Shoshana Jedwab, based on the Book of Ruth

Where you, I will go Beloved
Where you go I will go 	[x2]
Where you lie I will lie Beloved
Where you lie I will lie 	[x2]

Chorus:
And your people are my people
Your people are mine
Your people are my people
Your divine my divine	[x2]

Where You Go by Shoshana Jedwab

Hu Elokeinu Nigun
Composed by R. Menachem Goldberger
Sung by Yeshivat Hadar Summer Fellows 2024
August 8th, 2024

Hu Elokeinu Nigun (R. Menachem Goldberger)

Nishmat Kol Chai - Joey Weisenberg And The Hadar Ensemble

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

Song/prayer/meditation to heal personal and societal grief. For ordinary grief, extraordinary grief, the unbearable kind and the unseen kind and the enduring kind, in service of exhales and letting go of what is ours and not ours, of compassion, lightness, & becoming who we are after and through it all.

Aly Halpert's Album

Loosen Loosen

Elohai Neshama by Sol Weiss

asher lo hayam

this is a fragment of a longer phrase "asher lo hayam v'hu asahu" from psalm 95, which roughly translates as "g!d is/is of/has the sea and g!d made it"

collage by chani nicholas
https://chaninicholas.com/horoscopes/

Asher Lo (by Matthew Goldfield & Batya Levine)

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

Modah Ani (morning prayer)

Show Up

I Am Willing by Holly Near

Ein Od Milvado

Bobover Wedding Niggun

I Will Believe the Truth About Myself (for Yom Kippur)

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

Ozi VeZimrat Yah (Shefa Gold): I’m recording and posting one Jewish prayer (almost) each weekday morning for the duration of this health crisis. (You can access all of them at.https://www.facebook.com/MusicalPrayerPandemicProject/, and now also at this Youtube playlist: https://bit.ly/PianoPrayerPandemicProjectPlaylist ) This seemed to be an appropriate prayer to record in honor of Juneteenth: words from the Song at the Red Sea, when enslaved people, now liberated, finally knew that their oppressors could no longer have power over them. “Yah -- my strength and my song -- has now become my salvation.” עָזִּי וְזִמְרָת יָהּ וַיְהִי לִי לִישׁוּעָה. The music is by Shefa Gold and has become ubiquitous in most non-Orthodox synagogues in recent years.

Ozi Vezimrat Yah

By Miner
Recorded by Sol Weiss & Margot Seigle

let the wave wash over me
let the wave wash over me
I am already under
let the wave wash over me

Tomorrow - Miner

Origin:
We don't know who wrote this song, if you do, please let us know in the comments!

This song came to our community through folks who learned it at a Let My People Sing workshop taught by the farmers at Linke Fligl. 

This version is a collaborative audio recording created by NSP members. Folks sang individually into their phones and computers, and then we edited the audio tracks, weaving all the voices together. We created this recording for a Musical Tu Bishvat Seder in 2021, hosted by Hadar's Rising Song Institute.

Singers: Sarah Beth Alcabes, the Balis family, Jen Liebschutz, Lauren Spokane, Tyler Benjamin, Atid Kimelman, Miriam Ginsberg, Marni Loffman, Ike Swetlitz, Sofie Werthan, Sam Waxman, Akiva Wolberg, Ori Clemons, Elana Orbuch, Mira Smith, Aliza Wasserman, Yael Kiken, Becca Vogel, & Leah Muskin-Pierret

Audio Editor: Miriam Ginsberg

Words:
I am a wave
I am a wave
Make me the sea
Make me the sea

I am a seed // Make me a tree
I am a mountain // Make me a stone
I am a breeze // Make me a storm
I am a ____ // Make me a ______

Reconstructionist KAP

BriarM