תהלים ק״נ | Psalms 150, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, included his translation of Psalms 150 in his Siddur Tehillat Hashem Yidaber Pi (2009). . . .

Tags: Daily Hallel, devotional interpretation, הללו־יה hallelu-yah, interpretive translation, music making, פסוקי דזמרה pesuqei dezimrah, Psalms 150

Contributor(s): Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation), Unknown Author(s) and the Masoretic Text

Prayer for Music Service, by Rabbi Morrison David Bial (1962)

“Prayer for Music Service” by Rabbi Morrison David Bial was first published in his anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 61, from where this prayer was transcribed. . . .

Categories: Phonaesthetics

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Nature, נגון niggun

Contributor(s): Morrison David Bial and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

המלך הקדוש | From Uman to the Olam: Clapping upon the Coronation of the Holy Majesty during the Days of Awe (neohasid.org)

In Uman, Ukraine (and in [the Breslov [community] in general) during the repetition of Rosh Hashanah Musaf, when when the ḥazan gets to the special brokha in the Amidah for Yamim Nora’im [the Days of Awe]: . . .

Categories: Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Phonaesthetics

Tags: Atah Qadosh (Third Blessing of the Amidah), Breslov, clapping, Coronation, ecoḥasid, חסידי ברצלב Ḥasidei Bratslav (Breslov), Ḥasidic, Musaf Rosh Hashanah, Public Amidah, קדושה Qedushah

Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and Neohasid [dot] org

לְמַלְמֵל וּלְהַמהֵם | The non-cognitive experience of ambient mumbling in communal Jewish prayer by R’ Elie Kaunfer

The mode of silently reading prayers puts the worshiper in the realm of the cognitive—just as we might experience reading a book on the subway. But the act of mumbling moves from a purely cognitive experience to a more viscerally emotional act. The aesthetic effect of this mumbling serves a dual purpose: Besides its own value as a way of engaging in prayer, it provides a contrast to the truly silent parts of the prayer: the Amidah. . . .

Categories: Phonaesthetics

Tags: communal prayer, drone, mumbling

Contributor(s): Elie Kaunfer

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17

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