Shaarei Shabbat: Songs & Blessings For Your Jewish Home

Product Description:
This wonderful resource includes folk melodies, contemporary classics and synagogue standards sung by cantors and soloists. Shaarei Shabbat: Songs & Blessings for Your Jewish Home is the perfect starting place for those to whom Shabbat (Sabbath) is new or a place to return. Along with Haneirot Halalu: A Home Celebration of Chanukah, Shaarei Shabbat will help make your Jewish home a joyous one. Popular with clergy and individuals as gifts, to learn Shabbat melodies or make home Sabbath observance just a little warmer with song. Produced by Doug Cotler.

Shaarei Shabbat: Songs & Blessings For Your Jewish Home,Various Artists,Transcontinental Music Publications

Average customer rating: Unsatisfying

Shaarei Shabbat: Songs & Blessings For Your Jewish Home Manufacturer: Transcontinental Music Publications ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Classic Jewish Holiday & Shabbat Songs Thank God It's Friday!: The Music of Shabbat Shalom Yeladim/Hello Children Shalom: Music Of The Jewish People Songs of the Spirit: The Debbie Friedman Anthology ASIN: B000158XI0 Release Date: 2003-10-01

Tracks:

1. Hadlakat Neirot/Candle Lighting
2. Shalom Aleichem
3. Kiddush for Erev Shabbat
4. Motsi
5. Shir Hama-alot
6. Birkat Hamazon
7. Havdalah Blessings
8. Final Havdalah Blessings
9. Hamavdil/Shavua Tov
10. Eiliyahu Hanavi
11. Al Shelosha Devarim
12. Am Yisrael Chai
13. Bim Bam
14. Eili Eili
15. Esa Einai
16. Hal'luhu
17. Hinei Mah Tov
18. Hinei Mah Tov
19. Ki Eshmera Shabbat
20. L'chah Dodi
21. Lo Yisa Goi
22. Mah Yafeh Hayom
23. Oseh Shalom
24. Sim Shalom
25. V'shamru
26. Y'did Nefesh
27. Yism'chu Hashamayim
28. Yom Zeh L'yisrael

Album Description

This wonderful resource includes folk melodies, contemporary classics and synagogue standards sung by cantors and soloists. Shaarei Shabbat: Songs & Blessings for Your Jewish Home is the perfect starting place for those to whom Shabbat (Sabbath) is new or a place to return. Along with Haneirot Halalu: A Home Celebration of Chanukah, Shaarei Shabbat will help make your Jewish home a joyous one. Popular with clergy and individuals as gifts, to learn Shabbat melodies or make home Sabbath observance just a little warmer with song. Produced by Doug Cotler.

Customer Reviews:

Unsatisfying.......2007-07-08

I was looking for a CD that would help me carry the beauty and spirit of the Shabbat services with me throughout the rest of the week. Unfortunately, this CD doesn't do that.

The CD seems to have very little emotion invested in the singing. I don't feel kavanah in the least. I imported the CD I purchased into my iTunes collection as soon as I got it, excited at the prospect of learning new melodies and reinforcing old favourites; sadly, I have deleted all but two of the tracks, Y'did Nefesh and the Birkot haMazon -- and I kept those two only because I was still trying to learn them. And I haven't listened to either of those tracks in almost two years.

But maybe liking this CD is tradition-dependent. Traditionalists, Conservatives, and Orthodox will be thoroughly unimpressed and disappointed. Reformists, Reconstructionists, and anyone else -- well, I honestly don't know. It seems though that there has to be a better compilation out there than this one.

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