Singing God's Words is the first in-depth study of the experience and meaning of chanting or "reading" Torah among contemporary American Jews. This experience has been transformed dramatically in recent years by the impact of digital technology, feminism, the empowerment of lay people and a search for self-fulfillment through involvement with community. At a time when worshippers seek deeper spiritual experience, many Jews have found new meaning in the experience of reading Torah,...

A Real Housewife of New York City reveals the Jewish mother's secrets to life, love and happiness.The Jewish Mother knows what she wants-and what you should want too. Here, readers will learn how to make her methods their own, and give and get love and happiness in great amounts. Jill Zarin, the breakout star of Bravo's hit series The Real Housewives of New York, teams up with her sister, Lisa Wexler, award-winning host of the daily radio program The L...

Shiva is one of the most recognizable terms in Judaism, and a practice that almost every Jew has experienced one way or another. Nonetheless, few are prepared for Shiva before they experience it. This guide is designed to help the mourner navigate this difficult time in life, and to guide the consoler through the Mitzvah of comforting a grieving friend or relative.This book features a comprehensive, easy-to-follow chart of the laws and customs of Shiva.

The book of Psalms set to meter for singing. Contains an index of meters and tunes and an alphabetical index of tunes with musical notation.

How to manage the process with grace, joy and good sense.A practical guide that gives parents and teens the "how-to" information they need to navigate the bar/bat mitzvah process and grow as a family through this experience. For the first time in one book, everyone directly involved offers practical insights into how the process can be made easier and more enjoyable for all. Rabbis, cantors and Jewish educators from the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist mo...

Social Functions of Synagogue Song: A Durkheimian Approach by Jonathan L. Friedmann paints a detailed picture of the important role sacred music plays in Jewish religious communities. This study explores one possible way to approach the subject of music’s intimate connection with public worship: applying sociologist Émile Durkeim’s understanding of ceremonial ritual to synagogue music. Durkheim observed that religious ceremonies serve disciplinary, cohesive, revitalizing, and euphoric func...

Teachers, students, composers, performers, and other practitioners of sacred sound will appreciate this volume because, unlike any book currently available on sacred music, it treats the history, development, current practices, composition, and critical views of the liturgical music of both the Jewish and Christian traditions. Contributors trace Jewish music from its place in Hebrew Scriptures through the nineteenth-century Reform movement. Similar accounts of Christian music describe its ...

Few commandments are as challenging as prayer. The tensions between human limitations and God's infinity, self-assertion and self-submission, structure and spontaneity, hope and surrender, individual expression and collective experience make tefilla one of the most difficult aspects of Jewish life. Holistic Prayer untangles the paradoxes of tefilla, revealing the spiritual journey behind the ritual. In his moving and highly personal approach, Rabbi Avraham (Avi) Weiss presents a word-by-wo...

This is a Christmas sheet music book with 10 popular Christmas Carols. Each line of music contains three staves, one treble clef and two bass clefs and chord symbols for the single line players. Organist can read all three staves (top keyboard, lower keyboard and bass pedals). Keyboard players and Piano players can read right hand and left hand staves. The easiest way to play these carols is to read just right hand and chord symbols, this is ideal for beginners.Contents

Christmas Sheet Music For Beginners - French HornBig Note Sheet Music With Lettered NoteheadsThis sheet music book contains 20 popular Christmas carols arranged for French Horn. Arrangements are very easy and will suit new beginners. Each arrangement features bigger music notes and each note head has the letter name printed within the note.Contents:Silent NightAngels From The Realms Of GloryGather Around The Christmas TreeOnce In Royal Da...

Twenty Christmas Sheet Music Solos For Tuba.This book contains twenty favourite Christmas carol sheet music arrangements for solo Tuba.Skill Level: Grade1 to Grade 3.Contents:Auld Lang SyneChristians Awake Salute The Happy MornO Come All Ye FaithfulCoventry CarolThe First NoelGather Around The Christmas TreeGod Rest Ye, Merry GentlemenGood Christian Men RejoiceThe Holly And ...

Twenty Christmas Sheet Music Solos For Alto Saxophone.This book contains twenty favourite Christmas carol sheet music arrangements for solo Alto Saxophone.Skill Level: Grade1 to Grade 3.Contents:I Saw Three ShipsAngels From The Realms Of GloryAngels We Have Heard On HighAway In A MangerCome, All Ye ShepherdsDeck The HallsDing Dong Merrily On HighGo Tell It On The MountainHar...