Meera Popkins Judaea Pop

About the Book

One day, Meera sat on her sofa with a prayer book and a tape recorder. She pushed the record button, and fifteen to twenty minutes later, she had recorded fourteen songs just by improvising. She realized that she had composed new liturgical melodies for any person that would want to pray using new modern tunes. She contacted William Rowe, and he transcribed the prayers from tape to paper. He transcribed one with words and one without words. These songs are transformational prayers that bring you from the olive branch with the dove (symbolizing peace) through to fruition where the doves are, in the end, enveloped in peace, standing proud on the carving, and flying away, promoting the power of prayer. Anyone is invited to bring these prayers to life and enjoy a journey into their own peace, just like the dove.

About the Author

Meera Popkin is happy to share her new melodies, put to standard liturgy, with you. She welcomes organizations to use these prayers in their religious schools. Meera is the wife of thirteen years to James Tarack and the mother of Kayla and Kol, ages twelve and ten. While being a mom, she has published five other books, all of them Meeras Muses series. Her part-time job is as a substitute teacher for the Monroe County community schools. She has taught dance and voice for kids as well. In her lifetime, Meera was on Broadway as well as London’s West End as the star in a Cameron MacIntosh musical. She worked in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats and in his musical Starlight Express and was a chorus member in many other musicals. She holds a bachelor of arts in musical theater from Indiana University and graduated with honors. She went into music and dance from a very early age and was always seen by the record player during her preschool days. The teacher used to say that that was how she spent all of her free time while at Children’s Corner. Lila Higgins was her dance teacher and trained her well in preparation for her musical theatre career days. It is no wonder Meera finds herself composing today after a somewhat long career with music. Also notable is her adventure abroad that she was so fortunate to have after consistent summers of camp and religious school, attending Hebrew University and living on a kibbutz and moshav in Israel. Thank you for buying her book, which is a culmination of her experiences. May it bring you peace, and may it bring you closer to God.