What it is
Shir shel yom, the song of the day, is the psalm the Levites sang in the Temple for each day of the week. This project is my practice of setting the psalms to melody, one at a time.
It began in the first spring of the pandemic. In March 2020, with the world shut indoors, I started setting a psalm to music each day and sharing it on live streams, a song of the day for a time when every day felt the same. By May there were nearly seventy.
My dream is to complete the cycle: a melody for every one of the 150 psalms. Each has its own card here already, and the melodies keep arriving.
What’s on each psalm
Listen and sing
The recording with the words, line by line, so you can follow and sing along.
Sheet music
Lead sheets for the psalm melodies are on kolhai.org, by donation.
Video
Where a psalm was first shared on video, the card opens it at the right moment.
Graphics
Many psalms have their own artwork, which you can turn on or off.
How to find a psalm
Open today’s psalm, browse all 150 cards, or go straight to one by number: psalms.shir.earth/23 opens Psalm 23.
Behind it
Shir Shel Yom is built on the same engine as the Contemplative Siddur, and both are offerings of Kol Hai, a 501(c)(3). You can support this work.