The Singing Shul Bundle

The bundle is designed for shuls who want to empower their clergy, staff, and congregants to make a much more musically nuanced Jewish culture in their community.  Different people will have different skills and interests, and this bundle provides multiple licenses for each series, so that everyone in the community can get trained! 

This is for anyone who wants to gain a deep understanding and mastery of the Jewish liturgical tradition and develop the sensitivity and skills to lead communities of any size in collective prayer.

Through working on the music and teachings in these videos - and, crucially, by trying them in real life! - you can become a leader of nigun in your community.  

You will learn 18 melodies, be able to explain the spiritual background of nigunim, understand the scales and musical modalities, be able to sing a melody 25 times in a row, teach a melody in a workshop, and lead a nigun gathering.

There are 70+ videos in the series (5 to 15 minutes each) adding up to many hours of instructional sessions with a master practitioner.  

• Part 1: Eighteen Nigunim - Learn melodies that underscore the breadth and beauty of the nigun tradition (18 videos), including:
  • The Kane Street Nigun
  • Sheves Achim Nigun
  • Bina's Nigun
  • L'chu N'ran'na
  • Koydanover Nigun
  • Yakar Nigun
  • Lincoln's Nigun
  • M'nucha V'Simcha
  • Shochein Ad
  • Mimkom'cha
  • Twerski Kedusha Nigun
  • Yism'chu B'Malchuscho
  • Walking Backwards Nigun
  • Bobov Dance Nigun
  • L'Mikdasheikh Tuv
  • Belzer Nigun
  • Mozi's Nigun
  • Nishmat Kol Chai

• Part 2: Nigun's Spirit - Study the spiritual background of nigunim. (3 videos)
• Part 3: Nigun Music Theory - Understand the musical modes that underlie most nigunim. (6 videos)
• Part 4: Variations of a Nigun - Learn to create improvised variations when singing. (13 videos)
• Part 5: Nigun Workshop - Learn to teach a one hour class on a single melody. (22 videos)
• Part 6: Nigun Circle - Learn to facilitate a beautiful evening of song. (10 videos)

Through working on the music and teachings in these videos - and, crucially, by trying them in real life! - you can become a prayer and song leader in your community. 

You will learn how to lead deeply powerful communal prayer. Based on Joey's many years of experience bringing communities together in devotional song, through this series you will learn key musical concepts and dynamic strategies to become a master ba'al tfilah. 

There are more than 80 videos organized into 13 different major units. Videos are up to 15 minutes long, amounting to hours of instructional sessions with a master practitioner. 

• Part 1: Humble Prayers: Why We Daven (6 videos)
• Part 2:  Ba'al Tfilah Basics: Prayer Leader Prerequisites (20 videos)
• Part 3:  Overview of Davening Artistry (1 video)
• Part 4: Cueing the Congregation (6 videos)
• Part 5: Rhythm and Groove (6 videos)
• Part 6: Expanding the Aesthetic Palate (6 videos)
• Part 7: Humble Leadership (5 videos)
• Part 8: How to Choose Melodies for Davening (7 videos)
• Part 9: Picking a Key (4 videos)
• Part 10: External Challenges Facing a Prayer Leader or Musical Facilitator (12 videos)
• Part 11: Internal Challenges Facing a Song-Prayer Leader (7 videos)
• Part 12: Singing Survival
• Part 13: Improvisation During Davening (5 videos)

No matter the size or skillset of your community, through this video series you will learn to effectively gather together people in song. Understand how the dynamics of space, leadership, teamwork, sound and silence can be optimized to create powerfully spiritual musical experiences.

There are 40+ videos in the series (5 to 15 minutes each) arranged into the following sections: 

• Ten Keys Introduction (1 video)
• Key #1: Closeness (4 videos)
• Key #2: Centered Leading (5 videos)
• Key #3: The Prayer Team (3 videos)
• Key #4: Setting Up Space (5 videos)
• Key #5: Harmony of Amen (5 videos)
• Key #6: Finding the Groove (4 videos)
• Key #7: Repeating Melodies (4 videos)
• Key #8: Creating Silence (3 videos)
• Key #9: Movement (5 videos)
• Key #10: Responding to Resistance (4 videos)
• Bonus Tips and Final Thoughts (3 videos)

This course is designed for anyone who would like to learn about the musical-spiritual dreamscape of the Jewish tradition.

There are 18 videos in the series (5 to 15 minutes each) adding up to several hours of instructional sessions with a master practitioner and teacher of deeply rooted Jewish music. Study these videos and the accompanying texts, and you will will be able to understand and share the Torah background behind singing.

Part 1: The Torah of Music

Learn how nigun is a ladder to the heavens that opens our ears up to be able to sense the nuances and subtleties of the world, like music used to open up the ears of the prophets. (7 videos, 1 source sheet)

Part 2:  The Community of Song

Learn how music is essential to all life, and how singing allows us to connect to the songs that are being sung by all of creation. (6 videos, 1 source sheet)

Part 3:  Musical Healing

Learn how nigun restores balance to the body, dispels depression and reminds us our inner essences. (5 videos, 1 source sheet)

Through learning the nusach in these videos - and, crucially, by trying them in real life! - you can become a prayer and song leader in your community. 

You will learn all of the major liturgy for Shabbat, Festival and Weekday services, including Hallel, and be able to lead any of these services at a synagogue or other prayer gathering. In addition, you will acquire familiarity with fundamental concepts of music theory as it relates to traditional Jewish music and develop the aesthetic and spiritual sensitivity to bring diverse groups of people together in powerful song.

There are more than 100 videos organized into 11 units. Videos are up to 15 minutes long, amounting to many hours of instructional sessions with a master practitioner. 

1. Kabbalat Shabbat (20 videos)
2. Shabbat Maariv (17 videos)
3. Pesukei D'Zimrah for Shabbat  (12 videos)
4. Shabbat Shacharit (18 videos)
5. Shabbat Musaf (10 videos)
6. Shabbat Havdallah (2 videos)
7. Festival Nusach (6 videos)
8. Hallel for Holidays and Rosh Chodesh  (13 videos)
9. Weekday Nusach for Maariv, Shacharit and Mincha  (4 videos)
10. Nusach Roadmap (6 videos)
11. Modes & Scales of Nusach Asheknaz in America (6 videos)

This course is designed for anyone who wants to become a prayer leader or who wants to expand and refine his or her skills as a ba'al tfilah, with particular focus on all the major prayer services of Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur.

Learn all of the major liturgy for Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur and be able to lead any of these services at a synagogue or prayer gathering of any size. Through Joey's teachings in this series, you will develop the aesthetic and spiritual sensitivity to both lead and step out of the way, empowering diverse groups of people to lift and transform their prayers into powerful, collective song.

There are more than 100 videos organized into nine distinct units:

1. Pesukei D'Zimrah for Rosh HaShanah (3 videos)
2. Shacharit for Rosh HaShanah (17 videos)
3. Musaf for Rosh HaShanah (32 videos)
4. Yizkor (2 videos)
5. Kol Nidre (29 videos)
6. Yom Kippur Morning (3 videos)
7. Musaf for Yom Kippur (12 videos)
8. Mincha for Yom Kippur (1 video)
9. Neilah! (11 videos)