Through the generations, we have blessed our children. This week, Parashat Lekh L’kha particularly reminds us not just to give a blessing, but to be a blessing. This song by Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler, commissioned by PAS especially for the moment at which the clergy bless the Bnei Mitzvah, distills the tender moment when the rabbi and cantor bless the child. When the blessing is for a clergy member’s kid, the smile is perhaps just a little bit wider.
This week, we started reading a new cycle of the Torah. The renewal and expansion of our tradition, with the community and Torah at its center, continues strong at PAS. It is expressed in this musical setting commissioned from composer Elliot Weiss for the opening of our Lifelong Learning Center ...
Over the High Holidays, PAS released Be the Light, an album celebrating the Jewish and Christian faiths coming together as one. This song from Be the Light explores the idea of presence: “When I’m lost, deeper than I’ve known / You’ll be the one I call home.” As you listen to this song, you might...
This prayer from the Shabbat Amidah expresses our souls’ desire for both kinds of peace described by Rabbi Nahman of Bratzlav: the kind within oneself, which arises from a sense of awe and humility, and the universal kind that comes from prayer. Traditional cantorial singing at its core is a soul...
