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This song was written collaboratively by Itai Gal and Zach Mayer. The A section came to Itai over one Shabbos. When they were walking back from synagogue with Zach the following Shabbos, they shared the tune, and Zach sang back the "aranen, aranen" chorus. Then harmonies started coming to them, they went to Zach's house to play the song and then to Itai's later that night to record a draft version, and the rest was history.

The words are from Psalm 92 for Shabbat and uses feminine G!d language.

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Arise, arise, arise, arise
For I rejoice in Your creation
Arise, arise, arise, arise
In Your creation I rejoice

'Alei asor v'alei nahvel
Ki simakhtani Havaya b'foalayikh
'Alei asor v'alei nahvel
B'ma'aseh yadayikh aranen

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from Arise, released September 23, 2019
Itai Gal: lead vocals, piano
Zach Mayer: soprano saxophone, vocal harmonies
Josh Yoshi Portuondo-Dember: violin, vocal harmonies
Sam Forman: guitar, vocal harmonies
Jesse Gordon: bass
Jeremy Orenstein: drums

Recorded by Dan Thorn at Pink Noise Studios
Mixed by Cameron Seymour-Hawkins
Mastered by Chanan Rose

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Itai and the Ophanim Brattleboro, Vermont

Itai Gal writes upbeat, soulful love songs to the Earth to sing, dance, and pray to. Ophanim are Jewish mythical beasts; the wheels within wheels of Ezekiel's vision, a source of much inspiration. Itai draws upon ancient texts from his lineage and brings them to life with interpretive translations for our times; as it is said, "turn it and turn it, for everything is within it" (Pirkei Avot 5). ... more

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