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Cantillation for Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, and Ruth
Oct 23, 2018 By The Jewish Theological Seminary | Prayer Recordings | Pesah | Shavuot | Sukkot
Recordings by Cantor Sarah Levine (CS ’17).
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Cantillation for Haftarah
Oct 23, 2018 By The Jewish Theological Seminary | Prayer Recordings
Recordings by Cantor Sarah Levine (CS ’17).
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Cantillation for High Holidays
Oct 23, 2018 By The Jewish Theological Seminary | Prayer Recordings | Rosh Hashanah | Yom Kippur
Recordings by Cantor Sarah Levine (CS ’17). EXPLORE MORE HIGH HOLIDAY CONTENT
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Cantillation for Torah
Oct 22, 2013 By The Jewish Theological Seminary | Prayer Recordings
Recordings by Cantor Sarah Levine (CS ’17).
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Songs for the Holy City: An Interfaith Evening of Music and Prayer
Jun 20, 2018 By The Jewish Theological Seminary | Public Event video
A unique gathering of clergy, vocalists, and musicians from the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions leading us in song and prayer for the peace and future of Jerusalem/Yerushalayim/Al Quds. Inspired by similar gatherings in Jerusalem, the event tapped the collective power of our three faiths to help us transcend divisions and plant seeds of cooperation and respect.
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The Poet’s Hand
Jun 29, 2018 By Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary | Commentary
Beginning with Siddur Sim Shalom, Conservative prayer books began including a slightly different version of the much-loved Sabbath evening hymn Yedid Nefesh. The changes, though mostly slight, caused—and sometimes still cause—confusion, disrupting those who learned the traditionally printed version of this hymn with different grammatical forms and a few different words. What caused the change and why was it deemed sufficiently important that it should supersede the better-known version?
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What Can Jewish Music Do?
Apr 13, 2018 By Nancy Abramson | Commentary
Read MoreMusic allows us to navigate through the loudness, to find the silence. Music organizes the loud sounds so that we can recognize the power of the quiet, acting as an intermediary between God’s loud, external “persona” and the quiet, holy, inner being where truth is found. Music hangs in the subtle balance between sound and silence. It is music that tunes up our beings, that tunes up the entire world, to allow for an interchange between the soft, inner and the loud, outer manifestations of truth.
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Speaking to God, Speaking to People
Nov 17, 2017 By JTS Alumni | Commentary | Text Study
By Rabbi Debra Newman Kamin (RS ’90)
Adonai, open my lips that my mouth may speak your praise. (Psalms 51:17)
My God, keep my tongue from evil and my lips from deceit. (BT Berakhot 17a, based on Psalms 34:14)
At different stages of my life prayer has been a challenge, but I have found it meaningful to think not just about each individual prayer but how the structure of the service helps us experience different facets of prayer.
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