Hazzan's Study:

All about our High Holy Day Cantor,

Michelle Auslander

 

 

We are pleased and excited to announce that this year our High Holy Day Shlichat Tzibbur will be Cantorial Soloist Michelle Auslander Cohen. She is a highly trained musician with a Bachelors and Masters in Music and an advanced degree in performance.  She has an exceptional soprano voice, and has sung in multiple opera houses around the world. She has also trained in the Cantorial arts and has been a Cantorial soloist for a number of Florida Synagogues. She was raised in the Conservative Movement, graduated from Solomon Schechter in Chicago, and comes from a family of Synagogue musicians and Jewish music educators.  Even more important than her magnificent voice is the sincerity of her davening, the kavanah (intent) with which she approaches the task of leading us and pleading for us before God.

 

She is married to Yaniv, and has one child, Eliana.

 

She composes as well as sings, and has a cd of her original Jewish compositions To hear a song composed, and sung, by Michelle, please click here and choose "Elokai".

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Torah Blessings

Reading from Torah

 

 

 

 

 

Barchu et Adonai ha-m'vorach
Ba-ruch Adonai ha-m'vorach l'olam va-ed [Congregation]
Baruch Adonai ha-m'vorach l'olam va-ed
Baruch ata Adonai, Eloheynu melech ha-olam
asher bachar banu mi-kol ha-amim v'natan lanu et torato
Baruch ata Adonai, noteyn ha-torah.

Blessed are You - the Lord our God, King of the Universe,
who has chosen us from all peoples and has given us His Torah.
Blessed are You - the Lord, Giver of the Torah.

Baruch ata Adonai,
Eloheynu melech ha-olam.
asher natan lanu torat emet,
v'cha-yey olam nata b'tocheynu,
baruch atah Adonai noteyn ha-torah.

Blessed are You - the Lord our God, King of the universe, who has given us
the Torah of truth, and has planted everlasting life in our midst.
Blessed are You - the Lord, Giver of the Torah.

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Demonstration of how to do Hebah Gelilah (picking up and tying up the Torah)