Some songs that may make an appearance for Annex Shul High Holy Days 5784 at Bickford Park

Annex Shul Yom Kippur 5784/2023

Origin:
Viznitz melody
Liturgy from Rosh Hashanah Musaf service
Sung by Batya Levine, Sol Weiss, Rena Branson & Chana Rusanov
Art by Naomi Weintraub & Etai Rogers-Fett

Words:
V’ye’etayu chol l’ovdecha
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
Vi’varchu shem k’vodecha.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yagidu va’im tzidkecha.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yidre’shucha amim lo yeda’ucha.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
Vi’halelucha kol afsei aretz.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yomru tamid yigdal Adonai.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yizbechu lecha et zivchei’hem
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yachpe’ru im p’silei’hem.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yatu sh’chem echad le’avdecha.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yira’ucha im shemesh mivakshei panecha.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yakiru koach malcutecha.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yil’midu to’im bina.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
Vi’mallelu et gevuratecha.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
Vi’nasucha mit’nasei l’chol l’rosh.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
Vi’saldu ve’chila panecha.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
Vi’at’rucha nezer tif’ara.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yiftzichu harim rina.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yitz’halu im b’malchecha.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
Vi’kablu ol malchut’cha aleihem.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
Vi’romemucha bik’hal am.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
Vi’shme’u rechokim v’yavo’u.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.
    V’yitnu lecha keter melucha.

Translation:
Then all will come to be in sacred service. 
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty 
They will bless Your glorious Name. 
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
And declare Your righteousness in far-flung lands.
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
Peoples that didn’t know You will seek You out.
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty 
All the ends of the earth will praise You. 
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
And always say, ‘May Adonai be exalted.’
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
The will offer their offerings to You. 
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty 
They will reject their idols. 
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
And turn in unity to be in service to You.
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
Those who seek Your presence will be in awe of you as long as the sun exists.
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty 
They will be familiar with the power of Your sovereignty. 
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
And teach understanding to those who make mistakes
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
They will speak of Your strength. 
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty 
They will praise You, who is sovereign over every leader. 
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
In Your presence they will pray with sweetness.
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
And crown You with a crown of splendor. 
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty 
The mountains will burst forth with joyful song. 
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
Far-flung lands will celebrate Your Sovereignty.
   and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
They will accept the responsibility of Your Sovereignty upon themselves. 
    and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty 
And exalt you in the congregation of people. 
    and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
Distant ones will hear and they will come,
    and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty
And they will give You a crown of Sovereignty.
    and they will give You a crown of Sovereignty.

V'ye'etayu

the long short path

Tishrei 5784: Awaken by Marni Loffman

We will repeat this between the three repetitions of Kol Nidre

Kol Nidrei Niggun Snippet (repeated by all between Kol Nidre) - Joey Weisenberg

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

asher lo hayam

this is a fragment of a longer phrase "asher lo hayam v'hu asahu" from psalm 95, which roughly translates as "g!d is/is of/has the sea and g!d made it"

collage by chani nicholas
https://chaninicholas.com/horoscopes/

Asher Lo (by Matthew Goldfield & Batya Levine)

Tu Bshvat Nigun by Batya Levine sung live at Let My People Sing! 2018.

LMPS 2018

Tu Bshvat Nigun - Batya Levine - LMPS 2018

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

Elul: Songs for Turning

All The Leaves

Origin:
Words are from High Holidays liturgy
Melody is a traditional High Holidays tune, if you know the origin, please comment!
This is a recording from NSP's Rosh Hashanah Community Singing Session in 2019

Words:
Avinu malkeinu
Chanenu va'anenu
Ki ein banu ma'asim
Aseh imanu tzedakah vachesed v'hoshienu

Translation:
Our Parent, Our Guide
Be gracious and answer our prayers
For we humble ourselves before You
Deal kindly and gently with us
And bring salvation to us

Singing Team - RH Melodies

Avinu Malkeinu

Origin:
Words are based on a poem by Wendell Berry
Melody is by Plum Village
This is a recording from NSP's Yom Kippur Community Singing Session in 2019

Words:
And when I rise
Let me rise
Like a bird, joyfully
And when I fall,
Let me fall
Like a leaf, gracefully,
And without regret

Singing Team - YK Melodies

When I Rise

Sung with Batya Levine

הָ֭רֹפֵא לִשְׁב֣וּרֵי לֵ֑ב וּ֝מְחַבֵּ֗שׁ לְעַצְּבוֹתָֽם
מוֹנֶה מִסְפָּר לַכּוֹכָבִים לְכֻלָּם, שֵׁמוֹת יִקְרָא

Harofei lishvurei lev um'chabesh l'atzvotam 
Moneh mispar lacochavim lechulam shemot yikra

Healer of the broken-hearted and tender of our wounds
You account for every star and call each one by name

Healer of the Brokenhearted/Harofei Lishvurei Lev — Psalm 147 + Interpretive Translation

kol ha olam kulu gesher tzar meo'd 
the whole entire world is a very narrow bridge
and the main thing to recall 
is not to fear fear itself

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gesher tzar

"The Sky's Reply" by Joshua Blaine
LYRICS:
מִֽן־הַ֭מֵּצַ֥ר קָרָ֣אתִי יָּ֑הּ עָנָ֖נִי בַמֶּרְחָ֣ב יָֽהּ׃
Psalm 118:5

To You I call, feeling scared and small.
And You reply with the vastness of the sky!

English verse/translation inspired by-the English translation from Siddur HaKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook:
"I called to Yah from the narrow place, and was answered with the sky's wideness"

The Sky’s Reply by Josh Blaine

Nishmat Kol Chai - Joey Weisenberg

HIGHLIGHTS: Sarah Pagé's illumination harp, Jason Sharp's earthtone saxophone, Dan Goldman's eternal guitar, Alex Lukashevsky-the-Ancient's voice in minyan. "Time, and we, must unvow or vow differently as truth reveals itself anew…" Rabbi Richard N. Levy

DESCRIPTION: 

“To vow in the face of change — yet to change the face of vows when time’s new knowledge has changed the meaning of the vow: that is the double courage we would ask tonight, this night of Kol Nidre” —Richard Levy.

Kol Nidre is an Aramaic text recited on the eve of Yom Kippur — a legal declaration that annuls all the vows we made to ourselves or to God in the past year that we could not fulfill. The Cantor, flanked by Torah scrolls held aloft as symbolic witnesses, recites the prayer three times with increasing intensity as those present are emboldened to transform themselves. This piece insists that we deserve the dignity of a clean slate, even if we have missed the mark.

According to Jewish tradition, Kol Nidre does not recuse us from the work of untying the knots we have made with others — if we have harmed another person, we must approach that person directly to make amends. If we try three times and the person’s heart will not budge, we can let it go. Kol Nidre is a cloud that floats near us, threatening rain when we've become lazy or neglectful of our authenticity. 



כָּל נִדְרֵי וֶאֱסָרֵי וּשְׁבוּעֵי וַחֲרָמֵי וְקוֹנָמֵי וְכִנּוּיֵי. וְקִנוּסֵי דִּנְדַֽרְנָא. וּדְאִשְׁתַּבַּֽעְנָא. וּדְאַחֲרִימְנָא. וּדְאָסַֽרְנָא עַל נַפְשָׁתָֽנָא. מִיּוֹם כִּפּוּרִים זֶה עַד יוֹם כִּפּוּרִים הַבָּא עָלֵֽינוּ לְטוֹבָה. בְּכֻלְּהוֹן אִחֲרַֽטְנָא בְהוֹן. כֻּלְּהוֹן יְהוֹן שָׁרָן. שְׁבִיקִין, שְׁבִיתִין, בְּטֵלִין וּמְבֻטָּלִין, לָא שְׁרִירִין וְלָא קַיָּמִין: נִדְרָֽנָא לָא נִדְרֵי. וֶאֱסָרָֽנָא לָא אֱסָרֵי. וּשְׁבוּעָתָֽנָא לָא שְׁבוּעוֹת:


All vows, bonds, devotions, promises, 
Obligations, penalties, and oaths
wherewith we have vowed, sworn
Devoted, and bound ourselves
From this Day of Atonement 
To the next Day of Atonement 
May it come to us for good 
All these we repent us of them
They shall be absolved, released, annulled
Made void and of no effect
They shall not be binding 
Nor shall they have any power 
Our vows shall not be vows
Our bonds shall not be bonds
And our oaths shall not be oaths

Daniela Gesundheit - All Our Vows / Kol Nidre  כל נדרי

Grateful for this little melody coming to me from the pages of my siddur one summer morning.

Ma tovu ohalecha Yaakov, mishk’notecha Yisrael
How lovely are your tents [people of] Jacob; your sanctuaries [people of] Israel.

Mah Tovu

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