With All Your Heart

by Jay Rapoport

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Thanks to the generous support of over sixty family members, friends, colleagues, classmates, congregations, and other Jewish music supporters, I raised the money to make a Jewish rock album that is fun and family-friendly!

Song subjects include interpretations of Amidah, V’ahavta, Eilu D’varim, Oseh Shalom, and High Holiday liturgy in Hebrew and English, as well as themes of Tikkun Olam and Amiyut (Jewish Peoplehood).

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released 02 November 2010
Jay Rapoport: piano, Wurlitzer, Hammond organ, lead & backing vocals
Glenn Grossman: drums, percussion, backing vocals, whistle
Louis Glaser: electric bass, acoustic guitar on “We Are All Connected”, backing vocals, acoustic guitar & drums on “B’chol Le’vav’cha”
David Meer: acoustic double bass
Bryan Dunn: electric & acoustic guitar
Rachel Reef-Simpson: backing vocals
Sharon Soffer: flute
Marcus Miller: saxophone
Jon Notar: backing vocals on “We Are All Connected,” whistle
Shahar Mintz: additional electric guitar on “It Could Be Amazing”

All songs written by Jay Rapoport
Except “Pushups” written by Jay Rapoport with Hava Nashira friends
All songs produced by Glenn Grossman
All songs recorded & mixed by Jon Notar at Mercy Sound Recording Studio, NYC
Except “B’chol Le’vav’cha” recorded & mixed by Robert Stevens at Mother West Studio, NYC
Piano recorded by Jon Notar at Jon’s Apartment Studio, NYC
Scratch piano for “Sheh’ay’lah U’tshu’vah” recorded by Glenn Grossman at Play Studios, NYC
Wurlitzer and Hammond recorded by Jon Notar at La Sala Studio, NYC
Additional guitars recorded by Glenn Grossman at Double G Studios, NYC
All songs mastered by Discmakers
All songs copyright 2010 Maxfun Music (ASCAP), all rights reserved

Album artwork by Natalia Arad
Cover concept & album photography by Rachel Rapoport
Promotional photography by Steve Langdon for Langdon Photography

Produced by Glenn Grossman
Copyright 2010 Maxfun Music (ASCAP), all rights reserved

Executive Producers: Nancy Reder & David Rapoport, Erica & Richard King, Cantor Michael Shochet, Patricia Chou, and Larry Gevirtz

This album was made possible by generous support from the Temple Rodef Shalom Judy Berkowitz Memorial Fund and the Congregation Rodeph Sholom Religious School Parents Association.

Thanks also to Rabbi Amy Schwartzman, Beth Silver, Sharon Soffer, Babette Cohn, Chris Gardner, Catsy & Sol Gantz, Alexis Rapoport, and Dena Rapoport for additonal support.

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Track Name: B'chol Le'vav'cha
There’s a blessing that we place
On our doorposts and on our gates
We speak these words when we rise
When we lay down and close our eyes

B’chol Le’vav’cha (2x)
With all your heart (2x)

I shall love with all my mind
With all my soul, with all my being
Teach me faithfully, I will learn
I will teach you in return

B’chol Le’vav’cha (2x)
With all your heart (2x)

V’ahavta
Et Adonai
Elohehcha

B’chol Le’vav’cha (2x)
With all your heart (2x)
Track Name: Sheh'ay'lah U'tshu'vah
When I was just a little kid
I’ll tell you what my mama did
When I got home after school she would say
Did you ask a good question today?

Sheh’ay’lah u’tshu’vah
It’s a question and a responsa
Sheh’ay’lah u’tshu’vah
If you wonder, it never hurts to ask

Throughout our history people wanted to know
About some things the Torah didn’t show
That’s when our rabbis came along to help us out
Their responsa gave us new things to talk about

All these answers bring us closer
Bring us closer to the truth
And all the questions bring me closer
They bring me closer to you
Track Name: It Could Be Amazing
History could teach us anything
We look to our past and see where we’re going
But history won’t tell us everything
And some of those things are really worth knowing

If we say it’s not about us
It’s about the next generation
Take a look at the future we are facing

Some people say we are hopeless
Some people say we are crazy
But if we believe in a better dream
Hallelujah it could be amazing

Family is where we started
To know yourself you need to know where you come from
Eventually you choose your own path
Unsteady at first now look what you’ve become

If I say it’s not about me
It’s about the next generation
Take a look at the future I am making

Some people say we are hopeless
Some people say we are crazy
But if we believe in a better dream
Hallelujah it could be amazing

So forget what you knew
Look what we’re going through
Think about how you want it to be
Take a step on the way
To a brand new day
When the dreams that we dream come to be

We don’t think we are hopeless
We don’t think we are crazy
Cuz if we believe in a better dream
Hallelujah…
Track Name: We Are All Connected
We are all connected
From the east side to the west
We all read our Hebrew
From the right to the left
Our holidays, traditions
And our sense of right and wrong
This is why
We belong

We are Jews
Amiyut
All our people
Connected
Around the world

We are all connected
From the US to Yisrael
No matter what our differences
No matter where our shul
We all read the Torah
When we turn thirteen years old
This is why
We are told

Chorus

We are all connected
From the first stars on Shabbat
Through candles and our blessings
And a nice big fresh challah
Dinner with our family
Recipes from the past
This is why
We last

Chorus
Track Name: On This Day
On this day grant us strength
On this day grant us blessing
On this day exalt us
Seek us out for good
On this day inscribe us for a good life
On this day heed our cry

On this day accept our prayer
In mercy and in favor
On this day guide us with the hand
Of your righteousness
Amen
Track Name: Talmud Torah K'neged Kulam
Many, many years ago in the town of Lydda
There was a great debate between Rabbis Tarfon and Akiva
Of study or action, which is the best?
“Study leads to action,” said Akiva to the rest
(Talmud, Kiddushin 40b)

Talmud Torah K’neged Kulam
The study of Torah leads to them all
Better than being wise or rich
Study leads to action
Study leads to action
Study leads to action
And they lead to justice
(Mishna Peah 1:1; Pirke Avot 6:6)

So honor your parents, visit the sick
Celebrate with families, welcome in guests
Take care of people who need help
Start with the Torah, the rest will follow
(Talmud Masechet Shabbat, daf 127a)

And all your children will be students of God
And all your children will have peace
And all your children will be students of God
And all your children will have peace
(Isaiah 54:13)
Track Name: Pushups
My friend Danny is a good man
Likes to write and sing his songs
But every now and then someone wonders
How exactly did he get so strong?

He does pushups with his Judaism
With his Judaism on his back (2x)

If you ever been picked on
You know being different ain’t always a breeze
So let your Judaism make you stronger
Then you can handle anyone with ease

You got to do pushups with your Judaism
With your Judaism on your back (2x)

You may wonder how you can be
Like the great ones who came before
But the truth is you’re a “great” in training
So get started with that heavy Torah

You got to do pushups with your Judaism
With your Judaism on your back (2x)

You may have just a small voice
A still, small voice inside
But that small voice can do great things
So you better stand and sing with pride

You got to do pushups with your Judaism
With your Judaism on your back (2x)
Track Name: When We Get There
Been dreaming of a better world, not sure where to start
People got their stories, yeah people they got their scars
I got my own ideas like everyone else
But I’m not gonna make it by myself

Bells will ring
The children gonna sing
And we’re all gonna get there when we get there

Nothing’s ever easy if it’s worth working for
That’s why making peace is so much harder than making war
If you want to change the world start with where you live
Believe me, there is just so much you have to give

Bells will ring
The children gonna sing
And we’re all gonna get there when we get there

We will get there (2x)
And when we get there
You’re gonna see
Oh when we get there
And we will get there
Oseh Shalom
We’re making peace

And all you warriors can move along
And all those criminals should right what they did wrong
And all you secret-keepers, just give us some truth
And all you leaders show us what to do
Track Name: Open My Lips
It may not bring water to dry fields
Or mend a broken bridge
Or rebuild a ruined city
But still I open up my lips

Adonai S’fatai Tiftach
Open up my lips
U’fi yagid tehilatecha
And my mouth will declare your glory

It may not tell you the future
Or get you want you want
But it can give you what you need
Adonai S’fatai Tiftach

Adonai S’fatai Tiftach
Open up my lips
U’fi yagid tehilatecha
And my mouth will declare your glory

So open up my lips
Help me find my voice
May the sound release
I won’t hold back (2x)

It can nourish a soul
It can mend a broken heart
It can rebuild a weakened will
Adonai S’fatai Tiftach

Adonai S’fatai Tiftach
Open up my lips
U’fi yagid tehilatecha
And my mouth will declare your glory
Track Name: Ruach Rockin'
At five years old I was rockin’ out
In my living room to Twist & Shout
Wearing my sunglasses
I was dancing

Before too long I was banging on the keys
Couldn’t reach the pedals yet with my feet
But I was rockin’
Ain’t no stoppin’

Ruach rockin’, ruach rockin’
If you got spirit than you’re never stoppin’
Ruach rockin’, ruach rockin’
If you got the ruach than you’re ready to rock

Couldn’t read a note just played what I heard
In music class I sang every word
Loved big headphones
And rock and roll

Ruach rockin’, ruach rockin’
If you got spirit than you’re never stoppin’
Ruach rockin’, ruach rockin’
If you got the ruach than you’re ready to rock

When everybody gets together and sings
It sounds better than anything
All you need is spirit and you got a lot
Anyone can Ruach Rock

Ruach rockin’, ruach rockin’
If you got spirit than you’re never stoppin’
Ruach rockin’, ruach rockin’
If you got the ruach than you’re ready to rock