Sheb’Shifleinu (Psalms 136:23-24)

A new melody for your Pesach Seder!

שֶׁ֭בְּשִׁפְלֵנוּ זָ֣כַר לָ֑נוּ כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃
וַיִּפְרְקֵ֥נוּ מִצָּרֵ֑ינוּ כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃

Sheb’shifleinu zakhar lanu ki l’olam khasdo
Va’yifrekeinu mi’tzareinu ki l’olam khasdo

When we were in the lowest of places, G!d/Existence remembered us, because there is always goodness and compassion in the world. We were separated from our sorrows and constriction because the Divine's goodness and compassion is eternal.

To learn more nigunim and watch master classes in Jewish song, please visit http://joeyweisenberg.com/

A video version of Joey teaching this melody is available here https://youtu.be/DZKi-eZ4ZY0

Listen to the studio version of "Sheb'Shifleinu" from the album, L'eila: https://joeyweisenberg.bandcamp.com/album/leila

Check out our extensive, meticulously curated playlist of Pesach music on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3d3m0Wa

Sheb'Shifleinu - Joey Weisenberg (Nigun for Passover)

Rising Song Records is excited to share the first single from Rabbi Ariel Root Wolpe's forthcoming album Ruach Neshama. This collection of original songs celebrating the connection between music, nature, and Jewish wisdom will be available on digital platforms everywhere on Rosh Chodesh Elul (August 9, 2021).

Contribute to Ariel's crowdfunding campaign to get early access to the whole collection while directly supporting the talented artists who made this beautiful music: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rabbi-ariel-root-wolpe-s-rising-song-record#/

Listen to this single and the title track, "Ruach Neshama," on Bandcamp: https://arielrootwolpe.bandcamp.com/

All music composed by Ariel Root Wolpe, Hebrew text from Jewish liturgy and Tanakh.
Music direction by Joey Weisenberg and Ariel Root Wolpe
Harmony direction by Deborah Sacks Mintz
Produced by Joey Weisenberg

Recorded outside and in home-studios in Atlanta, GA, Philadelphia, PA, and Berkeley, CA.
Engineered by Joey Weisenberg and Jon Mitchell
Mixed and Mastered by Don Godwin
Artwork and Layout by Sol Yael Weiss.

Singers and Musicians:
Ariel Root Wolpe - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Kendra Root Wolpe - vocals
Deborah Sacks Mintz - vocals
Valerie Root Wolpe - vocals
Jon Mitchell - vocals, djembe
Joey Weisenberg - bass, percussion, guitar, baritone ukulele, piccolo, drum programming, vocals
Will Robertson - bass
Eliyahu Sills - flute
Rising Song Institute Vocalists: Rena Branson, Rebekka Goldsmith, Eitan Kantor, Gedalia Penner, Sam Tygiel, Batya Levine, Gayanne Geurin

www.arielwolpe.com
www.risingsong.org

A Project of Hadar's Rising Song Institute: Cultivating Jewish spiritual life through song.

Ruach Neshama

Waking Up Nigun

Waking Up Nigun - Rabbi Ariel Root Wolpe

From Rabbi Ariel Root Wolpe's album Ruach Neshama, which you can stream and download from Rising Song Records on Bandcamp: https://risingsongrecords.bandcamp.com/ 

This song is accompanied by lyrics, chords and related teachings for Hanukkah in a source sheet on Sefaria.  Light, listen and learn: www.sefaria.org/sheets/340946

All music composed by Ariel Root Wolpe
Music direction by Joey Weisenberg and Ariel Root Wolpe
Harmony direction by Deborah Sacks Mintz
Produced by Joey Weisenberg

Recorded outside and in home-studios in Atlanta, GA, Philadelphia, PA, and Berkeley, CA.
Engineered by Joey Weisenberg and Jon Mitchell
Mixed and Mastered by Don Godwin
Artwork and Layout by Sol Yael Weiss

Singers and Musicians:
Ariel Root Wolpe - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Kendra Root Wolpe - vocals
Deborah Sacks Mintz - vocals
Valerie Root Wolpe - vocals
Joey Weisenberg - bass, percussion, guitar, baritone ukulele, piccolo, drum programming, vocals

Light My Soul

Light My Soul - Ariel Root Wolpe

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

אֶשָּׂא עֵינַי אֶל־הֶהָרִים
מֵאַיִן יָבֹא עֶזְרִי
עֶזְרִי מֵעִם יי
עֹשֵׂה שָׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ

𝐸𝑠𝑎 𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑖 𝑒𝑙-ℎ𝑒’ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑚
𝑚’𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑎𝑣𝑜 𝑒𝑧𝑟𝑖
𝑒𝑧𝑟𝑖 𝑚’𝑖𝑚 𝐻𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑚
𝑜𝑠𝑒ℎ 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑚 𝑣𝑎’𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑧

I turn my eyes to the mountains
from where will my help come?
My help comes from the LORD
maker of heaven and earth

***

All music composed and directed by Joey Weisenberg. Texts traditional.

Featuring:

Joey Weisenberg: Guitars, Mandolin, Lead Vocals
Daniel Ori: Bass
Richie Barshay: Percussion
Yosef Goldman: Harmony Vocals
Deborah Sacks Mintz: Harmony Vocals

From the album L'eila (Rising Song Records, 2022), recorded at Tonal Park Studios in July 2021.

Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Don Godwin.

Filmed by Shmulie Lowenstein.

Cover art by Sol Weiss.

Stream or download the album here: https://joeyweisenberg.bandcamp.com/album/leila

Watch videos from the recording sessions: 
https://www.youtube.com/user/joeyweisenberg

L'eila

Esa Einai

Esa Einai (Psalm 121) - Joey Weisenberg

Simple recording of an old melody, collected by Moyshe Beregovsky (Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovskii) in the early 1900s in Ukraine, later rediscovered in Kyiv, and subsequently adapted by Joey Weisenberg as the "Kane Street Nigun."

May the joyous energy of this nigun be a source of hope in a time of needless destruction and wanton violence now plaguing the region where it originated. 

Learn more about Beregovsky: https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Beregovskii_Moisei_Iakovlevich

Check out Joey's master classes in Jewish song and prayer, where he teaches this melody, explains its history and structure, and includes sheet music: https://bit.ly/jewish-song-masterclasses

Beregovsky Nigun (Kane Street Nigun) - Joey Weisenberg

Melody by Rabbi Micha'el Rosenberg
Lyrics from Exodus 2:4 and 15:2
Recorded with students and faculty at Yeshivat Hadar on March 30, 2023

וַתֵּתַצַּב אֲחֹתוֹ מֵרָחֹק לְדֵעָה מַה־יֵּעָשֶׂה לוֹ
"His sister stood at a distance to know what would become of him"

זֶה אֵ-לִי וְאַנְוֵהוּ
"This is my God and I will praise [God]"

Geulah Arikhta Nigun - R. Micha'el Rosenberg

“Gal einai ve-abitah.” Open my eyes, I pray. Expand my vision that I may know the life-giving wonders hidden in your Torah.

This album of original Jewish music is a personal prayer for healing, wisdom, and integration. “Abitah” means to behold; to see the wonders hidden all around us. The sacred texts and music of this album are focused on healing and integration — of body, mind and soul. The music is about finding clarity and expanded consciousness, of self and of our relationship with the Source of Life.

***Visit bit.ly/abitah-listening-guide for complete liner notes, album credits, and accompanying Torah***

Berditchever Nigun

Abitah

Deror Yikra

Dim'ati

Nir'eh Or

Veshamru

שִׂימוּ לֵב עַל הַנְּשָׁמָה לֶשֶׁם שְׁבוֹ וְאַחְלָמָה
וְאוֹרָה כְּאוֹר הַחַמָּה שִׁבְעָתַיִם כְּאוֹר בֹּקֶר
“Take heart. Pay heed to your own soul. Opal, amethyst, and gold, 
As bright as is the sun's warm glow, far brighter than the morning.”
—“Odeh La-El” by R. Shma’ya Kosson

Simu Lev by Kedmah: The Rising Song Piyyut Project

Yoni Avi Battat - oud, violin, viola, vocals, music director, producer
Rabbi Yosef Goldman - vocals, rabbinic and literary director, producer
Joey Weisenberg - fretless electric bass, producer
Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer - vocals
Anat Halevy Hochberg - vocals
Yahala Lachmish - guest vocalist
April Centrone - guest percussionist

Produced by Rising Song Records
risingsongrecords.bandcamp.com
Recorded November, 2023 at Rittenhouse Soundworks in Philadelphia, PA

Don Godwin - audio engineer, mixing, and mastering
Shmulie Lowenstein - video
Josh Fleet - production manager

A project of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute, cultivating Jewish spiritual life through song: www.risingsong.org

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Simu Lev is a collection of traditional Middle Eastern and North African piyyutim (liturgical poems), centered around the theme of our inner spiritual lives and our relationship with the divine. As stated in the above excerpt from “Odeh La-El,” the music in this album calls its listeners to nourish the neshamah, the soul, and to tend the holy and precious inner workings of the human heart and consciousness. Literally meaning “place your heart,” Simu Lev also means, “pay attention” in modern Hebrew. By curating and presenting Mizrahi cultural heritage, which has often sat at the margins of American Jewish society, this album is indeed a call to pay attention – to recognize the diversity amongst our communities, and to embrace the deeply rooted, ornate, and beautiful Arab musical traditions that are so essential to the landscape of Jewish expression at large.

This album is the first release from Kedmah: The Rising Song Piyyut Project. Led by Rabbi Yosef Goldman (vocals) and Yoni Avi Battat (oud, violin, viola, vocals), Kedmah honors the artists’ Iraqi, Syrian, and Yemenite ancestry in conversation with their intersecting musical influences. Their interactive performances, workshops, and recordings allow listeners to experience the spiritual and emotional depth of Mizrahi piyyutim and the ages-old tradition of Arab melodies that adorn them. Building on the fragments of the Mizrahi musical traditions that they grew up with, Yoni and Yosef have made a concerted effort to reclaim the texts and melodies that brought meaning to the lives of their ancestors. 

After years of musical hevruta and study with their cherished teacher Roni Ishran, Yoni and Yosef founded Kedmah as a part of Hadar’s Rising Song Institute. Part educational initiative, part performance group, the social and pedagogical impact of this project is strengthened by a commitment to musical creativity, historical accuracy, spirituality, and public performance at the highest level.

This recording features the Rising Song Institute’s founder and artistic director, Joey Weisenberg, on electric fretless bass along with Arabic percussion expert, April Centrone, on darbuka, riq, bendir, and drum kit. Yahala Lachmish, Anat Halevy Hochberg, and Rabbi Jessica Kate Meyer contribute stunning vocal performances inspired by their own personal connection to this music and their Yemenite and Libyan ancestry.

Agadelkha אגדלך

Ana Elekh אנה אלך

Kiriyah Yefefiyah קריה יפהפיה

Yedid Nefesh ידיד נפש

Ya’arat Devash יערת דבש

Ani Ashava אני אשוע

Odeh La-El אודה לאל

Ana B’Hasdekha אנא בחסדך

Adon Olam אדון עולם

Hu Elokeinu Nigun
Composed by R. Menachem Goldberger
Sung by Yeshivat Hadar Summer Fellows 2024
August 8th, 2024

Hu Elokeinu Nigun (R. Menachem Goldberger)

Psalm 30:6-9, 12-13

בָּעֶרֶב יָלִין בֶּכִי
וְלַבֹּקֶר רִנָּה

אֵלֶיךָ הַשֵּׁם אֶקְרָא
אֵלֶיךָ
אֵלֶיךָ

...אֵלֶיךָ

אָמַרְתִּי בְשַׁלְוִי
בַּל־אֶמּוֹט לְעוֹלָם
הִסְתַּרְתָּ פָנֶיךָ
הָיִיתִי נִבְהָל


...אֵלֶיךָ


הָפַכְתָּ מִסְפְּדִי לְמָחוֹל לִי
פִּתַּחְתָּ שַׂקִּי וַתְּאַזְּרֵנִי שִׂמְחָה
לְמַעַן יְזַמֶּרְךָ כָבוֹד וְלֹא יִדֹּם
הַשֵּׁם אֱלֹהַי לְעוֹלָם אוֹדֶךָּ


...אֵלֶיךָ

From the album Selah via Rising Song Records: https://joeyweisenberg.bandcamp.com/album/selah

Joey Weisenberg - Guitars, Vocals, Percussion
Aly Halpert - Harmonium, Vocals
Dan Blacksberg - Trombone, Vocals
Shawn Hennessey - Percussion, Ukulele Bass, Vocals

Produced by Joey Weisenberg
Audio Engineering by Mike Richelle
Mixed and Mastered by Don Godwin
Art Direction by Iris Shamir – Colors by Padmini
Videography by Shmulie Lowenstein, UpperDeck Films
Album Cover by Josh Fleet
Recorded at Rittenhouse Soundworks in Philadelphia, July 15-16, 2024
Rehearsed at Germantown Jewish Centre, Spring 2024


Eilekha (Psalm 30)

A nigun for Psalm 27:4, used throughout Elul and the High Holidays season, from the Vizhnitzer Hasidim, as sung by Deborah Sacks Mintz, who learned it from Baruch Tauber. 

Source sheet and video for Deborah Sacks Mintz' class teaching this melody and delving into the text it is based on can be found here: https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/260351?lang=bi

Stream Deborah's album of original nigunim, The Narrow and the Expanse, here: https://risingsongrecords.bandcamp.com/

Vizhnitz Achat Shaalti - Deborah Sacks Mintz

From the Koydanover Chasidim, as transcribed in 1927 by AB Bernstein in "Musikalisher Pinkus" and sung by Joey Weisenberg. To explore this and many other nigunim in depth, and to learn how to sing and teach spiritual melodies, subscribe to the master class series The Art of the Nigun here: http://bit.ly/learn-nigunim

Koydanover Nigun - Joey Weisenberg

הַנֵּרוֹת הַלָּלוּ אָֽנוּ מַדְלִיקִין
Hanerot Halalu anu madlikim
These lights we kindle

Traditional folk melody
Arrangement by Ilene Safyan  

Deborah Sacks Mintz - lead vox
Yosef Goldman - lead vox
Chava Mirel - guitar, harmonies

The recording premiered on the Shir Bliss Radio Hour's Hanukkah Special, a new project from Rising Song Records. Listen to the program on Mixcloud: http://bit.ly/shir-bliss-hanukkah

Hear more music from Deborah, Yosef and Chava at https://risingsongrecords.bandcamp.com/

Hanerot Halalu - Deborah Sacks Mintz, Yosef Goldman & Chava Mirel

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