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queer jewish musician 🎶 // songs for healing & liberation ✨🌹
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M’kimi: a song for lifting each other up from our lowest moments Melody: Eitan Kantor Lyrics from Psalm 113, which we read during Hallel on joyous occasions. Interpretative translation from Hebrew to English by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. God gets the poor to stand firm, raising them from groveling in the dust, מְקִימִי מֵעָפָר דָּל מֵאַשְׁפֹּת יָרִים אֶבְיוֹן M’kimi me’afar dal m’ashpot yarim evyon having dignity in the eyes of generous people - yes, the people of one’s own population. לְהוֹשִׁיבִי עִם־נְדִיבִים עִם נְדִיבֵי עַמּוֹ l’hoshivi im nedivim, im nedivey amo Restore Earth, our Mother, as the center of her household, so as to delight in all her children. מוֹשִׁיבִי עֲקֶֽרֶת הַבַּֽיִת אֵם־הַבָּנִים שְׂמֵחָה moshivi akeret habayit em habanim s’meykha Praise God! הַלְ֒לוּיָהּ Hallelujah! This track was generously sponsored by David, Diane, and Marni Rosen. Credits: Eitan Kantor - vocals, songwriting Tung Pham - trumpet Aly Halpert - vocals Jack Leopold - vocals Ariel Wyner - vocals Coleen Dieker - electric organ Steven Cohen - electric guitar Doron Levary - bass guitar Mark Levy - drums Aidan Roberts - tracking, mixing, mastering Upperdeck Film - videography Nireh Or - album art Recorded at Hebrew Educational Alliance in Denver #jewishmusic #mekimi #hallel #hebrew #prayer
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This is El Ha’Arafel - Toward the Darkness / Cloud. My hope is that it serves as a tool for transforming our confusion, pain, and yearning into a doorway to the Source of Life. Link to full melody in bio.
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Our friends at the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue @downtownsynagogue are hosting our friend Aly Halpert for Shabbat – so we figured we'd join the party! Rather than holding services at FUMC this weekend, we will head downtown to join IADS. Learn more & RSVP at the Jlive link below. (Check out slide 3 for a photo of Aly at T'chiyah when she visited in 2022 with Arielle Korman and Batya Levine – courtesy of a zoom attendee!)
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The one and only Aly Halpert is joining us for Shabbat next weekend! 🥳🎤 There are three opportunities to come together to enjoy Aly's beautiful music and spirit: Kabbalat Shabbat, Shabbat morning services, and Havdalah featuring an engaging song circle-open mic hybrid program. Register for one or all three at the link in bio or at tinyurl.com/AlyHalpertatIADS and bring your friends!
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I can't wait to add more layers to this! But I had to get it out of my head, so here you go. Check out Aly Halpert's music!
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On Grief Practices: “If I must die / you must live to tell my story” || Mariam Mohammed Kamel Mohsen, b October 3, 2022, Age 1 at Death. | This week, as the poet and scholar Refaat Alareer’s birthday passed, his words have been echoing in my head alongside the thousands of names of lives that continue to be extinguished in Gaza – and in Congo, Sudan, Lebanon, ICE detention facilities and prisons, etc – at the hands of fear, greed, and power. This card was one of hundreds laid down this year as part of the powerful Yizkor service that brought together over a thousand souls - Jews and allies - this Monday for Yom Kippur here in Brooklyn. Each holding the name of a different life lost and the age at death – many reading “0”, “1”, “2”. I was grateful to be able to be a part of the planning process and a Gabbai for the ritual itself this year – as an Interspiritual minister whose background is significantly culturally Jewish, and whose own study and practice continues to deepen specifically in Jewish ritual and text, I continue to be inspired and moved by the way Jewish advocates, activists and spiritual leaders with their hearts committed utterly to liberation SHOW UP and am grateful to learn alongside their vision; they show up in protest, show up in material ways, show up in public meaning-making and creative public offerings - like the song I’ve added here, from Aly Halpert which has been a part of many rituals here, and which has often accompanied my grief these last years. The reimagining and rewriting of ritual and prayer - Yizkor, Purimspiel, Seder - is deeply people led, in keeping with that tradition’s commitment to collective ownership of the work of spiritual grappling and community responsibility, to Tikkun Olam. What might a regular grief practice look like for you or your community? What changes when you embody and commit time and space, attention and intention towards naming and holding and acknowledging grief, and the losses, the violence, the injustices that seed and sow it in us at such a scale? It’s more and more essential, for me, and not only not the opposite of joy but its companion, a dialogic partner. #grief #remembrance #faith
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Your Sukkot playlist: songs for finding yourself in the wilderness. Sukkot asks us to step outside what feels permanent and spend some time under an open sky. To notice the earth beneath us, the world around us, and what becomes audible when we leave a little more space for the unknown. So we made you a soundtrack for the journey. Featuring Marni Loffman, Chava Mirel, Yosef Goldman, Eliana Light, Aly Halpert, Zusha, and Kedmah, with songs for wandering, grounding, loosening, listening, and finding your way. Take it into the sukkah. Take it on a walk. Take it somewhere wild. What song would you add to the playlist? #Sukkot #JewishRenewal #Aleph
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Shabbat Zimra is back in 5787, and now it’s monthly!! We will kick off next week with the first of the year, on Friday night Oct 2nd. Join us once a month for Shabbat Zimra, an immersive musical journey through Kabbalat Shabbat and Maariv. Led by the amazing Rachel Chang and Aly Halpert, musicians will guide us with voice, guitar, drums, and more– sing your way into Shabbat, make new friends, and experience kedusha, a sense of deep holiness. This year’s first Shabbat Zimra will take place after the New Member Orientation & Veggie Potluck in the Sukkah! If you’re new to KT, join us in the Sukkah at 5pm, and then in the sanctuary at 6:30pm for services.
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Today is for you. Whether or not there’s someone expecting you at Yom Kippur services or waiting for you at home, you are not alone in this world. There is someone and something there for you, anticipating you, even needing you. I almost didn’t go to Kol Nidre last night but I did go - alone - and I sat alone - when I was there I was not alone. I introduced myself to my seat neighbors and sat with powerful prayers who have been with me for a lifetime. I got to receive the messages and meanings as a Jew in the pew, a gift most rabbis, and certainly this rabbi, has rarely experienced. I almost didn’t go, and I needed someone to kinda invite me, so I reached out to an acquaintance and told them that I’d love to hear “yeah you should come”. And that’s how my soul felt welcomed. This is me encouraging you to go where you want to go, to know you’re meant to be there, you’re being here is important. I am here with you. You are not alone. @alhalpal #imnotalone #healing #yomkippur #itsok #rabbi I am not alone. Sing with me. I am here with you.
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When we gather on Yom Kippur to beat our chests for our sins, we stand before God as humans created in the divine image, not only as Jews. Our obligation to accept responsibility for the sins of our fellow humans against one another, the planet, and God extends beyond our Jewishness. When we atone for the genocide in Gaza, we do so not because a Jewish state is committing it, but because it is happening at all. How do we atone for a genocide still unfolding? For a genocide denied? We honor the dead. We demand remembrance. We cry out as our ancestors did, awakening the Source of Life from sleep or inattention or distraction. We lift up the memories of the ones who have been killed - their loves, their homes, their dreams, their work, their words. We recommit to fight for the living. We refuse to be complicit or complacent. We will not be silent or numb. We recommit, in the presence of sacred community, to break the chains of oppression in our time, not only with prayer and intention, but through powerful action and consistent solidarity. One way that the High Holy Days invite us to do that is by giving tzedakah, a practice of material solidarity toward collective safety and freedom for all people. Please join us and be part of the High Holy Days Tzedakah Campaign that aims to raise $180,000 to keep the Gaza Soup Kitchen running for the duration of the High Holy Days. This will help to provide nourishing meals, essential supplies, water, and dignity to families in Gaza who are facing hunger, displacement, and despair. So far, we have together raised $84,000. Gratitude to everyone who has already donated. Please contribute and pass it on to three friends today. Together we can help fight starvation in Gaza. LINK IN BIO
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Matir Asurim is now streaming wherever you listen to music. What is your favorite paragraph from the prayerbook? Which paragraph perplexes you the most? The second paragraph of the Amidah, known as the Gevurot (mights) paragraph, delights and challenges me. What is your relationship with this prayer? I hope this new melody helps you connect with the text and with divine power in new ways. Text: מְחַיֶּה מֵתִים בְּרַחֲמִים רַבִּים Mekhayei meytim berakhamim rabim, [G-d], You invigorate bodies with mercy’s flow, סומֵךְ נופְלִים וְרופֵא חולִים somekh noflim verofeh kholim, You support us in falling. You heal us in sickness. וּמַתִּיר אֲסוּרִים, וּמְקַיֵּם אֱמוּנָתו לִישֵׁנֵי עָפָר umatir asurim, umekayem emunato lisheyney afar. You free us from compulsion. You keep faith with those now dead. מִי כָמוךָ בַּעַל גְּבוּרות Mi khamokha, ba’al gevurot? In your might, no one can compare with You. וּמִי דומֶה לָּךְ, מֶלֶךְ מֵמִית וּמְחַיֶּה וּמַצְמִיחַ יְשׁוּעָה Umi domeh lakh, melekh meymeet umekhayey umatzmiakh yeshu’a? You deal out life and death. Yet in all this, You make salvation grow. -lyrics from the Amidah prayer, interpretive translation by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. This track was generously sponsored by Susan and Marc Sacks. Credits: Eitan Kantor - vocals, violin, songwriting Coleen Dieker - vocals, violin Aly Halpert - vocals Ariel Wyner - vocals, mandolin Jack Leopold - vocals Steven Cohen - acoustic guitar Doron Levary - bass guitar Mark Levy - drums Aidan Roberts - tracking, mixing, mastering Upperdeck Film - videography Nireh Or - album art Recorded at @headenver in Denver, Colorado. #jewishmusic #hebrew #prayer #mercy
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UMI Sukkot Shabbaton and Music Festival is back! We are SO excited to host you all for our third annual celebration of the Jewish harvest festival. We cannot wait to sing and learn with our incredible lineup of teachers and musicians - watch these videos from last year and soak up the good vibes! Link to register in bio.
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