Spirituality

Nigun Chakartani vaTeida – You Have Searched Me Out and Known Me – Nigun meditation on Psalm 139

Music & audio © Alexander Massey, 26 Oct 2018 Download the free sheet music (instrumental) Collection This piece is one of many suitable for the High Holy Days. Enjoy the rest of the High Holy Days collection, for free, here. The Piece Music’s role is often to express or explore what cannot be put into […]

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Kol B’Ramah, Kol D’Mei – A Voice in Ramah, A Voice of Bloods

Music and audio © Alexander Massey 11 April 2018 Download the free sheet music (voice & piano) Collection This piece is one of many suitable for the High Holy Days. Enjoy the rest of the High Holy Days collection, for free, here. The Piece Jeremiah 31:15; Genesis 4:10; Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:1 (22a) On Yom

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Omer Day 1 – Chesed of Chesed – Elohai N’shamah

Music and recording © Alexander Massey 11 March 2015 Download the free sheet music (3 part round with optional piano or guitar) Collections Further commentary about this text can be found in two other of my articles: Elohai N’shamah: Its music and meaning Elohai N’shamah: Its deeper meanings This piece is also an installment in

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A note on prayer

In 1872, Francis Galton wrote a now famous essay entitled ‘Statistical Inquiries into the Efficacy of Prayer’1 and concluded that prayer has no effect on either God, or the health or life expectancy of the person prayed for. The essay is full of value propositions and assumptions presented as fact, so I find it hard

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