Name: Ekh Du (Chabad) – Set to Psalm 19 for Shabbat Morning by Rena Branson
Duration: 2 min 49 s
Description: Violin and production by Eitan Kantor, flute by Sam Tygiel

Mozi's Nigun  (Learning Track) Joey Weisenberg

Dive into a warm, intimate journey through timeless pop classics reimagined with Sunny’s unique acoustic touch. This album blends soft vocals, delicate guitar arrangements, and raw emotion to create soothing renditions perfect for late-night relaxation, peaceful mornings, and soulful daydreaming.

Featuring heartfelt covers of legends like Frank Sinatra, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and modern gems from Cigarettes After Sex, Oasis, and Sufjan Stevens, each track invites you to reconnect with songs you love in a calming, dreamy atmosphere.

Whether you’re studying, unwinding after a long day, or seeking acoustic inspiration, let these covers bring quiet beauty and nostalgia to your moments.

What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)  Acoustic Cover by Sunny

By the waters of babylon
by Joey Weisenberg

By the waters of Babylon
We laid our lyres down
Laid our lyres down
Sat and cried

By the waters of Babylon
Never sang our sacred songs
Sang no sacred songs
Tongues were tied

Nigun [B]

Let My People Sing! Retreat Summer 2016

By The Waters of Babylon

Batya Levine and I wrote this feminist twist on the Purim story of Queen Vashti and the King's decree.

vashti's song: herstory | batya levine and molly bajgot

this song was originally written after navigating what-feels-like high stake conversations between jews around israel/palestine. this prayer was written as a prayer for peace: that what we are holding so tightly can actually withstand being let go some, let to breathe,to  change, to be 'broken' as we may see it, to speak for itself. that this prayer may allow us to see eac hother and our human one-ness.  it's a prayer for peace amidst anguish that it might be possible, out of our control, to have faith.

a prayer for peace amidst anguish

Recorded by Aliza Abolafia and Rena Branson

Lecha Dodi (Rena Branson)

Music: Orion Johnstone and Nehemiah Luckett
Lyrics: Based on the Lilla Watson quote:
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound in mine, then let us work together." 

I learned from Orion and Nehemiah when they were in Portland leading workshops in spring 2019. They wrote the song on Mt. Tabor in Portland that week. (PS the picture for this track was taken on Mt. Tabor!)

Sung at a song circle on July 20, 2019 on Chinook land/Portland, OR.

Part 1:
Then let us work together
Let us work together
O-o-o-oh
Let us work together

Part 2:
If you have come here to help me
You are wasting your time
O-o-oh
Let us work together

Part 3:
Let us work together
If you have come
Because your liberation is bound in mine
Let us work together

Let Us Work Together (Music: Orion Johnstone and Nehemiah Luckett, Lyrics: Lilla Watson)

A zemer (song) for Shabbat, a time of slowness, rest, and rejuvination. A zemer usually sung on Shabbat afternoon. Attributed to Dunash ibn Labrat, a 10th century Babylonian paytan (liturgical poet), whose name is spelled acrostically in verses 1,2,3 and 6.
sung by Mónica Gomery & Batya Levine

D'ror yikra l'ven im bat, v'yintzorchem k'mo vavat, n'im shimchem v'lo yushbat, sh'vu v'nuchu b'yom shabbat.

D'rosh navi v'ulami, v'ot yesha aseh imi, n'ta sorek b'toch karmi, she'e shavat b'nei ami.

D'roch purah b'toch batzrah, v'gam bavel asher gavrah, n'totz tzarai b'af v'evrah, sh'ma koli b'yom ekra.

Elohim ten b'midbar har, hadas shitah b'rosh tidhar, v'lamazhir v'lanizhar, sh'lomim ten k'mei nahar.

Hadoch kamai, el kanah, b'mog levav uvamginah, v'narchiv peh unmalenah, l'shonenu l'cha rinah.

D'eh chochmah l'nafshecha, v'hi cheter l'roshecha, n'tzor mitzvat k'doshecha, sh'mor shabbat kodshecha.

Translation:
 God will proclaim freedom for all God's children
And will keep you as the apple of God's eye
Pleasant is your name and will not be destroyed
Repose and rest on the Sabbath day.

Seek my sanctuary and my home.
Give me a sign of deliverance.
Plant a vine in my vineyard.
Look to my people, hear their laments.

Tread the wine-press in Bozrah,
And in Babylon that city of might
Crush my enemies in anger and fury.
On the day when I cry, hear my voice.

Plant, Oh God, in the mountain waste
Fir and acacia, myrtle and elm
Give those who teach and those who obey
Abundance peace, like the flow of a river.

Repel my enemies, Oh zealous God.
Fill their hearts with fear and despair.
Then we shall open our mouths,
And fill our tongues with Your praise.

Know wisdom, that your soul may live,
And it shall be a diadem for your brow.
Keep the commandment of your Holy One
Observe the Sabbath, your sacred day.

Dror Yikra - Ashkenazi Traditional

Violin and production by Eitan Kantor, flute by Sam Tygiel

Ekh Du (Chabad) – Set to Psalm 19 for Shabbat Morning

Dalfa Nafshi
Lyrics: Psalms 119. Music: Jessi Roemer
lyrics:
Dalfa nafshi mituga (2x); Kay’meini ki dvarecha (2x)
(My soul melts with sorrow; sustain me with Your word)

Like many verses in Psalms, this begins with despair ("My soul melts with sorrow"), and ends with hope ("Sustain me with Your word"). Written in 2017 as cruelty against Muslims and immigrants was ramping up at U.S. borders and Jewish graveyards were being desecrated, these two sentences carry the despair and the hope of building a more just world in the wake of what's been lost. It resonates in 2020 as more of our society wrestles with our communal devastation of Black lives, and righteous demonstrations sow seeds of hope for a just future. 

credits:
from Jessi Roemer's PRAISE album, released August 18, 2019
Lyrics: Psalms 119
Music: Jessi Roemer
Guitar: Jessi Roemer
Electronic Organ: Don Godwin
Vocals: Jessi Roemer, Diana Brewer, Shulamit Wise-Fairman, Irwin Keller
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Ekh Du (Chabad) – Set to Psalm 19 for Shabbat Morning

Rena Branson

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