Harofay Lish’vuray Lev, u’m’chabaysh l’atzvotam

Oh Healer to the Broken-hearted, you bind up our wounds. (Psalm 147:3)

With this practice, we invoke the Divine Force of wholeness and allow our own broken hearts and the broken heart of the world to be held within that loving, accepting and healing embrace.

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

• Healer to the Broken-Hearted 1
• Healer to the Broken-Hearted 2
• Healer to the Broken-Hearted mix

To download the PDF file for this chant, click Healer to the Broken-Hearted PDF.

Nachon libi Elohim,
Ashira va’azamra af k’vodi

My Heart is steadfast, Oh God;
I will sing and chant even with my soul. (Psalm 108:2)

When my heart becomes steady, firm in its commitment, resolute in its love, unwavering in its loyalty to the Unity of Being… then the music of my soul can soar. When my song is anchored in the steadfast heart, each note expresses and magnifies my love. The energy of the heart unlocks the fullness of my soul’s glory.

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

• A Steadfast Heart 1
• A Steadfast Heart 2
• A Steadfast Heart 3
• A Steadfast Heart Mix

To download the PDF file for this chant, click A Steadfast Heart PDF. For the musical notation, click one of the musical notations for A Steadfast Heart Music: A minor, B minor, or B-flat minor.

NOTE: The provided MP3 versions are in B-flat minor.

L’cha yom af-l’cha laila

Yours is the day; Yours is the night.
Yours is the dark and Yours is the light,
I am Yours and You are mine;
where ever I look it is You I find. (Psalm 74:16)

There is a love inside me that is almost unbearable. It makes no sense, and I often just shut it down, bottle it up or let this force of love simmer within me. Sometimes, when I find a way to express this love fully, I let it out as a great wave of devotion and service. It is such a relief. When I came across this line in Psalm 74, I felt so grateful to have found a vehicle for this inner force of surrender to the One. The relief comes from releasing the illusion of control, letting go into the widest, wildest embrace, and dissolving the excruciating tension of Duality.

(To magnify the surrendering force of this practice I add bowing. In the downward motion, I give myself over and empty; and in the upward motion, I receive the gift that has been waiting for me.)

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

• Yours (underchant)
• Yours (overchant)
• Yours Mix

To download the PDF file for this chant, click Yours PDF.

Ana Yah hoshiyah na, Ana Yah hatzliycha na

Please God, grant us new Life; please God, make us successful! (Psalm 118:25)

Psalm 118, the concluding Psalm of Hallel, overflowing with extravagant praise and gratefulness, sends us our own strength. From here we call to God. Our calling is from a stance of fullness, calm confidence and the celebration of the ongoing Divine flow of abundance, justice and truth.

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch translates “hoshiyah” not as save us, or deliver us… but grant new Life. “Y’shuah,” he says, is “undimmed vigor of one’s own life and existence; Yud-Shin-Ayin is the true, genuine YESH.” (is-ness) So, from the fullness of celebration we ask that this joy might invigorate our existence and then open us to the source of prosperity. As we receive the force of new life, we ask that it be channeled in ways that help us succeed, manifesting our highest dreams and most passionate purpose.

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

• Please God

To download the PDF file for this chant, click Please God! PDF.