Traditional Breslov melody for a zemer, that is sung after havdallah. This song will be recorded on Batya's upcoming album.

This version is an unreleased recording from a project called "Frum Where" songs of love and yearning for Hashem from my upbringing. This project is near and dear to my heart, and it will be a 3 volume release of 27 songs sung by a small group of all queer and trans, ex-orthodox and raised-orthodox folks. This project is still in process and will be released in the future, b'sha'ah tova.

Vocals & Guitar by Batya Levine
Mixing & Mastering support from Don Godwin

בְּמוֹצָאֵי יוֹם מְנוּחָה, הַמְצֵא לְעַמְּךָ רְוָחָה
שְׁלַח תִּשְׁבִּי לְנֶאֱנָחָה, וְנָס יָגוֹן וַאֲנָחָה
יָאֲתָה לְךָ צוּרִי, לְקַבֵּץ עַם מְפֻזָּרִי
מִיַּד גּוֹי אַכְזָרִי, אֲשֶׁר כָּרָה לִי שׁוּחָה
עֵת דּוֹדִים תְּעוֹרֵר אֵל, לְמַלֵּט עַם אֲשֶׁר שׁוֹאֵל
רְאוֹת טוּבְךָ בְּבוֹא גוֹאֵל, לְשֶׂה פְזוּרָה וְנִדָּחָה
קְרָא יֶשַׁע לְעַם נְדָבָה, אֵל דָּגוּל מֵרְבָבָה
יְהִי שָׁבוּעַ הַבָּא, לִישׁוּעָה וְלִרְוָחָה
בַּת צִיּוֹן הַשְּׁכוּלָה, אֲשֶׁר הִיא הַיּוֹם גְּעוּלָה
עַתָּה תִּהְיֶה בְעוּלָה, אֵם הַבָּנִים שְׂמֵחָה
מַעְיָנוֹת אֲזַי יְזוּבוּן, וּפְדוּיֵי ה’ יְשׁוּבוּן
וּמֵי יֵשַׁע יִשְׁאֲבוּן, וְהַצָּרָה נִשְׁכָּחָה
נְחֵה עַמְּךָ כְּאָב רַחֲמָן, יְצַפְצְפוּ עַם לֹא אַלְמָן
דְּבַר ה’ אֲשֶׁר נֶאֱמָן, בַּהֲקִימְךָ הַבְטָחָה
וִידִידִים פְּלֵיטֵי חֶרֶץ, נְגִינָתָם יִפְצְחוּ בְמֶרֶץ
בְּלִי צְוָחָה וּבְלִי פֶרֶץ, אֵין יוֹצֵאת וְאֵין צְוָחָה
יְהִי הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה, כִּנְבוּאַת אֲבִי חוֹזֶה
וְיִשָּׁמַע בְּבַיִת זֶה, קוֹל שָׂשׂוֹן וְקוֹל שִׂמְחָה
חָזָק יְמַלֵּא מִשְׁאֲלוֹתֵינוּ, אַמִּיץ יַעֲשֶׂה בַּקָּשָׁתֵנוּ
וְהוּא יִשְׁלַח בְּמַעֲשֵׂה יָדֵינוּ, בְּרָכָה וְהַצְלָחָה
בְּמוֹצָאֵי יוֹם גִּילָה, שִׁמְךָ נּוֹרָא עֲלִילָה
שְׁלַח תִּשְׁבִּי לְעַם סְגֻלָּה, רֶוַח שָׂשׂוֹן וַהֲנָחָה
קוֹל צָהֳלָה וְרִנָּה, שְׂפָתֵינוּ אָז תְּרַנֵּנָה
!אָנָּא ה’ הוֹשִׁיעָה נָא! אָנָּא ה’ הַצְלִיחָה נָא

B’motza’ei yom menucha hamtzei l’amcha r’vachah, shlach tishbi l’ne’enacha, v’nas yagon va’anacha. 
Ya’atah l’cha tzuri, l’kabeitz am m’fuzari, miyad goy achzari, asher karah li shuchah.
Eit dodim t’oreir eil, l’maleit am asher sho’eil, r’ot tuvcha b’vo goel, l’seh f’zurah nidachah.
K’ra yesha l’am n’davah, el dagul meirvavah, y’hi ha’shavua haba, l’yishua v’lirvachah. 
Bat tzion hashe’chulah, asher hi hayom g’ulah, meheira tih’yeh v’ulah, b’eim habanim smeicha.
Ma’ayanot azai y’zuvun, u’fduyei adonai y’shuvun, u’mei yeisha yish’avun, v’hatzara nishkachah.
N’cheih amcha k’av rachaman, y’tzaftzifu am lo alman, d’var adonai asher ne’eman, v’hakimcha havtacha.
Vi’didim p’leitei cheretz, niginatam yiftzichu b’meretz, b’li tz’vachah u’vli ferrets, ein yotzeit v’ein tz’vachah.
Y’hi hachodesh hazeh, kinvu’at avi chozeh, v’yishama b’vayit zeh kol sason v’kol simchah. 
Chazak y’malei mish’aloteinu, amitz ya’aseh vakashateinu, v’hu yishlach b’ma’aseih yadeinu bracha v’hatzlachah.
B’motza’ei yom gilah, shimcha nora alilah, sh’lach tishbi l’am segulah revach sason va’hanacha.
Kol tzahala v’rinah, s’fateinu az tirnana. Ana adonai hoshi’a na! Ana adonai hatzlichah na!

B'motzaei Yom Menucha - Breslov Melody, sung after Havdalah

created by Reverend Osby of Aurora Illinois in the Hinds County jail during the freedom rides based on an old gospel song from the 1960s

Recorded at Boston Passover Action Prep Meeting 4/17

lyrics:
Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom
I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom
Well I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom
Hallelu, hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, hallelujah


Woke Up This Mornin

Aish Tamid tune by Shefa Gold from Leviticus 6:6
Which Side Are You On by Florence Reece coming out of 1930s mine workers struggle in Kentucky
Mash Up by Ilana Lerman

Recorded at Boston Passover Action Prep Meeting 4/17/16

lyrics:
Aish tamid tukad al hamizbayach lo tichbeh

Which side are you on? Which side are you on?

Aish Tamid + Which Side Are You On

by Charlie Murphy

Recorded at Boston Passover Action Prep Meeting 4/17/16

lyrics: 
Light is returning
Even though this is the darkest hour
No one can hold back the dawn


Light Is Returning

When the World is Sick - A Silver Mt. Zion REMIX philly punk band
When the world is sick, can’t no one be well,
But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong…

Recorded by IfNotNow Boston Summer 2016.

When The World Is Sick

Havdallah

Aish Tamid - melody by Shefa Gold (Remix with Which Side are you On)
Which side are you on - by Florence Reece- activist and organizer, a poet and songwriter- in 1931.  It was intended specifically as a song to be sung by the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky.  It was revived during the Civil Rights movement, with verses changed and updated to fit the times. 

Aish tamid tukad al hamizbayach; lo tichbeh
Fire always shall be kept burning on the altar; it shall not go out. (Leviticus 6:6)

Which Side are you On? Which Side are you On my people?
Recorded by IfNotNow Boston Summer 2016

Aish Tamid

Went Down To The Courthouse

This song was written/ inspired by a team of cross movement leaders who are in an interconnected network building for a just world and social transformation brought together by Momentum. 

We're gonna rise up, rise up till it's won.
When the people rise up, the powers come down.
They tried to stop us, but we keep coming back.

We're Gonna Rise Up Momentum Song

Nachamu by Shefa Gold
recorded by the Let My People Sing! Core Team: Mónica Gomery, Ilana Lerman, Nom Lerman, Batya Levine & Margot Seigle.

Nachamu
Nachamu Ami X2
Nachamu, nachamu
Nachamu nachamu ami

Comfort, comfort my people

Nachamu

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

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.

Woke Up This Mornin

IfNotNow

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