Sound is very poor.

Is your sound garbled?

lilting, lovely and the complex dissonances fade in and out!

I am hearing it fine. I love this piece!

Yes, my sound was not clear either.

Lovely composition.

There is my Amy!!

I can't recall hearing a contemporary waltz before this. It is marvelous!!

HI Rachel!!

I agree with Jacqueline

katsaps is a derogatory word

Meaning what?

according to Dr. Google, katsap is a Ukrainian word used in a negative way to describe Russians

Tx

Stuart, your reading really makes the text come to life! Thank you!

Diane, you surely were/are an actress. what reading. thanks so very much. your inflection and the feeling of the story! Bravo.

Brings to mind Degas’ drawings and paintings of “working women”

Fence is an interesting metaphor - as in building fences around fences to make sure one abides by the Torah commendments.

Beautiful reading!

PLEASE OPEN TEXT

It is almost similar story of romantic Romeo and Juliette, except 2 children fro opposite social and religious sides and the families are rivals.

Song of Songs

Joyce it was awesome!

Song of Songs

Stunning Joyce!!

Joyce—thank you! Lovely!

Bravo Joyce!

Beautiful Joyce!

Thanks so much Joyce !

There are resonance of Shir Hashirim, and also Gan Eden in the story

Very emotive reading Joycer! Thank you!

And beautiful song!

Miriam Hoffman

How different things are today for much of Jewish population.

Joyce it was a great song for you to sing!! well done!

Sound is just right. lovely

Joyce, your rendition brought me joy--so beautiful. Thank you.

Joyce and Michael, you are a dynamic duo in this class!

Bach's Even tempered music is sublime.

We thank Joyce so much for a beautiful presentation .

Daniel-a beautifull piece and wonderful playing!

Beautifulmusic! Thank you!!

Daniel, thank you!

Daniel, I loved your original piece as well as the Bach. You are so talented!

Daniel, thank you for soothing our souls with Bach and beautiful playing!

Gorgeous…thank you!

The order in Bach is the opposite of this novella.

Daniel - todah rabah!

Thank you for the beautiful music Daniel

Thank you for this beautiful Bach, Daniel.

thank you everybody

Contrapuntal, different voices in the novella.

I think we need another class on this story!

Diane, we hope that Rachel will call on you often to offer us your beautiful reading.

The orchard (padres), too, is in Shir Hashirim. There it describes the woman: Sh’lakhayikh parades rimonim.

My typo: padres (not padres)

Pardes

Auto-correct won’t let me type pardes.

The voice in Chapter 11 is so strikingly different!

Shiksa is also very derogatory meaning in fact- abominable (meshukatz)

Thank you, Daniel. You are very talented! I really enjoyed all that you played but especially your own piece and the last one.

I love this stride piano style!

So nice :)

Thank you, Daniel! Wonderful composition!

Lovely, lyrical music! thank you so much!

Indeed very talented!

Daniel, I love the versatility of your repertoire!

Toda, Daniel. Lovely music and soothing performance

fantastic.

Wonderful version of “I should care.”

Daniel--I din't hear the composer of this wonderful jazz with its exploration and shift of moods.

👏👏👏

Daniel, you are so talented!

Bravo!!

Wow, that was amazing!

beautiful!

Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston is the name of the composers

From Deborah: This made me feel as though Was dancing with my late husband. He would have loved this!

the name of the standard is "I should Care"

Thank you bringing this story alive for us Rachel!

Wonderful! Happy to take your name off the me=she=beirach list!

We are delighted Rachel!

Thank you so much for an outstanding class and also so very happy you are feeling so well and strong!!!

Today Rabah

Todah Rachel V'Chag Sameach L'Kulum!

Thank you so much, Rachel, for a lovely class!

Could we possibly just have another class or part of on this story. Have to leave for PT

I have to leave thank you very much everyone it was a pleasure!

thank you very much Daniel.

So who comes through this looking worse, The Jews or the Goyim

The story starts before he is in Heder, which would indicate he was really young.

the only virtuous one was Marinka

They both look pretty bad in the story.

All the Rivers

By Dorit Rabinyan

I think it is important to portray the foibles of shtetl life so we do not romanticize it

Bialik conveys ambivalence and complexity in the character of Noah

Hypocrisy of the men

Mamzer is not one born out of wedlock. Mamzer is the child of ANY illicit sexual relation

He is only aware of the sun when Shabbat starts. No connection to nature

Another wonderful class. Much gratitude!

from a Halachick point of view a mamzer is a child born to people who are not permitted marry- ie a man with a woman married to another. A child born out of wedlock is not necessarily a momzer

An amazing class! Today Rabbah, Rachel. I am so glad we studied this story together!

todah rabah!