Ma Tovu
- Mar 16
- 1 min read
Numbers 24:5 - One of the most recognized and poetic verses in the Torah, recited by Canaanite seer, Balaam, “Who beholds visions from the Almighty”.
Enjoy this excerpt featuring Robert Merrill as cantorial soloist, chorus and orchestra directed by Leonard Bernstein. Picture the view from a mountaintop!
Prelude to Ernest Bloch’s “Avodath Hakodesh” (“Sacred Service”), composed for a reform congregation in San Francisco in the 1930s. He scored the Shabbat morning service - elevating the language and flow of a synagogue service to the realm of high art.
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