Introducing Judaism Online:
"Audio and Visual" links

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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:

• "Sukka Velulav Le'am Segullah" (a sukkah and a lulav for a precious nation), holiday hymn according to tradition of Bombay, India

Simhat Torah:

• "Mippi El" (from God's mouth)-- Moroccan tune

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"