new material on neohasid.org; prayer for the land of Israel/Palestine

[David Seidenberg]

Hi Chevra,

I am at the beginning of turning my tikkun olam research into a book.
As part of that process I uploaded a revised version of 44 tikun olam
texts to neohasid. You can download that at:

https://neohasid.org/pdf/TikkunOlam-44.pdf

These texts prove definitively that the social justice meaning of
tikkun olam predates the kabbalistic meaning by about three centuries.
The exact opposite of what is claimed by people who critique the idea
that tikkun olam means social justice.

I also uploaded a recording of seudah shlishit at the Carlebach shul
(recorded after shabbat had ended). It includes the following songs:

1) Bnei Heichala sung to V'shamru, 2) Mizmor LeDavid, 3) the Ryzhiner
nigun, 4) "From Auschwitz to Jerusalem", 5) Tzam'a L'kha Nafshi
(Chabad), 6) a fast Chabad nigun sung without words and then used for
Shir Hama'alot

Go to: http://www.neohasid.org/audio/carlebach_seudah_shlishit/

Like everyone else, I have questions about what it means to share Reb
Shlomo's work. But I think of this as sharing what a community does,
more than sharing a particular composer's body of work. (Also, the
Carlebach shul is the shul of two Rebayim, Shlomo and his twin brother
Eli Chaim.) The most important song in the recording is the Ryzhiner
nigun, which goes on for about five minutes.

I especially want people to notice that the women are singing just as
loud as the men, even though this is an Orthodox space..

The time stamp for the Ryzhiner nigun is given on the page, but if
your browser is like mine, it may not show the proper time stamp but
instead the time left. So adjust the slider to -17:18.

In this time of overwhelming strife, a number of shuls are using the
third paragraph of the neohasid prayer for Israel as their prayer for
the state after Torah reading on shabbat. If your community does
include such a prayer, consider using the neohasid version, which is a
prayer for all the peoples in that land:

"Rescue all of Your land, from the Jordan River to the sea, from the
spilling of blood, and all residing and sojourning there, under every
government, from haters without and hatred within. Grant peace and
abundance and healing throughout the land, and secure calm to her
defenders, lasting joy to all her inhabitants, and real hope for all
her peoples. And let us say: Amen."

Go to https://neohasid.org/resources/Prayer-state/ for the Hebrew.

wishing you all a beautiful shabbat,

David Seidenberg