This is a rare baqqasha by an anonymous author for the opening of the Sabbath morning…

  [1]The triple blessing, or the Priestly Blessing, is arguably the most…

A unique string of fragments from three wedding songs, perhaps hinting to a performance…

The opening lines of a song with a lullaby-like tune, telling the Biblical story of how…

Kaddish is one of the most important and central parts of the Jewish liturgy. Most of it…

… relative major (III). These shifts in turn provide tonal links to the blessings recited by the reader after the … Holiday cantillation, I am immediately aware of the musical links—the focus on scale degrees 1 and 4 in a minor scale, with 5 as an upper neighbor to 4 . And with these links in mind, I am aware of the differences that give each …