Jerusalem of Gold (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav)

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A Secret Chord: Song of Solidarity, Recorded Live in Tel Aviv, 2024
© All Rights Reserved | Rachel Brook, 2024

Released on Sunday, May 19, 2024
Recorded in Tel Aviv, Israel

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Composed by Naomi Shemer
Arranged by Mayta Cohen

LYRICS
The mountain air is clear as wine
And the scent of pines
Is carried on the breeze of twilight
With the sound of bells.
And in the slumber of tree and stone
Captured in her dream
The city that sits solitary
And in its midst is a wall.
Jerusalem of gold
And of copper, and of light
Behold I am a violin for all your songs.
But as I come to sing to you today,
And to adorn crowns to you
I am the smallest of the youngest of your children And of the last poet
For your name scorches the lips
Like the kiss of a seraph
If I forget thee, Jerusalem,
Which is all gold...
Jerusalem of gold...
We have returned to the cisterns
To the market and to the market-place
A ram’s horn calls out on the Temple Mount
In the Old City.
And in the caves in the mountain
Thousands of suns shine—
We will once again descend to the Dead Sea
By way of Jericho!
Jerusalem of gold...

Avir harim tzalul kayayin
Vereiach oranim,
Nisa beru’ach ha’arbayim
Im kol pa’amonim.
Uvetardemat ilan va’even
Shvuyah bachalomah,
Ha’ir asher badad yoshevet
Uvelibah chomah.
Yerushalayim shel zahav
Veshel nechoshet veshel or
Halo lechol shirayich ani kinor.
Ach bevo’i hayom lashir lach
Velach lik’shor k’tarim,
Katonti mitze’ir bana’ich
Ume’acharon ham’shorerim.
Ki shmech tzorev et hasfatayim
Ki-neshikat saraf,
Im eshkachech Yerushalayim
Asher kulah zahav...
Yerushalayim shel zahav...
Chazarnu el borot hamayim
Lashuk velakikar,
Shofar kore behar habayit
ba’ir ha’atikah.
Uvame’arot asher baselah
Alfei shmashot zorchot,
Nashuv nered el yam hamelach
Bederech Yericho!
Yerushalayim shel zahav...


MUSICIANS:
Cantor Rachel Brook
Core Music Collective
Meir Briskman

CREDITS
Music Director/Conductor: Meir Briskman
Choir Manager: Nava Sahar
Recording engineer: Yaron Aldema, recorded at the Israel Music Conservatory, Tel Aviv March 2024

Mixing and Mastering:
Zohar Zaltz, Eshel Studios
Videographers: Dror Heller, Gadi Yampel
Guitar: Eyal Leber
Piano: Oleg Yekirevich

SOPRANOS
Noam Avidan
Nava Sahar
Yael Zori

ALTOS
Maria Telnov Arber
Noa Doron
Tamara Nishri

TENORS
Yaakov Halperin
Daniel Portnoy
Nevo Weiner

BASS
Dor Magen
Avishai Shalom
Roi Witz

ALBUM ART:
Brian Schmidt

This album was created in honor of 150 years of Anshe Emet Synagogue and in loving solidarity with the artists of Israel during these unprecedented times, thanks to the generous support of Judy and Bill Goldberg and The Sarah Danielle Goldberg Cultural Arts Fund of Anshe Emet.