Happy New Year, Beth Am Israel!
I’m preparing, as I have for the past 24 years, to lead High Holiday services. The other day my daughter asked me, “So what is it like, what do you do to get ready, seeing as you’ve been doing this so long?”
I told her that at this point, 95% of my preparation is about creating space just to be present, and I so spend a lot of time thinking, writing, walking, singing, and warming up. It’s a different kind of preparation than trying to remember what tune goes with which ‘half-kaddish’.
I’m happy to share two parts of my prep, one, a poem and the other a playlist, encompassing much of the music that will be offered at our musical services this year.
The link to the playlist is in the poem. (Very sneaky, sis.)
Click here for the poem and playlist.
Shana Tovah,
Hazzan Harold
