Music and audio © 2 Dec 2023 Alexander Massey – All Rights Reserved Listen/view on YouTube. Download the free sheet music (voice & piano) אֱלהַי נְשָמָה שֶנָתַתָ בִיטְהורָה הִיאנֵר יְהוָה, נִשְמַת אָדָםחֹפֵשׂ, כָל-חַדְרֵי-בָטֶןכִי-אַתָה, תָאִיר נֵרִייְהוָה אֱלֹהַי, יַגִיהַ חָשְכִי Chorus: My God, the soul you have given me is pure. [Berachot 60b, morning prayer]Verse 1: The […]
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Music and audio © Alexander Massey 6 Dec. 2013 Download the free sheet music (voice & piano) Why have You forgotten us utterly, forsaken us for all time? Turn us back, Eternal One, to Yourself, that we may be turned! Renew our days as of old. For You have utterly rejected us, bitterly raged against
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Music and audio © Alexander Massey 11 April 2018 Download the free sheet music (voice & piano) Jeremiah 31:15; Genesis 4:10; Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 4:9 On Yom HaShoah v’HaGevurah, we commemorate both the victims of the Holocaust, and those who heroically resisted. This piece was written to honour those people. The three Jewish texts offer
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Psalm 36: 8-10 – Music and audio © Alexander Massey 16 Sept 2018 Music, English lyrics & audio © Alexander Massey 16 Sept 2018 Download the free sheet music (voice & piano or guitar) I wrote this as a companion piece for B’ruchah Haba’ah (Blessed is She), the song for the blessing of a baby girl. Nir’eh
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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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Music, English lyrics and Recording © Alexander Massey, Aug 2014. Hebrew words (Trad.) Download the free sheet music of Hashkiveinu (voice & piano or guitar) – includes Adonai S’fatai Tiftach (to the music of the chorus) Dedicated to my Rabbi, Reb Zalman Shachter-Shalomi (ztz”l), completed during shloshim. The three Hebrew lines that I have set from the
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Watch/listen to Sim Shalom on YouTube Music and audio © July 2014 Alexander Massey Download the free sheet music (high voice & optional piano) Bestow (‘put’) peace, goodness and blessing, grace, and loving-kindness and mercy, on us and on all Israel Your people. Bless us, our Creator, together as one with the light of Your
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey – 24 June 2012 Download the free sheet music (voice & optional piano) Psalm 150 not only completes Book 5 of the Psalms (tehillim), but is the last of all the Psalms. As such, its themes are particularly important as a summation – a vision – of what our
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 23 January 2014 In English: In Hebrew: Download the free sheet music (solo voice, English & Hebrew) Written and first performed for the Council of Christians and Jews gathering with the Oxford Unitarians service at Harris Manchester College, Yom HaShoah 5774 / Holocaust Memorial Day 2014. Many commentators have
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Y’varech’cha Adonai – May You Be Blessed – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey, 3 July 2013 Download the free sheet music (solo voice & piano) Download the free sheet music (SATB & piano) The simple meaning I have always loved the sounds of this blessing (sometimes called the ‘Priestly Blessing’), whether in Hebrew or
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