a playlist dedicated to longing, reaching, crying, praying towards Hashem, opening our hearts & souls to the Beloved, to El Rachamim, The Compassionate One.

Reaching to you, Hashem, Beloved.

shavuot

Lila

עוֹשֶׂה שָׁלוֹם בִּמְרוֹמָיו הוּא יַעֲשֶׂה שָׁלוֹם עָלֵינוּ 
וְעַל כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל וְעַל כָּל יוֺשְׁבֵי תֵבֶל
וְאִמְרוּ אָמֵן

Oseh shalom bimromav
hu ya'aseh shalom aleinu
v'al kol yisrael v'al kol yoshvei tevel 
v'imru: amen

May the one who makes peace/wholeness on high bring peace/wholeness to us and to all of Yisrael (those who wrestle with G!d/Hashem/the Divine/Spirit)and to all the peoples of the earth. 
And we say: Amen

Oseh Shalom

ה' שפתי תפתח - להקת אורות: Hashem Sefatai Tiftach (Hashem open up my lips) by Leh'Hakat Orot

Nign Shabbos V'Yom Tov (Chabad)

יִשְׂמְחוּ בְמַלְכוּתְךָ, שׁוֹמְרֵי שַׁבָּת וְקֽוֹרְאֵי עֹֽנֶג

Yismechu v’malchuscha shomrei shabbos v’korei oneg

They will delight in your all empowering sovereignty - those who tend and care for shabbos and call it a joyous celebration

Credits from Karov, released August 20, 2020:
Batya Levine - lead vocals
Anat Halevy Hochberg - vocals
Aly Halpert - vocals
Molly Bajgot - vocals
Micah Shapiro - vocals
Arielle Rivera Korman - violin
Joey Weisenberg - percussion & bass
Richie Barshay - percussion

Please check out and support Batya! She has a website here: www.batyalevine.com, a Bandcamp here: batyalevine.bandcamp.com/album/karov, a Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/batyalevine, and is on streaming services such as Spotify. Also, make sure to check out Rising Song Records and all of their amazing artists: https://risingsongrecords.bandcamp.com/.

This remix also features Chris Dickson on the bass and me on guitar.

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If you made it this far, you get to read a quick personal note:
 
I first came upon Batya's original Soundcloud recording (https://soundcloud.com/batyalevine/yismechu-batya-levine) after I had just quit my job and was walking my former colleague's dog for money. The magic of the melody struck me hard and I listened to it on repeat while Basil dragged me through the streets of Somerville. I was so stoked it made the album and made everyone at my sister's socially distant birthday party listen to it the day it came out. I must have heard the melody a thousand times working on the remix and the magic still holds.

It's been a tremendous joy to work with Batya and their melody on this remix. I'm not sure if music production is really my thing in the long run, but my stance remains strong regarding the creation of contemporary Jewish dance music: somebody's got to do it.

Batya Levine - Yismechu (Diva Nigun Remix) - Now on Spotify!

Featuring original vocals from: https://soundcloud.com/batyalevine/trust-in

Thank you to Tim Henning (https://soundcloud.com/phase-system on Soundcloud) for help with the vocal processing.

Please check out and support Batya! They have a website here: www.batyalevine.com, a Bandcamp here: batyalevine.bandcamp.com/album/karov, a Patreon here: www.patreon.com/batyalevine, and is on streaming services such as Spotify.

Holy (Feat. Batya Levine) - Demo

This Piyut is attributed to R. Shlomo ibn Gabirol and is sung in Sephardic communities as part of the Request for Dew and the Request for Rain, which are recited respectively on Passover and Shemini Atzeret. This melody is from the Judeo-Spanish tradition.

Leshoni Konanta - My Tongue You have Fashioned
Anonymus

My tongue You have fashioned 
My Lord, and have chosen
Songs that you have placed
in my mouth, they are better than any other discourse
And my footsteps you have directed
towards you from the first
And you have given me a throat
that has not gone dry from calling out to you
And you have purified my Yetzer
to be as white as wool
Be now my protector
as yesterday and tomorrow
You are my shield
My Lord, do not delay

Musical Direction and Arrangements: Yair Harel and Omer Avital
Production: Ari Priven, Yair Harel and Omer Avital
Mixing and editing: Daniel Freedman
Mastered by Randy Merrill at Masterdisk
Recorded at B’nai Jeshurun, New York City, July 2010

Musicians:
David Buchbut Percussion
Daniel Freedman Percussion
Saskia Lane Doublebass
Jessie Reagan Mann Cello
Roly Matalon Oud 
Amanda Monaco Guitar
Daphna Mor Nay and Recorders
Matt Turk Mandolin

Singers: 
Galeet Dardashti
Yair Harel
Roly Matalon
Ari Priven
Basya Schechter

Leshoni Konanta

08 לך אלי

Riff Cohen - Session Acoustique - Tzama Nafshi.mp3

Part 1:
Swaying body, swaying soul
Swaying body, swaying soul

Part 2:
Move to the rhythm of your heart,
Move to the rhythm of your soul

Lyrics and melody by Theresa Martin and Christine Kick

Theresa Martin's Album

Swaying Body, Swaying Soul

A powerful contemporary spiritual with a unique and compelling rhythmic arrangement from Sweet Honey In the Rock founding singer Ysaye Barnwell.

Caint No One Know by Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey in the Rock

This song was born out of John O'Donohue's poem, "For Someone Awakening to the Trauma of Her Past"; it has come through me in a season when the long buried wounds of past trauma have surfaced, inviting healing and renewal. "Only you know where the casket of pain is interred," John O'Donohue wrote. "You will have to scrape through all the layers of covering and according to your readiness, everything will open." 

May this song bring you healing, too.

Part One: 
As your tears fall over that wounded place,
may they wash away your fears and free your heart

Part Two:
I am coming home, I am coming home,
this body now, a meadow -- gentle, my love.

Awakening

This one (chorus) came through in Northeast Missouri while singing with a couple people and (verses) in California outside the house I grew up in, standing at the foot of a great Monterey Cyprus tree (not a Redwood!) and watching some vines climb up the brick outside of the house.

Chorus:
Sister you are not too far holding
I need your strength to carry on

Verse 1:
Our bodies are bound like the vines on the side of a house somewhere deep in the heart of the earth

Verse 2:
Our roots intertwine like the Redwood tree somewhere deep in the soil in the soul of the earth

Sister, You Are Not Too Far for Holding

Your Heart Knows the Way

Sung with chickens at Linke Fligl, 10/1/20
http://linkefligl.com/

Linke Fligl Nigun

A dedication to the new possibility that is emerging in & out of this time, to dreaming into existence the world to come, and to the resilience needed to get us through what is to come until then. 

Written on the 29th of Kislev/ 7th night of Chanukah, 5781 

Or chadash (new light)

The light is returning 
The light is leaving

Dream with me little baby

Or Chadash

margotseigle