Well, Thanksgiving in CANADA already happened -- at the RIGHT TIME, as it's a harvest holiday!

No class on Thanksgiving, please.

thank you Mari

Why not? Those who don’t want to come won’t.

Yes please let us have class

Could you start earlier?

This is the best rendition I’ve heard. Stunning

gorgeous!

I agree Heather. Beautiful.

Gorgeous brings back such beautiful memor

Gorgeous!

how utterly beautiful, so so appropriate. a huge Bravisssssssssimo.

So lovely to hear the song thats the poem! Beautiful

Thank you so much. Amazing.

So beautiful and passionate:)

Ahhhhh

You have a beautiful voice and I am crying hearing this song. So moving!!

beautiful singing.

TAHT was beautiful!

transport me to Israel

what a beautiful voice thank you

gorgeous, Maya

Maya, your voice is gorgeous and this interpretation is perfect

thank you

So fabulous!

just beautiful, both singing and music. thank you!

That was beautiful!

One of my favorite songs sung so beautifully. Thank you.

beautiful rendition. Very unusual

one of my father’s favorite songs, which is why I asked to sponsor the music whenever I approach the Kineret the song starts up in my brain

Todah Nachama for sponsoring such an amazing musical interpretation.

You mention the use of the vav to start the poem. Am I correct that In Tanakh, many, many sentences are connected with the vav -- far more than in English?

thank you Nacha a. my father’s favorite song also

poignant nostalgia

Thank you Nachama/Chumi Kanner and thank you, Rachel Korazim!

Yes, the VAV starts many sentences in the Bible. It’s called Fav Hipuch - and changes the verb tense from past to future and from future to past

It also can take on the meaning of "but...." (as a contrasting connective)...

Is this the one illustrated by Abba Fenichel?

how did they not end up in atlit

Thank you Rachel for sharing this beautiful, touching story

what a wonderful story. thank you Rachel for sharing it with us

Why does it have to be a son?

Such a touching story! Thank you Rachel Korazim!

it is biblical

Thank you Rachel. Was if Shar yishuv that had not room?

thanks for sharing your story of deep connection to this poem!

Chana came to the Mishkan/tabernacle. Not to the 'Temple' which was not built until many years later.

Where is the Hebrew for the last line translated in English ("Over those stricken by your noontime heat")?

The Hebrew doesn't need as many words as the English to say the same thing - it's all there in the last 2 lines.

What was her dream in the darkness of the Russian forest?

The motivation behind JNF planting conifer tree forests.

I’m here over 39 yrs... fully Israeli but like to maintain my American ism....we don’t do turkey but my ring tone is Stars and Stripes.

Maya Pennington blends American and Israeli Music and sensibility to perfectly and uniquely!

Beautiful Maya. Thank you so much!

Beautiful - thank you so much.

Beautiful, Beautiful!!

beautiful song! thank you so much!

very moving...

So haunting and musical !

Very soulful expression-Gail Levine

there is an echo of Billie Holliday in Maya’s voice

something about that song

Wow! Exquisite!

Wonderful jazz motif.

whose words here? to the humblest of all ?

i missed the reference

bialik

thx

he describes her like a child protege a bit condescending!

כוסי רויה תהיל// //תהילים

I don’t think that Bialik looks down on her. When he talks about her “small” poems maybe he thinks of some of his long poems. Why try to see belittling when it may not be there at all?

This was a very common attitude to female poetry in Yiddish as well. They dealt with the daily events and not world events.

Ironic that “the Dead won’t die” remain alive by their written words

Haunting and beautiful.

A unique style and interpretation. A star!

that was great

beautiful

So Beautiful, Thank you!

Beautiful. Thank you Maya.

So in love with this singer

fabulous!

BEAUTIFUL!

so movieng

SO beautiful!

Soulful. Beautiful!-Gail

this poem made me think of Emily Dickinson

Thank you for such a beautiful session.

I agree. Lots of Dickinson there!

Yes Gail

YOUr naming story is very moving. But your mom was very smart!! And there is nothing like the resentment of a woman who has a child with a man who deserts her!:(

In the future, please don't 'chat' while a performance is in progress. It is distracting when the chat appears on the screen.

An extraordinary and moving session. Thank you Rachel.

beautiful lesson and songs - thank you!

Thank you as always Rachel.

Thanks for the amazing singing and beautiful settings for these poems

Thank you Rachel for a wonderful session today.

Today Rabbbah

Thank you Rachel for this wonderful class.

Maya, your link to your website???

todah was a great session

Thank you for sharing more of your personal story. It's always so inspiring.

Thank you also for the exceptional music.

wow, thank you so much!

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As far as I can tell, there is no translation of Alterman. Is anyone, you perhaps, who is working on a translation to English?? I hope so!!

Does Maya write the music

Thank you Maya for bringing the poetry to life.

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lucent perhaps rather than lucid

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The poems scan beautifully in rhythm and rhyme--all the better to put them to music.

Outstanding session! Todah. Raba.

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Thank you Maya. Have you recorded a cd of “Rachel” poem/songs

Very nice..

Thank you dear Rachel and Asaf for this beautiful and intensely moving, emotional experience ♡ Although I was born in this here land of absent shade, I didn't grow up listening to this music and feel very lucky to have taken part. In fact, I didn't know the absolutely heartbreaking and haunting "Metai" before this week, thanks to you. Thank you very much to you all as well for your open hearts and listening ♡ Also, I don't know how to answer the private messages here, thank you all for your generous and sweet messages. My Email up here in the messages ♡♡

This was an exceptional class, Rachel. The poetry and Maya’s unique rendition of the poetry was were outstanding. Thank you so much. I will write my comment because my microphone is not working today. My mother told me a story about her aunt who made aliya in 1929 together with her brother and their parents. They settled in Haifa. Malka, my great aunt, whom I knew well, missed the Carpathian Mountains which had been the backdrop of her life in Hungary. She desperately missed the greenery and the song birds who lived there.

I find it hard to fully appreciate what it must have been to her to have TB during that period and the isolation related to that (think of a personal COVID).

Thank you for a wonderful class and music.

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For some the soundscape (listening) is most memorable, for others the landscape (seeing), and for others the food (taste)--memorable senses..

Yael also has her hand raised..

original pages appear as facsimiles in the Rachel book Aviva displayed

Great, special session...