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At This Mountain Devarim Deuteronomy 1-3

7/28/2025

Devarim: At this Mountain (Deut 1:6)

At this mountain, you have been waiting
You have been waiting far too long
Get up and see
What it could be

Adonai Eloheynu Diber Eleynu
B’Horev laymor
Rav Lachem Shevet b’har ha-zeh

Devarim Hebcal Date Sefaria Torah Reading Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22
Song lyrics & Song music by Rabbi Elizabeth W. Goldstein https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/devarim https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.1.1-3.22

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Parashat Masei / פָּרָשַׁת מַסְעֵי Song by Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein

7/21/2025

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Matot-Masey

Translation: Matot=Tribes; Masay-travels/marches.

These two final portions are often read together in the annual cycle of Torah readings. Together they form the end of what scholars have called the Tetrateauch on the theory that Deuteronomy was added later, and that the death of Moses transferred from the end of Numbers to the end of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy (Devarim) therefore begins and ends in the same place geographically-just east of the Jordan river, in the territory of the Moabites, about to cross into the land of the Canaanites (at least, that’s how the Torah presents the narrative.

This is my last original Parashah song as I began last year with Parashat Devarim, “At this Mountain, we have been waiting….”

Matot-Masey it’s the end of journey
Matot-Masey the end is near
Matot -Masey it’s a new beginning
matot-Masey the end is near

We March on to the end of the journey
Each tribe-their roles are clear
Looking out—Looking in
At the Border
We Begin

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Pinkhas Back From Anger Song by Elizabeth Goldstein

7/14/2025

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Pinkhas

Base Text:
פִּֽינְחָ֨ס בֶּן־אֶלְעָזָ֜ר בֶּן־אַהֲרֹ֣ן הַכֹּהֵ֗ן הֵשִׁ֤יב אֶת־חֲמָתִי֙ מֵעַ֣ל בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּקַנְא֥וֹ אֶת־קִנְאָתִ֖י בְּתוֹכָ֑ם וְלֹא־כִלִּ֥יתִי
אֶת־בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּקִנְאָתִֽי׃

Pin’has son of El’azar son of Aharon the priest
has turned my venomous-anger from the Children of Israel
in his being zealous with my zealous-rage in their midst,
so that I did not destroy the Children of Israel in my zealous-rage.
(Everett Fox Translation, 1995, Sefaria)

Lyrics:
Turn away my wrath from me
Pinkhas in his zealotry

Chorus: Shuva Maykharon Api 1

Anger never sets me free
Tragedy leaves lasting scars
Dig deep into who you are

Chorus: Shuva Maykharon Api

Anger never sets me free
The desert cannot bury sin
Prepare a new land
and begin

Chorus: Shuva Maykharon Api

Anger never sets me free
Shuva Shuva Yisrael
Turn from anger and be well (2x)

1 יְי אֱלֺהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל שׁוּב מֵחֲרוֹן אַפֶּֽךָ וְהִנָּחֵם עַל־הָרָעָה לְעַמֶּֽךָ:
From the Jewish Liturgy, Tahanun: Adonoy, God of Israel, turn from Your fierce anger, and let
Your mind be changed concerning the evil intended for Your people. Based on Exodus 32:12.
Here, I am asking God to turn away my own wrath, or that of Pinhas, if he is speaking in the first person.

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Together To Gather Mah Tovu for Parashat Balak Song by Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein

7/7/2025

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Together To Gather Mah Tovu

Parashat Balak Numbers 24:5

מַה־טֹּ֥בוּ אֹהָלֶ֖יךָ יַעֲקֹ֑ב מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶ֖יךָ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
How goodly are your tents, O Yaakov,
your dwellings, O Israel,

Lyrics:

We come together
To gather
Mah Tovu
(4x)

Ohalekha Ya-acov
Mishkenotehka Yisrael

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At This Mountain Devarim Deuteronomy 1-3

Parashat Masei / פָּרָשַׁת מַסְעֵי Song by Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein

Pinkhas Back From Anger Song by Elizabeth Goldstein

Together To Gather Mah Tovu for Parashat Balak Song by Rabbi Elizabeth Goldstein

Rabbi Elizabeth W. Goldstein

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