Some songs that may make an appearance for Annex Shul High Holy Days 5784 at Bickford Park

Annex Shul Yom Kippur 5784/2023

Guitar & melody vocals by Rachel Chang
5/23/2021

Nigun Tishrei by Nava Tehila

More music to support your Jewish anxiety.
Music and lyrics by Aly Halpert, written winter 2021/5781

Lyrics:

On the do-it-right road, there is only one way
You can take the train there, but there's only one train
if you miss it, which you will
watch the colors fly by
at the end of the day, 
we're all under the same sky

Do It Right Road

Rising Song Records is excited to share the first single from Rabbi Ariel Root Wolpe's forthcoming album Ruach Neshama. This collection of original songs celebrating the connection between music, nature, and Jewish wisdom will be available on digital platforms everywhere on Rosh Chodesh Elul (August 9, 2021).

Contribute to Ariel's crowdfunding campaign to get early access to the whole collection while directly supporting the talented artists who made this beautiful music: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/rabbi-ariel-root-wolpe-s-rising-song-record#/

Listen to this single and the title track, "Ruach Neshama," on Bandcamp: https://arielrootwolpe.bandcamp.com/

All music composed by Ariel Root Wolpe, Hebrew text from Jewish liturgy and Tanakh.
Music direction by Joey Weisenberg and Ariel Root Wolpe
Harmony direction by Deborah Sacks Mintz
Produced by Joey Weisenberg

Recorded outside and in home-studios in Atlanta, GA, Philadelphia, PA, and Berkeley, CA.
Engineered by Joey Weisenberg and Jon Mitchell
Mixed and Mastered by Don Godwin
Artwork and Layout by Sol Yael Weiss.

Singers and Musicians:
Ariel Root Wolpe - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Kendra Root Wolpe - vocals
Deborah Sacks Mintz - vocals
Valerie Root Wolpe - vocals
Jon Mitchell - vocals, djembe
Joey Weisenberg - bass, percussion, guitar, baritone ukulele, piccolo, drum programming, vocals
Will Robertson - bass
Eliyahu Sills - flute
Rising Song Institute Vocalists: Rena Branson, Rebekka Goldsmith, Eitan Kantor, Gedalia Penner, Sam Tygiel, Batya Levine, Gayanne Geurin

www.arielwolpe.com
www.risingsong.org

A Project of Hadar's Rising Song Institute: Cultivating Jewish spiritual life through song.

Ruach Neshama

Waking Up Nigun

Waking Up Nigun - Rabbi Ariel Root Wolpe

Origin:
Melody by Rabbi Shefa Gold
Words from morning liturgy
Sung by Batya Levine & Aliza Schwartz
Art by Naomi Weintraub & Etai Rogers-Fett

Words:
Ashrei yoshvei veitecha
Od y'hallelucha

Translation:
Happy are those that dwell in Your house
They keep on praising

Ashrei - Rabbi Shefa Gold

Sung with Grace Gleason in a tunnel in Riverside Park, Wappinger/Munsee Lenape land, Manhattan, 9/9/21

צָמְאָה לְךָ נַפְשִׁי כָּמַהּ לְךָ בְשָׂרִי
בְּאֶרֶץ-צִיָּה וְעָיֵף בְּלִי-מָיִם
 כֵּן בַּקֹּדֶשׁ חֲזִיתִךָ
 לִרְאוֹת עֻזְּךָ וּכְבוֹדֶךָ

Tzama lecha nafshi, kama lecha basari
B'eretz tsiya v'ayef bli mayim
Ken bakoidesh chazisicha 
Lirois uzcha uchvoidecha

My soul thirsts for You, my flesh longs for You 
(As one) in a desolate and weary land without water
So (I thirst) to see You in the Sanctuary
To behold Your strength and glory

- Psalm 63, 2-3

This song was first taught by Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson on 28 Nissan, 5714 - 1954.

Chassidishe recording: https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/livingtorah/player_cdo/aid/690694/jewish/Tzama-Lecha-Nafshi.htm

Tzama Lecha Nafshi/My Soul Thirsts for You (Chabad) — Psalm 63

Ya'aleh Tachanuneinu (May Our Prayers Rise!) is a medeival piyyut for the High Holy Days that we sing during Selichot services. This musical poem sends out our pleas that over the Yamim Noarim, our prayers may ascend to G!d in the evening, arrive (at G!d's 'front desk' as it were) in the early morning, and be answered/revealed by the time the day closes.

This melody is by Rabbi Julia Andelman, and at KT this year we'll sing it for the last 4 verses of the piyyut, shown below. 

May our voices arise and may our prayers be received!
 
יַעֲלֶה יִשְׁעֵֽנוּ מֵעֶֽרֶב.
וְיָבֹא טָהֳרֵֽנוּ מִבֹּֽקֶר.
וְיֵרָאֶה חִנּוּנֵֽנוּ עַד עָֽרֶב:
 
יַעֲלֶה זִכְרוֹנֵֽנוּ מֵעֶֽרֶב.
וְיָבֹא וִעוּדֵֽנוּ מִבֹּֽקֶר.
וְיֵרָאֶה הַדְרָתֵֽנוּ עַד עָֽרֶב:
 
יַעֲלֶה דָפְקֵֽנוּ מֵעֶֽרֶב.
וְיָבֹא גִילֵֽנוּ מִבֹּֽקֶר.
וְיֵרָאֶה בַקָּשָׁתֵֽנוּ עַד עָֽרֶב:
 
יַעֲלֶה אֶנְקָתֵֽנוּ מֵעֶֽרֶב.
וְיָבֹא אֵלֶֽיךָ מִבֹּֽקֶר.
וְיֵרָאֶה אֵלֵֽינוּ עַד עָֽרֶב
 
Ya'aleh yishenu me'erev, 
v'yavo taharenu miboker,
v'y'raeh chinuneinu ad arev.
 
Ya'aleh zichroneinu me'erev, 
v'yavo videnu miboker, 
v'y'raeh hadarateinu ad arev.
 
Ya'aleh dofkenu me'erev, 
v'yavo gilenu miboker,
v'y'raeh bakashateinu ad arev.
 
Ya'aleh enkatenu me'erev, 
v'yavo eylecha miboker, 
v'y'raeh eilenu ad arev
 
May our journey to salvation arise this evening, 
May our purest selves come by tomorrow morning, 
May our grace arise within us by next nightfall.
 
May our memory arise this evening, 
May our community unite by tomorrow morning, 
May we see Your splendor by next nightfall.
 
May our knocking upon Your gates arise this evening, 
May our joyfulness come by tomorrow morning,
May our search for You be crowned by next nightfall.
 
May our weeping arise this evening, 
May it reach You by tomorrow morning. 
May You answer us by next nightfall.

Ya'aleh Tachanuneinu - Andelman Melody, sung by Aly, Koach, & Rabbi Mó

Singer: Batya Levine, who set the melody to Oseh Shalom
Composer: unknown

Oseh Shalom Ufros Aleinu

the long short path

Tishrei 5784: Awaken by Marni Loffman

We will repeat this between the three repetitions of Kol Nidre

Kol Nidrei Niggun Snippet (repeated by all between Kol Nidre) - Joey Weisenberg

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

The Rock from Whom we've eaten this food: faithful ones, bless! We're satisfied and made pure through God's word.
[a joyful song for after eating]

Tsur Mishelo Achalnu, Bar'chu Emunai, Sava'anu vehotarnu kidvar Adonai. 

Hazan et olamo roeinu avinu, 
achalnu et lachmo vyeino shatinu, 
al kein nodeh lishmo unhal'lo b'finu 
amarnu v'aninu ein kadosh kadonai. 

Tsur... 

B'shir v'kol todah n'varech leloheinu, 
al eretz chemdah tovah shehinchil lavoteinu. Mazon v'tzeidah hisbia l'nafsheinu, 
chasdo gavar aleinu v'emet Adonai. 

Tsur... 

Rachem b'chasdecha Al am'cha Tsureinu, 
al Tsion mishkan k'vodecha z'vul beit tifarteinu. 
Ben David avdecha yavo v'yig'aleinu, 
ruach apeinu m'shiach Adonai. 

Tsur... 

Yibaneh hamikdash ir tsion timaleh, 
visham nashir shir chadash uvirnanah na'aleh. 
harachaman hanikdash yibarach v'yitaleh 
al kos yayin maleh k'birkat Adonai. 

Tsur...

Tsur Meshelo - Lo Yisa Goy (p 72 in Mishkan benscher)

Yismechu v'malchuscha shomrei shabbos v'korei oneg

They will delight in your all empowering sovereignty - those who tend and care for shabbos and call it a joyous celebration
(translation by batya)

Vocals - Batya Levine
Percussion - Simcha Halpert-Hanson

Yismechu - Batya Levine

Tu Bshvat Nigun by Batya Levine sung live at Let My People Sing! 2018.

LMPS 2018

Tu Bshvat Nigun - Batya Levine - LMPS 2018

Be With Me by Koach Baruch Frazier, sung at Let My People Sing! 2017

LMPS 2017

Be With Me - Koach Baruch Frazier - LMPS 2017

HIGHLIGHTS: Sarah Pagé's illumination harp, Jason Sharp's earthtone saxophone, Dan Goldman's eternal guitar, Alex Lukashevsky-the-Ancient's voice in minyan. "Time, and we, must unvow or vow differently as truth reveals itself anew…" Rabbi Richard N. Levy

DESCRIPTION: 

“To vow in the face of change — yet to change the face of vows when time’s new knowledge has changed the meaning of the vow: that is the double courage we would ask tonight, this night of Kol Nidre” —Richard Levy.

Kol Nidre is an Aramaic text recited on the eve of Yom Kippur — a legal declaration that annuls all the vows we made to ourselves or to God in the past year that we could not fulfill. The Cantor, flanked by Torah scrolls held aloft as symbolic witnesses, recites the prayer three times with increasing intensity as those present are emboldened to transform themselves. This piece insists that we deserve the dignity of a clean slate, even if we have missed the mark.

According to Jewish tradition, Kol Nidre does not recuse us from the work of untying the knots we have made with others — if we have harmed another person, we must approach that person directly to make amends. If we try three times and the person’s heart will not budge, we can let it go. Kol Nidre is a cloud that floats near us, threatening rain when we've become lazy or neglectful of our authenticity. 



כָּל נִדְרֵי וֶאֱסָרֵי וּשְׁבוּעֵי וַחֲרָמֵי וְקוֹנָמֵי וְכִנּוּיֵי. וְקִנוּסֵי דִּנְדַֽרְנָא. וּדְאִשְׁתַּבַּֽעְנָא. וּדְאַחֲרִימְנָא. וּדְאָסַֽרְנָא עַל נַפְשָׁתָֽנָא. מִיּוֹם כִּפּוּרִים זֶה עַד יוֹם כִּפּוּרִים הַבָּא עָלֵֽינוּ לְטוֹבָה. בְּכֻלְּהוֹן אִחֲרַֽטְנָא בְהוֹן. כֻּלְּהוֹן יְהוֹן שָׁרָן. שְׁבִיקִין, שְׁבִיתִין, בְּטֵלִין וּמְבֻטָּלִין, לָא שְׁרִירִין וְלָא קַיָּמִין: נִדְרָֽנָא לָא נִדְרֵי. וֶאֱסָרָֽנָא לָא אֱסָרֵי. וּשְׁבוּעָתָֽנָא לָא שְׁבוּעוֹת:


All vows, bonds, devotions, promises, 
Obligations, penalties, and oaths
wherewith we have vowed, sworn
Devoted, and bound ourselves
From this Day of Atonement 
To the next Day of Atonement 
May it come to us for good 
All these we repent us of them
They shall be absolved, released, annulled
Made void and of no effect
They shall not be binding 
Nor shall they have any power 
Our vows shall not be vows
Our bonds shall not be bonds
And our oaths shall not be oaths

Ya'aleh Tachanuneinu - Andelman Melody, sung by Aly, Koach, & Rabbi Mó

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