haifagirl: Once, during a piano lesson, I had a student learning an easy version of Brahms’s Lullaby. She recognized it immediately. “Oh,” she said, “it’s Hamapil!”
I love that one! My mom used to sing it to me when I was little!
revooh: It’s funny, I used to never listen to non-Jewish music but now I do. I just only pick songs I like, and I have to justify to myself why I like it. I happen to like instrumentals, so it’s not a big deal. I suggest maybe, as a transition, trying Piano Guys- they take tunes you may like, use only the music (as all of the Jewish singers do anyway), and it’s gorgeous (I’m obsessed with cello).
Remember, if you know this is what you really want to do, then doing it will be its own reward. Figure out EXACTLY why you want to do it, and it’ll make it easier. Everything’s easier when you have a clearly defined goal- for example, I’ve been gaining weight recently, and when I decided, you know, I’m gonna lose weight, nothing actually happened, because I had no motivation- as opposed to when my cousin got married, and I specifically tried to lose weight so I can look and feel my best about myself when I was there. Then it worked :).