The text I want to explore this Shavuot is from Proverbs 3:18 Eitz chayim hi l’machazikim [chazak] bah, v’tomcheicha meiushar –“It is a tree of life to those who hold fast to it, and whoever grasps her is happy-straight [by implication,]”. Ushar or yashar, a word literally means straight, and is usually translated as ‘happy’, […]
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Music and recording © Alexander Massey 13 Sept 2020 – All Rights Reserved Download the free sheet music (lead sheet, voice & guitar) Collections I have also written a two part round setting of the final verse of Psalm 23:6, known as V’shavti B’veit Adonai – And I Will Dwell in the House of the
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Music and recording © Alexander Massey 12 Sept 2020 – All Rights Reserved Download the free sheet music (voice & piano or guitar) Collections I wrote this setting on 2020 for our Musaf service at Yom Kippur in Oxford. Enjoy the rest of the High Holy Days collection here. This text also occurs as part
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Music and audio © Alexander Massey 6 Dec. 2013 Download the free sheet music (voice & piano) 20. Why have You forgotten us utterly, forsaken us for all time?21. Turn us back, Eternal One, to Yourself, that we may be turned! Renew our days as of old.22. For You have utterly rejected us, bitterly raged
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In Hebrew In English – ‘Rise up, my love, my fair one’ Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 9 Dec 2015 This recording and a version of this article were published on Ritual Well (USA) as ‘Arise, my love‘. English duet version (a recording with women’s voices is coming soon!) Hebrew duet version (a recording with
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 9 Dec 2015 Download the free sheet music (voice & guitar) This recording and a version of this article were published on Ritual Well (USA) as ‘You have ravished my heart, my sister‘. Where in the Tanach can we find a text for celebrating a lesbian wedding, and an
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Ruth 1:16-18 Composition, lyrics and audio © Alexander Massey, 9 Nov 2011 Download the free sheet music (2 voices & piano) Vatomeir Rut al-tifgi-bi, l’azveich lashuv meiachara’ich: ki el asher teilchi eileich, uva’asher talini alin – ameich ami, veilohayich elohai; ba’asher tamuti amut, v’sham ekaveir; koh ya’aseh adonai li, v’choh yosif – ki hamavet, yafrid
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