Vehashevota/Aleinu

a birthday party turned recording sess of the River My Soul song book, featuring Helen Bennett, Ilana Lerman, Davida Ginsberg, Aly Halpert, Margot Seigle, Miriam Grossman, Chloe Zelkha & Jesse Rothman. To get a copy of the song book, email Margot at margot.seigle@gmail.com.

Down To The River To Pray

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

Those who sew
Who sew in tears
Will reap in joy

psalm 126

recorded at Let My People Sing! Summer 2016, led by Margot Seigle

Those Who Sew

Ir Yidn Zolt Zayn Heylig  by Noam Lerman. Zoë Aqua on violin

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

Harmony and guitar by Rabbi Ariel Root Wolpe

Tzemach Tzedek (1789 - 1866), the third Chabad Rebbe, would purportedly break into this melody upon reaching these words in Hallel (a special set of prayers for festivals and the new moon). 

Listen to an old recording:
www20.chassidus.com/audio/enign/enign911.mp3

Words:
www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_…/Yemin-Hashem.htm

Yemin Hashem (Chabad)

I May Not Know What’s Coming!!!!!

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

El Eliyahu is a piyyut (liturgical poem)for Havdalah attributed to Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra (1089-1164)

El Eliyahu (Elijah)...
El Eliyahu
El Eliyahu
Bizkhut Eliyahu
Ha-navi have na

Bo yirtom rikhbo
Na ba-sh’vi ki vo
Lo shakhav libo
Gam lo ra·ah shenah

El Eliyahu…

*Rav mahli bir·ot
Kah’shi u’m’sanot
yafot u’vri·ot
Bassar va-tir’ena

El Eliyahu…

*Matai tar·eh ot
Yesha el kor·ot
Lakh u-lekha nos·ot
Kolan vativkeina

El Eliyahu…
Ha-mal·akh ha-go·el
Lifnei dal sho·el
Ana ha-el el
Avraham hakreh na

El Eliyahu…

Translation:
El Eliyahu (Elijah)
El Eliyahu (Elijah)
In the right of Eliyahu (Elijah)
The Prophet, please come

He shall lead his chariot
Restless in captivity
His heart has not rest
Nor envisioned sleep

El Eliyahu (Elijah)...

My illness grows as I see
My own leanness, while my enemies,
beautiful and fat-fleshed,
they graze

El Eliyahu (Elijah)...

*When will You give a sign
Of redemption to those who call out
To You, O to You they raise
Their voices and weep

El Eliyahu (Elijah)...

Angel of redemption
Come before this poor seeker
O Lord,
God of Abraham call him forth

LMPS 2019

El Eliyahu - Iraqi Traditional (Performed by Rahel Musleah)

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
all rights reserved

I May Not Know What’s Coming!!!!!

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