Judaism: the eBook
Introducing Judaism Online:
"Audio and Visual" links
Chanting from Bible and traditional texts:
- Chanting from the Torah (Exodus 18-20)
- Chanting the Scroll of Esther (read on Purim)
- Chanting from the Song of Songs, according to Sephardic melody
- Mishnah chanted in traditional sing-song
From the calendar cycle:
Sabbath:
- "Eshet Hayil" (woman of valour" Proverbs Chapter 31)--sung at Sabbath evening meal
- "Kiddush" (sanctification blessing) for the Sabbath evening
- The Amidah--from Sabbath morning service (Conservative egalitarian version)
Passover:
- "Mah Nishntanah" : four questions asked by child at Passover seder
- "Ehad MI Yodea" (Who knows one?), Passover seder song, in Italian
Tabernacles:
Simhat Torah:
High Holy Days:
- "Adon Ha-Selihot" (Master of compassion), sung during New Year penitential season, according to the Jerusalem Sephardic tradition
- Sounding of the Shofar according to Yemenite rite
- "Kol Nidrei" recited at the onset of the Day of Atonement, in the traditoinal Ashkenazic melody
- "E-l Nora Alilah" (God of mighty deeds), sung at Ne'ilah service on Day of Atonement according Sephardic custom
Modern Jewish teachers:
- Rabbi J. D. Soloveitchik speaking about Messianism
- Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach speaking about Purim and bus drivers
- Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi on Jewish Renewal
Hasidic and contemporary Jewish music:
- Modzitz Hasidim: "Menucha V'Simcha" (rest and joy) Sabbath hymn
- Music from Bratslav Hasidim
- "Meheirah Yishomah Be'orei Yehuda"), from the wedding liturgy; Chabad Hasidic wedding song led by Rabbi Menahem-Mendel Schneersohn
- Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach singing Mizmor Shir (Psalm to the Sabbath)
- Hayyim Mosheh, popular Israeli Sephardic singer: "Shabbehi et Yerushalyim" (praise Jerusalem; Psalm 147)
- Matisyahu, Hasidic reggae artist: "King without a Crown"