All material

I undertook this project to create a multi-media Seder Chazzanut in 2005 with the expectation to finish it within a reasonable amount of time. In 2025 I finally completed the site. One reason it took so long was that it is just not easy to capture the details. Furthermore, over time I realized there was more to it than expected.

The Chazzanim and Shamashim who wrote their Seder Chazzanut manuscripts mainly wrote them for their own usage and that of their successors. Many details are missing either because they were so obvious that writing them down was not needed, or because they happened outside the regular service and thus were not needed in their function. The same is true for the recordings. Here parts are also missing because they were outside the service, forgotten or got lost.

In order to safeguard all the material I gathered, I placed all texts and recordings on this page. This page provides the complete overview of al the “raw” material. All material is indexed and explained in details in the dedicated pages on this site. These pages have some extra recordings which are not part of the “all material’ collection and were added mostly by JBS to complete the described service. On this page the material is brought by source without context. On the indexed pages the material is brought by subject, based on context.

Even though you will find corrections on Seder Chazzanut and the recordings, this is by no means to disqualify the people who put tremendous efforts in place to make them. On the contrary, without their effort our unique nusach (liturgical custom) would probably completely have been lost after this generation, as we unfortunately see in other places. We are extremely grateful to them for their documenting in writing and recording.

I present the material on two web pages:

	Texts
	Recordings

List name abbreviations of contributors.

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