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She Renews
06:55
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She renews the world every day
She renews the world every day
She renews the world every day
She creates in love and wisdom
And all of the universe full of Her infinite light
And all of the universe full of Her infinite light
Who's building borders of steel and concrete
Letting us believe we're incomplete
Keeping us separated and killing our fun
Keep us trusting the men with the guns
Thinking what we require for our self-worth
Depends on acquiring more of the Earth
Who let us believe we need anything other
Than seeing the face of the Source in each other
She renews the world every day
She renews the world every day
She renews the world every day
She creates in love and wisdom
And all of the universe full of Her infinite light
And all of the universe full of Her infinite light
Abundance is when ordinary sensation
Inspires divine fascination
And when I've got this I will not fear
It's a well that will not disappear
And the only thing I've got to do
Is to share my abundance with you
Because there is no property there are no nations
There's only love in our liberation
She renews the world every day
She renews the world every day
She renews the world every day
She creates in love and wisdom
And all of the universe full of Her infinite light
And all of the universe full of Her infinite light
Abundance is when ordinary sensation
Inspires divine fascination
And when I've got this I will not fear
It's a well that will not disappear
And the only thing I've got to do
Is to share my abundance with you
'Cause the Earth's only borders are waters and mountains
Happy are those who drink from this fountain
You renew the world every day...
We renew the world every day...
Mah rabu ma'asekha Yah*
Kulam b'chokhmah 'asitah
Melo kol ha'aretz melo kol ha'aretz kvodo
*Alternately in the feminine: Mah rabu ma'asekh Havaya/Kulam b'chokhmah 'osah/Melo kol ha'aretz kevodah.
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2. |
Arise
02:40
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Arise, arise, arise, arise
For I rejoice in Your creation
Arise, arise, arise, arise
In Your creation I rejoice
'Alei asor v'alei nahvel
Ki simakhtani Havaya b'foalayikh
'Alei asor v'alei nahvel
B'ma'aseh yadayikh aranen
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Photosynthesize
03:22
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Man proclaimed, words are my feature
And he pointed and named every creature
But the forest said is that your best
'Cause the spiders and the bees ain't impressed
And the manatees have magnetic senses
What gives humanity the pretenses
That we're the apex of all of creation
All we've got is world domination
Yai-ai-dai all we've got is world domination
Yai-dai-dai we're not cut out for world domination
Of all that's alive in this place
We're the only ones making waste
Never enough in a life of extraction
No reciprocity, only transactions
Were my gifts to you not satisfactory
I am your maker, not your factory
Yes, your siblings are older and wise
Come back when you can photosynthesize
Yai-dai-dai-dai come back when you can photosynthesize
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4. |
I Am
03:40
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I am not my thoughts I'm not my deeds
I am not my body not my needs
I am not whether I succeed
Whatever that means
I am not my roles my occupation
I am not my name my reputation
I am not what I leave behind
I am a spark within the cosmic mind
I am not the way that I was wired
I am water, air, and Earth and fire
I am Spirit experiencing form
All of time led to my being born
I am energy in the path of least resistance
I am a microcosm of existence
I am lifetimes forgotten in the dawn
I am a wave within a universal song
I am a dissipating cloud a passing shade
I return to the place where I was made
I am scattered dust, a fading green
A detail of the Eternal dream
I am scattered dust, a wilting flower
My time is not in minutes or in hours
But in the Earth and moon and sun and galaxy's rotation
In bars and beats, in constellations
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5. |
Ma'ariv
01:58
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look in your siddur :-)
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6. |
Oh Certainly
04:09
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Oh Certainly
There must be
Spirit in this place and it was not known to me
Akhen yesh Shekhinah baMakom hazeh v'anokhi lo yada'ti
Mah norah haMakom hazeh
Ein zeh beit Elokim v'zeh sha'ar hashamayim
Underneath these stones*
Where I lay my head
Where I rest my bones there was this vision I had
I see angels rise
And I see them fall
On a ladder to the skies, tell me what is the meaning of it all
Oh how great is this place
What can it be if not the gates of Elohim
Oh how great is this place
What can it be if not the home of the Shekhinah
Every particle of Earth
Every piece of every land
Every molecule of water folded under where I stand
Every stone and every soul
Every human every tree
Are connected in an ever-moving web of unity
Mah norah...
*Obviously Jacob put his head on top of the stones and not under them, but this is how it came out.
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Lo Alayikh hamelakha ligmor
Lo Alayikh hamelakha ligmor
V'lo at bat khorin l'hibatel mimena
V'lo at bat khorin
The work is not upon you to complete
The work is not upon you to complete
Nor are you free, nor are you at liberty
To desist from it entirely
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8. |
Lift Us!
03:48
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There are a people dispersed through the land
Whose ways are their own and who bow to no man
There are a people whose home has no border
Havaya is their sovereign, they follow no orders
Lift us! Above the hand of tyrants
Free us! From the power of kings
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9. |
Ra'yati
02:36
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Translation:
The flower buds are seen throughout the land,
The voice of the turtledove is heard,
The time of the songbird has arrived
Sister, show me your face, and let me hear your voice
For your voice is pleasant appearance is beautiful, my beloved
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10. |
Pitkhi Li
04:28
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Interpretive translation:
Open your heart to me, my dove, my pure one.
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11. |
Ana B'Koakh
03:25
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look in your siddur! It's right before Lekha Dodi ;-)
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