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 Holy Days
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
For live demonstrations of these songs and Yiddish verses to “Dayenu,” The Bostoner version of “Karev Yom” as sung by Rabbi David Shneyer, and “Un Dem Land fun Pyramidn,” check out the recording of Hazzan Jessi‘s Passover Boot Camp session: “Pesah Tunes for Your Table.”
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