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KBI’s Congregational Melodies for the High Holy Days as sung by Cantor Green

Page numbers reference the Lev Shalem Machzor. Many of the congregational melodies common across the Conservative movement are written in bold text and transliterated in red italics in our Machzor.

Rosh Hashanah Melodies

  1. Bar’chu for Evening Services – p5
  2. Achat Sha’alti (from the Psalm for the month of Elul) – p27
  3. Yigdal for Evening Services – p28
  4. Zochreinu L’chayim 1 – p141 and other places
  5. Zochreinu L’chayim 2 – p141 and other places
  6. M’Chalkeil Chayim 1 – p142
  7. M’Chalkeil Chayim 2 – p142
  8. Mi Chamocha Av Harachamim – p142
  9. Un-taneh Tokef – p143
  10. K’vakarat Ro’eh Edro – p143
  11. B’rosh Hashanah 1 – p143
  12. B’rosh Hashanah 2 – p143
  13. Ut’shuva Ut’filah Utz’daka – p144
  14. K’dusha Responses – p145
  15. V’chol Ma’aminim 3 Melodies – p146-147
  16. Simcha L’artzecha – p149
  17. Horeim – p153
  18. Eil Dar BaMarom – p155
  19. V’ne’emar – p157 and other places
  20. Melech Al Kol Ha’Aretz – p157
  21. HaYom Harat Olam (tune of Avinu Malkeinu) – p158 and other places
  22. Areshet S’fateinu – p158 and other places
  23. Hal’luya Hal’lu Eil B’kodsho – p165
  24. Uchtov L’Chayim – p168
  25. B’seifer Chayim – p169 and other places
  26. Ki Vi Yirbu – p169
  27. Hayom T’amtzeinu – p170

Kol Nidrei Melodies not appearing above

  1. V’nislach (sung 3 times) – p205
  2. Ya’aleh – p223
  3. Ki Anu Amecha – Carlebach – p234
  4. V’al Kulam (refrain for V’al Cheit section) – p237-238
  5. Hu Ya’aneinu – Carlebach – p240

Yom Kippur Melodies not appearing above

  1. Eileh Ezk’ra refrain – p337
  2. Ki Anu Amecha – Mombach (Choral) – p347
  3. Kad’sheinu B’mitzvotecha – p354

Rosh Hashanah Music on the Web

Additional Texts

Rabbi Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin:

We humans chase all over the world to find things: we climb mountains, we descend to the nethermost depths of the sea, we trek to the wilderness and to the desert. There is one place where we neglect to search—our heart. But it is there that we will find God.

An oral story from the Jews of Libya as related by Esther Zagadon to Malka Cohen:

When a person is created he or she is tied to God with a string. If one sins, the string breaks. But if one repents during the days of awe, the angel Gabriel comes down and makes a knot in the string and ties it. One once again is tied to God. Because every Jew sins once in a while, his or her string becomes full of knots. But a string with many knots is shorter than one without knots. Repentance brings a person closer to God.

Avraham Kook, “On Knowledge and Originality,” Orot haKodesh, Jerusalem: 1964, in Hebrew Writers on Writing, edited by Peter Cole, San Antonio: 2008:

Insight attained on one’s own—this is the highest degree of spiritual elevation. That which is acquired by study is, after all, taken from outside, and pales in comparison with the thoughtful reflection in the depths of one’s soul. All that is learned in such a manner is only a kind of profound advice concerning how best to draw the most essential significance from what is hidden within the heart, deep within the soul.