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Rosh Hashanah

Cantor Daniel Benlolo Orthodox Rosh Hashanah Sephardic Yom Kippur

Cantor Daniel Benlolo blows the Shofar and explains interpretations of “cry of the shofar”

By Cantorial — 4 years ago

The blowing of the shofar or rams horn is mainly used on Rosh Hashanah the Jewish new year. The shofar is mentioned in the Bible in Leviticus 23:24 and symbolizes the awakening of our souls in repentance and also alludes to the Akeida – the binding of Isaac.

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Cantor Gideon Zelermyer Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur

Choir practice hineni heani mimaas לכן אבקש[הנני העני ממעש] with Cantor Gideon Zellermyer

By Editors — 4 years ago

This is additional footage from A People’s Soundtrack, a documentary film about cantorial music.

Shaar Shamayim choir practice 2nd sentence of “hineni heani mimaas” (lachen avakesh) – לכן אבקש[הנני העני ממעש] – for Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur with Cantor Gideon Zellermyer

Readers’s Meditation/intro to Musaf Service, e.g. p.325 Birnbaum Mahzor, “hence I beseech thee”

Cantor Gideon Zelermyer Rosh Hashanah Video Yom Kippur

Adonai, Adonai (13 attributes of mercy)

By Cantorial — 5 years ago

Adonai, Adonai (13 attributes of mercy) by Gideon Zelermyer cantor at Shaar Hashomayim Orthodox synagogue in Montreal. Sung during holidays, Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur.

This prayer is repeated in many services on (high) holidays- usually occurs in the Amidah e.g. Birnbaum Mahzor p. 539 or Birnbaum Prayer book p. 363

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