Shaarei Shabbat: Songs & Blessings For Your Jewish Home

Various Artists (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 2003)
• Original Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Transcontinental Music Publications
• ASIN: B000158XI0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #252,784 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This wonderful resource includes folk melodies, contemporary classics and synagogue standards sung by cantors and soloists. Shaarei Shabbat: Songs & Blessings for Your Jewish Home is the perfect starting place for those to whom Shabbat (Sabbath) is new or a place to return. Along with Haneirot Halalu: A Home Celebration of Chanukah, Shaarei Shabbat will help make your Jewish home a joyous one. Popular with clergy and individuals as gifts, to learn Shabbat melodies or make home Sabbath observance just a little warmer with song. Produced by Doug Cotler.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Unsatisfying, July 7, 2007

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Sui Generis (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shaarei Shabbat: Songs & Blessings For Your Jewish Home (Audio CD)

I was looking for a CD that would help me carry the beauty and spirit of the Shabbat services with me throughout the rest of the week. Unfortunately, this CD doesn't do that.

The CD seems to have very little emotion invested in the singing. I don't feel kavanah in the least. I imported the CD I purchased into my iTunes collection as soon as I got it, excited at the prospect of learning new melodies and reinforcing old favourites; sadly, I have deleted all but two of the tracks, Y'did Nefesh and the Birkot haMazon -- and I kept those two only because I was still trying to learn them. And I haven't listened to either of those tracks in almost two years.

But maybe liking this CD is tradition-dependent. Traditionalists, Conservatives, and Orthodox will be thoroughly unimpressed and disappointed. Reformists, Reconstructionists, and anyone else -- well, I honestly don't know. It seems though that there has to be a better compilation out there than this one.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Shaarei Shabbat, October 3, 2007

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Mindah Glatstein "glatstein" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shaarei Shabbat: Songs & Blessings For Your Jewish Home (Audio CD)

Some of renditions on this cd are lovely, but the quality of the singing is inconsistent. Even though it is interesting to hear a variety of interpretations and most of these are well done, there is no flow, so the change from soprano to tenor comes a surprise, sometimes a jarring one.