לַכֹּ֖ל זְמָ֑ן וְעֵ֥ת לְכָל־חֵ֖פֶץ תַּ֥חַת הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.
- Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 3:1

Listen, the world is turning, turning
Listen, the land is burning, burning
But we, the people, are learning, learning
Listen, the world is turning, turning

May all recognize the time for action on climate justice, and the end of the era of fossil fuels. May we learn, and turn to a better future for all earth's creatures.

Turn (Demo)

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

Like an Ocean

Heart broken, open like an ocean
Can’t stand, swimming in emotion 
Heart broken, open like an ocean
Can’t stand, swimming in emotion

I’m reaching inside
Tossed in the waves of my heart and my mind
I’m reaching inside
Looking for shore, but it’s high tide

Spread, spread thin
Not giving up, giving in
Spread, spread thin
Not giving up, giving in

like an ocean

Song by Elana Brody. Sung at Romemu Brooklyn Erev Rosh Hashana 

May my mouth be honey 
May my voice be honey 
May my words be honey 
As I offer praise to You
May my heart be honey 
May my love be honey 
May my life be honey 
As I offer praise to you 

I am Deepening 
I am Sweetening 
I am Softening 
I am Offering

Honey : Live Rosh Hashanah 5784

Brucha at Shekhina (Blessed are you, divine presence throughout the physical world) who grounds me
Brucha at Shekhinah who reminds me that I know
Brucha at Shekhinah who guides me
Brucha at Shekhinah who gives me courage to let go
Brucha at Shekhinah ruach ha'olam hameikhinah mitzadei isha
(Blessed are you, Shekhina, spirit of the universe, who makes firm a woman's steps)
-Ri J. Turner

From Siddur HaKohanot: A Hebrew Priestess Prayerbook by Rabbi Jill Hammer and Kohenet Taya Shere 

Available here: http://isabellafreedman.org/store/siddur-hakohanot%3A-a-hebrew-priestess-prayerbook-rabbi-jill-hammer-and-holly-taya-shere/dp/6432

Birchot haShachar by Ri J. Turner

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

Artist: Ayla Nereo

Sung at a (mini) song circle on December 11, 2018 on Chinook land/Portland, OR.

Lyrics:
I feel the winds of the west, outbreath
Letting go of my leaves, all I do not need
Into the darkness of the fall sunset
I release, receive, getting ready for the 
Silence

Winds Of The West (Ayla Nereo)

K'mei Nahar

Tzur Mishelo - Peter Avniel Salzman z''l (sung by Magevet) - contemporary

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.

All is moving, all is change, though I once believed that there
might somehow be something firm beneath my feet, but
All is motion, and all is well for solid ground is just a myth 
for those who never swim in it.
All is moving in blessed change, o the world we know
will come and go and everything will rearrange, so
be the ground beneath that sky,
tumbling round the by and by.
All is change, so am I.
lye lye lye, lye lye lye.

Blessed Motion by Annie Zylstra

Poem by Lila Serene, translated by Lila & her mom Ana Goldenberg.
Melody by Margot Seigle
Recorded on the 24th of Iyar 5780 // Netzach shebe Yesod 
Yiddish pronunciation support from Noam Lerman 

This poem is about trusting the babies choosing to be conceived and born in this pandemic to be bringing with them the gifts and wisdom that are most needed.

naye lebn

dayne 
zise oygn farshpreyt
fris tsit fun eybikeyt arop
greyt, hungeric
oysgisn bagleybtkyte azoy vi honic dekn mid harts 
onton a bissle fargenign azoy vi vesne regn 
gebakt in der shmek fun frish likht
du bist punkt genoy gekumen aher 
biz a hor ven du kumft iz der merste veytikeyt
un ich tsuher zich 
hent aroysraysn tfilin fun lipn farstitert 
doziker beyner fartriknt megn beygn gehnuk niderik
kushn dos erd gehnuk tsertlekh
zayn bagrisn ba der mikdesh
fun vos du host gekumen aher tsulernen.

translation: 

new life.

Your 
Wide sweet eyes 
Fresh plucked from eternity 
Ready hungry 
pouring trust like syrup over tired hearts 
a sprinkling of joy like spring rain steeped in the scent of fresh light 
you are right on time
right when you're needed most 
and I am listening
palms pressing prayers through trembling lips
may these drying bones bend low enough 
to kiss this earth gently enough 
to be received at the altar 
of what you've come here to teach.

Naye Lebn

stone by stone
tear by tear
we release
& create right here

what is gone we build upon

credits
this is a rough cut / pre-master recorded with R. Micah Shapiro (on engineering, djembe & harmony vox) in west philly.

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