heart

Sung with Grace Gleason, Chol HaMoed Pesach 5781/2021

Love is not a receding horizon we reach for
Love is the ground, love is the ground on which we lay (x2)

Worthiness is not a mountaintop we strive toward
It is the field, it is the field in which we play (x2)

אַהֲבָה רַבָּה אֲהַבְתָּנוּ, ה’ אֱלקינוּ
חֶמְלָה גְּדולָה וִיתֵרָה חָמַלְתָּ עָלֵינוּ

Ahava raba ahavtanu Hashem Elokeinu
Chemla gedola viteira chamalta aleinu

[Translation: With abundant love You have loved us, Divine One
With overflowing compassion You have compassioned on us]

Ahava Raba (Love is the Ground)

Morning blessings. (traditional liturgy)

Blessed are you, Cosmic Majesty of the Universe,
for giving my heart the ability to distinguish between day and night,
who made me in Their Divine image,
who made me free,
who made me part of my people,
who grants vision, 
who gives the weary strength.

Birkot Hashachar (Morning Blessings)

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

for anyone who has ever lost themselves to someone else 

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excuses (demo)

from Release: Songs for Shmita by Adamah Fellows Fall 2014

PRODUCER 
Shir Yaakov Feit, shiryaakov.com

MUSICIANS 
Elana Brody, Arielle Solomon, Rachel Cohn, Talya Goldberg, Tadea Klein, Yaeli Bronstein, Brooke Palatt, Craig Auerbacher, Margot Seigle, Brian Dolphin, Shir Yaakov Feit

RECORDING ENGINEER 
Ruwan Karunanande

lyrics
May the life I lead speak for me 
When I get to the end of my road 
And I lay down my heavy load 
May the life I lead speak for me

May the songs I sing speak for me

May the work I do speak for me

May the words I speak speak for me

May the path I walk speak for me

May the land I tend speak for me

May The Life I Lead

When the world is sick, can't no one be well
But i dreamt we was all beautiful and strong

from God Bless Our Dead Marines by Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band

recording produced by Shir Yaakov Feit. 

musicians: 
Elana Brody, Arielle Solomon, Rachel Cohn, Talya Goldberg, Tadea Klein, Yaeli Bronstein, Brooke Palatt, Craig Auerbacher, Margot Seigle, Brian Dolphin, Shir Yaakov Feit

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When The World Is Sick

Negro Spiritual reinterpreted by Koach Baruch Frazier

Be With Me by Koach Baruch Frazier

Tehom Nigun by Mónica Gomery

Just for a Little While by Mother Tongue, author Raphael Agosto-Miranda

Healing Song by Kestrel Feiner-Homer

Great Waters (by Sol Yael Weiss)

Music & Lyrics by Rickie Byars Beckwith
Brought to the LMPS community by Koach Baruch Frazier
sung by Mónica Gomery & Batya Levine (apologies for the tech fuzz!)

Link to Rickie Byars Beckwith singing her original version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMVkf5xu8as

We let the love wash over us, we let, we let it be

We Let It Be - Rickie Byars Beckwith

Reb Dovid Karliner’s Nigun(from a 1914 Ukrainian wax cylinder recording)

written on the 1st of Nissan, 5780 // March 26th, 2020

The words for this song come from Earthseed: The Books of the Living out of Octavia Butler's Parable series. At a time when so much is rapidly changing around us, her words feel more present than ever.  I sought to try and write a song to capture this, and opened the book to a part in the story where a community member passes without time to do a proper burial.  Instead, this prayer is offered.  May this song offer some support and solace in a moment where there is so much loss without the ability to come together and properly mourn.

As wind,
As water,
As fire,
As life

God is Change.

God 
Is both creative and destructive,
Demanding and yielding,
Sculptor and clay.

original text:
As wind,
As water,
As fire,
As life,
God
Is both creative and destructive,
Demanding and yielding,
Sculptor and clay.
God is Infinite Potential:
God is Change.

dedicating this song to Edith Louise Goldberg, a"h, who I did not have the privilege to know but was dear to many and took her life on the very day this song came to life. may her memory be a blessing.

As Wind, As Water

Makom Bina - Deborah Sacks Mintz

JEWISH COMMUNAL SINGING FOR HEALING AND LIBERATION
Let My People Sing! is a cultural project expanding the ancient and transformative practice of Jewish communal singing. We gather in multi-racial, multicultural and genderful Jewish community, uplifting songs and leaders historically and ongoingly pushed to the margins. Together, we transmit and reclaim diasporic Jewish singing traditions, celebrate original music emerging from our communities, and create heart-centered gatherings where we can all be leaders and learners of song.

Tehom Nigun by Mónica Gomery

Let My People Sing!

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