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My favourite prayer in the siddur is Nishmat Kol Chai. However, as a non-Hebrew speaker (I can read the letters phonetically), I find the length of the text intimidating. In addition, since it is always chanted silently in synagogue, there isn't much opportunity to learn the Hebrew from listening to others.

I wondered if there is an audio recording available with a reading of this prayer, or singing it if there is a tune. I've never heard a tune for the whole prayer, but it would make it a lot easier to learn if there was one.

It would be really helpful to have a recording of the whole text even if it isn't with a tune. Then I can listen to that over and over again to internalize the Hebrew.

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    Hi Avi, what is your minhag? Ashkenazi? Sefardi? Can you be even more specific? I'll try and find a good example to fit your custom
    – Rabbi Kaii
    Commented Aug 24, 2023 at 13:51
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    Thank you! I'm Ashkenazi.
    – Avi C
    Commented Aug 24, 2023 at 14:20
  • @RabbiKaii *sefaradi
    – Aaron
    Commented Aug 24, 2023 at 16:54
  • thanks @Aaron. Avi, I am sorry, I have been trying but it's hard to find a good version that's easy to use to learn it for nusach Ashkenaz (surprising amount for Sefaradi). If I come across it I will definitely post it
    – Rabbi Kaii
    Commented Aug 24, 2023 at 23:49
  • @RabbiKaii If you know of a recording in other another nusach that would still be a big help. The main thing is to learn the words and think they are most the same between the different traditions.
    – Avi C
    Commented Aug 25, 2023 at 11:30

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These two sites have a wide selection of audio resources for different versions of part or all of Nishmas:

If you have any problems with the Hebrew content on the first link, then you can use your web browser's option (eg. in Chrome) to translate the page to English as this might help to some degree.

Also see this related question for other ideas.

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  • Thank you for the links.
    – Avi C
    Commented Aug 25, 2023 at 11:52

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