With guitarist Rob Raede
Music & arrangement: Rob Raede
Sound engineering by Dave Reitzas
Text: liturgy

This text is from the morning liturgy. We begin each day with gratitude for the “pure soul” that G-d created and housed in each of us. We’re taught that we give it to its creator for safe keeping when we sleep at night. When we awaken to find it restored to us, we give thanks.
This composition was commissioned by CBB’s “Fund for New Jewish Music”.

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