Y’varech’cha Adonai (May You Be Blessed) – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey, 3 July 2013 BUY the sheet music (solo & pno) – $4.95 BUY the sheet music (SATB & pno) – $11.25 (5 copies @ $2.25) The simple meaning I have always loved the sounds of this blessing (sometimes called the ‘Priestly Blessing’), whether […]
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(Also, take a look at my page ‘Music and thoughts on healing‘) Music, English words and audio © Alexander Massey, 12 May 2013 BUY the sheet music (lead sheet) – $3.95 BUY the sheet music (SATB) – $9 (4 copies @ $2.25) BUY the sheet music (SSAA) – $9 (4 copies @ $2.25) BUY the
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Solo – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 2012 Duet – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 2012 The sheet music is available in any key for £3.50 GBP (please contact me if you want a different key from the ones shown here) BUY the sheet music (solo & pno, Fmaj) – $4.95 BUY the
Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 22 April 2013 BUY the sheet music (solo lead sheet, G or Bbmaj) – $3.95 BUY the sheet music (low duet & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) BUY the sheet music (high duet & pno) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) Shalom Aleichem is a traditional Shabbat
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Tazria-Metzora (Lev 12:1-15:33) Thought, word and deed As my own personal response to a section of Torah that I find difficult to relate to in modern times, I have been looking at Tazria-Metzora through the lens of a traditional, but unrelated, teaching I learned from Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi1 (ZT”L), the founder of the 20th century Jewish
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 11 Apr 2013 BUY the sheet music (1 vce or 2 vce round) – $3.95 How good are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel! [Num. 24:5] As for me, O God abounding in grace, I enter your house to worship with awe in Your sacred place. [Ps
Music & audio © Alexander Massey 11 April 2013 BUY the sheet music (1 or 2 vces) – $3.95 (lead sheet) Meditative music must begin from silence. We must be prepared to enter silence first, because that is the most fertile space for beginning prayer. When I had my hand-woven tallit (prayer shawl) made, its
On Shabbat, we mark the completion of Creation, and the establishment of God, not humanity, as the Ruler of Creation. Psalm 93 – beginning with the words Adonai malach – is one of many affirmations of this in traditional Shabbat liturgy. When we sing Psalm 93, with full voices (not half-heartedly!), especially as a call
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Shel Silverstein’s children’s book, ‘The Giving Tree’1 has sold many millions of copies since 1964, but has been dogged by controversy ever since it first appeared. It is a tale of the relationship between the Tree and a boy, always able to magically communicate with one another, as the boy moves from childhood to old
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Composition and recording © Alexander Massey – 14 March 2013 BUY the sheet music (3 vces) – $6.75 (3 copies @ $2.25) Who is like You among the gods, O God? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, awesome in splendour, doing wonders? A new song the redeemed sang to Your name at the shore