Chapel Minyan's Learning Resources

Leading Davening on Shabbat Morning

In addition to the melodies and tunes you may find on these resources, we welcome the opportunity to hear new melodies and nigguim.

Typically one person leads the service from the start through the end of Pesukei d'zimra, another person takes over at shochen ad and leads through the taking out of the Torah, and a third person takes over for returning the Torah and continues until the end of musaf. If you would like to try to start by learning a smaller part of the services, that is possible also. Contact Ralph Isberg for details.

A dress rehearsal is usually a good idea before leading the davening for the first time. This allows you to become even more familiar with the choreography of the service.

On-line
Alan Teperow has kindly recorded the Shacharit and Musaf services for Shabbat. Both recordings are wonderful and contain some instruction and some variant tunes as well as the full services. You can hear them by clicking below, or by borrowing the tapes from the Lifson Library (see below).

• Click here for the audio files for Shacharit
• Click here for the audio files for Musaf

Emanuel’s Lifson Library

Our library has a wide range of davening tapes, from the very ornate to the hameshe. The three davening resources placed in the library by the Shabbat Chapel Minyan are:

Musaf by our own Alan Teperow

This tape includes many of Alan's favorite renditions. (One tape.)

Tapes from the JTS Rabbinical School

Three 90 minute tapes from JTS that go through all the leader's parts and give several alternate traditional and newer tunes for various parts of the Shabbat morning services:

• Tape 1 - Weekday Shacharit, additions to Amida, weekday Ma'ariv, Kiddush, Havdala, beginning of Kabbalat Shabbat
• Tape 2 - Shabbat Ma'ariv (continued), Shacharit, Torah service
• Tape 3 - Shabbat Musaf and Mincha, Hallel, Shalosh Regalim

Nusach from Kehilat Hadar of New York City

A minyan in New York City has produced a tape with Shabbat morning nusach. This tape is also used by the minyan that meets at the Hartman House in Jerusalem.

Most or all of the nusach on this tape is also available on the web at: http://www.kehilathadar.org.
Click the Learn tab and then scroll down to Davening Audio Files. Click on the links in this section to hear the various parts of the services.

Online Resources

Davening, nusach, and related audio files are available at these sites. (Also see Hadar files described above.)

• DC Minyan - full Kabbalat Shabbat, Pesukei d'zimra, Shacharit, and Musaf servces, with many hameshe tunes.
  (Click the Learn tab and then scroll down to Davening Files.)
• Sidduraudio.com - full Kabbalat Shabbat, Pesukei d'zimra, Shacharit, and Musaf servces, keyed to the Sim Shalom siddur. Includes zemirot, weekday services, and home rituals. <\li>
• VirtualCantor - an encyclopedic set of traditional (Eastern Ashkenazi) melodies for throughout the year. Several nice zemirot. (By Josh Sharfman.)
• Chazzanut Online - snippets of nusach. Perhaps enough to get the idea if you are musical.
• Koltefilah - promotional site of a male performing group, with some demo music (click on "hear us")