Cantor George Henschel's Shacharit Kavanah

In Music, The Carrier of Intention in 49 Jewish Prayers, Cantor George Henschel focuses on a piece that serves as a Kavanah to lead one into the Birkot Hashachar, the morning blessings.  It's a text from the Kabbalists of Safed, and it reflects the instruction from the Zohar: invoking the union of the Holy One with the Shechinah, I stand ready to take upon myself the mitzvah. "V'ahavta l'reiacha kamocha"--"You shall love your fellow human being as yourself." And only then may I open my mouth to recite the morning blessings, says Cantor George whose has written a piece entitled "Shacharit Kavanah." 

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