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Follow It Home

sung by R' Mónica Gomery, Batya Levine, and Ilana Lerman

Adon HaSelichot, traditional Sephardic piyyut from Selichot & Yom Kippur

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

8. We Let The Love Wash Over Us

Breathe breathe breathe in 
Breathe breathe out

Let it go, let it go, let it go

Trust in what's coming
Trust in your knowing
It's deeper and wider and holy


special thanks to Jess & Dan Pelberg Berlin for lighting the spark to find this song in me

Breathe

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

Live recorded freestyle ecstatic dance mix from a private retreat on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala. 

Enjoy.

https://www.facebook.com/djduncanj

More past sets here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/duncanjames

Retiro Ruk’ Ux - Cacao Ecstatic Dance - August 2021

cracked open - soundtrack for medicine journey

Abrete Corazon is a very popular icaro by Rosa Giove you can often  listen to in healing cerimonies with sacred plants; it invites you to remember how to came back home to your heart. We founded our personal version to sing and song it. 
Always thankful with all people inspired and engaged in healing music.
Mata e Silvia

Abrete corazon è un icaro molto famoso di Rosa Giove che si sente spesso nelle cerimonie di cura con piante sacre perchè invita a ricordare come tornare a casa al proprio cuore. Abbiamo trovato una nostra personale versione per suonarlo e cantarlo.
Sempre con gratitudine per tutte le persone ispirate e impegnate nella musica di cura.

Abrete Corazon - Mata e Silvia

Full album available here: https://delfinamun.bandcamp.com
Videoclip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfE7LHL48s0

"Pájaro", Delfina's debut album, will be released September Solstice 2021. The album journeys through a decade of spiritual transformations and rebirth, with prayers and songs received from the master plants. "Pájaro" is the bird that flies between the two worlds, the material and the spiritual realms, darkness and light, in a fluid wind dance.

Corazón de Barro - lyrics

He caminado hacia el núcleo de la Tierra
Corazon de barro
Corazon de todo pueblo

Mis pies en el suelo de esa Tierra antigua
De nuestros abuelos
Sagrados ancestros

Ahi… iii… ee…

Las plantas del bosque cubrieron mi cuerpo
Entre en lo profundo
Renaciendo

La copa del árbol abrazo el cielo
Y en su raiz
El secreto

Ahí, en la raiz
Tu verdad

Ahí, en la raiz
Renacer

Ahí, en la raiz
Tu memoria

Ahí, en la raiz
Tu esencia

Corazón De Barro

This is my first original single. I have very deep relationships with the 
OCEAN. It helps me to get rid of my negative thoughts and anxiety, pain and sadness.

OCEAN

JASM - OCEAN (DEMO)

Setting of psalm 27

dedicated to all of us yearning for more life!

Lyrics:
Achat sha'alti me'eit Hashem, otah avakesh:
shivti b'veit Hashem, kol y'mei chayai, lachazot b'noam Hashem, u'l'vaker b'heikhalo.

One thing I ask from the creator, one thing I desire
That I might dwell in Your house all the days of my life
To behold the graciousn​ess of the creator, and to enter Their sanctuary​.

Achat Sha'alti

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
credits
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

Waking Up Nigun

Sheet music for this new melody and words of explanation by Deborah Sacks Mintz will be included in Hadar's 5782 Pesach Reader. Download a copy here: https://www.hadar.org/torah-resource/pesach-reader-5782

Text: Vayehi Bachatzi HaLayla - Pesach piyyut by Yannai (6th Century)
Melody: Deborah Sacks Mintz

Singers:
Deborah Sacks Mintz
Chava Mirel
Joey Weisenberg

Recorded November 2021 at the Germantown Jewish Centre
Mastered by Don Godwin

Karev Yom - Deborah Sacks Mintz

Niggun Tishrei - Nava Tehila

A playlist of Israeli & jewish songs for CRB campers!

Thanks:
Jeff Weisz
Karen Segal
Miriam Hertzson
Cantor Carol Chesler
Mitch Mernick
Yaniv Morozovsky

Listen to our camp music all day long at http://KolRamah.US

CRB Playlist

Listen to Kol Ramah

Nava Tehila - Oseh Shalom (Prayer for Peace)

Get the full album here!
https://elulmusicproject.bandcamp.com/album/elul-songs-for-turning

This Psalm is simultaneously the desperate plea of a person lost in brokenness and suffering, and a confident statement of absolute faith and ok-ness. That paradox speaks to me as a central experience of the tshuva season and of life. On the one hand, we are lost, confused, and broken; at the same time, we also realize that we are exquisitely perfect just as we are, reflections of the divine whole. The experience of wholeness comes through a deep abiding with the messiness and imperfection of existence.

Lyrics (Psalm 27):
אַל-תִּתְּנֵנִי, בְּנֶפֶשׁ צָרָי 
קַוֵּה, אֶל-יְהוָה 
לְךָ, אָמַר לִבִּי--בַּקְּשׁוּ פָנָי 
קַוֵּה, אֶל-יְהוָה 

חֲזַק, וְיַאֲמֵץ לִבֶּךָ 
הוֹרֵנִי יְהוָה, דַּרְכֶּךָ 

Al titneni b'nefesh tzarai
Kaveh el adonai
Lach amar libi bakshu fanai
Kaveh el adonai

Chazak v'ya'ametz libecha
Horeini adonai darkecha

Translation:
Don't let me get lost in my soul-suffering 
I will trust in the wholeness of everything 
My heart says, "I am looking for you!" 
I will trust in the truth of the way things are. 

Fill your heart with power and courage 
Teach me the way of Presence 


from Elul: Songs for Turning, released September 7, 2017 
Daniel Kieval: lead vocals, guitar 
Anat Hochberg: harmony vocals

Elul: Songs for Turning

Kaveh

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

singing resilience into beloveds - our selves, our loves, our communities, our interconnection

ani l'dodi v'dodi li
ha'ro'eh ba'shoshananim (bashoshanim ha'ro'eh)

source: song of songs 6:3
translation: I am to my beloved, and my beloved is to me, who shepherds in the roses

Ani Ldodi

Zeh Hayom: This Is the Day

Hallelu! (Psalm 150) by Miriam Margles

You can purchase the Elul album, which was compiled, recorded & edited by Anat Hochberg & Matt Goldfield here:
https://elulmusicproject.bandcamp.com/releases
This album features a beautiful collection of original songs for Elul by various contemporary Jewish musicians.

This song came through in the forests of the Blue Hills, which is on the land of the Massachusett tribe. Sometimes it may seem that all of our leaves fall down, onto the forest floor, and our branches lie bare & exposed in the cold wind. Shedding tears and the things that no longer serve us, we are stripped down to our most basic selves. This leaves us vulnerable, and it naturally opens up a space for teshuva, a return to self. Because we are the water, earth, fire and wind, and we can call on these powers, to help us through.

LYRICS:
all the leaves have fallen down, have fallen down
all the leaves have fallen down, have fallen down

i am the water, earth, fire & wind
dig deep my roots and return again
i am the water, earth, fire & wind
return again

CREDITS:
from Elul: Songs for Turning, released September 7, 2017
Batya Levine: vocals
Anat Hochberg: vocals
Micah Shapiro: djembe, vocals
Album Art: Roz Freeman

All The Leaves

Live recording from September 21 2019 Selichot service + concert, Ascend at Night: A Selichot service of contemporary and ancient music

September 21 at 8:30pm
Homewood Friends Meeting Baltimore, MD
Co-sponsored by East Bank Havurah

Selichot opens the season that asks us to dig deep, crack our hearts open, and pour out our yearning. Combining traditional Selichot liturgy (Ya'ale, Avinu Malkeinu) with contemporary secular music (Fleetwood Mac, Leonard Cohen, Lake Street Dive), the service opens channels to the heart work the new year calls for. Expect opportunities for quiet reflection, full throated singing, performance, and grounding ritual.)

Musicians:
Megan Beller, Fiddle
Ever Hanna, Lead vocals
Ethan Hasiuk, Drums 
Joe Magar, Bass
Laurie Spector, Guitar

Featured vocals:
Lena Amick
Molly Amster
Miriam Avins
Charley Beller
Erin Kelly
Ilana Newman

Selichot 5779

Shiviti, Nava Tehillah

Achat Shaalti

Origin:
Words are from the selichot service
Melody is from Sephardi/Mizrachi selichot
This is a recording that Batya Levine made for NSP in preparation for co-leading High Holiday services with Rabbi Joseph in 2019

Words:
Adon Ha-Selichot, bochen livavot
Golah amukot, doveir tzedakot
Chatanu lefanecha, rachem aleinu

Hadur ba-niflaot, vatik bi-nechamot
Zocheir berit avot, chokeir kilayot
Chatanu lefanecha, rachem aleinu

Tov u'meitiv labriot, yodei’a kol nistarot
Koveish avonot, loveish tzedakot
Chatanu lefanecha, rachem aleinu

Maleh zechuyot, nora tehilot
Soleach avonot, oneh b'eit tzarot
Chatanu lefanecha, rachem aleinu

Poh-el yeshuot, tzofeh atidot
Koreh hadorot, rochev aravot
Shomeah tefilot, t'mim dei-ot
Chatanu lefanecha, rachem aleinu

Adon HaSelichot

recorded on the 7th of Nissan, 5780 // April 1st, 2020

I originally learned this song from Annie Zijlstra in April 2017 during a song filled birth blessing weekend for my partner, captured at the bottom of this image. 

Listen deeply,
a flame is rising in the center of the storm
Sings in silence,
inside the ocean of my soul

The song is written by an English songleader and composer Susie Ro Prater after her father’s death.  For more info and for each part separately, visit: thebirdsings.com/flame.

IYAR - Flame by Susie Ro Prater

Mi Chamocha (Rishikesh)

Sung to the tune of "V'haviotim," a melody/zemer originally written for Isaiah 56:7

Elul Chant 5781

Koach Frazier