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Dalfa Nafshi (My Soul Melts)

from PRAISE by Jessi Roemer

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Like many verses in Psalms, this begins with despair ("My soul melts with sorrow"), and ends with hope ("Sustain me with Your word"). Written in 2017 as cruelty against Muslims and immigrants was ramping up at U.S. borders and Jewish graveyards were being desecrated, these two sentences carry the despair and the hope of building a more just world in the wake of what's been lost. It resonates in 2020 as more of our society wrestles with our communal devastation of Black lives, and righteous demonstrations sow seeds of hope for a just future. This setting can be done in call-and-response style at somber observances, such as Tisha b'Av, Yom Kippur, and vigils.

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Dalfa Nafshi
Lyrics: Psalms 119
Music: Jessi Roemer
Dalfa nafshi mituga (2x); Kay’meini ki dvarecha (2x)
(My soul melts with sorrow; sustain me with Your word)

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from PRAISE, released August 18, 2019
Dalfa Nafshi
Lyrics: Psalms 119
Music: Jessi Roemer
Guitar: Jessi Roemer
Electronic Organ: Don Godwin
Vocals: Jessi Roemer, Diana Brewer, Shulamit Wise-Fairman, Irwin Keller

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