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 […]
Lamah Tishchacheinu (Why Have You Forgotten Us?) Read More »
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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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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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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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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Solo – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 2012 Duet – Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 2012 Download the free sheet music (2 voices & piano) V’erastich li l’olam.V’erastich li b’tzedek uv’mishpat, uv’chesed uv’rachamim.V’erastich li b’emunah, v’yada’at et Havayah [YHVH/Adonai]. I betroth you to me forever,with equality and fairness, and kindness and compassion.I betroth
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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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Music and audio © Alexander Massey 14 March 2013 Watch/listen on YouTube Download the free sheet music (solo & optional piano) Download the free sheet music (4 part choir & optional piano) The words of Mi chamocha are taken from the Song at the Sea (Shirat Hayam) in Exodus 15, and are included in every
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Composition and audio © Alexander Massey 5 March 2013 Download the free sheet music (voice & figured bass) I am grateful to my storyteller friend Adele Moss for drawing my attention to Psalm 131, and encouraging me to spend time with it. Why was it written? What is it about? Adele’s inspired suggestion is that
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