what is LOVE?
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This video is from an interview from 2021 with @JBS given by @Abigailpogrebin I was in Chicago, I was on stage for a concert â not a service â and while the community was singing Am I Awake back to me, I started crying.â
I couldnât hold back the tears.â
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It wasnât about performance.â
It was about connection.â
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I really believe the greatest suffering is separation â that moment of disconnection from the divine, from the source. And so much of what weâre doing, all the time, is trying to reconnect.â
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Music reminds us.â
Community does it.â
Movement does it.â
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Thereâs always the possibility to reach out and reach back.â
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We can look into the eyes of another person and see our own divinity mirrored back at us.â
Itâs in the melody.â
Itâs in the people.â
Itâs in the song.â
Itâs in turning breath into sound.â
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The question isnât where is God?â
Itâs where isnât God?â
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#faith #spirituality #music #community #connection #god #healing #presence #belief #song
The songs that started it all. Performed here Live in NYC. Listen to the power of 1000 ppl singing in full voice! â
#newyork #newyorkcity #manhattan #brooklyn #song #singer #music #concert #singersongwriter #singing
Iâm not sure how to put into words the immense love and joy and gratitude weâre feeling in this moment. Hopefully the pictures can speak for themselves and can communicate what Iâm unable to eloquently express in words. While we continue to build and cultivate our love and relationship each and every day itâs also important to celebrate the milestones when they arrive. Our engagement is both a milestone for us but also the most obvious and natural of steps forward in our relationship. We have privately known for a long time that this was coming, and yet itâs somehow meaningful and significant to declare it more publicly with the outside world. We welcome and open-heartedly receive your blessings for our union, and also, our hope is that our love can somehow be a blessing and a source of light to others and a reminder that love is everything and everywhere and available at all times to everyone. Thank you @ernestoeisner for the photos and @thedebruce for hosting us
I have a deep respect for the profession of a Cantor. â
My father was a cantor for many years, so that respect is real.â
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But I donât call myself a cantor.â
Itâs not what I do.â
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I write songs.â
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And my spirituality isnât a title or a role â itâs human.â
Being spiritual doesnât mean you have to be a rabbi, or serve a community in a specific position.â
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To me, spirituality is just part of being human.â
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That pours through me through music.â
But roles like rabbi or cantor â those are positions of service to a particular community.â
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And that simply wasnât my path.â
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#spirituality #music #faith #identity #calling #purpose #belief #expression #presence #human
Lag Ba'Omer is the bonfire holiday. But in the Kabbalistic tradition, the fire isn't just something you stand around. It's something you draw close to.â
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The Zohar teaches that Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's light didn't go out when he died. It went deeper. Into the embers. Into us.â
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Though the flame is gone, the embers still live on.â
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That line wrote itself the first time I understood what Lag Ba'Omer was actually about. The journey of the Omer isn't about counting days. It's about finding your way back to your own light. The fire that doesn't go out. The one that burns inside the song.â
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If you've been feeling far from that fire lately -- distant from your voice, your aliveness, your people -- that's exactly what The Practice Room is for.â
A small group. A safe container. Body, breath, voice, and song as a way back to yourself.â
Three sessions. $99. Next one is coming up soon.â
Want the details? DM me or drop "the practice room" in the comments and I'll send you everything.â
/thepracticeroomâ
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Show me the way. Show me the pathway home.â
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Chag Lag Ba'Omer Sameach.â
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Iâve been quietly building something new.â
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Itâs called The Practice Room.â
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For the past 6 weeks, Iâve been running it as a small, live experiment â a space for people who spend their lives holding space for others to come back to themselves.â
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Less talking.â
More breathing, music, reflection.â
A chance to reduce the noise and reconnect to what actually matters.â
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This is for people who identify as space holders ââ
leaders, therapists, clergy, facilitators, creativesâŠâ
anyone whose role is to show up for others.â
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Because if your attention is scattered, youâre not really there.â
And people can feel that.â
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Weâve been refining the container week by week, and Iâll be opening it up more broadly starting May 5th.â
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This wonât be for everyone.â
And thatâs intentional.â
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If this feels like something you need, youâll know.â
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Comment Practice Room to learn more
Iâm opening something new.â
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Itâs called The Practice Room ââ
and itâs specifically for people who hold space for others.â
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For the past 6 weeks, Iâve been running a small trial group.â
Testing, refining, and building something that actually works.â
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Hereâs the truth:â
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Your attention is a finite resource.â
And if youâre constantly giving it awayâŠâ
you will eventually feel depleted.â
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This is a space to practice coming back.â
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Not a class.â
Not therapy.â
Not content.â
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A live, guided experience â with music, reflection, and real-time reset.â
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Iâll be opening it up starting May 5th.â
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This isnât for everyone.â
But if you read this and feel somethingâŠâ
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thatâs probably your answer.â
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Comment Practice Room to get more info
Weâve all tasted that fruit ââ
the beauty of whatâs possible when music lives inside prayer spaces.â
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For me, music has been the pathway into Jewish communal life.â
Thatâs how I entered.â
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And I also want to say this:â
movement is an integral part of the prayer experience â even though we donât always highlight it.â
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Iâve been fascinated by what happens when song awakens something inside us.â
What inspires movement within.â
What gets bodies moving.â
What moves an entire space.â
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How music moves us spiritually.â
Emotionally.â
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And how it propels our prayers ââ
outwardâ
and upward.â
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#music #prayer #movement #judaism #spirituality #community #presence #healing #connection #faith
This story I heard from @fatherrichardrohr gets me every time! Thereâs just something so raw and true about it. We all feel the pain of separation we just have different names for what that pain is. And, when we see something beautiful it can make us cry because that beauty is source and weâre sad that weâre separated from it. We just want to find our way back home. #richardrohr #ramdass
This is an example of how I use live looping to create spontaneous moments of communal engagement. I donât like calling my offerings concerts or performances because thereâs rarely a passive moment. If youâre here with me, youâre part of the experience. Weâve all got Netflix and whatnot at home and YouTube on our phones. So when we gather, itâs an opportunity to entertain eachother the old fashioned way - real human connection. These events are powered by natural intelligence, not the artificial kind.