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Rabbi asked me to teach a niggun for shavuot, and I wana teach a fairly complicated one. I was trying to think, how can I come up with materials that'd help even non-musically-trained folks. And for a second I imagined doing this:
A: ay yah dah dai yah dai di day, ay yai yai yai yuh duh dai
B: ay yuh yai yai yai yuh yai
C: (so on)
Internally singing a niggun for the people who are suffering through the foolishness of politicians in more countries than we can count right now. Spread joy to those living through sorrows. Stay beautiful in your brokenness humanity. These things rise and fall like the tides of our collective soul.
there is A FUCKING NIGGUN stuck in my head right now. Out of ALL THE HUNDREDS OF SONGS I KNOW it had to be a fucking niggun. This is a FUCKING NIGHTMARE. Oh god I feel so Jewish
I 100% put my arms up and twirled and skipped around a room earlier during the yadidididis in Through Heavens Eyes and it was glorious 10/10 would recommend
Music: Yoel Sykes לחן: יואל סייקס Our original chants for prayer are written in Nava Tehila Community in Jerusalem. עוד לחן מקורי לתפילה מקהילת נאוה תהילה בי...
As the month of Elul wraps up and melts into Tishrei with the start of Rosh Hashanah...
A look at three very Jewish shorts playing in Brooklyn this week.
The 21st Annual Brooklyn Film Festival began this past Friday, June 1st, subtitled THRESHOLD. Brooklyn Film Festival Executive Director Marco Ursino sums up its lineup with this great quote: “In the middle of this undeniably appalling time in American history, Brooklyn Film Festival aims to amplify the voices of its films and filmmakers by shedding light, spreading love and celebrating diversity.” It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that, with 125 films featured, at least a few would have substantial Jewish content. Jewcy got a sneak peek at three memorable–but very different–animated shorts that fit that bill.
My Yiddish Papi, from Franco-Canadian filmmaker Éléonore Goldberg, is a sobering and powerful seven-minute exploration of a young woman’s thoughts and feelings after missing the last phone call from her grandfather before his death. Remembering moments spent together at a bistro hoping to be more fit at his age pale in comparison to the sorrow and seriousness she feels when she recalls the harrowing journey he took to survive the Holocaust. This film does exactly what its late protagonist views as most important: continuing to tell his story so that others will not forget what happened.
Niggun, from Tel Aviv-based animator Yoni Salmon, is a considerably odder production. The twelve-minute film finds two men traveling through space in a distant future looking for the long-lost Earth. One is a space archaeologist and the other is a very frum-looking rabbi. As they arrive to a planet that has fallen apart and seems completely abandoned, audiences are treated to some extremely familiar religious sites that don’t appear to have the same effect on the rabbi as one might expect for a modern-day Earth dweller. It’s a film reminiscent of the equally strange The Rabbi’s Cat, offering a mildly amusing take on Judaism coming out in a way that hardly feels realistic or relatable yet is still fascinating to watch.
I just saw someone call niggunim “Jewish scat on repeat” and I just. Yup. That’s right. That’s what they are.
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How do you spell the syllables of a niggun? Ya di di di? Ya lai lai lai? I keep singing different ones over and over really slowly and I definitely say a consonant that is both D and L and tbh a little N and I’ve always spelled it di.
