Songs from the Beit Midrash
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Songs from the Beit Midrash activates a new collection of music designed for communal uplift, spiritual sustenance, and reverent joy. Recorded live over 72 hours, Deborah and her artistic team transformed Hadar's beit midrash into a recording studio full to the brim with new music—inspired by the Torah explored, relationships built, and spiritual depth uncovered within its walls. Combining lush strings, electric instrumentals, power harmonies, and the musicality of spontaneous communal song, this album’s sonic palate invites the listener into a soundscape of prayerful intention and artistic expression.
Album Release Tour
February 19 | Teaneck, NJ// Get Tickets
February 26 | Poughkeepsie, NY //Get Tickets
March 26 | Brooklyn, NY // Get Tickets
May 5 | Seattle, WA // Info Coming Soon
May 14 | Boston, MA // Get Tickets
…and more, to be announced!
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Bring this Music to your Community!
Together with her ensemble of world-renowned musicians, Deborah would love to bring a Songs from the Beit Midrash concert to your community - an invitation to contribute your voice to this music’s story!
Sing and Study the Sources!
Available in hard copy only! In Songs from the Beit Midrash: The Sourcebook, you’ll find an exploration of each piece’s creative process and textual sources, as well as sheet music, lyrics, and translations—so that you can bring these songs to your communities.
Featured Songs
Eileh Hamdah Libi
Drawn from the penultimate verse of the piyyut Yedid Nefesh, this song explores the vulnerability we might experience in the act of naming our needs, capturing a reality of the work that prayer entails.
Hashiveinu
An uplifting nigun designed for communal song and prayer, this melody harnesses the heart-opening power of the nigun circle to express the hope for renewal embedded in this text from Eikha.
Sim Shalom
A prayer for peace rooted in the liturgy of the Amidah, this ballad invites us to sing in a future of shalom, tova, and bracha - peace, goodness, and blessing.