Warriors of the Light is this week's music video.
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by Rabbi Misha
Imagine you knew the constellations as well as you knew your neighborhood. Like you knew how to get from the subway stop to your apartment, you knew the way from the Big Dipper to Orion.
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Watch and listen to another Tehila, a musical improvisation inspired by Psalm 5.
Played on qanun by John Murchison and introduced by rabbi Misha Shulman.
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Watch and listen to a Tehila, a musical improvisation inspired by Psalm 69.
Played on the Violin by Marandi Hostetter and introduced by rabbi Misha Shulman.
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by Rabbi Misha
This week I posted a note on the Shul’s Instagram about State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s decision to divest New York state’s pension fund from Unilever, the parent company of Ben and Jerry’s.
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Watch and listen to Kuma Elohim. This is rabbi Misha’s melody for Psalms 86 verse 8.
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Watch and listen to ‘Come my friend’. Lecha Dodi is the hymn sung during the synagogue service on Friday night to welcome the Sabbath. It was composed by Solomon Alkabetz, a Kabbalist (mystic).
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by Rabbi Misha
The Merriam Webster dictionary gives thirteen different meanings for the word “stand” as an intransitive verb, 7 as a transitive verb, and 3 of what they term the essential meaning of the verb. Each of them is true to how we use the word in English. None touch upon how the rabbis understand the word.
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Watch and listen to Lech Neranena. This is a melody by our music director, Yonatan Gutfeld, written for psalm 95, inspired by the Hebrew word Neranena that combines song and joy.
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by Rabbi Misha
Beginnings are important. How you set out will likely color the rest of your journey. In this week’s parashah the Jews begin, or rather the Hebrews, out of which the Jews will emerge.
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Watch and listen to The Blessing of Returning, song written by our music director, Yonatan Gutfeld, to lyrics by Guy Perel, a Tel Aviv poet and Jungian therapist.
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by Rabbi Misha
Hebrew school kicked off this week and it reminded me how fun it is to have conversations with young people about questions of spirituality and tradition.
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Boasting five star reviews, Emma's Torch extends founder and Kumah Festival participant Kerry Brodie's mission to empower refugees, asylees, and survivors of human trafficking through culinary education.
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This symposium is designed to help American Jews better understand the Israeli-Palestinian dilemma.
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An Exploration of Spiritual Devotion - sculptural media installation Make Me a Temple Within (The Ghau Series) by Ghiora Aharoni.
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by Rabbi Misha
The Torah is dead without us. It is a piece of dead animal skin with incomprehensible letters. Our job is to breathe the breath of life into it. We play God every time we read it.
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A letter to TNS community by minister Onleilove
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