pesach

Pesach

Lila

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)

Ma Nishtana

Por que essa noite é diferente de todas as outras? Essa pergunta deve ser feita pelo filho mais novo no jantar de Pessach. É esta criança a continuidade da família, até que outra mais nova chegue e o ciclo, novamente, se renove. Apesar da popularidade dessa melodia, seu autor é desconhecido.
Solista: Ricardo Katz.
Músicas originais e arranjos: Felipe PipoGrytz e Daniel Tauszig.
Música realizada para o espetáculo "Ami meu Povo", do Colégio Hebraico Brasileiro Renascença, com o patrocínio das Casas Bahia e apoio do Banco Santander.
Supervisão de produção de estúdio: Dyonísio Moreno.
Engenheiros de gravação e mixagem: Carlos Guedes e Sergio Jovine.
Gravado e mixado no estúdio Spalla.
1998
Todos os direitos reservados.

Ma Nishtaná

Hodu l'Adonai ki tov, 
ki lay'olam khas doe. 
Hodu l'Adonai ki tov, 
ki lay'olam khas doe. 
Hodu, hodu 
Hodu, hodu 
Hodu l'Adonai ki tov, 
Hodu, hodu 
Hodu, hodu 
Hodu l'Adonai ki tov.

Hodu L'Adonai

SHTAR להקת שטר - Ma Nishtana מה נשתנה - Passover

by Batya Levine with creative collaboration from Noam Lerman

recorded by Batya Levine & Noam Lerman
November 13, 2016

We Rise

Part 1:
Swaying body, swaying soul
Swaying body, swaying soul

Part 2:
Move to the rhythm of your heart,
Move to the rhythm of your soul

Lyrics and melody by Theresa Martin and Christine Kick

Theresa Martin's Album

Swaying Body, Swaying Soul

A powerful contemporary spiritual with a unique and compelling rhythmic arrangement from Sweet Honey In the Rock founding singer Ysaye Barnwell.

Caint No One Know by Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey in the Rock

This song was born out of John O'Donohue's poem, "For Someone Awakening to the Trauma of Her Past"; it has come through me in a season when the long buried wounds of past trauma have surfaced, inviting healing and renewal. "Only you know where the casket of pain is interred," John O'Donohue wrote. "You will have to scrape through all the layers of covering and according to your readiness, everything will open." 

May this song bring you healing, too.

Part One: 
As your tears fall over that wounded place,
may they wash away your fears and free your heart

Part Two:
I am coming home, I am coming home,
this body now, a meadow -- gentle, my love.

Awakening

This one (chorus) came through in Northeast Missouri while singing with a couple people and (verses) in California outside the house I grew up in, standing at the foot of a great Monterey Cyprus tree (not a Redwood!) and watching some vines climb up the brick outside of the house.

Chorus:
Sister you are not too far holding
I need your strength to carry on

Verse 1:
Our bodies are bound like the vines on the side of a house somewhere deep in the heart of the earth

Verse 2:
Our roots intertwine like the Redwood tree somewhere deep in the soil in the soul of the earth

Sister, You Are Not Too Far for Holding

Your Heart Knows the Way

A slow song brought to you by the waters of the Webatuck swamp - Schagticoke / Mahican land. 

Water provides life. From the rain, the dew, the ocean, water heals and holds, and sings so many songs through us. I am grateful to the waters for being such a teacher, and invite you to honor them with this song.

The hebrew at the end is the traditional prayer said for a Mikveh, ritual immersion or bath:

Barukh atah Adonay Eloheynu ruach ha-olam, asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu al ha-t'vilah.

Blessed are you, source of creation,  of the universe, who sanctifies us through mitzvot and has shown us immersion.

lizard popping bubbles

Great Waters

Dayenu

recorded by Aly Halpert, Sol Weiss & Margot Seigle

I believed in solid ground until I saw the earth in motion,
in the winds of steady change and in the ever-rolling ocean.

All moves on in perfect, perfect motion.
All is change and ever-rolling ocean.

from Annie: 
Blessed Motion is a 4-part acknowledgement of the nature of Life as an unpredictable, ever-changing movement toward itself. The melody came squatting on a rock next to a fast moving fork in the Trinity River, where salmon were in their first week of journeying to their spawning sites in northern California. Martin Prechtel said after surviving the Guatemala earthquake of 1976, during which he witnessed the ground beneath him rising up and swallowing people and villages whole, that solid ground is a myth believed by people who live on the earth rather than in it. This idea has stayed with me through the years and provided partial inspiration for this song. This is a big song! It travels through two dimensions, the first, a three or four part set of repeating lines, the second, a layered riff topped with a solo section.

Blessed Motion - Annie Zylstra

From Audio Fidelity lp ASFD 6114, Tzena Tzena: Hava Nagilan and other Wedding Dances, New York, 1963

Tzena Tzena Hava Nagila and Other Wedding Dances

"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

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