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good morning and welcome back to 'mosaic'. i am rabbi eric weiss and we are having a conversation about music and the jewish community . welcome back cantor bernstein. some things that you do another cantors do in the jewish community is pay attention to the music that comes out of different jewish communities. can you talk about the ways in which you utilize melodies, like we were leaving the last segment . >> i have two lives . one is a cantor and another i started the same time is a yiddish

singer. i fell in love in college with yiddish songs and the yiddish language. i started delving into it . and finding yiddish songs where i could and singing them and performing them. and eventually when i went to jerusalem for cantor oriole school, a friend of mine invited me to do workshops at his place called [ speaking in a non-english language ] the combination of library, yiddish books he collected like the national yiddish book center and cultural programming. he asked me to do a monthly workshop on songs. i would go to the library to the archives every month and do a search for yiddish songs on a different theme. and do some of those songs that i found, my favorite ones that i found, as part of the workshop in the club. eventually it became a yiddish piano bar where i hang out at the piano with my book and it kept growing. at this point i

think i have 400 yiddish songs. and play and sing . there is candlelight and people drinking vodka and eating herring and dark bread and , so. >> some people may know and some a not know that yiddish is a combination of german and hebrew. written originally in hebrew characters but also in german and comes out of the jewish experience in eastern europe . and was really a language that people spoke day today. people would have yiddish as their first language and that was the language of conversation and of songwriting and of argument and agreement and love. it was not necessarily -- would you say today even now it is not necessarily considered to be a sacred language away sometimes hebrew consider -- >> not at all . it was the vernacular language. people did not speak hebrew. it was the

sacred language. yiddish was used for living , for everything. >> was it a jewish lingua franca, the matter where you work no matter where you were in europe if you spoke yiddish, you could communicate. >> not necessarily. i think there were places where yiddish was not widely spoken. for instance, italy. although i think there are places in italy where yiddish was spoken. i think it really depends on where you are. >> what about yiddish and the yiddish song attracts you? if we think of music that is attached to words that reveals something about the spirit and the soul. what is it about yiddish song and melody that attracts you? >> for me it is textbased . the stories for me are amazing. i feel like i am looking into a window into another world. or getting postcards from the past. postcards from the [ speaking in a non-english language ] i think sometimes.

it is reflected from so many different experiences. i tend to specialize in unknown or lesser-known yiddish songs. i might have five seconds of fame for singing dirty yiddish songs. which i will not do here. but you really get such a wide range of experiences because it was spoken in so many different places and so many different kinds of places. different countries and big cities and little towns . that you get such a wide variety of people who are religious but people who are completely not religious, that you really get it. musically, when you say yiddish song, you are actually almost not completely but almost, like you say english song. that it really depends on the country and the place . it can be almost any kind of melody. >> in a moment i know we will

go out with a little bit of a snippet of yiddish song but are there contemporary yiddish songwriters today? >> yes . that is a great question. there are and i am not remembering everybody who's doing it right now. my favorite and one of my muses was [ speaking in a non-english language ] who passed away a few years ago and i met her and she usually wrote her own music but she had one of her poems that she had not liked and she was opening up to people to write melodies and the melody of it was the one she ended up using for her song. >> beautiful. should we ask you to treat us to a little bit of yiddish music? >> it talks about lights in darkness and [ singing in a non-english language ]

good morning and welcome back to 'mosaic'. i am rabbi eric weiss and we are in the middle of a conversation with cantor bernstein about jewish music and the use of music in jewish life in general. i know that one of the areas that you actually explore and have contributed to is the way music helps us heal . the word heal is a big word and as the

ceo of the bay area jewish healing center i have full appreciation for the different ways in which we sign. you focus on the way music can heal people in illness, in grief at the end of life or just in a more general way. i know you have a wonderful book called under the wings of rafael. i wonder if you could talk about what this book is. there is an accompanying cd. what brings you to it and what you hope it will do for folks? >> it came out of my congregational work . there was a congregant who was diagnosed with cancer and was going to undergo chemo treatments. and i came up with an idea, i'm not sure how , of making it a journey for her. for each of her chemo treatments, i picked a different prayer or a jewish text that either specifically talked about healing or felt

to me in some way connected with the feelings or emotions or explorations that might be helpful to her and her process . and i recorded it , sometimes i wrote music for it , and wrote explorations. some exercises are things they can do to help explore the text of it and sent it the day before each chemo treatment as a little gift package. >> what is the meaning on the wings of rafael? >> it is said we have four angels that surround us as we go to bed at night . we invoke them. on the right is gabrielle, is michael, which means the one who is like god or the holiness of god. on the left hand is gabrielle, the strength of god. before us is oriole the lights of god and behind us is rafael who is the healing of god. i was coming up with the title for this may be a year i was had this

spreadsheet of 300 possible names. as it was cooking one day it came to me, under the wings of rafael. for me it means that somehow being enveloped and surrounded cared for and embraced. one of our prayer , the evening prayer we recite before going to bed at night [ speaking in a global language ] it is often translated as spread over us. i did not want to use word spread, particularly with cancer the word spread can have difficult connotations. i finally came up with unfurl over us a shelter of peace. for me those wings, i imagine rafael is having wings, not just on top of us but holding us and care for us and help keep us safe and nurtured. >> if anyone would like to have the book and cd, how do they purchase it? >> the best thing to do is go

to my website which is sharon bernstein.com. and click on the tab that says, under the wings of rafael and there you can find different places to get it. there are copies of the synagogue and also copies online. the book and cd can be purchased separately and the tracks can be downloaded. >> wonderful. as we go to our next break, is or something from that cd , from the book you may sing to us as we leave this segment? >> i will sing [ singing in a global language ] , which is the prayer we recite and it means, keep my lips from speaking badly. [ singing in a global language ]

good morning and welcome back to 'mosaic'. we are in the middle of a wonderful conversation about the use of music in the jewish community with cantor sharon bernstein. welcome back. we have been talking a lot about the ways in which music comes out of a general tradition and the ways in which a community influences music or region. i wonder if you could talk about music in a contemporary way? and how a congregation in san francisco his influence to you in the development of music for the broader community . >> in terms of music and

contemporary music and judaism , i think sometimes we tend to think of this as a modern phenomenon of having sort of more pop or rock music in the synagogue. the research is, not just research, what is happening jewish communities throughout the world is jews tend to be part of the local non-jewish music scene. you will have music that sounds a lot like the music of the surrounding culture. jewish music in morocco has a lot of similarities to moroccan music. italian music in the synagogue can be sounding a lot like tarantella's [ speaking in a global language ] for opera. what we have happening today is people have a musical vocabulary. we talk about music being a universal language but we have a vocabulary, a language we grow

up with . when we listen to music sometimes you listen to things and we have a sense of where it will go or if we are learning a new tune we have a sense. there is a predictability about it that is based on the music that we listen to that we know , that we are used to. and so that can be really powerful when used in the synagogue. it helps people connect in additional ways. sometimes it is the older, what we call traditional tunes that sometimes are even decades over, not hundreds of years old usually. sometimes that is what helps people connect . and sometimes it is music that sounds like what people listen to on the radio or maybe more like on their device. and so i believe in using a wide mixture of things. of using traditional music and using modern music and finding all kinds of different points for connection and reaching meaning. >> believe it or not in a moment we have to say goodbye.

i am wondering if there is an example that might come out of the congregation that we could say goodbye to folks with, in any particular context . >> for me, one of the things is that i have developed a subspecialty in rainbow songs. i have learned many of the ones . i don't know if i have learned all of them. maybe we close with, over the rainbow. >> wonderful. >> [ singing in a global language ] >> [ singing ]

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