MicroSummaries of SPARKS Songs

BROWSE individual songs/lyrics from my 2020 award-winning Jewish album Sparks (click here for more information about Sparks, here for updated versions of some Sparks songs, and here for the fall 2025 album Night Will End of all new songs!

for the “full album experience,” buy a DOWNLOAD from Amazon, iTUNES/Apple, etc. or STREAM the whole thing on YouTube (or other platforms), etc.

SONG SOUNDFILE (click L for lyric) MICRO-SUMMARY 
2 Jews, 3 Opinions (L) also see SR dynamics of diverse opinions
Shabbos Keeps the Jews (L) dynamics of diverse Shabbat practices [Finalist for Best Bluegrass Song at the 34th New Mexico Music Awards]
Lights Lead Home (L) composite Crypto-Jewish journey; song video screened as an Official Selection for the 2025 Silver City Community Film Festival
Kind (L) also see SR allegory for dietary practice
Max (The Bark Mitzvah Song) (L) (canine view of) Jewish coming-of-age [live ]; Winner of Best Humorous Song at the 34th New Mexico Music Awards
7 Circles (L) a math motif
Sparks (L) Kabbalah [Finalist for Best Religious Song at the 34th New Mexico Music Awards]
Two Pockets (L) balancing one’s importance and impermanence
Feathers (L) perils of gossip
Temples (L) also see SR baseless hatred
Spiritual Not Religious (L) a cultural Jew’s view [live]
Tearin’ the Sea (L) soulmate search
The Best (L) also see SR faithfulness facing apparent misfortune
One-Way Train (L) Holocaust horror… and hope
Stack the Stones (L) post-Shoah Europe
Right Messiah (L) also see SR reply to supersessionist evangelism
Nothing in Between (L) seeking direct connection
Deep and Wide (L) best-of-both-worlds faith
Rowboat (L) interdependence
Bruria (L) sharp female sage of the Talmud
Letters (L), also see SR unlearned but heart-filled spirituality
Everyone (L) universal recipe for success
The Stone (L) Rabbi Akiva’s watershed moment
Give Thanks (L) gratitude

 

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