Rachel, It is wonderful to see you looking so well Elana

Hadas Schacham Zonnenfeld is th3 daughter of my best friend. She’s a wonderful poet

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Kol Ami is the name of my Temple

Beautiful melody and singing!

So beautiful and spiritual. Todah

Captivating!

just stunning thank you so much!

So beautiful💕🎼

Lovely! Thank you

Beautiful! Your voices are lovely together!

Exquisite---thank you!

Beautiful singing- really so lovely!

Sanctuary in time

Cathedral/Sanctuary

It is a similar moment in jewish camps..as the activities and work stop , sjhabbat music plays and kids and staff change clothes and approach the moment of toilet gathering

the word toilet was supposed to be the hebrew of prayer excuse the auto correct shelly

Yes, the beautiful transformation in camp is especially felt when seeing the sea of white, and the calming Niggunim before Tefillot for Kabbalat Shabbat begin!

My children and grandchildren attended and attend Habonim camps. Shabbat is huge there!

Shabbat at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin was magical

Thanks for acknowledgeing and addressing those of us who do shabbat alone.

Thank you Efrat. Your comments were beautiful.

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Ditto at Zionist youth movement camps of all ideologies!

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What is that in dollars today ?

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Support our local Bookstores and Jewish stores !,, Not Amazon !

I thought of the “sea of the candles” as parallel to the emersion in the mikveh(ritual bath) before sabbath

I thought of the mikvah, too.

Yes that is exactly what I thought of at first.

interesting 'swimming taught by mother image." Pirkei Avot gives that responsibility to the father. A nice contrast .

sand is also meaning weekday same hebrew word?

That’s a great double meaning!

Wishing Suzanne a Refu’ah Shleimah!

A refuah shleimah, Suzanne

I feel that swimming in the Shabbat candles is a positive experience of immersing oneself in welcoming the spirit and beauty of Shabbat

I especially liked this one. I'll have to try imaging this description when lighting this coming Friday night. An special thank you.

I was having trouble with my Zoom during the discussion of the water. Did she mention mikva at all?

Other people did.

thanks.

can they speak louder please

Thank you, Rachel. We wish you a refuah shelaymah. Gavrielle and Alan .

From Naomi Burns: This is a wonderful program Todah Rabbah Rachel!

Please share contact info Shira and Rashi ! Very beautiful ! Thank you!

Is this also sung as a round ? Very beautiful.

Amazing - So so beautiful!!!

Sweet like honey!

Absolutely beautiful!

ever so inviting for the Shabbat. what beautiful voices and rendition, of course! thanks for this warms and gentleness.

So lovely!

You’re welcome at my Shabbat table anytime:)

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Shira and Rashi, lovely melodies to traditional Shabbat z’mirot.

thank you so much !its wonderfull to sing to you all. here is our new YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOv7kli7Z8liphXDk0IfPAg

Many writers talk about sending their poem or book out, hoping it will be received with love and respect by the reader. And the reader may change the poem or book’s meaning through their own reading.

So sorry I have to sign off now to go to another seminar.

Rachel - R'Fuah Shlaymah.

poetry like music can be the spiritual expression for jewish people in a sense it is their renewal as is the dy of rest in tradition

Shira, do you have anything so old-fashioned as a CD ?

with regrets - I need to leave early, as I am now teaching at a local synagogue on Tues. afternoons

Lovely, Stuart.

Beautiful music!

that was just so beautiful

Question for Rafi and everyone: I'm not aware of a prohibition against reading "secular" poetry--or any poetry--on Shabbat, which is the premise of Rafi's poem. Please enlighten me. (I do of course understand that someone observing Shabbat would not open an email on Shabbat--but that's a different question.) This is not a criticism of the poem, which I very much enjoyed. Just a question about its premise. Rafi? Eliaz?

Wonderful program, thank you!

So wonderful! Thank you so much Rachel. May you have a refua Shelaima!!!

such lovely music and soulful class. good luck Rachel! Hugs

To a quick and complete refuah shlamah Rachel

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Wonderful class. Wishing you a refuah shelaima.

refuah shleymah - another incredible class - todah todah rabah

Marcia, I think the poetic tension is between writing (prohibited action) and reading (not prohibited). Hence the hope that the power of words will bridge the two and that the Kavanah of the poem will be preserved

thanks Rachel for this outstanding class. how i appreciated those unknown poems, to me, of course. Refua shalema and speedily. warmly, edna

Thanks. Wishing you a refuah shalaimah, Rachel.

wonderful class Rachel - best wishes for all good outcomes!

in addition, Bar Sheva Sheriff was my classmates. having not read her poems for such a very very long time, will you be able to bring one to our classes? warmly,edna

Will be thinking of you next week Rachel. רפואה שלמה

and of course, in Camp Ramah in Norhern Ontario, Canada.

Rachel, hope goes well and you get to enjoy your terrace in short order!

Another fabulous class. What a blessing.

and at Ramah in Palmer MA

Fun fact—my husband and I were the only year-round Jews living in Palmer, MA while I was in graduate school at U Mass Amherst and he taught at Brandeis :)

Thank you Eliaz---I look forward to continuing this conversation …...and owning this wonderful anthology. Kol HaKavod!

Another treasured gift of time with you.

Refuel shlemah!

kool tuv.

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A wonderful ckass, Beautful music and poetry

Refua Shelema