Everyday Pluralism

Ps.114: He’harim (The Mountains)

Micah Shapiro & Aaren Alpert

July 13, 2020

Micah Shapiro was ordained from Hebrew College in 2017 and serves as a rabbi at Penn Hillel. A songwriter, composer and band leader, he trained with Nava Tehila in Jerusalem and The Rising Song Fellowship in Philadelphia. Micah is the founder of Nariya – The Shabbat Sing Out and Yetzira – The Jewish Songwriters Collective and his Kabbalat Shabbat album Ta’ir Eretz – Light Up The Earth was released in April 2019.

Aaren Alpert is director of The Dorot Fellowship in Israel. Raised in a singing family, she is the founder of Ramahcapella at Ramah in Ohai and a singer and collaborator on Micah Shapiro’s original Jewish music.

He-harim (The Mountains)

Words from Psalm 114:3-4

Music by Micah Shapiro

Performed by Micah Shapiro (vocals, guitar) and Aaren Alpert (vocals)

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