St. Paul native Debbie Friedman has put her stamp on Jewish music, with her melodies for Mi Shebeirach (the prayer for healing) and other Jewish liturgical texts. On her new album, As You Go On Your Way: Shacharit — The Morning Prayers, Friedman sings the sequence of prayers that form the Shacharit service, a “horizontal” link between Jewish worshipers in a communal setting, and a “vertical” connection “with those who stood in silence, whispering, singing, sobbing, hoping with these very words for the past 2,000 years, and with Jews who will stand, whispering and singing for the rest of time,” Friedman and accompanist Joe Septimus explain in the liner notes. For more information on the album, go to: www.debbiefriedman.com. — Mordecai Specktor
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