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A Kaddish for the Earth, with music of Rabbi Andrew Hahn The Kaddish is traditionally a mourner's prayer. Kirtan Rabbi Andew Hahn lifts the prayer into ecstatic movement. There is a force in each of us that overcomes death, that reaches for life as much as the impulse of winter turns to spring. --Leslie

Date:   2/27/2011 11:24:18 AM ( 13 y ago)







OTHER PLANT YOUR DREAM
BLOGS IN THIS SERIES

BLESSINGS ON THE KIRTAN RABBI
ANDREW HAHN

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Andrew Hahn
March 1, 2011 at 10:28pm

Subject: Looking forward to seeing what you do with Kaddish

Hi Leslie,
Hope you're well. It was great to meet you over last weekend.
I wanted to get back to you to say, sure,
see what you can do with Kaddish and the Garden.
I think it's a wonderful idea.
Let me know when you have something.
You all in SD were so inspirational. See you soon!
KR


I've made a decision not to hold
back anything.
I've decided to tell everything I'm feeling,
not just the good stuff I am feeling.
I've decided to share myself,
all of myself, because that truly
is everything I am.
We can't hold back our self
from giving until what we have
to give is all sweet and clean.
It's the very act of giving
that sweetens and cleans us.

Leslie Goldman
in Rekindling of Faith




SECOND DRAFT
A KADDISH FOR THE EARTH



YOUTUBE NOTE

March 1, 2011
11:38 am
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COMMENT NOTE ON SECOND DRAFT
POSTED ON YOUTUBE

This is my second draft of expression aiming at self healing. Kaddish is traditionally thought of as a mourners prayer. Kirtan Rabbi Andrew Hahn turns this Jewish prayer into an ecstatic journey of transformation. I wanted to capture the transformation both inside and outside myself coming from the depths of Winter into a potential Spring. When I create, I overcome. When I create I find the Soul at the depths of where I feel wounded. Thanks to Imovie Technology for helping me express.


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Posted March 1, 2011
10:59 PM


I received deep healing Friday night at the Prosperity Hive San Diego. I was very inspired by the community gathering that came to rejoice in the music and chanting from the Kirtan Rabbi Andrew Hahn. I came in very depleted, and left with some new energy that a solution will be found
to sustain my home that needs widespread community support to be here through these times of Shift. Specifically, there are two rooms available, one now, and one May 1.

Thank you for helping,

The Enchanted Garden is a name for our renewed earth.
I have been writing about the Enchanted Garden for many years.

The Enchanted Garden is a reference to Eden.
in the metaphor, we were kicked out of Eden when we
lost our innocence.

We return to the Enchanted Garden a wiser person,
a person who learns to stand on our own feet on the earth
through turning our breakdowns into breakthroughs.

It is the soul that is hidden at the bottom of the
crack in us.

It is the soul that is revealed as we continue to find
a way to touch our unique identity.

There are few of us today who are living our true identity,
but the world asks this of us.

The Enchanted Garden would like to come down to earth now.
It would like to fully come alive.

The land where I live is a continuation of The Great Experiment
of the Enchanted Garden wanting to come alive.

War is everywhere in our world.
We can outgrow the wars in the world through the process
of remembering how to live together cooperatively and live together
with the beat of nature.

We are in a massive shift in the world now.


SCENE CHANGE

For many years, I have had the comfort of living here
on a very special land that has given me a place to create.
I live with others here.


A Kaddish for the Soul, this video project, and the making
of it, expresses the journey I am going through to reclaim
my life. Through this process, the land itself here
will draw to itself a community of Beet Keepers,
a community coming back to the beat of nature,
through the simple acts of doing something as simple
as growing the beat of nature in a pot.

That is what Keep The Beet, growing an organic beet is all about.

SCENE CHANGE TWO

Ouch!

I need to rent rooms.
There is great pressure here in my head to do this.
I am up against money going out of the bank account
through vacancies.

I have ads on Craigslist.

I have a listing on the Fellowship for Intentional Community
Website.


YOU CAN READ THE AD HERE

It is amazing this process of attempting to live my life
at a time when I am being asked to do this housemate search.

The housemate search brings up inside me my deepest feelings
of woundedness.

I need to consciousness explore those here on
my Plant Your Dream Blog.

It is my own Rekindling of Faith that I want to plant.

Rekindling of Faith is a book that I write and rewrite
every decade.


GO HERE FOR ANOTHER POEM FROM THIS BOOK

written
March 2, 2011



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Today is the morning of
March 2, 2011

It is Wednesday.
I leave for Anaheim for the Natural Product Expo West
in 7 days. This show represents every year, my coming
out from Winter. In year's past, I have suffered IBS in winters.
I have used up a forest of trees in toilet paper.
This year my bowel has improved.

It is mental stress that is being asked to be uplifted.

The stress, the crack, the opening,
is around stabilizing my home
at a time when my entire world
and our entire world is unstable.

Looking around.

We are in an immense Shift.

Some speak about 2012 as the end of the world
as we know it.

Some of us are early risers.
We are desiring to live with the beat of nature.

For ions, we have lived growing some of our own food,
most of us. There is something to be gained
through this. There is something to be gained
through being in community with others.

My journey now asks that I be open.
That I, as you, go through our stuff.

It is a calling out I call the Great Earth Clean Up.

The cleanup is happening inside us.

Many blessings on you, and the Kirtan Rabbi
for being in community with me through this process.

None of us are truly alone
although we are asked to stand on our own two feet.


8:03 am
March 2, 2011




TO SURA
POSTED ON HER FACEBOOK SITE

Thanks to you and Stan for your love. This video is the second draft of a self healing process that started Friday night. I believe there needs to be a community council that comes together here on this land. The spirit behind the land itself needs a community to come here.

March 1, 2011
11:35 pm


MARIA SIRRIYA IN THE ENCHANTED GARDEN




9:15 am
February 28, 2011


I met Maria Sirriya as I was coming out of the Prosperity Hive
Friday Night February 25, 2011.
I was there to be in community with the Kirtan Rabbi
Andrew Hahn. It was a remarkable healing night.
Andew is very accessible as a person. I believe he
is bringing a remarkable healing gift to the Jewish world
and the global spiritual world. He is following in the energetic
footsteps of other Rabbi's I have known as friends, including
Rabbi Schlomo Carlebach, who was a dear friend of mine.
Rabbi Carlebach, who was one of the most traveled Jewish men
of his time, left of legacy of music.


SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26, 2011

The following day, I uploaded photos
from the Kirtan Rabbi Friday night event.
Then I spent some more time with the Shir Hayam
community Saturday morning, and then the Elijan Minyan
where he was doing a concert Saturday night.

Sunday morning, I began the video.
A Kaddish for the Earth. I wanted to create
and record some of the healing energy I received.
I envisioned a passage from winter in my life here
at the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community
with the potential of a Spring that sees this land
once again on more solid ground.

I have been working on it all day today.

We need two housemates now,
one immediately and one in May 1.

(More on that below...)


BLESSINGS TO THE KIRTAN RABBI
ANDREW HAHN


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I want to send blessings on the remarkable work
of the Kirtan Rabbi Andew Hahn who visited San Diego
Friday February 25 and February 26 as part of his West Coast Tour.

His two CD's are available here on his
website.

http://kirtanrabbi.com/


KADDISH FOR THE EARTH

Kaddish is a tradition prayer that is said to remember the dead
in many places of Jewish experience. A Kaddish for the Earth
was intended to engage this healing moment at our house.
Many things in Winter feel like some part of us is dying,
but it is a very underground time.

My relationship to the future on this land here feels uncertain
for me. The house is being refinances. I feel a deep calling
to a more focus life where I can do what I do best,
write and address issues on the internet.

The community of San Diego needs to come to
to see this land as a valuable natural resource
that deserves to be preserved.


INTENTION BEHIND THE PRAYER KADDISH
AS SEEN BY THE KIRTAN RABBI

http://kirtanrabbi.com/music/achat-shaalti/one-thing-kavannot/

"Beyond all blessing and song, may His Great Name be praised
in this world and unto all Eternity. May Her Great Name he praised,
in this World and unto all Eternity. May Your
Name be praised.:
--from the prayerbook and Daniel 2:20

From the website of Kirtan Rabbi

L-eila min kol birchata ve-shirata
Yhei shmei/shma rabba m-vorach
L-olam u-lalmei almaya
Yitbarach shimcha, yitbarach shmeich

http://kirtanrabbi.com/music/achat-shaalti/one-thing-kavannot/


KIRTAN RABBI
SOAKING IN THE LOVE


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Rabbi Andrew Hahn with Cara Cadwallader,
co-director Prosperity Hive, a dear ally of mine.

Friday night at the Prosperity Hive
February 25, 2011


FROM THE WEBSITE OF THE KIRTAN RABBI
ANDREW HAHN

Kavannah:
There are many forms of Kaddish, the sanctification which is one of Judaism’s most familiar prayers. Yet, even though the original form of kaddish had nothing to do with death or loss, and was used in other ways liturgically, the best known usage is as the Mourners’ Kaddish,Kaddish Yatom. This surely has to do with the fact that many Jews return to synagogue after a long hiatus — or come even for the first time — in order to say Kaddish after the loss of a loved one. The sense of duty associated with kaddish goes very deep into the Jewish soul — and the words ring eerily in our minds.

There are many strange aspects of using the kaddish for the mourner. First of all, there is no mention of death or loss at all. Instead the entire prayer is characterized by the praising and magnification of God’s Name. A string of synonyms meaning, “great, magnified, high, praised, blessed” follow one upon the other. Some might say that it is a strange time to be “happy” with God — after the death of a loved one. Indeed, tradition dating back to Abraham has us arguing with God, wrestling with God, holding God to account. How weird then to praise God — and endlessly — just at the time when we might find ourselves most angry with God and the workings of the universe.

Another oddity perhaps consists in the fact that, despite the fact that we are sanctifying God’s Name in Kaddish, no actual name of God appears in it.

One of the more traditional readings of the Mourners Kaddish teaches that by stating it, we are arguing before the divine court over the soul of the deceased. We, as the children and close relatives, are trying to assume a passage into the better realms of heaven.

The teaching whose tail end you catch on the CD track, differs from this. It comes to me third hand as from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. According to Carlebach, the function of the Kaddish is not so much to argue before God or for us to say it at all! Instead, we should understand that when we say Kaddish, we are channeling the lost ones in our words. We are saying that which they, if they could now speak, would tell us about where they find themselves now.

The core of the Kaddish prayer — in all its forms — constitutes the main part of this chant. It derives largely from the Aramaic of the book of Daniel, chapter two, verse twenty: Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever (or from world to world).

It later becomes the more familiar Aramaic: Yhei Shmei Rabba mevorach. l’olam u-l-olmei almaya.

I also add a feminine version of this, so that we also chant, May Her great name be praised. I also add two more phrases on this recording:

May His/Her name be blessed (in Hebrew), as well as a section taken from the Kaddish itself: “Beyond all blessing and song.”

The chant — like most of Kirtan Rabbi’s music — is meant to be used liturgically; so, we hope that synagogues and and other groups will use it, whether in call-and-response form or not.

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Kaddish


Note for the new version:
For the new, studio production of Kaddish, the Hebrew mantras used are virtually the same. The order has in some cases been changed. Emphasis has been given to the short phrase, L’olam u-l-almei almaya. These words bear both a temporal and a spatial dimension. They can be translated, “In this world, and in the next (the World of worlds);” or they can be read as, “From now and forever and ever.” Finally, the almost rap-like whisper you hear at the end contains the words, tushbechata ve-nechemata, which, in the prayerbook, continue the phrase,L’eila min kol birchata ve-shirata. The complete phrase means that God — or God’s Name — is beyond every blessing and song, [every earthly] praise and consolation.

Kavannah:
There are many forms of Kaddish, the sanctification which is one of Judaism’s most familiar prayers. Yet, even though the original form of kaddish had nothing to do with death or loss, and was used in other ways liturgically, the best known usage is as the Mourners’ Kaddish,Kaddish Yatom. This surely has to do with the fact that many Jews return to synagogue after a long hiatus — or come even for the first time — in order to say Kaddish after the loss of a loved one. The sense of duty associated with kaddish goes very deep into the Jewish soul — and the words ring eerily in our minds.

There are many strange aspects of using the kaddish for the mourner. First of all, there is no mention of death or loss at all. Instead the entire prayer is characterized by the praising and magnification of God’s Name. A string of synonyms meaning, “great, magnified, high, praised, blessed” follow one upon the other. Some might say that it is a strange time to be “happy” with God — after the death of a loved one. Indeed, tradition dating back to Abraham has us arguing with God, wrestling with God, holding God to account. How weird then to praise God — and endlessly — just at the time when we might find ourselves most angry with God and the workings of the universe.

Another oddity perhaps consists in the fact that, despite the fact that we are sanctifying God’s Name in Kaddish, no actual name of God appears in it.

One of the more traditional readings of the Mourners Kaddish teaches that by stating it, we are arguing before the divine court over the soul of the deceased. We, as the children and close relatives, are trying to assume a passage into the better realms of heaven.

The teaching whose tail end you catch on the CD track, differs from this. It comes to me third hand as from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. According to Carlebach, the function of the Kaddish is not so much to argue before God or for us to say it at all! Instead, we should understand that when we say Kaddish, we are channeling the lost ones in our words. We are saying that which they, if they could now speak, would tell us about where they find themselves now.

The core of the Kaddish prayer — in all its forms — constitutes the main part of this chant. It derives largely from the Aramaic of the book of Daniel, chapter two, verse twenty: Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever (or from world to world).

It later becomes the more familiar Aramaic: Yhei Shmei Rabba mevorach. l’olam u-l-olmei almaya.

I also add a feminine version of this, so that we also chant, May Her great name be praised. I also add two more phrases on this recording:

May His/Her name be blessed (in Hebrew), as well as a section taken from the Kaddish itself: “Beyond all blessing and song.”

The chant — like most of Kirtan Rabbi’s music — is meant to be used liturgically; so, we hope that synagogues and and other groups will use it, whether in call-and-response form or not.

Kaddish


Note for the new version:
For the new, studio production of Kaddish, the Hebrew mantras used are virtually the same. The order has in some cases been changed. Emphasis has been given to the short phrase, L’olam u-l-almei almaya. These words bear both a temporal and a spatial dimension. They can be translated, “In this world, and in the next (the World of worlds);” or they can be read as, “From now and forever and ever.” Finally, the almost rap-like whisper you hear at the end contains the words, tushbechata ve-nechemata, which, in the prayerbook, continue the phrase,L’eila min kol birchata ve-shirata. The complete phrase means that God — or God’s Name — is beyond every blessing and song, [every earthly] praise and consolation.

Kavannah:
There are many forms of Kaddish, the sanctification which is one of Judaism’s most familiar prayers. Yet, even though the original form of kaddish had nothing to do with death or loss, and was used in other ways liturgically, the best known usage is as the Mourners’ Kaddish,Kaddish Yatom. This surely has to do with the fact that many Jews return to synagogue after a long hiatus — or come even for the first time — in order to say Kaddish after the loss of a loved one. The sense of duty associated with kaddish goes very deep into the Jewish soul — and the words ring eerily in our minds.

There are many strange aspects of using the kaddish for the mourner. First of all, there is no mention of death or loss at all. Instead the entire prayer is characterized by the praising and magnification of God’s Name. A string of synonyms meaning, “great, magnified, high, praised, blessed” follow one upon the other. Some might say that it is a strange time to be “happy” with God — after the death of a loved one. Indeed, tradition dating back to Abraham has us arguing with God, wrestling with God, holding God to account. How weird then to praise God — and endlessly — just at the time when we might find ourselves most angry with God and the workings of the universe.

Another oddity perhaps consists in the fact that, despite the fact that we are sanctifying God’s Name in Kaddish, no actual name of God appears in it.

One of the more traditional readings of the Mourners Kaddish teaches that by stating it, we are arguing before the divine court over the soul of the deceased. We, as the children and close relatives, are trying to assume a passage into the better realms of heaven.

The teaching whose tail end you catch on the CD track, differs from this. It comes to me third hand as from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. According to Carlebach, the function of the Kaddish is not so much to argue before God or for us to say it at all! Instead, we should understand that when we say Kaddish, we are channeling the lost ones in our words. We are saying that which they, if they could now speak, would tell us about where they find themselves now.

The core of the Kaddish prayer — in all its forms — constitutes the main part of this chant. It derives largely from the Aramaic of the book of Daniel, chapter two, verse twenty: Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever (or from world to world).

It later becomes the more familiar Aramaic: Yhei Shmei Rabba mevorach. l’olam u-l-olmei almaya.

I also add a feminine version of this, so that we also chant, May Her great name be praised. I also add two more phrases on this recording:

May His/Her name be blessed (in Hebrew), as well as a section taken from the Kaddish itself: “Beyond all blessing and song.”

The chant — like most of Kirtan Rabbi’s music — is meant to be used liturgically; so, we hope that synagogues and and other groups will use it, whether in call-and-response form or not.


Intentions (Kavannot) behind each song
The tracks on Achat Sha’alti were widely field-tested before I took them into the studio to record them. They were all performed many times, and in many different contexts. The choices made in constructing a studio arrangement, then, were the result of much interaction and co-creation with other musicians, “audiences,” and — if it may be said — with Divine inspiration itself.

Click on the links below to see the lyrics for the chants (Hebrew, translation, transliteration) as well as to read an example of the kinds of teachings which Rabbi Hahn offers to set the intention (Kavannah) of a Kirtan Rabbi chant.

Learn more about the tracks and get lyrics here:
Kaddish [Track 1]
One Thing I Seek Medley [Tracks 2-4]
Resurrection Medley [Tracks 5-6]
Lecha Dodi Medley [Tracks 7-9]
Ozi ve-Zimrat Yah [Track 10]



MY STORY

SInce the early 1980's, I have lived on a remarkable piece of land
not far from San Diego State University. The land has served me
and others well.

I have written many things, and planted many dreams that
I would hope might birth 1000 years of peace on earth.

I realize that many of the things I have written were principles
I have aspired to live. I have lived these principles in many
elegant moments, for the most part, away from home.

I am 63 now. It would be an amazing experience to continue
to live on this land, but I realize that perhaps that as much
as I would have liked to live with others in community,
I have never been suited for the managerial duties that it has
taken out of me to sustain living here.

My prayer now is that God a Divine plan that would allow
me to continue to live here with others.

There are currently a few rentals. One is a small room.
Another larger room opens May 1.

Many people have come to this land over the years.
Each has received from living here, and given back to the property.

I want to transition out of being the manager.

I would like to retire here. This is a seed dream.

There is a feeling of uncertainly in my voice,
as you will hear on the video. I am just gaining
some expertise with Imovie on the Mac. I have a long way
to go.

I came to the Prosperity HIve Friday night in need
of healing, and received much in the arms and spirit
of my San Diego Community.

There have been times in my life when I have been
very much on the giving end. This is a winter where
the strains of seeing safe passage for the house
is trying.

Perhaps, you are the person who would benefit from
living here.

Please go here
to find out more.

The little room that is for rent now was my room for eight
years. I created a lot of beautiful work in that room
and shared much love with others.


HOUSEMATE INVITE
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I want to return to a more simple life as I have know here
in the past, but these are times of a tremendous shift when we
all need to learn what we came to do.

I have been working on this video for two days now
as a way of looking deeply into my emotions. Creation
is something that comes natural too me.



BLESSINGS TO THE KIRTAN RABBI
ANDREW HAHN


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I want to send blessings on the remarkable work
of the Kirtan Rabbi Andew Hahn who visited San Diego
Friday February 25 and February 26 as part of his West Coast Tour.

His two CD's are available here on his
website.

http://kirtanrabbi.com/


Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener

MORNING NOTE
SUNDAY FEB 26

I just put a call in to Rabbi Andrew Hahn.
I have received deep healing this weekend
through interacting in community celebrations
with this man known as the Kirtan Rabbi.

I want to confirm permission to use the track
of the Kaddish from his CD. I asked permission
the other night and he gave it, but at that time
I was thinking I would want to hold back the
video on Youtube until he saw it.

Hopefully, he will allow me to issue forth
this creation as I see it now.

My intense healing need asks that I create now
from the photos I did this morning here in this
Enchanted Garden.

Today is my Farmers' Market.

I would like to put up some of the photos I did
this morning to keep my energy moving.


REKINDLING OF FAITH

It is time to put out this book again....

12:15 am
March 1, 2011


What is a person's soul work
if not doing what they love to do.
I love to create.
I create to live.

12:28 am
March 1, 2011


Garden Management Journal
entries....blog count.


Date: 2/27/2011 11:24:18 AM ( 71 h ) ... viewed 33 times

Yesterday was March 1.
Andrew wrote back.
I posted the second draft of the video.

I edited out parts from draft one
of the opening. I was feeling self conscious
of expressing my dark feelings.
I need to own these dark feelings.
I need to be open about all my feelings
that come up as I continue to live with others here
on this land. I want again to fully live here
and feel myself here.

written March 2, 2011


 

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