Shmita Prayer
by Jordan Lowe || I wrote this song on Rosh Hashanah as a prayer for the world – a radical imagining of rest, rematriation, and…
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Yismach Moshe
by Avi Randall || My submission is a setting of the prayer “Yismach Moshe”. I am using Klezmer and Jewish folk music traditions as a…
Earth Needs Naps
by Yael Goldfeder of Bagel Monster Production || “Earth Needs Naps” is the title track of Mikey Monster’s pending Shmita Album, featuring six songs and…
The Reset Baton
by Dvir Cahana || This song looks at all of the different relevant themes of the Torah and attempts to portray how all of it…
a dance in which things fall down
by Jennifer Gwirtz || Gravity is everywhere. It is invisible and inevitable. It lives in physics, in abstract rules and equations, but also in our…
Still, Small Voice
by Emma Tuttleman-Kriegler || “Still, Small Voice” grew out of Emma Tuttleman-Kriegler and Cleo Person’s employment at Coastal Roots Farm, where most of the music…
Arbol Azul
by Giselle Lee Hausman || During this year of Shmita, I am rethinking the world in which I live and how to make a positive…
Shmita Niggun
by Eliana Light || I was inspired by a friend of my who lovingly challenged me to write a melody only to be used in…
A New Day
by Haley Woodrow || I have four works currently that have overt Jewish influence. I chose “A New Day” because I felt it fit the…
Holy Corrosion of Holiness
by Carey Averbook || This poem came through while I was sick after my first COVID-19 vaccine and was digesting class material about Leviticus through…
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