Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema)  "Hear, [O] Israel") are the first two words of a section of the Torah (Hebrew Bible) that is a centerpiece of the morning and evening Jewish prayer services.  "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord", found in Deuteronomy 6:4.

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Aleynu--Jewish prayer

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Shimcha Kadosh (Holy Is Your Name)

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King David's Lyre: Echoes of Ancient Israel

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Carol Cantrell sings Shalom Aleichem in Jerusalem

This is a greeting version in Hebrew, literally meaning "Peace be upon you." The appropriate response is "Aleichem shalom," or "Upon you be peace."

Shalom aleichem malachei ha-shareit malachei elyon, mi-melech malchei ha-melachim Ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu.

Bo'achem le-shalom malachei ha-shalom malachei elyon, mi-melech malchei ha-melachim Ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu.

Barchuni le-shalom malachei ha-shalom malachei elyon, mi-melech malchei ha-melachim Ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu.

Tzeit'chem le-shalom malachei ha-shalom malachei elyon, mi-melech malchei ha-melachim Ha-Kadosh Baruch Hu.

The words to the song translate:

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Messianic Dance - Arise O Lord 

Arise O Lord

 Craig Smith

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HEAR O ISRAEL

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Yom Yerushalayim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDjdAmG2hrM&feature=related

Jerusalem Day ( Yom Yerushalayim) is an Israeli national holiday commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City in 1967.

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The Ladder - Chava Alberstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGbBUio9J44

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Ani Ma'amin

(Maimonides: 12th Principle of Faith)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=strW4oTrfXc&feature=related

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B'tzeit Yisrael

(Psalm 114)

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Esa Enai (I lift up my eyes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpji1QIRKn4&feature=related

 Prayer for Jerusalem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvKROw_DCjg&feature=related

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Revach

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDmjIo-gZY0&feature=related

Hanukkah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4i4OZBlP80&feature=related

Hanukkah song at Shuvah Israel service

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWZgDXfMt-E&feature=related

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The words to many zemirot are taken from poems written by various rabbis and sages during the Middle Ages. Others are anonymous folk songs that have been passed down from generation to generation.

Shabbos Yerushalayim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQxBUSpjcng

Heal Us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03Vd6tLpKk&feature=related

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The history of religious Jewish music is about the cantorial, synagogal, and the Temple music from Biblical to Modern times. The earliest synagogal music was based on the same system as that used in the Temple in Jerusalem. According to the Mishna, the regular Temple orchestra consisted of twelve instruments, and the choir of twelve male singers.

The Mishnah is considered to be the first important work of Rabbinic Judaism and is a major source of later rabbinic religious thought.

 A number of additional instruments were known to the ancient Hebrews, though they were not included in the regular orchestra of the Temple: the uggav (something like church organ).

After the destruction of the Temple and the subsequent diaspora of the Jewish people, music was initially banned. Later, these restrictions were relaxed. It was with the piyyutim (liturgical poems) that Jewish music began to crystallize into definite form. The cantor sang the piyyutim to melodies selected by their writer or by himself, thus introducing fixed melodies into synagogal music. The music may have preserved a few phrases in the reading of Scripture which recalled songs from the Temple itself; but generally it echoed the tones in the country and age in which the Jews lived, not merely in the actual borrowing of tunes, but more in the tonality on which the local music was based.

Selichot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ1c9C188Rg&feature=related

Sephardi Jews are a subgroup of Jews originating in the Iberian Peninsula.

B'Derech el HaOr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uElvdGFgw0o&feature=related

Selichot  are Jewish penitential poems and prayers, especially those said in the period leading up to the High Holy Days, and on Fast Days. The Thirteen Attributes of God are a central theme throughout the prayers.

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