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Music by Arthur Durkee

Words based on traditional Hebrew texts from Kabbalah and The Zohar, and by Arthur Durkee

Commissioned 2013 by Perfect Harmony Men's Chorus, Madison, WI
Ken Forney, Artistic Director
Brian Schultze, piano

With deep gratitude to Rabbi David S. Cooper for his profound teachings on Kaballah and Jewish mysticism, including his book "God Is a Verb."

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Tikkun


The shattering of the vessels
of all Creation
the dew of lights
rising

O Lord, release
the sparks of light
within these bones
to rise up
and meet you in Heaven!

Tikkun ha-olam
mending the world
TIkkun ha-nefesh
mending the soul
Shevirat ha-kelim
Tzim-tzum, tzim-tzum . . .
Shevirat ha-kelim
TIkkun ha-olam
Mimalei kol ol-min

Ein Soph Ohr
Shevirat ha-kelim
TIkkun ha-olam

God is a consuming fire
Ohr Ein Sof
Ein Sof Ohr
Light of the Infinite
Endless Light
Ohr Ein Sof
Ein Sof Ohr
Endless Light
Infinite Light
Mimalei kol ol-min
Tikkun ha-olam
TIkkun ha-nefesh

For God is
an inifinite voice
singing
in a place
filled with
Light.

Amen.

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from The Inner Light: Music for Chorus, released November 23, 2019
Performed by:

Perfect Harmony Men's Chorus
Ken Forney, Artistic Director
Brian Schultze, piano

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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