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Some sounds and songs from Let My People Sing! 
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Live from Let My People Sing!

Jewish Justice Songs

***Nigunim/ wordless melodies ***

niggunim

This nigun was written by R' Sarah Noyovitz and R' Noam Lerman for their rabbinical ordination, which was experienced over zoom in June of 2020.

This recording features Arielle Rivera Korman on violin and harmonies

Nigun L'Hitchadesh, by Sarah Noyovitz and Noam Lerman

Ahava V'rachamim by Bon Singer 
Ahava V'rachamim Chesed V'shalom
Love and compassion, kindness and peace/wholeness

Recorded by IfNotNow Boston Summer 2016.

Ahavah V'Rahamim

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, Rabbi Jill Hammer, 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 (Preview)

Vocals - Batya Levine
Percussion - Simcha Halpert-Hanson

I'm Gonna Get Through  - Batya Levine

Vocals - Batya Levine
Percussion - Simcha Halpert Hanson

Nechama - Batya Levine

Art by Brandon Boyd in Support of Standing Rock

Voice Memos

May I Be Empty/Full

Tu B'shvat Nign

Tu Bshvat Nign (akon) [with B part]

we are good.
we are flawed.
we are the breath of an imperfect god.

returning to self. returning to source.
god is change. god is growth. the process, in all it's beauty and all it's mess, is god.

collage art by Chani Nicholas

we are good we are flawed

Song/prayer/meditation to heal personal and societal grief. For ordinary grief, extraordinary grief, the unbearable kind and the unseen kind and the enduring kind, in service of exhales and letting go of what is ours and not ours, of compassion, lightness, & becoming who we are after and through it all.

Aly Halpert's Album

Loosen Loosen

Healing Song by Kestrel Feiner-Homer

A melody sung throughout the Let My People Sing! Summer 2018 retreat. Recorded by the LMPS Core Team (Noam, Margot, Mó, Ilana, Batya)
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Tzemach Tzedek Nigun - Chabad - LMPS 2018

Yah Ribon led by Galeet Dardashti, live from the participatory concert at Let My People Sing! 2018

LMPS 2018

Yah Ribon - Galeet Dardashti - LMPS 2018

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

Tu Bshvat Nigun - Batya Levine - LMPS 2018

Let Me Dwell with You by Aviva Chernick, sung at Let My People Sing! 2017, with Aviva.

LMPS 2017

Let Me Dwell with You - Aviva Chernick - LMPS 2017

Lift Us! by Itai Gal, shared at the Thursday night jam at Let My People Sing! 2017

Lift Us! - Itai Gal - LMPS 2017

Tree Nigun by Noam Lerman, used at many Let My People Sing! gatherings.

Tree  Nigun - Noam Lerman

This melody was written by Peter "Avniel" Salzman and was originally used for Yah Ribon Olam

Singing Team - Friday Night Melodies

Niggun - Peter Salzman's Yah Ribon Melody

there is a concept in Jewish thought, that in a person's life, they need to have both hishtadlus and bitachon, learning to balance the two.

hishtadlus is personal effort, bitachon is trust.

this song is a tribute to the power and endurance it takes to do our own unique work in this lifetime.

photo by batya levine

Hishtadlus Nigun

Emoona אמונה nigun

Grandma Malka nigun

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

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.