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Nireh Or

from Abitah by Yosef Goldman

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“Nireh Or” is a song about connecting to our essential aliveness in times of darkness and uncertainty.

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כִּי־אַתָּה תָּאִיר נֵרִי
יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהַי יַגִּיהַּ חָשְׁכִּי

כִּי־עִמְּךָ מְקוֹר חַיִּים
בְּאוֹרְךָ, בְּאוֹרְךָ נִרְאֶה־אוֹר

אֱלֹהִים יְחָנֵּנוּ וִיבָרְכֵנוּ
יָאֵר פָּנָיו, יָאֵר פָּנָיו אִתָּנוּ סֶלָה

𝐾𝑖 𝑎𝑡𝑎ℎ 𝑡𝑎’𝑖𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑖
𝐴𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑖 𝑒𝑙𝑜ℎ𝑎𝑖 𝑦𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑎ℎ 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑘𝑖

𝐾𝑖 𝑖𝑚’𝑐ℎ𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑘𝑜𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑚
𝐵𝑒-𝑜𝑟𝑘ℎ𝑎 𝑛𝑖𝑟’𝑒ℎ 𝑜𝑟

𝐸𝑙𝑜ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑦𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑢 𝑣𝑒𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑢
𝑌𝑎’𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑣 𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑢, 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑎ℎ

For it is You Who lights my lamp
The Lord my God will reflect light in my darkness.

For with You is the source of life
In Your light, we see light.

May God be gracious to us and bless us
May God show us the light of God's countenance, selah

(Psalms 18:29, 36:10, 67:2)

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from Abitah, track released August 17, 2023
Words: Psalms 18:29, 36:10, 67:2
Music: Yosef Goldman

Yosef Goldman - vocals
Yoni Battat - viola
Gal Hever - oud & qanun
Roy Smila - kamanche
Orel Oshrat - piano
Omri Ido Bar Giora - acoustic guitar
Roni Iwrin - percussion
Yoni Sharon - percussion
Yankale Segal - electric bass

Production & Arrangement: Yankale Segal
Engineering & Mixing: Shlomi Gvili
Recorded at HaOgen Studios, Kibbutz HaOgen, Israel
Mastered by Matthew Agoglia, The Ranch Mastering
Artwork by Lizzie Sivitz, Nireh Or.

Each of us experiences periods of darkness in our lives. We may feel like we are living under the burden of deep hardship and suffering, of loss and grief, or that the weight of our life experiences has crushed some of our dreams. A job or relationship that nourished or defined us, may have lost its sense of meaning or come to an end.

In times of personal darkness we can feel utterly alone. We call to the divine and the answer is not clear. The path forward may be inscrutable and we don’t know how to move on, how to get unstuck. It may be time to allow ourselves to adjust to night vision, to live in the mystery.

In moments when we find ourselves at the edge of what we can control, we come face to face with the unknown. There, at the edge, we find life waiting for us. Jewish wisdom teaches that there is great power in the mystery — to transform, comfort, and heal. The unknowable darkness itself can be a pathway to a lived experience of the sacred and encounters with the Source of Life that are only accessible in those times in life.

When Moshe tells Israel the story of Revelation 40 years later, he says, “You heard the voice out of the darkness, while the mountain was ablaze with fire” (Devarim 5:20). We need not dispel the darkness to reconnect to our sense of aliveness.

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Yosef Goldman Gaithersburg, Maryland

A composer, prayer leader and rabbi, Yosef writes sacred music for heart opening and healing, weaving rich tapestries out of the threads of his Mizrahi and Ashkenazi ancestry.

His songs are sung at synagogues, schools, and camps across the country.

A sought-after vocalist, and harmony specialist Yosef performs and records with a wide range of Jewish artists.
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