Shir Yaakov

While he records and performs primarily as a singer-songwriter, he has also worked with Darshan and The Epichorus. In 2016, his song Broken-Hearted, based on a verse from Psalm 147, won first place in the 2016 Soundtrack of our Spirit competition organized by the venerable Jewish-American media company The Forward. A number of his compositions remain in regular liturgical use at Romemu and other congregations in the US.

Since 2015, Shir Yaakov has led Kol Hai. From 2008 to 2012, he served as Musical Director at Romemu, the Manhattan congregation led by Rabbi David Ingber, who was also a student of Schachter-Shalomi. Earlier still, Shir Yaakov co-founded and led the Kol Zimrah minyan on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Feit has collaborated with the multifaith world music band The Epichorus, singing on their 2012 debut album One Bead.

Feit began his music career with the EP Shir (2008), followed by his debut album Zeh (2009). He has since released two more solo albums, Az (2010) and Lah (2015).

In 2008, while working at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, Feit met the Jewish rapper Eprhyme (Eden Pearlstein). After playing their respective music for each other, Eprhyme invited Feit to sing on his debut album Waywordwonderwill, and the two later formed the duo Darshan. Their debut EP Lishmah was released in 2010, followed by a full-length album, Deeper and Higher, in 2015.

Feit moved to Jerusalem's Nachlaot neighborhood in 2005 to study in yeshiva. There, Feit and his friends created an informal band called Lev Yerushalayim, with whom he would beatbox and freestyle rap at late-night concerts outside Yeshivat Simchat Shlomo.

Sam Benjamin "Shir Yaakov" Feinstein-Feit (born February 27, 1978) is an American rabbi, composer, liturgist, singer and graphic designer. He currently serves Kol Hai, a Jewish Renewal community based in New Paltz, New York. He received rabbinical ordination in January 2020 from Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal, the Jewish Renewal umbrella organization formed under the spiritual guidance of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi during the 1990s.