5783: We shall ascribe holiness to this...

Healing

Karov

We Are Good, We Are Flawed, by Batya Levine

Sung with Rachel Chang on electric guitar and harmony

Return, return anew
To the breath that is moving through
To the repair that you're called to do
To the healing that's ripe for you

Return, Return Anew

Slow Down/Feel Your Feet

Daily praise song that celebrates all who live in the home of the divine (our sacred planet). Words from tradition, music by Aly Halpert. Creative consultation from Batya Levine.

Written for Linke Fligl, a queer Jewish chicken farm and cultural project in Millerton, NY, for their Sukkot gathering, 5779. (linkefligl.com)

Lyrics 
Hebrew(from traditional Jewish services)
Ashrei yoshvei veitecha, od y'hallelucha, selah!

English (by Aly Halpert)
I sing for you
I sing for what is holy and is true
I sing for all creation, for life and liberation
Everyday anew

Aly Halpert's Album

Ashrei

Inspired by nomadic years, the wisdom of the body and nervous system, change, Somatic Reality: Bodily Experience and Emotional Truth by Stanley Kelemen, the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess community, and the Judaism of my ancestors. Received to the tune of Avinu Malkeinu, a traditional Jewish High Holidays prayer. 

Deep gratitude to my teachers, community and bright and well ancestors: Taya Shere, Ibrahim Baba, my parents, Zaide, Grandpa, the Romanian women, Kohenet and so many more. Thank you.
lyrics
Slow down, child, slow down 
Slow down and listen to the wind 
All comes together; all falls apart 
Forming anew your beating heart 

Slow down, child, slow down 
Slow down and draw yourself near 
The rocks are your keepers 
Tell them your stories 
Now it is safe to be here 

A river flows from within you to where you will go 
The current carries you home 
Let your life unfold 

Slow down, child, slow down 
Slow down and you will receive 
Life wants to meet you where you are 
Not where you think you should be 

A river flows from within you to where you will go 
The current carries you home 
Let your life unfold 

Slow down, child, slow down 
Slow down and you will be shown 
The love that was always lifting you up 
You are never alone 

A river flows from within you to where you will go 
The current carries you home 
Let your life unfold 

Slow down child, slow down (x4) 

Slow down, child, slow down 
Slow down and listen to the wind 
All comes together; all falls apart 
Forming anew your beating heart

Slow Down / The Mother's Response (Demo)

Elul: Songs for Turning

Elul Niggun by Aly Halpert

If had to be stranded on a desert island with one mantra, this song would be it. This gem of music medicine landed in the voice of my dear friend and singing sister Lyndsey Scott, as she biked around the midwest. It's been changing lives and hearts ever since. 

Original song by Lyndsey Scott, recorded here by Lyndsey Scott and Lisa G. Littlebird. Lisa added the two harmony lines with Lyndsey's support and the arrangement is shared here with her blessing.  Melody and 1 and 2 are identical except for a little echo at the end of the song.

Lyrics, teaching notes and individual part tracks can be found at: http://thebirdsings.com/thewayknows/

The Way Knows the Way by Lyndsey Scott

Flute by Sam Tygiel and harmony by R' Ariel Root Wolpe. Words from morning prayers in Pesukei DeZimra and the blessings before the Shema.

Healer of the broken-hearted / who counts the stars & calls each one by name (Psalm 147)

Harofei lishvurei lev um'khabesh l'atz'votam
moneh mispar lakokhavim l'khulam shemot yikra

הָ֣רוֹפֵא לִשְׁב֣וּרֵי לֵ֑ב וּ֜מְחַבֵּ֗שׁ לְעַצְּבוֹתָֽם
מוֹנֶ֣ה מִ֖סְפָּר לַכּֽוֹכָבִ֑ים לְ֜כֻלָּ֗ם שֵׁמ֥וֹת יִקְרָֽא

~

All are loved, all are clear, all are heroic
All work in awe to fulfill divine wants

Kulam ahuvim, kulam berurim, kulam giborim
V'khulam osim b'eima uv'yira r'tzon konam

כולם אהובים כולם ברורים כולם גיבורים
וכולם עושים באימה וביראה רצון קונם

HaRofei Lishvurei Lev (Healer of the Brokenhearted) — Psalm 147

Yiddish translation by Aron Gonshor and Edit Kuper for the Dora Wasserman Yiddish Theatre

tin pan demic

Bread and Roses - demo

A chant that came through me during a Jewish full-moon summer ritual where the women dance in all white, outside in a field under the moonlight, calling in their Beloved wholeness and soul-mateness.

Return, Return Anew

Rena Branson