WHAT WILL YOU SAY to future generations, if you could leave behind ONLY ONE SENTENCE that would guide them? In 2010 while on a tour of Andalusia, I was invited to the world renowned Cherry wine museum in Jerez, Spain, where the king of Spain, the Beatles and other VIP’s autographed wine barrels for the [...]
Passage from Chapter VI – Master of the Good Name from Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom *************************************************** And so, the Baal Shem Tov established a musical tradition of melodies that have no lyrics. He knew all too well that music engages the mysteries beyond all words and awakens the heart. When we [...]
Passage from Chapter V – Sham’s Last Teaching from Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom **************************** By the time Jalaluddin Rumi reached his mid-thirties, he had not yet written one word of poetry. The poems that today lift up our spirits, advise us on how to live our lives, enrich our yoga classes, [...]
Below is a short excerpt of Chapter IV “Meditation, Unity, and Why You Should Tame the Monkey” from Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom. ***************************** But the mind doesn’t just jump from “tree to tree,” it consistently analyzes and judges as well. The mind is like a butcher knife; it slices reality and [...]
Passage from Chapter III – Far Away Dove from Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom **************************** It was a beautiful and most enchanting poem and it touched the young rabbi deeply. He realized that the dove was not just a dove; she was a symbol for something else. He knew the dove stood [...]
Chapter 2 – Sacred Ecstasy You are there, standing among several indigenous men and women whom you have never met. Everyone around you is drumming and chanting. The drumbeat is tantalizing; it feels so good to be a part of such a group. The collective group’s presence slowly overwhelms your individuality. As the beat gets [...]
My book “Divine Attunement – Music as a Path to Wisdom” has recently won the Gold Medal Award for Best Book in the Spirituality category of the Indie Book Awards 2015. Below is an excerpt from Chapter One – The Golden Thread. The wholesomeness of the sound that resonated from his reed and the blissful [...]
This evening, my dear friend Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb sent an email to many of her friends. IT was written as a response to reading my book Divine Attunement: Music as a Path to Wisdom, and itself, this response of Lynn is so inspiring and a call to action, that I was moved to bring it [...]