Baal teshuva mommy here

amother

OP ↓

Tue, Nov 19 2024, 8:19 pm

Hi!! I am a BT so I didn't grow up with the "Classic" jewish music that includes all the zemiros and yuntif songs everyone seems to know. I'm wondering what are some good cds I can get for my toddler kids that teach frum lessons and are not the new dj style frum songs. more like marvelous middos machine type. What are some people recommend (that I can learn from too?)... I have imposter syndrome almost and I feel like im missing the basics of being a frum mommy TMI

please help me!! im embarrassed I don't know any of the songs my kids learn in playgroup or school

MoveEveryYear

Tue, Nov 19 2024, 9:13 pm

I definitely felt this way, as a convert mom. Something that helped me a little was https://a.co/d/9Jcgyer. This singing siddur, also has some things beyond just davening. Also, once my kids started school, they taught me and its super exciting for them to teach me.

amother

Chicory ↓

Tue, Nov 19 2024, 9:57 pm

scruffy wrote:

Uncle Moishy
613 Torah Avenue
Morah Music

For stories Shmuel Kunda

All available on Spotify.

Also, don't be embarrassed to casually ask his Morah what CDs she plays for them. And then play those at home so you learn them too.

happytobemom

Tue, Nov 19 2024, 10:04 pm

amother Amaryllis wrote:

If you can get your hands on the mitzvah tree series, a lot of songs your kids will learn are on those tapes.

This was my first thought. They recently came out with the whole set on usb.

amother

Birch

Yesterday at 12:32 am

Rebbe Alter
the Mitzva Tree

Please don't feel stupid. I grew up in Europe and now live in Israel and I don't know any of the songs my kids come home with.

amother

↑ Chicory ↓

Yesterday at 10:23 am

To explain, Morah/Mendy music and Uncle Moishy are the type of songs they probably listen to in the classroom.

Nobody I know has a copy of Mitzvah Tree. But my kid's teacher, their teachers, teachers, teacher back several decades had it cuz that was what was around. And those are the songs she taught and then they taught and now they're teaching still. In general, a lot of the songs twice, especially at the younger level are just passed from one teacher to the next and often the same songs they learned.

keym

Yesterday at 10:34 am

The first 6 or so Uncle Moishy.
Those are the classic old songs about mitzvos and Middos.
Torah Tziva, Give a little tzedaka, uptown downtown, etc

amother

Forsythia

Yesterday at 10:49 am

amother Birch wrote:

Rebbe Alter
the Mitzva Tree

Please don't feel stupid. I grew up in Europe and now live in Israel and I don't know any of the songs my kids come home with.

Yessss. When we lived in Israel and my kids came home singing songs I had no clue! The first one I learned was nachleli katan

amother

↑ Chicory ↓

Yesterday at 1:10 pm

Your kid won't learn this in school, but there's a great album called Uncle Moishy lullabies which can give you some nice tunes for when you say Shema with your child at night. I don't know when it came out but it's on Spotify (And probably the other streaming services.) It's one of those little things that's nice to give your child. You don't have to, but you're not going to learn it anywhere else.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Yesterday at 6:17 pm

this is all SO helpful, thank you everyone for the suggestions and also the support!! I totally feel validated Tongue Out

you should all be gebenched!!!

amother

↑ OP ↓

Yesterday at 6:20 pm

I don't know if this should be a spinoff post but my husband is also BT and he has the same kind of embarrassment when it comes to zemiros. we don't come off as BT so it's awkward then when we're by a shabbos meal and people assume he knows and he doesn't know any zemiros (not that I feel embarrassed. He often brings up that this is an insecurity of how own). is there a place to learn yeshivish type zemiros people sing by shabbos meals?

amother

↑ OP

Yesterday at 6:21 pm

MoveEveryYear wrote:

thank you!! the link isn't opening for me, do you mind resending?

amother

Razzmatazz

Yesterday at 6:29 pm

amother OP wrote:

There are zemiros albums too.

amother

↑ Chicory

Yesterday at 6:40 pm

amother OP wrote:

This is a great one for learning the basics. Not the zemiros but benching, eishes chayil etc.
https://open.spotify.com/album.....jg3cg

Let me see if I can find one for the most popular zemiros. (Very few people actually know all of them but at least this way he can know the most popular.)

This has a great selection of the most popular daytime ones, some of the others are not as famous. https://open.spotify.com/album.....sNz4A