Elecha Yah Ekra

To You, God, I call. (Psalm 30:9)
[Click (or tap) to see the entire Psalm 30 in Hebrew and English (JPS 1985).]

Methods: Concentration on reaching vast inner distances from an anchored depth. Projecting consciousness beyond the farthest horizon. Focusing and directing emotional energy. Absorbing and then radiating divine energy.

Goals: The expansion of inner space determines the power of the voice.

Phase 1: Chanting and visualization

1. Elecha Yah Ekra – Reaching deep inside on the first note, grounding, then moving out, projecting your “call” wide and far past the farthest horizon you can imagine. Crescendo in emotion and volume.
2. Elecha Yah Ekra – Feel the voice returning to you from beyond the horizon, coming a great distance, the words come to rest gently and deeply within you. Decrescendo in emotion and volume.
3. Same as 1.
4. Same as 2.
5. Elecha – Focus your “call” on a point in the far distance. This call is refined and directed, like a laser beam from the third eye.
6. Yah – Letting your call extend even further and dissolve into the “beyond-the-beyond.”
7. Ekra – as if you have seeded the clouds with your longing and are now opening to the gentle rain and receiving the divine flow into you.

Phase 2: Chanting and movement

1. Elecha Yah Ekra – Bowing to left side and returning to center, generating energy, intensifying commitment.
2. Elecha Yah Ekra – Bowing to right side and returning to center, generating energy, intensifying commitment.
3. Elecha Yah Ekra – Bowing to left side and returning to center, generating energy, intensifying commitment.
4. Elecha Yah Ekra – Bowing to right side and returning to center, generating energy, intensifying commitment.
5. Elecha – From center, longing, lifting, reaching, with both hands, palms up.
6. Yah – Deep bow to center, surrendering to the vastness of God.
7. Ekra – Coming back to center with palms at the heart.

Phase 3: Silent chanting on the breath

1. Elecha Yah Ekra – exhale toward the place beyond the wide horizon.
2. Elecha Yah Ekra – inhale receiving the call back from a great distance.
3. Elecha Yah Ekra – exhale toward the place beyond the wide horizon.
4. Elecha Yah Ekra – inhale receiving the call back from a great distance.
5. Elecha – exhale focusing on a distant point with refined breath.
6. Yah ­ inhale simultaneously through the crown and the root into the heart.
7. Ekra – exhale, radiating divine light in all directions like the sun.
8. Inhale in preparation, realignment, and setting your intention.

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

• Expanding Inner Space  

For the musical notation, see The Magic of Hebrew Chant, page 274.

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

Elohim y’chaneynu vivarchaynu ya-er panav itanu Selah

God grace us, bless us, may Its light shine among us, Selah (Psalm 67:2)
[Click (or tap) to see the entire Psalm 67 in Hebrew and English (JPS 1985).]

This practice can be used for protection, clearing, and for strengthening the energy field

1st Phase: Visualization and energy patterning

1. Find a point of light deep in your belly and bring it up through the body, out the top of your head till it’s about a foot above your head.
2. Weave an egg of light clockwise from the point above your head down the body till you reach a point at the bottom of the egg about a foot below your feet.
3. Pull that point of light up through your perineum back to the beginning point in your belly.
4. Connect the point in your belly to a point within your heart.
5. Radiate out from the heart, filling the entire egg with a white/golden light.
6. End by rooting your attention back in the belly.

2nd Phase: Visualization, energy patterning and breath concentration

1. Find a point of light deep in your belly and bring it up through the body, out the top of your head till it’s about a foot above your head. ON THE INHALATION
2. 2. Weave an egg of light clockwise from the point above your head down the body till you reach a point at the bottom of the egg about a foot below your feet. ON THE EXHALATION
3. Pull that point of light up through your perineum back to the beginning point in your belly. ON A PARTIAL INHALATION
4. Connect the point in your belly to a point within your heart. CONTINUE THE INHALATION
5. Radiate out from the heart, filling the entire egg with a white/golden light. BREATHING IN AND OUT FROM THE HEART
6. End by directing the breath into the belly.

3rd Phase: Chant, visualization and energy patterning

1. Find a point of light deep in your belly and bring it up through the body, out the top of your head till it’s about a foot above your head. ELOHIM
2. Weave an egg of light clockwise from the point above your head down the body till you reach a point at the bottom of the egg about a foot below your feet. Y’CHANEINU
3. Pull that point of light up through your perineum back to the beginning point in your belly. VIVARCHEY
4. Connect the point in your belly to a point within your heart. NU
5. Radiate out from the heart, filling the entire egg with a white/golden light. YA-ER PANAV ITANU
6. End by rooting your attention back in the belly on the word SELAH.

4th Phase: Chant silently with breath concentration

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

• EFR Practice  

For the musical notation, see The Magic of Hebrew Chant, page 272.

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

Hodiyeini Yah kitzi, u’midat yamai ma hi

Oh God, show me my end, and what is the measure of my days? (Psalm 39:5)
[Click (or tap) to see the entire Psalm 39 in Hebrew and English (JPS 1985).]

With this chant we can pray for a vision of who we are becoming. At the end of the chant, open up to receive a visit from your future self. Receive her gift, wisdom, guidance or blessing.

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

• Inviting Our Future Selves  

For the musical notation, see The Magic of Hebrew Chant, page 266.

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

Kumah Adonai, Hoshiyeyni Elohai

Rise up YHVH, Save me, my God. (Psalm 3:8)
[Click (or tap) to see the entire Psalm 3 in Hebrew and English (JPS 1985).]

With this practice, I call forth the hidden power. I sing to the force that is hidden in my depths and in the secret places of this world. I sing with a bold demand and with a humble plea for that force to reveal itself. As I chant, I dedicate myself as a vessel for that power. I pray to be saved from the traps of superficiality. I pray to have access to depths of meaning and purpose rather than be a prisoner to the surface of things.

This practice was composed especially as a preparation for the High Holy Days.

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

• Calling Forth the Hidden Power  

For the musical notation, see The Magic of Hebrew Chant, page 268.

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