Monthly Spontaneous Choir
Dates: Mondays — October 19, November 16, December 14, January 25, February 22, March 8, April 12, May 10
Time: 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Mode: In-Person
Faculty: Hazzan Jessi Roemer
Fee: Included with Society Hill Synagogue Membership | $72 for General Public
A monthly Monday evening gathering to delve deeply into communal song! In a space outside of Shabbat services, we’ll have the opportunity to tap into weekday musical joy and healing, harmonizing, and increasing our spiritual resilience. Make singing together your monthly practice in an increasingly full and chaotic world! If there are Shabbat tunes you’d like to know better or dig into more deeply, and/or if you are yearning to increase your toolbox of singable nigunim (wordless melodies), this is your opportunity! All musical experiences and expertise welcome – none required!
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We invite you to come and pray, reflect, sing, and rejoice with us! Music features prominently in Society Hill Synagogue’s Shabbat and holiday services, in Havdalah and other celebrations. Sometimes with instruments we play, sometimes with our voices as the only instrument – always with soul.
Here, you will find almost 50 prayers, blessings, and songs to enhance your Society Hill Synagogue experience. Please click below to select tunes by holiday or ceremony.
Shabbat
Shalom Alekhem
Kiddush
Blessing for Hand-washing
Blessing for Wine
Blessing for Bread
Sheheheyanu
Shabbat Shalom
Grace After Meals
Birkat Amazon
Torah Blessings
Seij Anyos – EZUZ (Music: Hazzan Jessi Roemer)
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Havdalah
Havdalah Melody – Debbie Friedman
LaYehudim – Noam Katz
Eliyahu Hanavi
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High Holidays
Ashrei Ha’am – Miriam Margles
Tiku Vahodesh – Hazzan Jessi Roemer
Psalm 24 – Hazzan Jessi Roemer
Hayom Ha’Olam Mithadesh – Hazzan Jessi Roemer
Halelu Adir – Iraqi, by George Mordecai
Avinu Malkeinu – Traditional
Elohai N’tzor – Danny Maseng
Va’ani T’filati – Hazzan Jessi Roemer
Rahamana – Hasidic
Ahat Sha’alti – Traditional
Let Me Dwell With You – Aviva Chernick
Nishmat Kol Chai – Joey Weisenberg
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Hanukkah
Shine (Lyrics PDF) – Hazzan Jessi Roemer
The Dreidel Song and Hanukkah Song Medley – Shir Soul Version
Ma’oz Tzur – Soul Version from Erran Baron Cohen
Mi Yemalel – Folk
Ocho Kandelikas – Flory Jagoda
Banu Hoshekh Legaresh – Handman Family Version
Al Hanisim – Hasidic Song Festival Version
Light One Candle – Peter Yarrow
This Little Light of Mine – Odetta
Hanerot Halalu – San Joaquin Delta College
The Dreidel Song – Jazz Version by Tamir Hendelman
Bohemian Hanukkah – Six13
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Passover
SHS Pesah Table Tunes
Lyrics to these songs can be found in the song packet titled “SHS Pesah Table Tunes” in our 5781 SHS Passover care package! An electronic version of that song packet can be found here.
Pesach a la Mano – Flory Jagoda
Karev Yom – Text: Yanai, 7th Century, Music: Possibly Bratslav Hasidim
Va’amartem Zevah Pesah Sephardic Piyut (liturgical poem) – Galeet Dardashti
Quien Supiense? (“Who Knows One?” in Judeo-Spanish) – Yehoram Gaon
Ha Lahma Anya – Text: Haggadah, Melody: Folk
Mah Nishtanah – Sephardic Israeli as taught by Daphna Mor
Od Yavo Shalom – Mosh Ben Ari & Sheva