Birkot Hashachar - Psukei D'zimra - Shacharit

Guitar & melody vocals by Rachel Chang
5/23/2021

Nigun Tishrei by Nava Tehila

Rising Song Records is excited to share the first single from Rabbi Ariel Root Wolpe's forthcoming album Ruach Neshama. This collection of original songs celebrating the connection between music, nature, and Jewish wisdom will be available on digital platforms everywhere on Rosh Chodesh Elul (August 9, 2021).

Contribute to Ariel's crowdfunding campaign to get early access to the whole collection while directly supporting the talented artists who made this beautiful music: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rabbi-ariel-root-wolpe-s-rising-song-record#/

Listen to this single and the title track, "Ruach Neshama," on Bandcamp: https://arielrootwolpe.bandcamp.com/

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
Joey Weisenberg - bass, percussion, guitar, baritone ukulele, piccolo, drum programming, vocals
Will Robertson - bass
Eliyahu Sills - flute
Rising Song Institute Vocalists: Rena Branson, Rebekka Goldsmith, Eitan Kantor, Gedalia Penner, Sam Tygiel, Batya Levine, Gayanne Geurin

www.arielwolpe.com
www.risingsong.org

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

Ruach Neshama

Waking Up Nigun

Waking Up Nigun - Rabbi Ariel Root Wolpe

Origin:
Melody by Rabbi Shefa Gold
Words from morning liturgy
Sung by Batya Levine & Aliza Schwartz
Art by Naomi Weintraub & Etai Rogers-Fett

Words:
Ashrei yoshvei veitecha
Od y'hallelucha

Translation:
Happy are those that dwell in Your house
They keep on praising

Ashrei - Rabbi Shefa Gold

Sung with Grace Gleason in a tunnel in Riverside Park, Wappinger/Munsee Lenape land, Manhattan, 9/9/21

צָמְאָה לְךָ נַפְשִׁי כָּמַהּ לְךָ בְשָׂרִי
בְּאֶרֶץ-צִיָּה וְעָיֵף בְּלִי-מָיִם
 כֵּן בַּקֹּדֶשׁ חֲזִיתִךָ
 לִרְאוֹת עֻזְּךָ וּכְבוֹדֶךָ

Tzama lecha nafshi, kama lecha basari
B'eretz tsiya v'ayef bli mayim
Ken bakoidesh chazisicha 
Lirois uzcha uchvoidecha

My soul thirsts for You, my flesh longs for You 
(As one) in a desolate and weary land without water
So (I thirst) to see You in the Sanctuary
To behold Your strength and glory

- Psalm 63, 2-3

This song was first taught by Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson on 28 Nissan, 5714 - 1954.

Chassidishe recording: https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/livingtorah/player_cdo/aid/690694/jewish/Tzama-Lecha-Nafshi.htm

Tzama Lecha Nafshi/My Soul Thirsts for You (Chabad) — Psalm 63

Nishmat Kol Chai - Joey Weisenberg And The Hadar Ensemble

Went Down To The Courthouse

Round House Song Sessions
August 22rd, 2016
Millerton, NY

Melody by Bostoner Rebbe
Deuteronomy 4:35

recorded by the Let My People Sing! Core Team post Summer 2016 retreat: Margot Seigle, Noam Lerman, Mónica Gomery, Ilana Lerman & Batya Levine

lyrics:
Ain ohd mill-va-doh Ha-shem hoo ha-El-oh-heem
אֵ ין עֹוד מִ לְ בַ ּדֹו ײ הּוא הָ אֱ ֹלהִ ים
There is nothing other. YHVH is Elohim. As above, so below. 
(translation and transliteration credit to Shir Yaakov)

some history: This melody is an original composition by the Bostoner Hasidim as part of their intensive outreach in Boston in the 60’s and 70’s. It likely spread around the broader Jewish community through Reb Ebn Leader bringing it to Reb David Ingber who brought it to Romemu. In the original recording there is a first part of the song that was not included in the spreading.

Ain Od

Kol Haneshama
from Psalm 150
Melody by Joey Weisenberg

recorded by Kat Behr, Chaya Klarnet, Jeanette Gross, Cascades, Beck Gross, Rosa W. Goldberg, Emmett Stanfield, Jenny Asarnow, Shelby Handler & Margot Seigle in a sweet living room in Seattle, February 2017

lyrics: 
Kol haneshama tehallel yah halleluyah

translation:  "All that breathes praises You" OR "Let every living thing Yah's praises sing" OR "The breath of every living thing praises God."

ADAR - Kol HaNeshama

: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 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

Be With Me by Koach Baruch Frazier, sung at Let My People Sing! 2017

LMPS 2017

Be With Me - Koach Baruch Frazier - LMPS 2017

Daily praise song that celebrates all who live in the home of the divine (our sacred planet). Words from tradition, music by Aly Halpert. Creative consultation from Batya Levine.

Written for Linke Fligl, a queer Jewish chicken farm and cultural project in Millerton, NY, for their Sukkot gathering, 5779. (linkefligl.com)

Lyrics 
Hebrew(from traditional Jewish services)
Ashrei yoshvei veitecha, od y'hallelucha, selah!

English (by Aly Halpert)
I sing for you
I sing for what is holy and is true
I sing for all creation, for life and liberation
Everyday anew

Aly Halpert's Album

Ashrei

Origin:
Words are from Morning Blessings
Music was composed by Rabbi Mordechai Dov-Ber Twerski, the Hornosteipel Rebbe of New York, a scion of the Chernobil Chasidic dynasty. It was originally sung to﻿ "v'ha'arev na" from Birkat ha-Torah recited in Shacharit
This version was recorded by the NSP Singing Team

Words:
Modeh/ah ani l'fanecha 
Ruach chai v'kayam

Translation:
Thank You, Living God and Spirit
For giving me anoth​er day of awareness​

Singing Team - Saturday Morning Melodies

Modah Ani - Twerski

Words are from morning service liturgy, melody was taught to Rabbi Joseph by Rabbi Ebn Leader, we're not sure if he wrote it though! Leave us a comment if you know the origin!

Birkot Hashachar - Morning Blessings Chant

Ein Od Milvado

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ADAR - Kol HaNeshama

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