Name: Achat Shaalti, traditional Ashkenazi tune by S Mernick by Kol Tzedek in Days of Awe at Kol Tzedek
Duration: 3 min 40 s
Description: sung by R' Mónica Gomery, Batya Levine, and Ilana Lerman

Days of Awe at Kol Tzedek

MENTORS
This song came through about a year after a grief ritual where several of us were grieving lack of mentorship in our lives, lack of in tact culture - a sense of cultural orphans - wishing we were waking up to 30 pairs of eyes on us in our youth - longing for village and connection. And then a friend told me, we have to become the mentors we are seeking for the next generations. And I was like “Pum!”
  
lyrics:
we must become the mentors that we are seeking
is also dreaming us, what it is that we are dreaming

to hear more community songs by ahlay, visit: https://www.alexandrablakely.com/songlibrary

Mentors

sung by R' Mónica Gomery, Batya Levine, and Ilana Lerman

Achat Shaalti, traditional Ashkenazi tune by S Mernick

Leylines

I Believe in Being Ready, by Rising Appalachia

Karov

We Are Good, We Are Flawed, by Batya Levine

This is one (of many) phrases that is said to someone who is in mourning in the Jewish tradition.  And after experiencing personal and communal loss in the last few weeks, these words have been swirling around me. With help from the ancestors, this song came through. --kbf

words to the song:
המקום ינחם אתכם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים
HaMakom yenachem et'chem 
b'toch shar avay'lay 
Tzion vee'Yerushalayim.
May you be comforted 

May you be comforted with the mourners of Tzion
And the mourners of Yerushalayim
May you be comforted with mourners everywhere
May you be comforted

****The artwork, which features cloves, salt, tulip petals, straw flowers, glitter, sand dollar, a melach card, and the hebrew words "HaMakom yenachem et'chem" was lovingly created by Rachel Kipnes

Hamakom Yenachem Etchem | May You Be Comforted

אלהי נשמה שנתתה בי
טהורה היא

Elohai neshamah shenatatah bee 
tehorah hee 

"God, the soul that You have given me is pure."

From "Avodat Lev: Service of the Heart" by members of the ADAMAH Fellowship. Buy it here: http://isabellafreedman.org/store/avodat-lev:-service-of-the-heart-(cd)-adamah/dp/4798

Co-produced by Shir Yaakov Feit and Kassia Arbabi.



Elohai Neshama by Rabbi Shefa Gold - אלהי נשמה

Ufros, Text from Evening Prayerbook Liturgy, melody by Shir Meira Feit 
וּפְרוֹשׂ עָלֵינוּ סֻכַּת שְׁלוֹמֶךָ וְתַקְּנֵנוּ בְּעֵצָה טוֹבָה מִלְּפָנֶיךָ וְהוֹשִׁיעֵנוּ

U·fros a·lei·nu su·kat she·lo·me·cha
Ve·tak·nei·nu be·ei·tzah to·vah mil·fa·ne·cha ve·ho·shi·ei·nu

Spread over us the shelter of Your peace and guide us to better ourselves through Your good counsel.

Ufros - Shir Meira Feit


Il y a chez les sœurs Taffin une complicité contagieuse qui fait entrer par la porte du familier dans l’antre du bizarre.
Juliette, pianiste trompettiste fellinienne et Lucie, accordéoniste solaire et cramée, chantent ensemble depuis l'enfance des chansons. 
Deux chanteuses dans la même fringue et le même nom, les sœurs
Taffin s'élancent sur la piste comme une seule, semblables, étranges et
légères. Habituées à monter sur scène depuis leur quinze ans, leur
naturel et leur complicité ressemble à un tour de magie.
Il y a bien Juliette la pianiste trompettiste, Lucie l'accordéoniste ; la
brune et la blonde demoiselle, avec chacune sa voix, son caractère.
Mais se distinguer les amuse un temps seulement, alors tout finit par se
mélanger, leurs deux voix fusionnent dans l'unisson, les instruments
passent de main en main...
Enfin, c'est la main du public qui est saisie et tirée dans un univers un
peu fou, épris de liberté et de jeu. Leurs chansons ont les yeux qui
brillent comme au temps où le cabaret jonglait entre poésie et
burlesque. On s'y disputera encore et toujours la question du vague à
l'âme, de la fragilité du monde, de la colère, de l'invention et de l'amour 
Bille en tête, 4e album et nouvel album, est l’occasion de ressortir avec EPM 
Dans un superbe coffret 4 Cd l’ensemble de leurs 68 chansons (entièrement remastérisé), depuis « Les Filles chantantes » en 2003.


ESCORTEZ-MOI

Niggun Tishrei - Nava Tehila

V'yitnu L'kha Keter M'lukha

Tehom Nigun by Mónica Gomery

Inspired by nomadic years, the wisdom of the body and nervous system, change, Somatic Reality: Bodily Experience and Emotional Truth by Stanley Kelemen, the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess community, and the Judaism of my ancestors. Received to the tune of Avinu Malkeinu, a traditional Jewish High Holidays prayer. 

Deep gratitude to my teachers, community and bright and well ancestors: Taya Shere, Ibrahim Baba, my parents, Zaide, Grandpa, the Romanian women, Kohenet and so many more. Thank you.
lyrics
Slow down, child, slow down 
Slow down and listen to the wind 
All comes together; all falls apart 
Forming anew your beating heart 

Slow down, child, slow down 
Slow down and draw yourself near 
The rocks are your keepers 
Tell them your stories 
Now it is safe to be here 

A river flows from within you to where you will go 
The current carries you home 
Let your life unfold 

Slow down, child, slow down 
Slow down and you will receive 
Life wants to meet you where you are 
Not where you think you should be 

A river flows from within you to where you will go 
The current carries you home 
Let your life unfold 

Slow down, child, slow down 
Slow down and you will be shown 
The love that was always lifting you up 
You are never alone 

A river flows from within you to where you will go 
The current carries you home 
Let your life unfold 

Slow down child, slow down (x4) 

Slow down, child, slow down 
Slow down and listen to the wind 
All comes together; all falls apart 
Forming anew your beating heart

Slow Down / The Mother's Response (Demo)

Elul: Songs for Turning

Elul Niggun by Aly Halpert

Chai Ani by Dovid Zeller

This is a chant grounded in the resilience, courage, and hope of our Jewish ancestors, reminding us that when we fight for life and for justice, we are weaving ourselves with all justice-fighters who came before us. No fight is too big for our fierce and courageous hearts. 

As the story goes: In 1939, Nazis surrounded a group of Jews from Lublin, Poland, backed up against barbed wire and ordered them to sing to their own execution. One man began to sing: "Mir veln zey iberlebn, iberlebn, iberlebn” —"We will outlive them.” The song took hold among the entire people, who, as they awaited their deaths, began to dance. They danced with joy, with resilience, with a life that could not be destroyed by fascism, militarism, or genocide. The commander saw this resilience. He recognized their defiance. They continued, even as the SS troops charged at them. Most lost their lives that day. And some lived to tell this story. We are here. We will outlive them. We will join forces and voices with others to fight so we can all outlive them, together (thank you, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice!). 

Vocals: Avra Shapiro
Melody: Avra Shapiro
Arrangement: Avra Shapiro & Nadav Simon 
Bass: Matt Coglianese
Drums: Nadav Simon
Violin: Mallory Linehan
Production and Mixing: Nadav Simon
Mastering: Steve Marek 
Recorded and Mastered at Cybernetic Meadow
Art by Micah Bazant (poster can be bought here: https://www.micahbazant.com/buy-art/we-will-outlive-them).

Achat Shaalti, traditional Ashkenazi tune by S Mernick

Kol Tzedek

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