I miss the rituals, the Seder, the procession of the torah around during the high holidays. I'm not going to lie, I'm very, very far removed from the faith now*, but oh! oh I do miss the joyousness of singing, of prayer so happily with a shul full of people singing, praying the same thing. Suicide is Painless (the MASH theme) was one of my favorites, so much lower key than most of the other versions I heard. Then, in USY (ahem, Central Region for life and all) we got to see the huge variety of ways to sing all the different prayers. Later on, my voice changed, wasn't as good, and we moved on. We had a pretty good amount of harmony going, and we'd always try out new versions of it. Growing up, there were three or four of us, young Jewish kids with pretty decent voices, and we were usually shuffled up on the bima to lead the last three prayers, including Adon Olam. Posted by zachlipton at 11:51 AM on Septem Well worth a listen if you're interested in that kind of thing.
Another Who By Fire from Tempel Synagogue in KrakowĪs a sidenote, the fine-sounding people at Mishkan Chicago have been filling up a SoundCloud account with various Jewish liturgical tunes, with a particular focus on the High Holidays.
Who By Fire in Hebrew (the start of the lyrics come from the Rosh Hashanah liturgy) by Ofer Golany The IDF Choir (which clearly has some pretty high performance standards for a military band!) performs a Hebrew translation of Cohen's lyrics A few samples for your listening pleasure:
There have been a bunch of Leonard Cohen-themed Shabbat services at various synagogues. For some special bonus content, there's been a trend in the past few years to start singing various Jewish stuff to the tune of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah (and a bunch of debate as to the appropriateness of doing so).
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