Friday Night Melodies
SHABBAT AT HOME
- Blessing for Candle-lighting Here is the text for the pre-meal blessings
- Other melodies for Blessing for Candle-lighting
- Shalom Aleichem (welcoming the Shabbat angels) Shalom Aleichem melody 2 melody 3
- Eishet Chayil: traditional melody, Carlebach melody, Pizmon version
- Blessing for Children: For Boys, For Girls, For all: Spoken/chanted, Sung
- Blessing over wine/juice (short)
- Blessing over wine/juice (long)
- Blessing over bread—Hamotzi
- Birkat Hamazon: Shir Ha’ma’alot, Zimun, blessing 1, 2, 3, for shabbat, for festivals, Jerusalem, 4, requests, Bamarom, more requests, ending. Here is the text
FRIDAY NIGHT MELODIES @ TI
- Yedid Nefesh Here is the text
- Lechu Neranena I or Lechu Neranena II
- Arba’im Shana I or II
- Shiru Ladonai
- Adonai Malach and Ohavei Adonai I
- Mizmor Shiru Ladonai
- Psalm 99 beginning and ending
- Mizmor L’david
- L’cha Dodi I
- L’cha Dodi II
- A Psalm for Shabbat
- Tsadik Katamar (Ken Richmond)
- Mikolot
- Bar’chu & Hama’ariv
- V’shamru
- Chatsi Kaddish
- Vay’chulu
- Baruch ata…
- R’tsei Vimnuchateinu
- Kiddush
- Yigdal
Rav Hazzan Ken Richmond & Rabbi Shira Shazeer’s original Klezmer Friday Night Service in PDF and with Recordings:
- Yedid Nefesh (Shira Shazeer)
- L’chu N’ran’na (Rom melody)
- Mizmor L’david (Ken Richmond)
- Ana B’choach (Ken Richmond)
- L’cha Dodi I (Ken Richmond)
- L’cha Dodi II (Ken Richmond)
- L’cha Dodi III (Ken Richmond, 2019)
- Mizmor Shir (Ken Richmond)
- Tsadik Katamar (Ken Richmond)
- Mikolot (Ken Richmond)
- The Backwards Rumanian Nigun
- Lo Nitna Hashabbat (Shira Shazeer)
- Barchu (Ken Richmond & Shira Shazeer)
- Asher Bidvaro (Shira Shazeer)
- Ahavat Olam (Ken Richmond)
- Mi Chamocha (Shira Shazeer)
- Magen Avot (Ken Richmond)
- Shehu Noteh Shamayim (Shira Shazeer)
- Al Kein (Ken Richmond)
- Yigdal (Ken Richmond)
ZEMIROT
- Yom Shabaton (fast, slow)
- D’ror Yikra
- Menucha VeSimcha
Selections from the USCJ/ Cantors Assembly Spirit CD by Rav Hazzan Ken & Rav Shira:
1. The Khabno Freylekhs (with the Klezmaniacs)