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Songs from the Heart: Family Shabbat

CD and songbook

Published in 2000, Songs From the Heart: Family Shabbat includes 19 original, easy-to-sing songs written to help put Jewish music into the heart of each Jewish family. These songs encourage families – children and adults – to actively participate in the music at Shabbat services. And they're a wonderful resource for song leaders, cantors, and music teachers. A few of the songs are just for children, but most are for everybody. They're easy to sing for congregations, students and volunteer choirs and are written in a limited range. Some families play the music on Friday afternoon or on their way to services to help create a Shabbat mood and many congregations have incorporated several of these melodies – especially Carol’s setting of Shalom Rav – into their Shabbat worship services.

CD: The Family Shabbat CD lets you hear each song sung clearly and lovingly straight from Carol's heart. Guitar and piano accompaniments are complemented on some songs by violin, flute, saxophone and Klezmer-style clarinet and the youthful voices of the Chai Notes chorus. Click here for free, complete lyrics. CD $15 + shipping.

Download Entire Album: $10

Songbook: The 48-page high-quality, professionally-published Family Shabbat companion songbook, edited by Velvel Pasternak, contains sheet music, guitar chords, and ready-to-photocopy song sheets with English lyrics and Hebrew in both transliteration and Hebrew font to help congregations, students, and choirs learn easily. $15 + shipping