30 de novembro de 2012
28 de novembro de 2012
"Tumbalalaika"
Naftali Herstik, Alberto Mizrachi, Benzion Miller with the Neimah Singers
Sinagoga Portuguesa de Amsterdão (2003)
Forty Years
The Lord spoke further to Moses and Aaron, "How much longer shall that wicked community keep muttering against Me? Very well, I have heeded the incessant muttering of the Israelites against Me. Say to them: 'As I live,' says the Lord, 'I will do to you just as you have urged Me. In this very wilderness shall your carcasses drop. Of all of you who were recorded in your various lists from the age of twenty years up, you who have muttered against Me, not one shall enter the land in which I swore to settle you - save Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. Your children who, you said, would be carried off - these will I allow to enter; they shall know the land that you have rejected. But your carcasses shall drop in this wilderness, while your children roam the wilderness for forty years, suffering for your faithlessness, until the last of your carcasses is down in the wilderness. You shall bear your punishment for forty years, corresponding to the number of days - forty days - that you scouted the land: a year for each day. Thus you shall know what it means to thwart Me. I the Lord have spoken: Thus will I do to all that wicked band that has banded together against Me: in this very wilderness they shall die to the last man.'"
As for the men whom Moses sent to scout the land, those who came back and caused the whole community to mutter against him by spreading calumnies about the land - those who spread such calumnies about the land died of plague, by the will of the Lord. Of those men who had gone to scout the land, only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.
When Moses repeated these words to all the Israelites, the people were overcome by grief. Early next morning they set out toward the crest of the hill country, saying, "We are prepared to go up to the place that the Lord has spoken of, for we were wrong." But Moses said, "Why do you transgress the Lord's command? This will not succeed. Do not go up, lest you be routed by your enemies, for the Lord is not in your midst. For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there to face you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned from following the Lord and the Lord will not be with you."
Yet defiantly they marched toward the crest of the hill country, though neither the Lord's Ark of the Covenant nor Moses stirred from the camp. And the Amalekites and the Canaaniteswho dwelt in that hill country came down and dealt them a shatttering blow at Hormah.
When Moses repeated these words to all the Israelites, the people were overcome by grief. Early next morning they set out toward the crest of the hill country, saying, "We are prepared to go up to the place that the Lord has spoken of, for we were wrong." But Moses said, "Why do you transgress the Lord's command? This will not succeed. Do not go up, lest you be routed by your enemies, for the Lord is not in your midst. For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there to face you, and you will fall by the sword, inasmuch as you have turned from following the Lord and the Lord will not be with you."
Yet defiantly they marched toward the crest of the hill country, though neither the Lord's Ark of the Covenant nor Moses stirred from the camp. And the Amalekites and the Canaaniteswho dwelt in that hill country came down and dealt them a shatttering blow at Hormah.
Numbers 14, 26-45
(JPS Tanakh)
A Grande Sinagoga de Berlim
The largest synagogue in Germany reopened in 2007 (after two years of renovation).
Built in 1904, Rykestrasse synagogue was one of the few
Jewish buildings in the capital to survive the Kristallnacht pogrom of
November 1938.
25 de novembro de 2012
"The Sound of Silence"
"The Sound of Silence"- Simon & Garfunkel
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people - maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools" said I."You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said: "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people - maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools" said I."You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said: "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"
24 de novembro de 2012
23 de novembro de 2012
A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah.
God, You are my God;
I search for you,
my soul thirsts for You, (Tzomah L'cha Nafshi)
my body yearns for You,
as a parched and thirsty land that has no water.
I shall behold You in the sanctuary,
and see Your might and glory,
Truly Your faithfulness is better than life;
my lips declare Your praise.
I bless You all my life;
I lift up my hands, invoking Your Name.
I am sated as with a rich feast,
I sing praises with joyful lips
when I call You to mind upon my bed,
when I think of You in the watches of the night;
for You are my help,
and in the shadow of Your wings
I shout for joy.
My soul is attached to You;
Your right hand supports me.
May those who seek to destroy my life
enter the depths of the earth.
May they gutted by the sword;
may they be prey to jackals.
But the king shall rejoice in God;
all who swear by Him shall exult,
when the mouth of liars is stopped.
Psalm 63
(JPS Tanakh)
21 de novembro de 2012
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14 de novembro de 2012
Rebbe Nachman
"Know!
A person walks in life on a very narrow bridge.
The most important thing is not to be afraid".
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
13 de novembro de 2012
Etíopes
Ethiopian Jewish religious leaders attend the unveiling ceremony for a monument on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem March 14, 2007.
The monument commemorates the 4,000 Ethiopian Jews who perished on their way to Israel more than two decades ago.
12 de novembro de 2012
"Perfect Day"
Lou Reed - "Perfect Day"
Just a perfect day
Drink sangria in the park
And then later, when it gets dark
We go home
Just a perfect day
Feed animals in the zoo
Then later a movie, too
And then home
Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on
Just a perfect day
Problems all left alone
Weekenders on our own
It's such fun
Just a perfect day
You made me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
Someone good
Oh, it's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on
You just keep me hanging on
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
You're going to reap just what you sow
10 de novembro de 2012
9 de novembro de 2012
Not in the Heavens
כי המצוה חזאת אשר אנכי מצוך היום לא-נפלאת הוא ממך ולא רחקה הוא: לא בשמים חוא לאמר מי יעלה-לנו השמימה ויקחה לנו וישמענו אתה ונעשנה: ולא-מעבר לים הוא לאמר מי יעברֿ-לנו אל-עור הים ויקחה לנו וישמענו אתה ונעשנה: כי-קרוב אליך הדבר מאד בפיך ובלבבך לעשתו
Surely, this Instruction which I enjoin upon you this day is not too baffling for you, nor is it beyond reach. It is not in the heavens, that you should say, "Who among us can go up to the heavens and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?" Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who among us can cross to the other side of the sea and get it for us and impart it to us, that we may observe it?" No, the thing is very close to you, in your mouth and in your heart, to observe it.
Deuteronomy 30, 11-14
(JPS Tanakh)
8 de novembro de 2012
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
"For the Torah has so many locks and keys, and each key is individual, each doorway is one's own. A person can be considered very fortunate if he finds the special key, the private door that is his to enter. Too often people just keep wandering about getting involved with other people's keys and doors; they make mistakes and get themselves confused and entangled in points of view not their own. The simplest solution is to be certain that one's connection to Torah exists. If one just lets attention be properly oriented, it is possible to feel that certain sentences in prayer, certain passages of scripture, have special appeal to oneself; they "speak" to you. Many jews will learn these passages by heart, becoming emotionally intimate with certain words that serve them as a doorway".
'Afterword: Mysticism in the Jewish Tradition' by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz in 'Nine and a Half Mystics' by Herbert Weiner
'Afterword: Mysticism in the Jewish Tradition' by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz in 'Nine and a Half Mystics' by Herbert Weiner
"Where The Wild Things Are" de Maurice Sendak
"That very night in Max's room a forest grew
and grew -
and grew until his ceiling hung with vines
and the walls became the world all around"
7 de novembro de 2012
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