This setting of the Hashkiveinu prayer reflects the eclectic style with which Gottlieb composed. Gottlieb worked with Leonard Bernstein and was very influenced by him in his musical style. This setting is at once melodic and somewhat discomforting, perhaps reflecting the traditional ambivalence that Judaism has held towards sleep. In traditional Jewish thought, sleep is seen as a time when a person is neither wholly alive nor dead, and thus this prayer asks God to renew us to life in the morning
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