Yael Gott
01:37:15
Rachel, we missed you!
Dr. Dorothy Greenbaum
01:37:38
Such a joy to be back together!
Ed Grossman
01:37:44
But Rachel's been working VERY hard as well....
lib sher
01:38:35
Good to be back. And need a break from the world as it is today.
Suzie Lampert
01:39:03
Me neither!!
Cantor Alan & Erica Sokoloff
01:39:14
Clergy qualifies in some states
Paul Corwin
01:39:22
thank you for the Hebrew translation of the Amanda Gorman inaugural poem...and you challenge to non-Hebrew speakers to read for rhymes. It forced me to read the Hebrew and I found many of the rhymes!
Linda Henry Goodman
01:39:44
No shots available on Long Island. I will be going to Westchester in mid-March.
Taibel
01:43:08
some of us have medical contraindications to the vaccinations, even if the supply were unlimited
Ronnie Gotkin
01:43:39
No vaccinations in South Africa yet!
Asaf Rabi
01:53:11
Alufa
Mona Fishbane
01:53:40
Linda, that was beautiful
Heather Silverman
01:53:45
Your words to me are such a great comfort. We are truly a community of caring learneers
Linda Henry Goodman
01:54:54
It's good to see you again Heather. Our hevre is a precious thing indeed.....
Joel Katz (Palo Alto CA)
01:55:13
Who created this song's lyrics? A particular poet?
edna janco
01:55:47
what a magnificent combination of utterly beautiful voice and a bass, of all instruments. thanks for such a grand performance.
Ayala Weinberg
01:55:53
great performance
Michaela Davidai
01:55:53
Yoram Thar Lev, a very famous in Israel.
Yael Gott
01:55:57
Niflah!
Mitch Slomiak
01:56:15
Stunning performance….todah rabbah!!!
Claudia
01:56:19
bravo!
Denah S. Bookstein
01:56:21
brilliant !
Gail Levine
01:56:22
Hypnotic;beautiful;yaffah
Cantor Alan & Erica Sokoloff
01:56:23
Fantastic!
Suzie Lampert
01:56:26
WOW! so great! enjoyed so much!
Gail Levine
01:56:26
Gail
Rabbi Jacob Herber
01:56:28
That was beautiful!
Joan Florsheim
01:56:42
Wow!! Magnifiicent music.
Solange Tajchman
01:56:46
That was beautiful!
Varda Farber
01:56:46
So very beautiful.
Bonniekossoff
01:56:53
Wonderful music!
yossepha ziv
01:56:54
Nehedar!!!!
judyhurvitz
01:56:55
Fantastic!
Michal Tamuz
01:56:59
Bravo!! To all three wonderful musicians! Brings the hope of spring in the midst of the snow!
Linda Cedarbaum
01:57:12
Stirring and beautiful!
Shirley Cirlin
01:57:19
Heather are you originally South African because I would like to wish you, in the custom of SAn Jewry, "Long Life". Shirley Cirlin
Jon Tepper in Tucson, AZ
01:57:22
great performance, with wonderful complement of instruments!
Rosemary Linsider
01:57:45
Where is this song from? It sounds Sephardic. Magnificent!
Carol Ducak
01:57:49
wonderful! Where was the tambourine?
Fredi
01:58:25
modern Israeli
Shirley Cirlin
01:59:16
Raehel, I have no timeline or poetry on my screen.
Michaela Davidai
02:01:01
Yoram Thar Lev just turned 83, and he is still very active. From Michaela.
Dan
02:08:18
Lechi=Stern group=abbreviation of Lochamei Herut Israel=fighters for Israel’s freedom.
Rachelle
02:09:53
prosecution? for kitrug?
A Ginsburg
02:10:35
קִטְרוּג accusation, denunciation, testimony against an accused
lib sher
02:11:03
also indictment
Leah Liquornikb
02:15:23
inspite of Impeachment proceedings
Barbara's iPhone
02:15:46
take a screen shot
Ed Grossman
02:15:58
Great timeline--lots of context for how all these people relate to each other & historical events..
Suzie Lampert
02:16:18
Thanks Rachel for all the work to put that together - very helpful!
lib sher
02:23:15
What year was it written?
Cantor Alan & Erica Sokoloff
02:23:27
1923
rle.family@gmail.com
02:23:28
1923
Michaela Davidai
02:23:30
1923
lib sher
02:24:35
the Versailles peace meeting? At that meeting a head Muslim welcomed the Jews back home
Ed Grossman
02:25:47
in WWI there was poisonous gas used.
Michal Tamuz
02:25:48
Unbelievable!
Taibel
02:25:48
mustard gas from world war i, may be extrapolated
Suzanne Levin
02:25:50
sheep & fire!
Suzie Lampert
02:26:18
1915 poison gas was first used
Dorothea Dorenz
02:26:34
I wonder if Hertzl read his poetry or was he gone before Greenberg wrote?
Denah S. Bookstein
02:26:34
poison gas was the scourge of the Germans laid onto the soldiers of WW
Heather Silverman
02:26:49
And created by a Jew
Denah S. Bookstein
02:26:55
IWW I
Suzie Lampert
02:27:03
Germans first used in Belgium 1915
Naomi Charnov
02:27:04
World wide blatant anti-Semitism
Fredi
02:28:24
Herzl died 1904
Nachama/Chumi Kanner
02:28:32
Dorothea - Herzl died in 1904
Dan
02:29:18
It is the same Ben Gurion who would not utter Begin’s name in the Knesset.
lib sher
02:30:37
Paris Peace Conference held in Versailles 1919. Re Balfour Declaration of National Homeland for Jews Emir Faisel was who welcomed Jews back "home"
lib sher
02:39:35
also Jews as completely vulnerable, British in power, We in a defenseless valley not on the high hills
Linda Cedarbaum
02:49:38
Wow and wonderful!!
Mitch Slomiak
02:49:42
Wow!!!
Cantor Alan & Erica Sokoloff
02:49:47
So beautiful and calming. Todah!
Linda Henry Goodman
02:49:49
Wonderful music. Thank you so much.
Suzie Lampert
02:49:49
beautiful
rheadorn
02:49:51
Marvelous
judyhurvitz
02:49:52
Stunning music! Thank you
Dr. Dorothy Greenbaum
02:49:55
Thank you so much!
Edy Parker
02:50:21
Just wonderful, so moving!
Suzanne Levin
02:50:44
makes me think of Ravel
Barbara Braverman
02:51:21
Beautiful, love the idea of music inspired by the art
Marcia Jacobs
02:51:55
please give us the name of the album that the original piece just played is from
Dan
02:57:24
Bedam vaesh Yehuda nafla, Bedam vees hYehuda takum
Alice Webber (she/her/hers)
02:59:24
formal echo of Sermon on the Mount? "You have heard that it was taught...but I say unto you.,,"
Ronnie Gotkin
03:04:10
Awful man, dreadful ideology...expressed in great poetry!
Dan
03:04:39
Al tal= al with alef not aeen!
wendy
03:04:56
you did it brilliantly Rachel, thank you so much
Ayala Weinberg
03:05:28
great lecture and fantastic performances
Jacqueline Schenkein
03:05:57
wonderful music- thank you so much
Mikayla Schwartz
03:06:10
Great analysis on the poetry, Rachel
Steve Kirschbaum
03:06:19
Thank you so much to the Ephrat family. How beautiful and moving is your music!
Jon Sebba
03:06:35
Terrific music, Thank you!!
Yael Gott
03:06:40
Todah al hamusika hanehederet!
Leslie Schaeffer
03:06:57
Exquisite music, transformative, truly
Joan Florsheim
03:07:03
Sorry Rachel This was to go to everyone. Thank you for such a beautiful rendition of one on my favorite songs.
Gail Levine
03:07:08
Good to have this uplifting music;hopeful; transcendent!-Gail
Jon Tepper in Tucson, AZ
03:07:14
the musical selections illuminate the poems perfectly today!
wendy
03:07:18
music beautiful and voice so moving
Marilyn Bernstein
03:07:22
The music was beautiful! Thank you Ephrat Family!
Audrey Asher
03:07:30
wonderful music Mishpacha Efra, am loving this last piece
Marilyn Bernstein
03:07:45
Thank you Rachel. So happy that you are back.
Sarilyn's iPhone
03:07:57
outstanding choices once again.thank you for the clarity
Violet Zeitlin
03:08:04
Beautiful ending to a very tough class. Thank you!
Lynnie Mirvis
03:08:33
so moving! Thank you!
Dr. Dorothy Greenbaum
03:08:51
a very emotional and wrenching interpretation of this song! Thank You Amazing!
Cantor Alan & Erica Sokoloff
03:08:58
Wow!
Rabbi Jacob Herber
03:08:59
Bravo!!!!!
gila appleby
03:09:00
Lovely!
Rosemary Linsider
03:09:05
Fabulous!!!
Suzie Lampert
03:09:06
so stunning and heartfelt - what a gift you brought us today!
diane allan
03:09:08
Beautiful, beautiful music!
Edy Parker
03:09:08
We couldn’t have asked for better start to the new semester than this amazing combination of this program an music! Todah!!
judyhurvitz
03:09:10
A gift, thank you!
Sarilyn's iPhone
03:09:11
one day I will share what these hours and insights have meant for me
A Ginsburg
03:09:29
so very lovely. great rendition.
Leslie Schaeffer
03:09:29
I feel so blessed to have found your class Rachel!
Denah S. Bookstein
03:09:35
inspiring on every level
Michal Tamuz
03:09:43
Beautiful interpretation! Todah Rabah!
Katia Fermon (she/her)
03:09:45
Amazing!!! Thank you Efrat family
Joan Borkow
03:09:52
Beautiful. What an amazing way begin the new series of classes.
Barry & Judi Kenter
03:09:57
beautiful thank you for the beautifu; music and teaching
Carol Ducak
03:10:06
beautiful and moving music. Thank you.
Rebecca L.
03:11:01
Where do I go to donate?
Ed Grossman
03:11:37
For donations, contact korazim@gmail.com; donations are made through paypal..
Gilad Ephrat
03:11:58
thank you all so much! you can find all of our music here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDejBKHiNkOaqoWcxJvFPxg
Sarilyn's iPhone
03:12:09
how much is ons session
Linda Kozin
03:12:42
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! LOVELY TIME!!!AMAZING INFORMATION.
Katia Fermon (she/her)
03:12:55
Thank you everyone for a fantastic session!!!!
rheadorn
03:13:32
Oh I am in heaven to be back.
Sarah Elpern
03:13:39
Thank you, Rachel. It is wonderful to be back in class with you and everyone else.
Gilad Ephrat
03:14:08
please follow us on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDejBKHiNkOaqoWcxJvFPxg
Rosemary Linsider
03:15:06
Rachel, this was a fantastic session! Heather and Stuart, your reading was excellent! Thank you all!
Violet Zeitlin
03:19:30
Strange fruit.
stanleykay
03:19:40
Will listen from beginning. Could not avoid listening to Jamie Raskins poignant closing if we are to avoid such violence v. our govt again.
Heather Silverman
03:19:45
yes!
Ed Grossman
03:22:11
"In the Kingdom" is an echo of the Bialik's earlier poem, but from someone who has read/heard this before.
Solange Tajchman
03:22:25
I feel a prophetic voice from Uri Zvi Greenberg, not just in terms of his being a visionary. I also hear that clear, strong, declarative voice that is so much part of our prophetic tradition.
Joan Borkow
03:50:14
Yes….I agree totally with Ed. The new timeline configuration is so helpful
Ed Grossman
03:51:18
Perhaps people can choose "highlights" from her presentations--short 1 minute presentations...
Taibel
03:51:27
first annniversary which calendar
Taibel
03:51:34
hebrew or gregorian or both ...
Ed Grossman
03:52:32
The Tom Brady of Hebrew Poetry..
Barbara Taragan
03:53:31
Today raba!