Category Archives: Chants

Chants, Isaiah

For in Joy: Ki v’simcha

Ki v-simcha tate-tzay-oo,
Oo-v-shalom toovaloon.
For in Joy Hebrew text from Isaiah 55:12
For in joy will you go out,
In peace be led across the Land,
Mountains and hills will burst into song,
And the trees of the field will clap their hands (Isaiah 55:12)
(CLAP!)

This is a practice that sends me to my life! It is joy that moves me into the world and it is joy that opens my ears to the song that Creation is singing.

To hear the chant, use the audio player. To download the chant, right-click the note and save (or download) the linked MP3 file.

To download the PDF file for this chant, click For In Joy PDF. For the musical notation, see The Magic of Hebrew Chant, page 309.

The Magic of Hebrew Chant ©2013 Shefa Gold. All rights reserved.

Chants, Psalms

Davkah

Davkah nafshi acharecha, bi tamchah y’minecha

Davka in Hebrew
My soul with love goes after You;
while your strong hand supports me. (Psalm 63:9)

This is a practice that illuminates the paradoxical nature of my spiritual practice. I am seeking, reaching, longing for Devekut, which is God-consciousness, awareness of ultimate connectivity. With all my love I follow the glimmers of the Divine, bringing my heart, soul, commitment, effort, skill, wisdom and grace to the adventure.

On the other side of the paradox I lean back, and surrender into the Divine embrace. I totally relax to receive this support. I open in the stillness to the gift of this moment and let myself feel held, encouraged, nourished and supported.

To hear the chant, use the audio players. To download a chant, right-click a note and save (or download) the linked MP3 file.

To download the PDF file for this chant, click Davkah PDF. To download the chant’s notation, Davkah Notation PDF.

Chants, Psalms

Romemu

Romemu YHVH (Havayah, Adonai, Shechina) Elohaynu

Raise up the Truth; lift up our love; honor the God within us. (Psalm 99:5)

Fred Rogers favorite quote was from Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince. He had it framed and hanging on a wall in his office. The quote is: “What is essential is invisible to the eyes.”

When we exalt God in prayer, we are raising up, lifting up, and honoring that which is essential. Through our loving attention and passionate expression, we are making that essential spark of Divinity, visible and known. When we share that essential Divinity through prayer, it makes itself available to us as Truth and Love, so that we can live from the highest essence that is in us.

To hear the chant, use the audio players. To download a chant, right-click a note and save (or download) the linked MP3 file.

To download the PDF file for this chant, click Romemu PDF. To download the chant’s notation, Romemu Notation PDF.

Chants, Scripture

Mourning into Joy: V’hafachti

V’hafachti evlam l’sason
Mourning into Joy Hebrew
I will turn their mourning into Joy. (Jeremiah 31:12)

Hardship and heartbreak are inevitable in this life. Yet they don’t need to make us hard or broken. We can use our experiences of grief and suffering to ennoble rather than embitter us. Through the fires of sorrow, we can be tempered and formed into beings of light, vision, hope and an exquisite joy. Through all of our suffering, we can be opened to the preciousness of this moment of possibility.

To hear the chant, use the audio players. To download a chant, right-click a note and save (or download) the linked MP3 file.

To download the PDF file for this chant, click Mourning into Joy PDF. To download the chant’s notation, click Mourning Into Joy Notation PDF.

Chants, Psalms

Unveil My Eyes: Gal aynai

Gal aynai v’abitah nifla’ot mi’toratecha
Unveil My Eyes in Hebrew
Unveil my eyes that I might see the miracles of Your Torah (Psalm 119:18)

Unveil my eyes.
Unveil my eyes that I might see.
Unveil my eyes that I might see the miracles.
Unveil my eyes that I might see the miracles of Your Torah.

Our eyes are veiled with fixed expectations, conditioning, past hurts, intergenerational trauma, cynicism, and limitations both imposed and self-created. It is the awareness of the veils that allows them to dissolve, revealing the startling clarity of a wide array of color, texture and beauty and a vast expanse of Soul beyond the constrictions of personality, beyond the confines of our imagination. In the moment of unveiling we are also unmasked. Our masks that were meant to protect, have concealed the miracles that were always there. Those miracles are revealed through the words of Torah. And we can use the words of Torah to reveal the miracles that were always there. Behold! Just having a glimpse of the wondrous will open us and allow us to perceive the Divine Presence that shines through all of Creation.

To hear the chant, use the audio player. To download the chant, right-click the note and save (or download) the linked MP3 file.

To download the PDF file for this chant, click Unveil My Eyes PDF.

To download the chant’s notation, Unveil My Eyes Music PDF.