I can’t seem to find the time to update this blog on top of the others, so to keep up with what I am up to please check out; Don’t Block Your Blessings project in my mom’s memory, the goal is to collect and present an online living library of stories, performances, light and love …
I love writing, I love making music and I dig it when people dig into either, but speaking in public or doing interviews I generally shy away from, but when Rabbi Peretz asked me to be a guest on his Podcast before Rosh Hashana to talk about Don’t Block Your Blessings and the Light of …
/: This week’s Parashah, Naso, teaches us about blessings. It ties into my @thelightofinfinite and @DontBlockYourBlessings projects perfectly. Its focus is also on blessing with love. If you focus on others as you would yourself, then you will love yourself more and, by virtue of that, become love for others. יְבָרֶכְךָ֥ ה’ וְיִשְׁמְרֶֽךָ׃ יָאֵ֨ר ה’ פָּנָ֛יו …
ℒᎾᏉℰ ℐꌗ Ƭℋℰ ᎯℕЅᏇℰℛ – Ahava (ah-ha-va)/אהבה/love. In Hebrew, the root word for ‘love’ is ‘hav’ which means “to give”. Loving is synonymous with giving — as real love is created. As The Beatles say, “The love you take is equal to the love you make.” You see this most clearly in the love a parent gives to their child. As a baby, the child’s …
In the words of @henmazzig, “Israelis and Palestinians are so wounded. We have two choices: we can either recognize our shared humanity and stitch each other up, or we can bleed it out.” But just to give some perspective from the minority, Jews in a sea of a majority non-Jews, imagine if Hamas – backed …
Antisemitism is being touted as a virtue. Being against Israel and against Jewish people is being likened to being against the police. Somehow #blacklivesmatter and #palestinianlivesmatter have been conflated and now it’s a fight for the people. The irony there is that it’s the Jewish and Black struggle throughout history that have shared so much, and …
I miss and love my mom so so much, it’s really crazy…. so as we approach Yom Ha’atzmaut that is the Bday I share with the State of Israel, here are some photos from my fifth bday;)
Just got to Miami with no specific purpose other than just being. Just trying to be fully present in every moment, positive in my own presence, and to elevate the present to spiritualize reality✨ . . . . . . . . ****Note: this photo is of me, not in MIA, but in JoshuaTree… mia …
“Tzedakah and acts of kindness are the equivalent of all the mitzvot of the Torah” – Jerusalem Talmud, Pe’ah 1:1. Where we are at now in the Torah, is a place where we are coming out of everything being taken care for us, being taken out of Egypt, the splitting of the sea, even our …
When Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. asked Rabbi Everett Gendler to help in Albany, GA., Gendler replied, “Even though my furniture had not yet arrived, I felt the need to respond to Rev. King’s prophetic appeal to conscience.” He walked hand in hand with MLK and the Torah in Selma joined by one of …
A truly creative genius and prolific force. Salute to the Supervillian Let’s all take inspiration from him; don’t limit your imagination, or possibilities, or the universes that you create Words Create Worlds (and he was one of the best to ever do it!) #RIPMFDOOM ‘Livin’ off borrowed time, the clock tick faster … He sold …
I still remember having to switch my flight to get back to DC being so scared that I wouldn’t make it in time to say bye to my mom for the last time. I freaked out and tried to think of what I could do to send her the message that I was running back …
Zusha sings for the last moments of her soul’s ascension Read More »
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. My mom always had a positive outlook and judged everyone favorably, Reb Nosson speaks about this at length in Halacha Aleph in Likutei Halachot. I’ll be expounding on this in many ways in a new project I’m working on called …
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All that we crave and need is love and support in its many manifestations. My mom always gave me that, every song I made, every poem I wrote, every show I played. Her and my Savta and my entire Yemenite family were the inspiration for both Shemspeed (the label I started back in the day …
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