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

A lullaby melody for day turning to night

Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu
Ruach haolam asher bid’varo 
maariv aravim

B’chochmah potei-ach sh’arim, 
uvit’vunah m’shaneh itim 
umachalif et haz’manim, 
um’sadeir et hakochavim 
b’mishm’roteihem barakia kirtzono. 

Borei yom valailah, 
goleil or mipnei choshech, 
v’choshech mipnei or. 
Umaavir yom umeivi lailah, 
umavdil bein yom uvein lailah, 

Adonai Tz’vaot sh’mo. 
El chai v’kayam, 
tamid yimloch aleinu l’olam va-ed. 
Baruch atah, Adonai, hamaariv aravim.

Maariv Aravim Lullaby

Morning blessings. (traditional liturgy)

Blessed are you, Cosmic Majesty of the Universe,
for giving my heart the ability to distinguish between day and night,
who made me in Their Divine image,
who made me free,
who made me part of my people,
who grants vision, 
who gives the weary strength.

Birkot Hashachar (Morning Blessings)

Sung with Rachel Chang (guitar + vox) and Marni Loffman (vox)

Lyrics:
In doing and in dreaming
You’ve been dropping seeds behind you that will flower in due time
You will never know all the change that you help sow
But just know that it’s happening all the time
You will never know all the beauty you help grow
But just know that it’s happening all the time
All the time (x4)

In Doing & In Dreaming

Or zaruah latzadik, viliyishrei lev simcha. Simchu tzadikim ba-Adinai, vehodu lizecher kadsho.

Or Zarua- slow tune

Recorded at Mishkan Friday night services 5/26/17
 L’kha, dodi, likrat kallah 
p’nei Shabbat n’kab’lah	לְכָה דוֹדִי לִקְרַאת כַּלָּה פְּנֵי שַׁבָּת נְקַבְּלָה
 

"Shamor” v’ “Zachor” b’dibur echad
Hish’miyanu El ha’m’yuchad
Adonai echad, u’sh’mo echad
L’shem u’l’tiferet v’li’t’hilah

Likrat Shabbat l’khu v’nel’kha
Ki hi m’kor ha’b’rakhah
Mei’rosh mikedem n’sukhah
Sof ma’aseh b’mach’shavah t’chilah

Mikdash melekh ir m’lukhah
Kumi tz’i mitokh ha’hafeikhah
Rav lakh shevet b’emek habakhah
V’hu yachamol alayikh chemlah

Hit’na’ari, meiy’afar kumi
Liv’shi big’dei tifarteikh ami
Al yad ben-Yishai beit halachmi
Kor’vah el naf’shi g’alah L’khah, dodi . . .

Hit’or’ri hit’or’ri
Ki va oreikh kumi ori
Uri uri shir dabeiri
K’vod Adonai alayikh nig’lah
Lo tay’voshi v’lo tikalmi
Mah tish’tocha’chi u’mah teh’hemi
Bakh yechesu aniyei ami
V’niv’n’tah ir al tilah

V’hayu lim’shisah shosayikh
V’rachaku kol m’valayikh
Yasis alayikh Elohayikh
Kim’sos chatan al kallah

Yamin u’s’mol tif’rotzi
V'et Adonai ta'aritzi
Al yad ish ben par’tzi
V'nis’m'chah v'nagilah. 

Bo’i v’shalom ateret ba’alah
Gam b’simchah u’v’tzoholah
Tokh emunei am s’gulah
Bo’i khallah, bo’i khallah

Last Fridays @ AES

L'cha Dodi (Nava Tehila)

romemu | aly halpert and molly bajgot

Tree Nigun by Noam Lerman, used at many Let My People Sing! gatherings.

Tree  Nigun - Noam Lerman

brich rachamana malka d'alma mar'ei d'hai pita
thank you, thank you, 
thank you for this beautiful food, 
may it nourish us to build a world that's whole.
*a close translation of the aramaic: blessed is the merciful one, sovereign of the world, creator of this bread.*
**art (woodburned challah board) by batya levine**

Brich Rachamana (aftermeal blessing)

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

L'chu N'ran'na by Joey Weisenberg

Lyrics: Modah Ani, a Jewish daily prayer/practice of gratitude. 
Music by Ary Solomon

Lyrics:
Modah, modah ani
L'fanecha
Ruach chai, ruach chai v'kayam
Ruach chai, ruach chai v'kayam

Modah Ani

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