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lannamichaels, A playlist of "more of the type of Seder Ha'avodah"
(n.b. "Seder Ha'avodah" by Ishai Ribo is an Israeli song released last year before the chagim that uses an piece of the liturgy from the Yom Kippur Musaf prayer and works around it to tell this complicated and modern story about faith.)
So here's some more music that uses the language of Jewish liturgy and then adapts it into something different.
"Keter Melucha" by Ishai Ribo - Let's start with more by Ribo. He wrote and released this song a few months ago, as a way to grapple with the pandemic. It used the annual cycle of Torah readings as a way to measure time at a moment when we many of us were overcome trying to reckon a new way of understanding time. It seems to say that even as we seem to stand suspended and frozen by the pandemic, God's universe marches forward, hard as that can be to live with.
"Mi Ba'eish" by Shany Kedar, covering Leonard Cohen- Cohen translated and then adapted a passage from the medieval piyut Unetaneh Tokef, recited on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, in his song "Who By Fire". Kedar translates the whole thing back into Hebrew, both restoring the original parts that Cohen merely translated, and translating Cohen's new additions. It is a startlingly sly piece of musical reinterpretation.
"Genesis 30:3" by the Mountain Goats- off an album where each song is inspired by a Bible verse, John Darnielle looks at the story of Leah and Rachel and wonders how Rachel could give up her claim on the man she loved in favor of her sister, who she also loved. "I will do what you asked me to do/ Because of how I feel about you."
"Beresheet" by Idan Raichel - I don't thinklannamichaels really needs me to be sharing Idan Raichel songs, but I don't care, I'm doing it anyway. It reads into the first Perek of Genesis a process that we can learn from in our lives. This is how Creation works, so this is how creation works: this is how you build a relationship, this is how you build anything you want to care about the way God cares about God's Creation.
"Mi'maakim" by Idan Raichel - Again Raichel does a similar thing, this time doing an exegesis on Psalm 130 (also commonly recited between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) to explore the idea of a failing relationship. Just as David is feeling far away from God and yearns to reconnect because of his belief that there is still something that links them, Raichel's narrator wants to bring his romance back to where it was.
Download the playlist from my GDrive
lannamichaels, A playlist of "more of the type of Seder Ha'avodah"(n.b. "Seder Ha'avodah" by Ishai Ribo is an Israeli song released last year before the chagim that uses an piece of the liturgy from the Yom Kippur Musaf prayer and works around it to tell this complicated and modern story about faith.)
So here's some more music that uses the language of Jewish liturgy and then adapts it into something different.
"Keter Melucha" by Ishai Ribo - Let's start with more by Ribo. He wrote and released this song a few months ago, as a way to grapple with the pandemic. It used the annual cycle of Torah readings as a way to measure time at a moment when we many of us were overcome trying to reckon a new way of understanding time. It seems to say that even as we seem to stand suspended and frozen by the pandemic, God's universe marches forward, hard as that can be to live with.
"Mi Ba'eish" by Shany Kedar, covering Leonard Cohen- Cohen translated and then adapted a passage from the medieval piyut Unetaneh Tokef, recited on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, in his song "Who By Fire". Kedar translates the whole thing back into Hebrew, both restoring the original parts that Cohen merely translated, and translating Cohen's new additions. It is a startlingly sly piece of musical reinterpretation.
"Genesis 30:3" by the Mountain Goats- off an album where each song is inspired by a Bible verse, John Darnielle looks at the story of Leah and Rachel and wonders how Rachel could give up her claim on the man she loved in favor of her sister, who she also loved. "I will do what you asked me to do/ Because of how I feel about you."
"Beresheet" by Idan Raichel - I don't think
lannamichaels really needs me to be sharing Idan Raichel songs, but I don't care, I'm doing it anyway. It reads into the first Perek of Genesis a process that we can learn from in our lives. This is how Creation works, so this is how creation works: this is how you build a relationship, this is how you build anything you want to care about the way God cares about God's Creation."Mi'maakim" by Idan Raichel - Again Raichel does a similar thing, this time doing an exegesis on Psalm 130 (also commonly recited between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur) to explore the idea of a failing relationship. Just as David is feeling far away from God and yearns to reconnect because of his belief that there is still something that links them, Raichel's narrator wants to bring his romance back to where it was.
Download the playlist from my GDrive