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New music: Teshuva – Hallel
Shalom friends,
We’ve added some fresh new music to the station for your holy pleasure:
Teshuva – Hallel
This is Teshuva’s 3rd album — the previous two, Return and The First Five , have been well-received by Chavah fans. I suspect this new album, which is features songs from Psalm 113-118, will bring you all joy in uplifting praise.
Enjoy, friends!
A poem of sorrow
This post first appeared on Kineti and is authored by Judah Gabriel Himango, one of Tabernacle of David’s teachers. The dead do not live on in our memoriesWho would be satisfiedTheir existence reducedTo a passing thoughtA fleeting memory? The dead in heaven are not needed by GodIf Almighty should have wantOf anything at allHe is… Read more
Chavah turns 10!
Shalom friends,
10 years ago, on February 16th 2010, we announced in a humble blog post the very first version of Chavah:
I’m really excited to show you guys something I worked on over the last few days:
Chavah – Internet Radio For Yeshua’s Disciples
It works on both Windows and Mac, right in your web browser. (Depending on how old your computer is, it may need to install a small Flash-like plug-in called Microsoft Silverlight. After that, you’re home free.)
If you’ve ever used the Pandora.com music service, this is in the same vein. In fact, Pandora is the inspiration for Chavah.
Give it a try! Hope you like it, and please let me know about any problems in the comments.
Yes, it really looked like that. I’m reminded of the saying, “Do not despise humble beginnings!”
Because the web was still in its early days, we used Silverlight plugin technology to play MP3 audio. (Back then, most web browsers couldn’t natively play MP3s – amazing how far we’ve come since then!)
Two years later, in April of 2012, we released Chavah 2.0 :
Fine Kineti readers, I am truly overjoyed to announce Chavah Messianic Radio v2 is available today – oh yes!
Try Chavah v2 now: messianicradio.com What’s so great about this new Chavah?
Chavah runs on mobile phones! Droid, iPhone, Windows Phone 7. Chavah runs on tablets! iPad, Xoom, Galaxy. Chavah runs on PC, Mac, and Linux. No install required! It’s pure native web technology. No Silverlight, no Flash, no QuickTime, no Windows Media. Chavah now sports a clean, sharp HTML5 design that focuses on content over chrome. Ha! This was pretty cool. Things really moved forward with this release; it made Chavah available on mobile phones and tablets, it worked without any plugins — just the native web — and featured a design refresh. The design was…an improvement? Not sure what I was thinking with all the red colors. Weird choice in retrospect.
But, this release really put us on people’s radars, as we streamed over a million tunes for Messiah.
Fast forward 4 years, December of 2016, we released Chavah 3.0 :
Big news, friends. I am glad and overjoyed to announce: The brand new version of Chavah Messianic Radio is here!
This new version works better on mobile, has more awesome features, is more secure, faster, smoother, and no longer requires the now-defunct Persona service to sign in. Woo-freakin’-hoo! Smile
Even though some features are still baking – hearts, chat, a revamped profile, and sharing, to name a few – I felt it was important to release Chavah v3 now. Chavah v2, built back in 2012, was showing its age, utilizing some now-obsolete technology. This new version is a complete rewrite with brand-spankin’ new tech for the modern web – oh yes!
That version, Chavah 3.0, is what we’re still building on today. Today’s Chavah has seen many improvements on top of Chavah 3.0. You might say that today we’re at Chavah 3.5 or so.
We’ve come a long way, friends! Thanks for being with us! Here’s to another 10 years of music for Messiah – cheers and l’chaim!
My brother passed away today
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“Thus let all your enemies perish, Israel”
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Please pray for Aaron – his condition has worsened
This post first appeared on Kineti and is authored by Judah Gabriel Himango, one of Tabernacle of David’s teachers. Shalom friends, Some of you know my younger brother Aaron drowned near his home in Israel. He has been in a coma since August. We just got word from the embassy this morning that Aaron’s condition… Read more
New music: Tehillot Yisrael (Praises of Israel)
Shalom holy friends,
We’ve added fresh Messianic Jewish music from Israel on the station:
Various Artists – Praises of Israel תהילות ישראל
This new album is recorded live in Israel and features some of the top recording artists in the Israeli Messianic community, including Yaron Cherniak, Sarah Liberman, Sheli Myers, Birgitta Lundvall, Jamie Hilsden, and many more.
Here’s how our friends at the Messianic Jewish Alliance of Israel describe the album:
Praises of Israel is a live recording of 13 Messianic songs performed at a public Concert in Jerusalem, May 2019. It is in continuation of the well-known series “Praise to Our God” albums.
The name of the concert and CD is based on the verse “But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel. (Psalms 22:3).
What a blessing to know that God, the Holy Creator of the universe, is enthroned on the praises of His people – He alone is worthy of all our worship!
The album in your hands is the blessed fruit of the labor of many skillful and faithful of the Lord’s people in the Land.
Love it! And I know these fresh songs for the Lord will invigorate your mind and soul as Israel praises the Lord.
If you enjoy this album, please support their holy work by purchasing the album here . Thanks, friends! Enjoy the new music for Messiah.
New feature: popular, trending, recent pages
Shalom friends,
I’m glad to report we’ve rolled out a new feature to the station:
You can now browse popular , recent , and trending pages:
Popular shows the top-ranked songs on Chavah Recent shows songs you recently played Trending shows songs that were thumbed-up recently by you and other listeners To access these pages, on desktop or tablet just click the any of the circled areas:
Additionally, and to enable these pages on mobile phones, you can access these pages from the menu in the top right:
We’ve also updated some styling on the home page for desktop and tablets: as the songs change, so will the text color of “trending”, “my likes”, “recent”, and “popular”:
Each time a song plays, the text color will transition to the album colors. In the above screenshot, the album text color is red, so the trending, my likes, recent, and popular links become red as well.
And finally, we revamped the My Likes pages to work like trending, popular, and recent. They all work better on mobile as well.
Enjoy!
New music: Ted Pearce – Shehekiyanu
Shalom Chavah fans,
I’m excited to announce our good friend Ted Pearce has released a new 5-song EP and graciously granted us permission to play it on Chavah. Have a listen!
Ted Pearce – Shehekiyanu
Ted Pearce needs no introduction – his music is some of the highest rated on Chavah, with several songs in the top 70 ranked songs on Chavah. I’m listening to this new music now and there’s a great deal of musical joy here – just as the album name, Shehekiyanu, implies.
Shehekiyanu שהחינו is a Hebrew word meaning, “Who has given us life”, and it most well known in the Jewish blessings of the same name, in which we thank God for bringing us to the current seasons:
Baruch atah Adonai ברוך אתה אדוני Eloheinu melech ha’olam אלהינו מלך העולם Shehekiyanu v’kiymanu שהחינו וקימנו V’higianu lazman hazeh והגיענו לזמן הזה Blessed are You, Adonai Our God, King of the Universe Who has granted us life, sustained us And enabled us to reach this season
The first song on the EP is, fittingly, Shehekianu. The whole album is a psalm of thanksgiving to God – hallelu! I know you’ll enjoy these holy tunes for Messiah.
When I talked to Ted about playing this new EP on Chavah, he said, “Play it now and into the future as much as you can!!!”
Let’s take Ted up on that, and play this holy new album for Yeshua! Please support Ted’s music by purchasing his album at tedpearce.com . Thanks for supporting Messiah’s musicians, holy friends. And thanks to Ted for freely giving! 😎
