Jewish Relationships Initiative

Category: Prayer

  • Shabbat Shalom

    I share the wonderful rendition of Amazing Grace performed by Garth Brooks at the Inauguration.

    This beautiful song is for all of us.  There was a time when Jews avoided this piece because of historic frictions.   But if we are brave enough, we can embrace the power, beauty, and majesty of the music as we march forward with all our brothers and sisters in love.

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Our Country, May it Be

    Inspiration and ideals in familiar music, as befitting the inauguration of our 46th president.  A prayer in a song for our country

  • Shabbat Shalom

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Between the Holy and Profane

    I live between the Holy and Profane

    a moving song that describes the space we find ourselves  A song that helps us understand the need for the sacred protective space that is Shabbat.

    Shabbat Shalom.

    (The English lyrics are below the song.  )

    Between the Sacred and the Profane

    I live between the sacred and the profane
    With the truth that rages within me
    With a thousand habits
    With every scar on my face
    I go out again to scatter the words
    Between reality and madness, it’s all coming back to me
    The place from whence I came has no peace in it
    And this journey is heavy and a little too much for me
    I need to grow out of it and that’s it
    To grow out of it and that’s it
    I live between the sacred and the profane
    Between the truth that rages within me
    With a thousand habits
    With all the fear upon my shoulders
    I go out again to scatter the words
    Between reality and madness, it’s all coming back to me
    The place from whence I came has no peace in it
    And this journey is heavy and a little too much for me
    I need to grow out of it and that’s it, to grow out of it and that’s it
    Please, keep me safe
    So that my feet shall not fail
    Between reality and madness, it’s all coming back to me
    Even the place from whence I came has no peace in it
    And this journey is heavy and a little too much for me
    I need to grow out of it and that’s it
    To grow out of it and that’s it
    I live between the sacred and the profane

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  • Freedom- Shabbat Shalom

    Playing for Change reaches across the globe to share a vision to lead us into Shabbat.

    Shabbat Shalom

  • A prayer for healing- Shabbat Shalom

    Hazamir Hasharon shares this beautiful play on Moses’ prayer, El Nah Refanah

    A prayer for healing to welcome Shabbat–

    Shabbat Shalom

     

  • L’Shana Tova – What can we do to make it so?

    Shabbat Shalom and a Shana Tova

  • L’Shana Tova uMetukah

     

  • We are the world- Shabbat Shalom

     

    “We are the World” was originally performed in 1985 by Supergroup USA for Africa

    This past April, artists from across Long Island joined together to sing this song of hope again.

    Wishing you love and healing this Shabbat.

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Shabbat Shalom-One Day

    One Day

    Something amazing happened in Haifa a couple of years ago.  Three thousand people gathered to sing a song- Matisyahu’s song One Day.  Words in Hebrew, Arabic, and English combined into a single voice of love and hope.

    Enjoy, Shabbat Shalom!