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LEYO & FS Green & Jengi - Father Stretch My Hands (Bootleg)

https://youtu.be/6t1FplyMW2I
This song is a prayer for life. That we may wake up to the our holy responsibility - in every thing we think, say, or do. A prayer to protect the sacred, which is everything with a beating heart, everywhere and through everyone water flows on this small rock, dancing through the galaxy. Even now, amidst the Great Unraveling, the "take and the take and the take," the murder of unarmed Black children, the clear cutting of old growth trees thousands of years young, the robotic wasteful mundane everyday deaths of late-stage capitalism, the persistent poison of colonial mind on a land that can never be owned - amidst all this we can:  "be remembered | back into the order of things | remember me to this earth mama | a dream of a woman | becoming a grandmother tree | in it she says to me | kindness is honoring | kindness | everything else is condescension." 
[excerpt from Eli Marienthal's poem that inspired this song]

Remember Me

Under the full moon of Nisan, deep in the Mojave desert, a liberation of limbs and hearts. 
We dance because it is the expression of freedom, because it has no economic utility, because it is a pure prayer, because it is a language of exodus. We dance in community because our liberation is social & must be witnessed + supported. 
Hineinu, here we are. 

Recorded live at Passover in the Desert (slight post-recording edits made, as sometimes what is live cannot be captured on file).

Live @ Passover in the Desert 2023

At many Jewish weddings, the recitation of the Sheva Brachot (Seven Wedding Blessings) is done not by the wedding officiant but by family and friends. 

Here is a copy of the Hebrew / English / transliteration of the Sheva Brachot, together with sound files (which can be downloaded one by one, or all together in one zip file).

If you find these resources useful and are not from the United Synagogue of Hoboken community, please go to www.hobokensynagogue.org and send me a quick note -- and mazal tov!

Text of Sheva Brachot (Hebrew, translit, translation) at https://www.dropbox.com/s/qplkh1s3s7rdent/sheva_brachot_english_hebrew_and_translit.pdf?dl=0

(please note:  this order of the sheva brachot is for the wedding ceremony itself.  When recited as part of the birkat ha-mazon after the wedding feast and during the first seven days of marriage, the order is different (blessing #1, 'borei pri ha-gafen,' is moved to the end), and this alternate order is what is found in many benchers and siddurim. )

Sheva Brachot #6 Sameach Tesamach

Wildchoir was born to sing the music for the revolution. Based in Oakland, California, they are a diverse group of vocalists, artists, activists, educators, healers, and community organizers who join together in big harmony. They celebrate the confluence of their many cultures & identities, including african-american, latinx, asian-american, native american, middle-eastern, immigrant, jewish, & queer. Their music illuminates the joy, pain, and beauty of what it means to be human in this time of systemic transformation.

Remember Me

Wildchoir

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