Simple recording of an old melody, collected by Moyshe Beregovsky (Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovskii) in the early 1900s in Ukraine, later rediscovered in Kyiv, and subsequently adapted by Joey Weisenberg as the "Kane Street Nigun."

May the joyous energy of this nigun be a source of hope in a time of needless destruction and wanton violence now plaguing the region where it originated. 

Learn more about Beregovsky: https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Beregovskii_Moisei_Iakovlevich

Check out Joey's master classes in Jewish song and prayer, where he teaches this melody, explains its history and structure, and includes sheet music: https://bit.ly/jewish-song-masterclasses

Beregovsky Nigun (Kane Street Nigun) - Joey Weisenberg

2. Ki Eshemro Shabbos

We share Hebrew College Rabbinical School student Yitzi Gittelsohn's musical version of Psalm 23:6, “goodness and kindness will pursue me all the days of my life.”  As we move into the last days of this season, and the Hebrew anniversary of the Hamas massacres last year on Shemini Atzeret/Simchat Torah, we hope this music is a comfort and a call to the possibility of better days ahead. May we choose to fill the days we are given with acts of goodness and kindness.

View our From October 7 to Simchat Torah 5785 series: https://hebrewcollege.edu/blog/from-october-7-to-simchat-torah-5785/

Learn more about the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College: http://hebrewcollege.edu/rabbinical

Hebrew College: Tov Va'Chesed (Psalm 23)

A remix demo of Batya Levine's incredible "Gonna Get Through." Listen to and purchase their music on bandcamp here:https://batyalevine.bandcamp.com/album/yivarechecha

Batya Levine - Gonna Get Through (Diva Nigun Remix) (Demo)

An 80s synth pop cover of Joey Weisenberg’s Ana B’choakh melody! Produced by Diva Nigun, sung by Marni Loffman (https://soundcloud.com/user-627375037) and Molly Bajgot (https://soundcloud.com/mollybajgot), and with translation voiced by Sarah Mamlet and saxophone by Zach Mayer.

Ana B’choakh is a medieval Jewish liturgical poem we sing the words of during Kabbalat Shabbat services. Our communities like to sing a melody by Joey Weisenberg: https://soundcloud.com/user-30824119/mozis-nigun-ana-bchoakh-by-joey-weisenberg?si=6d51a19a85c4418a84ba44a7ce665331&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing.

Artwork by the incredible Jane Demarest (https://www.instagram.com/little.boy.bluee/ please check their stuff out!). 


Ana B'choakh

When I was under the wave
Crashing 
To the ocean floor
I didn’t want anymore
Didn’t fear losing you

When I was within the tank
Floating
In an endless world
I didn’t dream of who
Would be the one I sing to

I was in the moment
Present
Total silence
Quiet 
It surrounded me, salty sea
Giant darkness released me

And I let go
A caterpillar shedding skin
Each layer a new being
And within its innermost form 
The wings were waiting to be born
And when it shed it’s bound cocoon
We held what was transformed anew
A butterfly upon our hands 
It lingered briefly then it went
To the hibiscus tree

We all go
Through metamorphosis
The wave, the tank, the womb, the tomb
It happens every day

We return
To the most basic
The pure state, no form
No love, no hate

We emerge a new thing
We linger, then we fly
To the hibiscus tree

The Hibiscus Tree

Playing on the Swings By Myself in the Cold Night Air

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

Ein Od/Barchu

Yiddish folk song honoring the founder of Hasidism, the Baal Shem Tov, and the towns he lived in. Feygl Yudin with unidentified group. Recorded by Ruth Rubin in New York City in 1967. Ruth Rubin Collection RG 620 Tape 97 (Miscellaneous IX), song 8. Photo detail from video of performance presented by the Balkan Arts Center, now the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, New York, 1978.

Tape 97 - Miscellaneous IX

Fun Kosev biz Kitev

https://thebirdsings.com/fall2020-playlist/

Walking Each Other Home - Kate Munger

Trying to write songs from the heart and share them with whoever's meant to hear them. Hoping to bring some light truth and beauty into the world.