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

Where You Go by Shoshana Jedwab, based on the Book of Ruth

Where you, I will go Beloved
Where you go I will go 	[x2]
Where you lie I will lie Beloved
Where you lie I will lie 	[x2]

Chorus:
And your people are my people
Your people are mine
Your people are my people
Your divine my divine	[x2]

Where You Go by Shoshana Jedwab

Inspired by an excerpt from the poem "Red Sea" by Aurora Levins Morales written in 2002 and included in the article written by Arielle Angel “We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each other” in Jewish Currents post October 7, 2023.

Written by Molly Bajgot & Sol Weiss on our way to DC, October 2023
Sung by Leigh Witzling, Nina Gordon Kirsch, Lily Israel, Molly Bajgot and Sol Weiss


Lyrics:

We won’t rest till we’re all free
You are not my enemy
In our pain, in our grief
Border walls won’t protect me

We will cross the sea
With all of us or none

We will cross the sea
We will cross the sea
With all of us or none
With all of us or none

Cross the Sea (by Molly Bajgot & Sol Weiss)

Part 1: Or chadash (a new light)

Part 2: 
There’s no Jewish safety, in occupation 
Free Palestine, free Palestine 

The light of each soul is holy and sacred 
Ceasefire now, ceasefire now 

Part 3: Dream with me, liberation

This song is a dedication to the new possibilities, to dreaming into existence the world to come, and to the resilience needed to get us through what is to come until then.  

Originally written on the 29th of Kislev/ 7th night of Chanukah, 5781 (2020). 

Re-written for 5784 erev week of Hanukah in collaboration with Lila Macbeth in the wake of unprecedented violence in Gaza. May Palestine be free. May Jews be safe. May we find each other once again. May the light of hanukah help illuminate a path forward. 

Recorded in collaboration with Or Levinson, Lila Macbeth, and Kestrel Feiner-Homer on Dakota homeland / Anishinaabe territory.

Or Chadash, 5784

All the Leaves by Batya Levine

All the leaves 
have fallen down
have fallen down

I am the water, earth, fire and wind,
Dig deep my roots and return again.
I am the water, earth, fire and wind. 
Return again. 

recorded by Batya Levine, Margot Seigle & Elisa Gill

TAMMUZ - All the Leaves

Tu Bshvat Nign (akon) [with B part]

Farr Nigun

Nigunim, Vol. V: Songs from the City of Brotherly Love

L'chu N'ran'na by Joey Weisenberg

3/22/20 
Batya Levine, Rena Branson, Aliza Schwartz, Tamar Sandweiss-Back, Becky Havivi

Simcha Nigun/Yifrach B'yamov (Chabad? Vizhnitz?)

Poem by Lila Serene, translated by Lila & her mom Ana Goldenberg.
Melody by Margot Seigle
Recorded on the 24th of Iyar 5780 // Netzach shebe Yesod 
Yiddish pronunciation support from Noam Lerman 

This poem is about trusting the babies choosing to be conceived and born in this pandemic to be bringing with them the gifts and wisdom that are most needed.

naye lebn

dayne 
zise oygn farshpreyt
fris tsit fun eybikeyt arop
greyt, hungeric
oysgisn bagleybtkyte azoy vi honic dekn mid harts 
onton a bissle fargenign azoy vi vesne regn 
gebakt in der shmek fun frish likht
du bist punkt genoy gekumen aher 
biz a hor ven du kumft iz der merste veytikeyt
un ich tsuher zich 
hent aroysraysn tfilin fun lipn farstitert 
doziker beyner fartriknt megn beygn gehnuk niderik
kushn dos erd gehnuk tsertlekh
zayn bagrisn ba der mikdesh
fun vos du host gekumen aher tsulernen.

translation: 

new life.

Your 
Wide sweet eyes 
Fresh plucked from eternity 
Ready hungry 
pouring trust like syrup over tired hearts 
a sprinkling of joy like spring rain steeped in the scent of fresh light 
you are right on time
right when you're needed most 
and I am listening
palms pressing prayers through trembling lips
may these drying bones bend low enough 
to kiss this earth gently enough 
to be received at the altar 
of what you've come here to teach.

Naye Lebn

Hamotzeh shivrei tzelamim, harei eilu mutarim
 המוצא שברי צלמים הרי אלו מותרים
(Mishnah Avoda Zara 3:2)
 To the finder of broken images-- behold, these are permitted.

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Or Chadash, 5784

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