Narrowing the Expanse, Expanding the Narrow: Acharei Mot - אחרי מות

It's a hard road to take
Every day and we shake
In the wind where we wait
For our ride out of town 
It's a cold hard embrace
This grey winter place 
Where we shiver, lord
How do we shimmer

It's a habit to break 
Struggling for the shape 
Of the melody and the words

Sweet little chords that I write 
On the page I can' wait to hear
From you again
Your cold hard embrace 
This grey winter place 
Where we shiver, lord
How do we shimmer

And they say
It's a hard road to take
It's a hard road to take
It's a hard road to take

It's A Hard Road To Take

Modeh Ani

Courtesy of Mechon Hadar https://www.hadar.org/

Ashamnu

Modah Ani

Taught by Rabbi Jeff to Davening Team.

Shema yisrael Adonai eloheinu Adonai echad

Shema (Solomon Sulzer)

Origin:
Words are from the selichot service
Melody is from Sephardi/Mizrachi selichot
This is a recording that Batya Levine made for NSP in preparation for co-leading High Holiday services with Rabbi Joseph in 2019

Words:
Adon Ha-Selichot, bochen livavot
Golah amukot, doveir tzedakot
Chatanu lefanecha, rachem aleinu

Hadur ba-niflaot, vatik bi-nechamot
Zocheir berit avot, chokeir kilayot
Chatanu lefanecha, rachem aleinu

Tov u'meitiv labriot, yodei’a kol nistarot
Koveish avonot, loveish tzedakot
Chatanu lefanecha, rachem aleinu

Maleh zechuyot, nora tehilot
Soleach avonot, oneh b'eit tzarot
Chatanu lefanecha, rachem aleinu

Poh-el yeshuot, tzofeh atidot
Koreh hadorot, rochev aravot
Shomeah tefilot, t'mim dei-ot
Chatanu lefanecha, rachem aleinu

Adon HaSelichot

with the help of hashem ~

this is a song for rain inspired by tefillat hageshem (prayer for rain). as we closed out sukkot this past sunday at sunset, we welcomed in a one line change in our daily liturgy: praying for rain instead of dew. we'll do this for another five to six months and switch back to dew, following  the waxing and waning of our ancestors crop growing and harvest cycles. 

this chag season i’ve had some powerful experiences with sunshine and rain. we had sun when we’ve needed it dwelling outside in our impermanent hut; rain when we were ready and the car was completely packed. sun during the day biking and walking to shul and town; rain now that the sun has set on simchas torah and i am writing this. I know we won’t always be that lucky, especially in the climate crisis, to have just the right amount of rain at just the right time. this prayer for rain is invoking that spirit of hope and timing — that we may have rain in the right places and the right times. that spirit will remember us, and won’t hold back water. 

happy rainy season, y’all.

tefillat hageshem

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

Vocals and production by Baci Weiler

V’shamru v'nei Yisrael
et HaShabbat,
laasot et HaShabbat l’dorotam
b’rit olam.
Beini u’vein b’nei Yisrael
ot hi l’olam,
ki sheishet yamim asah Adonai
et hashamayim v’et haaretz,
u’vayom hashvi-i shavat vayinafash.

Those who wrestle with the Divine shall protect Shabbat,
observing Shabbat throughout the ages as an eternal covenant.
It is a sign for all time between Me and the children of Yisrael
For in six days Adonai made heaven and earth,
and on the seventh day ceased from work and was refreshed.

Veshameru

Adaptation of traditional High Holidays liturgy
Written by Kohenet Riv Shapiro, Elul 5780
with vocal support from Becca Heisler, Jes Heppler & Binya Koátz

Hayom t'amtzeinu: Amein
Hayom t'vorcheinu: Amein
Hayom t'gadleinu: Amein
Hayom tidr'sheinu l'tova: Amein

Art by Anya Riddell-Kaufman @_anya_mind_

HaYom (High Holidays chant)

Still I Owe You ¥40 Kuai -- Some folk songs inspired by life in China and Appalachia. 

Adventures in Electracy -- Some electronic music inspired by even more journeys hither and yon. 


It's A Hard Road To Take

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