Jewish Year

Adonai Ori / Achat Sha’alti (God is My Light / Only One Thing I Ask)

Fasts, Prayer / T'fillah, Psalms / Tehillim /

Music and Audio © 2022 Alexander Massey – All Rights Reserved Download the free sheet music (voice & piano, including lead sheet) ;הוָה, אוֹרִי וְיִשְׁעִי–מִמִּי אִירָא .יְהוָה מָעוֹז-חַיַּי, מִמִּי אֶפְחָד :אַחַת, שָׁאַלְתִּי מֵאֵת-יְהוָה– אוֹתָהּ אֲבַקֵּשׁ ;שִׁבְתִּי בְּבֵית-יְהוָה, כָּל-יְמֵי חַיַּי .לַחֲזוֹת בְּנֹעַם-יְהוָה, וּלְבַקֵּר בְּהֵיכָלוֹ Translation God is my light and my refuge secure —  whom shall […]

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B’makom She’ein Anashim (Be A Mensch)

Interfaith, Jewish Year /

Composition & recording © Alexander Massey 6 Feb 2021 – All Rights Reserved Download the free sheet music (voice & piano or guitar) בּמָקוֹם שֶּׁאֵין אֳנָשִׁום, הִשְׁתַּדֵּל לִהְיוֹת אִישׁ B’makom she’ein anashim, hishtadeil lih’yot ish. Pirkei Avot / Ethics of the Fathers 2:5 As with so much Hebrew, a literal translation of this verse fails

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Nigun Yom HaShoah

Interfaith, Jewish Year /

Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 15 March 2021 Download the free sheet music (voice & drone) Genesis lists 70 descendants of Noah after the crisis of the Great Flood, and from this, Jewish tradition has it that there are 70 nations of the world, and that we all come from one family. This nigun has

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