Ma'ariv - trad ashkenazi nusach with feminized Amidah

Melody by Joey Wisenberg
chanted by Hadar Ahuvia 

joyous are those who sit in your home on and on praising you, selah.

Ashrei - Adagio

Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum playing in freygish scale

With fragments from the Yotzer Or blessing light and darkness: 

Blessed being expansive in thought, who forms and empowers the rays of the sun, creating goodness reflected in their name, giving radiant stars to surround their strength, heavenly servants praising always, recounting its splendor and holiness 

all are beloved
all are clear
all are mighty
all are holy

Yotzer Or - improvisation with Tatyana Tenenbaum

Psalm 130 call response

Vocals: Hadar Ahuvia with Tatyana Tenenbaum 
mixed by Tatyana Tenenbaum 

words from Psalm 42

כְּאַיָּ֗ל תַּעֲרֹ֥ג עַל־אֲפִֽיקֵי־מָ֑יִם כֵּ֤ן נַפְשִׁ֨י תַעֲרֹ֖ג אֵלֶ֣יךָ אֱלֹהִֽים׃ 
Like a hind crying for water,
my soul cries for You, O Divine;

The Breslov practice intersperses each verse of the psalm with the Pan Hassidic melody often known as "Moyshe Emes"

recorded for nefesh
a performance project reclaiming Ashkenazi singing, exploring rabbinic prayer, embodied spiritual practice, and uplifting diasporism.

K'ayil ta'arog Breslov melody

Psalm 118 for Hallel

Melody from Mr. Morris Hollender from the Jewish community of the Carpathian Mountains, learned from Hankus Netsky. May our people be remembered for our life giving culture- not the genocides we (Mr. Hollender and this melody) survived nor the ones being committed in our names

Open for me the Gates of Justice
...
the stone rejected by the builders will become the cornerstone 
...

(For more on Mr Hollender see here: https://www.yiddishfolksong.com/copy-of-lifshe-schaechter-widman)

Pischu Li

kedusha reprise- ala Laurie Anderson

odecha-marni loffman’s grandpa’s tune

pischu li- rhuzin nigun sung by hadar ahuvia

pan-hassidic nigun

Be’sefer Chayim- Bobov

Ein Kitzbah- Breslov

Hayom Harat Olam- Avinu Malkeinu melody

Hayom- Bobov Joey Weisenberg

Areshet Sefateinu- Kuma Psalm 82- Frank London

Achat Sha’alti Psalm 27- Tov Leohodot Psalm 92- Frank London

Lecha Dodi- Breslov freylech

Yah Ana Emtza’acha- Berov Sarapai- London

Hebrew: 
Or Zarua latzadik 
uleyishrei lev simcha- 
A light is some for the righteous 
and happiness for heart aligned.

Yiddish:
Git arain nekhomelekh
in a yiddishe neshomelekh- 
Give a little compassion 
in/thru a beloved jewish soul

Or Zarua: Git Arain a Nechomelekh

הֲרֵינִי מְקָבֵל/ת עָלי אֶת מִצוַת הַבֹורֵא וְאָהַבְתָ לְרֵעֲָך כָמֹוָך 
Hareini mikabel/et alai et mitzvat ha’borei: Ve-ahavtah le-reiakha kamokha 
I choose embrace the Divine instruction: 
“Love all others as I love myself.” 
(translation by Lab/Shul)

Hareini

Nigun for Netane Tokef (Carlebach)

Nigun for Hayom

Adonai Malach- Frank London - for Kaddish Shalem

Ya’ale - Dror Yikra melody

By Hadar Ahuvia

Created for a Lag Ba'Omer Celebration curated by Cantor Sarah Myerson
Lag Ba'Omer is a minor Jewish holiday celebrated on day 33 of 49 of "the omer" the 7 weeks between Passover and Shavuot. It is day of respite from period of semi mourning. A celebration of the life, on the anniversary of his death of Jewish sage Shimeon Bar Yochai. Yochai is attributed with the founding of Jewish mystical movement, one reason bonfires are lit to celebrate this day. 

In Israel the bonfires have also taken on a nationalist dimension. I honor the anti-imperialist struggles of the Bar Kokva revolt decoupled from Zionism. 

I sampled Horah Medurah (Horah Bonfire): lyrics- Natan Alterman, music- Yoel Valbe, a song for an Israeli hora that I danced with my mom, but changed the Hebrew lyrics a bit:
Hora Ali, Esh Hadliki Belibi, 
Tehora Rabat Ora, Horah Medurah 

Horah rise, ignite a flame in my heart
Pure, full of light, Horah fire 

In the Kabbalistic tradition each day of the Omer is contemplated on two qualities of divinity. Lag Ba'Omer the 33rd is Hod B'Netzah- splendor/humility in endurance. I dedicate this to all splendor and humility of those who have and continue the struggle for freedom, from ancient Judea, to Palestine, to Turtle Island, to people imprisoned in ICE detention and by the Prison Industrial Complex.   

Yes, in holiness we witness divine power and strength
our souls thirst 
Our flesh craves 
for freedom

Above, my translation of Ken B'Kodesh that I sing at the end, a song I sang with my grandfather- lyrics from Jewish litrugy to tradition music
Ken B'kodesh Haziticha Li'rot Uzecha Ukvodech
Tsama'a lecha nafshi
Kam'ah lecha besari

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