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

Sometimes I don’t know a thing
Not how to be
Not why I’m living

Nothing rocks me back to sleep
Like feeling small
Amidst the silent giant world

Nothing knocks me off my feet
Like staring in the face
Of empty space between 

I was sitting by the pond
And no, it wasn’t the same one
That I wrote of when I thought you were the one
That I spoke of in my nostalgia

The wind was blowing all sorts of ways
The ripples painting the surface
Dancing patterns on a sunny winter day
And only I happened to notice

That the world is beautiful
Even without the music
That there’s so much to behold
Just within the moment
And the many truths I’ve held
Fly away in the wind
And the heavy love I felt
Now floats across the pond 
It’s going, going, gone
Across the pond there are two swans
They’re flapping their wings hard
To stay afloat or be airborne
I’m not sure which they’re doing it for
I’m not sure if they’re going somewhere
I’m not sure why they really care
I’m not sure why we’re all still here
I'm not sure why I’m watching them

And feeling like the air is clear
And I can breathe much easier
Than when I held so tightly to 
The reasons that I’m loving you

The Reasons That I'm Loving You

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

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

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

You’ve got the fear in you
Not Fear of God but fear of men 
Its just the same for me
When always alone meant never again, love
Always alone meant never again  

You’ve got the fear in you
Not Fear of God but fear of men 
Thats just the same for me
When always alone meant never again, love
Always alone means never again  

See I want just a single soul I want just a single soul 
It that where we went wrong 
Is that where we went wrong

Always alone

Always alone

Always alone meant never again

You want to know know what it takes
you want to know what it takes
You want to know what takes to make a mistake that great 

You wanted to know know what it takes
wanted to know what it takes
You wanted to know what takes to make a mistake that great 


So I’ve gotta save us from us 
I've gotta keep my promise
I’m gonna keep something precious
I’m gonna save god from us 

You’ve got the fear in you
Not Fear of God but fear of men 
It’s just the same for me
When always alone meant never again Love

Always alone 

Always alone

Always alone meant never again

Israel

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.

The Reasons That I'm Loving You

Yitzi

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