The Torah of Music: Reflections on a Tradition of Singing and Song (Paperback or Softback)

Music is the soul's native language: a prayer, a divine ladder upon which we climb between the Earth and the Heavens. But music also reaches horizontally across our social fractures and dogmas and connect us one with the other. Just as it cuts the nonsense away from our hearts, music opens our ears so that we can listen to the subtle nuances and sacred whispers of the world around us. In every moment, music encourages us to ask ourselves: Can we hear the songs that are already being sung by all of creation?

In The Torah of Music, Joey Weisenberg brings together a comprehensive collection of 180 curated texts from the Jewish musical-spiritual imagination. In the first half, Weisenberg reflects on ancient texts alongside stories from his life as a musician. In the second half, Weisenberg presents a bilingual 'open library' of traditional texts on the subject of music and song, garnered from over three thousand years of Jewish history, to open up the world of Jewish musical thought to all who are willing to join the song.

Joey Weisenberg is a musician, prayer leader, teacher, and author of Building Singing Communities, and Nigunim: The Songbook and The Kane Street Songster. He has published six albums, most recently By the Waters of Babylon. Joey is Creative Director of Hadar's Rising Song Institute, which aims to cultivate grassroots musical-spiritual creativity. Joey works to educate and train communities around the world to unlock their musical and spiritual potential. His nigunim have become popular worldwide. He lives in Philadelphia with his partner, Molly Weingrod, and their four children.