By Ariel Root Wolpe, performed by Rabbis Sam Blustin and Ariel Root Wolpe

Hineni muchan um'zuman 
Behold, I am ready and prepared

l'kayem mitzvat aseh shel s'firat ha'omer k'mo shekatuv baTorah.
To fulfill the mitzvah of counting the omer, as it says in the Torah

Hineni Muchan Um'zuman (I am Ready)

This is one (of many) phrases that is said to someone who is in mourning in the Jewish tradition.  And after experiencing personal and communal loss in the last few weeks, these words have been swirling around me. With help from the ancestors, this song came through. --kbf

words to the song:
המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים
HaMakom yenachem et'chem 
b'toch shar avay'lay 
Tzion vee'Yerushalayim.
May you be comforted 

May you be comforted with the mourners of Tzion
And the mourners of Yerushalayim
May you be comforted with mourners everywhere
May you be comforted

****The artwork, which features cloves, salt, tulip petals, straw flowers, glitter, sand dollar, a melach card, and the hebrew words "HaMakom yenachem et'chem" was lovingly created by Rachel Kipnes

Hamakom Yenachem Etchem | May You Be Comforted

Modim Anachnu Lach (We Thank You) — Liturgy from the Amida

Ein od, Ein od...

Aleinu leshabeach laAdon haKol, laTet g'dulah l'yotzer b'reshit 
She'lo asanu k'goyei haAratzot, ve'lo samanu k'mispchot haAdama 
She'lo sam chelkeinu kahem 
VeGoraleinu k'chol hamonam 

Ein od, Ein od...

VaAnachnu korim uMistachavim uModim 
Lifnei Melech Malchei haM'lachim haKados Baruch Hu. 

She hu note shamaim veYosed aretz 
UMoshav yekarov bashamaim mima'al 
USh'chinat uzo b'govhei m'romim 
Hu Eloheinu ein od 

Ein od, Ein od...

Emet Malkenu efes zulato 
KaKatuv B'Torato v'yadata hayom vahashevotah el levav'cha 
Ki Adonai Hu HaElohim 
BaShamaim MiMaal VeAlHaaretz Mitachat Ein Od. 

Ein Od, Ein od...

Vene'emar: vehayah adonai lemelech al kol ha'aretz, bayom hahu yiheyeh adonai echad u'shemo echad.

Ein od, Ein od

Aleinu Ein Od (Peter Avniel Salzman)

:שִׁוִּיתִי יְהוָה לְנֶגְדִּי תָמִיד (Shiviti Adonai L'negdi Tamid) “I place God before me always.” –Psalms 16:8
Havayah, Ahavah (Experience, Love... aka alternative words for God)

Shiviti  (Nava Tehila)

Melody by IfNotNow member Arielle Korman. 

Boz del puevlo, boz del sielo.
The voice of the people is the voice of the heavens.
-- Judeo-Spanish(Ladino) Proverb

Found in Devin Naar's book Jewish Salonica.

Boz del Puevlo / The voice of the people

El Eliyahu, an Iraqi song sung after havdallah, taught and led by Galeet Dardashti at Let My People Sing! 2018

LMPS 2018

El Eliyahu (Iraqi Melody) - LMPS 2018

Niggun Simcha/Anim Zemirot/Yifrach Beyomov - Chabad melody

Pascal Nigun - Shiru Ladonai (Psalm 96)

Composed by Sam Tygiel
Arranged and Sung by Rebekka Goldsmith

This nigun (wordless melody) is inspired by the story of Chana, upon the birth of her son Shmuel/Samuel. 

"I imagine Chana singing with Shmuel in her arms. She is singing the secrets she has discovered through her practice of prayer....through her suffering. She is singing him the secrets of the universe. The secrets of G?d. I close my eyes and sing, imagining I am her, that I have what to sing to this child...though I know he won't yet understand." - S. Tygiel

from Chana's prayer, 1 Samuel 2:2,9 -

אין־קדוש כיהוה כי אין בלתך ואין צור כאלהינו
Ein kadosh kashem, ki ein biltekha, v'ein tzur keloheinu 
There is no holy one like the YHWH, Truly, there is none beside You; There is no rock like our God.

ורשעים בחשך ידמו כי־לא בכח יגבר־איש
U'rshaim bakhoshekh yidmu, ki lo vakhoakh yigbar ish
But the wicked perish in darkness— For not by strength shall man prevail.


For more information:
https://www.sefaria.org/I_Samuel.1?la...

Chana's Song

Lyrics: Modah Ani, a Jewish daily prayer/practice of gratitude. 
Music by Ary Solomon

Lyrics:
Modah, modah ani
L'fanecha
Ruach chai, ruach chai v'kayam
Ruach chai, ruach chai v'kayam

Modah Ani

IfNotNow is a movement led by young Jews to transform our American Jewish community’s support for the occupation into a call for freedom and dignity for all. Learn more about the songs we sing in our movement here: http://bit.ly/2mIZUks
>on singing songs from other movements of today and from the past:
We are lucky to have the songs of our own Jewish traditions -- they are for us to sing.  Some of us have ancestors who have been deeply involved in movements across the world for social change for generations, both as those directly affected and as allies.  We are also singing their songs. 
And.
We recognize that this can easily turn into cultural appropropriation, particularly when we do not have direct links. So, before we sing a song we have a practice of honoring where it comes from: we share the movement, the struggle, or the people who birthed this music. Singing these songs is one way of acknowledging that we’re in a long line of movements for justice. 
We continue to create new movement songs. We write new lyrics. We get inspired by old text- Jewish and non-Jewish.  We do not simply translate movement songs into Hebrew in order to connect with them. One possibility instead is to incorporate Jewish text with similar themes and vision. 
From the beginning, IfNotNow leaders have been building relationships with leaders from Cosecha, BlackLivesMatter, The Dream Defenders, and other movements through the Momentum Community where we have been creating and sharing our songs with each other. Diversity keeps our movements strong and interconnected. We understand this as an ecological system of access, ancestries, struggles and strategies for resistance. Song is part of the way we arrive in interdependent relationship. We are building a culture that is accountable, compassionate -- and vibrant as all hell. Please honor the history of each song -- learn it, share it. 
We will lift each other up.

Boz del Puevlo / The voice of the people

IfNotNow

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