Music & arrangement: Bob Remstein
Text: liturgy

Our weekday liturgy (the Amidah) includes this prayer for healing. It is an impassioned plea for well-being and health that Bob Remstein composed with gentle firmness.

Heal us, Adonai, and we shall be healed; Save us and we shall be saved; for You are our Praise. Lift up a complete and perfect healing, a healing of body and spirit, to all our wounds for You are a Ruler Who heals with faithfulness, mercy and compassion.

Our journey into illness, healing and eventually passage to the World to Come is often circuitous and multi-layered. The songs on this album were assembled according to their messages of hope, strength, recovery, resolution, and oneness with our Creator. Many of these songs are original commissions by Congregation B’nai B’rith of Santa Barbara, CA, which I am proud to spotlight. Collaborating with my son, David, has been an intergenerational joy that would have made my mother Myrna Childs, to whom I dedicate this album, overflow with love
If these songs provide you or your loved ones with even a moment of respite and comfort as you travel your layered path, then I’ve achieved my goal.
Cantor Mark Childs
Spring, 2021