Hoop Dance is a global circle of hoopers who share their hooping tricks in social media. Music enhances hoopdancing which is becoming a popular form of low-impact cardio fitness.   Bunny Girl was created to play with angle hoopers, aka the bunny girl. Get your hoop, and let's dance!
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Bunny Girl

Ruach Neshama is a collection of songs of soul and breath. These songs employ traditional texts, lyrical midrash and the meditative practice of the nigun—the wordless melody—to open our hearts to the ever-present guidance and compassion within. They strive to paint the wisdom and words of our ancestors on a canvas of body and nature, and to ask the question: What is my soul calling for? What teachings do Earth, Song, and Spirit offer me? 

Free sheet music found at arielwolpe.com/sheetmusic 

Many thanks to the incredible musicians who shared their voices on these tracks: to Kendra for being my sister in life, love and music, to Deborah for sweet harmonies and infinite padding, to Jon for relinquishing his time and office space for recording, to Gayanne for sharing my passion for musical connection to earth, and to my mother Valerie for her ongoing guidance in sound, song and spirit. Thank you to my Rising Song cohort Rebekka, Gedalia, Eitan, Batya, Rena, and Sam, for the never-ending inspiration, support and friendship that have lifted my spirit and my offerings to the world. To Don Godwin for mixing and editing these layered tracks, to Eliyahu Sills and Will Robertson for instrumental offerings, and to Josh Fleet for his logistical support. This album would not exist...  more
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released August 8, 2021 

All music composed by Ariel Root Wolpe, Hebrew text from Jewish liturgy and Tanakh. 
Music direction by Joey Weisenberg and Ariel Root Wolpe 
Harmony direction by Deborah Sacks Mintz 
Produced by Joey Weisenberg 

Recorded outside and in home-studios in Atlanta, GA, Philadelphia, PA, and Berkeley, CA. 
Engineered by Joey Weisenberg and Jon Mitchell 
Mixed and Mastered by Don Godwin 
Artwork and Layout by Sol Yael Weiss. 

Singers and Musicians: 
Ariel Root Wolpe - lead vocals, acoustic guitar 
Kendra Root Wolpe - vocals 
Deborah Sacks Mintz - vocals 
Valerie Root Wolpe - vocals 
Jon Mitchell - vocals, djembe (track #8) 
Joey Weisenberg - bass, percussion, guitar, baritone ukulele, piccolo, drum programming, vocals 
Will Robertson - bass (track #7) 
Eliyahu Sills - flute (track #2) 
Rising Song Institute Vocalists: Rena Branson, Rebekka Goldsmith, Eitan Kantor, Gedalia Penner, Sam Tygiel, Batya Levine, Gayanne Geurin (track #5) 

www.arielwolpe.com 
www.risingsong.org 

A Project of Hadar's Rising Song Institute: Cultivating Jewish spiritual life through song. 

"Ruach Neshama" sponsored by Wilderness Torah 
"Yedid Nefesh" sponsored by Ahavath Achim Synagogue 
"Hineni" sponsored by Adath Israel on the Main Line 
"Vatikach Miriam" sponsored by Congregation Or Hadash 
"Waking Up Nigun" sponsored by Har Zion Temple
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Ruach Neshama

A new song for our rainy season: Tefillat ha-tal v'geshem, prayer for dew and rain. It is inspired by the line that we begin saying the first day of Pesach (passover), when we add the phrase "mashiv haruach u'morid hatal"--who causes the wind to blow and the dew to fall-- in each recitation of the Amidah, our daily personal prayer.

Although all that is required is that the announcement of this phrase be made in the service, over time, piyutim (poems) centering the theme of water were added to the liturgy. This song draws from language from these piyutim.

Lyrics:

Rain fall on me
Wash me clean
Sooth my face, and soak my feet,
Morid, morid

Dew shower the earth
Sing our joyous rebirth
Sooth my hands, and soak my seed,
Morid, morid

Libracha v’lo likalala, amen
Lichaim v’lo limavet, amen
Lisova v’lo lirazon amen, amen!

לִבְרָכָה וְלא לִקְלָלָה. אמן:
For blessing and not for curse. Amen
לְחַיִּים וְלא לַמָּוֶת. אמן:
For life and not for death. Amen
לְשובַע וְלא לְרָזון. אמן:
For plenty and not for scarcity. Amen

Mashiv haruach umorid ha-gashem
Mashiv haruach umorid ha-tal 

 מַשִּׁיב הָרוּחַ וּמורִיד הַגֶשֶׁם/הַטַל
Who causes the wind to blow and the rain/dew to fall.

Tefillat HaTal V'Geshem - Ma'alot Live

The song of #Peace in Hebrew for all the nations.  Let us sing for Unity!
Song releases in July 2022.  Preview:
http://www.unitedmasters.com/debra-cohen-music

Oseh Shalom

Melody by Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg
Lyrics from Exodus 2:4 and 15:2
Recorded with students and faculty at Yeshivat Hadar on March 30, 2023

וַתֵּתַצַּב אֲחֹתוֹ מֵרָחֹק לְדֵעָה מַה־יֵּעָשֶׂה לוֹ
"His sister stood at a distance to know what would become of him"

זֶה אֵ-לִי וְאַנְוֵהוּ
"This is my God and I will praise [God]"

Geulah Arikhta Nigun - R. Micha'el Rosenberg

Lyrics written in 14th century by Mordecai ben Isaac ha-Levi, a song for global peace.
All instruments (except bass)and all vocals by Debra Cohen.  Produced, mixed, and mastered by Debra Cohen, c. 2023, BMI.
Special thanks to Bryan Daste for his awesome bass playing!

Rock of Ages

Perl Wolfe - Lead Vocals/Piano, Dalia G. Shusterman - Drums/Vocals, Richard Wolfe - Viola

Recorded at The Space/The Creamery Studio - Brooklyn, NY
Engineered by Howard Feibusch/Quinn McCarthy
Mixed by Damon Whittemore of ValveTone
Mastered by Fred Kevorkian
Produced by Howard Feibusch and Bulletproof Stockings
Music and Lyrics by Perl Wolfe

LYRICS
Feels like I'm on the edge
I dip my toe in just to test
The waters steep
Think I'll try again

And I know 
I've gotta let go
And loosen up my imagined hold
It resonates here
Within my soul

Am I too late
I'm telling you I'ma make mistakes
And that's a risk that I don't wanna take

It's never too late
Please accept that you'll make mistakes
Perfection is not to be attained

All that night I waited on the edge of time
So anxious for you I did not heed the warning signs
Had you come through I'd have followed you
And you'd have led
Figured defeat so I broke down and cried instead

I want to live where even the darkness shines
I want to live where even the darkness shines
Want to breathe where even the darkness shines
Said I wanna live 
I wanna live

My dear the time has come
Hold my hand while you make the jump
And have no fear it's in my control
It was never yours at all

Now I see it's all in trust
I know you'll shower me with love
I've gotta dive in to fly
And soar just like a dove

The Edge

For a school d'var Torah, Eliana and I wrote an original looking at the still small voice found in 1 Kings 19. It highlights different moments of divine revelation in Torah, and the gap between the God of the Torah and what we experience of God today.

Still Small Voice

Tisha B'Av

Tisha bAv Burst Of Inspiration

Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum; Jameson Marvin, conductor

Oseh Shalom Bimromav was written for Jameson Marvin and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, a phenomenal choir which the composer had the privilege of singing in from 2005 to 2009.  It received its first performance in March 2009 at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, MA, and in May 2009 it was awarded the Francis Boott Prize as the best choral composition written that year at Harvard University.
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The text for Oseh Shalom Bimromav is a well-known Hebrew prayer from the Jewish liturgy.  It is recited in several different places during a typical Shabbat (Sabbath) service, but it most poignantly concludes the Mourner’s Kaddish, a prayer used for remembrance of those who have passed on or are in need.  The text is often heard in the context of an upbeat klezmer tune, especially during the "hora" dance at weddings, but in this setting I wanted to explore a more mournful, contemplative understanding of the text.

Michael Schachter - Oseh Shalom

Rock of Ages - Marc Cohn

Pop-Rock/Soul singer-songwriter and Israeli Interfaith music.
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Rock of Ages

Debra Cohen MUSIC

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