The Jewish New Year: Music and Inspirational Teachings from the Kabbalah
From: Russ Jennings
Series: Days of Wonder
Length: 59:49
Each year, on the evening of the new moon, the beginning of the month of Tishrei in the Jewish lunar calendar, Jewish people around the world begin a period of prayer and self-examination that ends, ten days later, with a twenty-four hour fast. These are the High Holy Days, beginning with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and ending with Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. These days are a time to reflect on the past year and to realign life with truth and wisdom, to prepare for a new year?s challenges.
In this program, Kabbalistic teacher, therapist, and author of "Sacred Therapy," Estelle Frankel and Cantor Richard Kaplan share the depths of insight accumulated by the Jewish mystical tradition of the Kabbalah. They discuss the insights in stories, teachings and music, gathered from that rich tradition.
?The Jewish New Year: Music and Inspirational Teachings from the Kabbalah? is part of Common Soul Productions? occasional series, ?Days of Wonder,? programs exploring the universal-spiritual meaning of the world's holy-days.
Note: This program was originally offered in 2004, with the title, ?Mystical Fusion: An inspirational program for the Jewish New Year.? No significant changes have been made to its content.
If your station has a copy of last year?s program, please contact Common Soul Productions to receive the re-titled program on CD.
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Piece Description
Each year, on the evening of the new moon, the beginning of the month of Tishrei in the Jewish lunar calendar, Jewish people around the world begin a period of prayer and self-examination that ends, ten days later, with a twenty-four hour fast. These are the High Holy Days, beginning with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and ending with Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. These days are a time to reflect on the past year and to realign life with truth and wisdom, to prepare for a new year?s challenges. In this program, Kabbalistic teacher, therapist, and author of "Sacred Therapy," Estelle Frankel and Cantor Richard Kaplan share the depths of insight accumulated by the Jewish mystical tradition of the Kabbalah. They discuss the insights in stories, teachings and music, gathered from that rich tradition. ?The Jewish New Year: Music and Inspirational Teachings from the Kabbalah? is part of Common Soul Productions? occasional series, ?Days of Wonder,? programs exploring the universal-spiritual meaning of the world's holy-days. Note: This program was originally offered in 2004, with the title, ?Mystical Fusion: An inspirational program for the Jewish New Year.? No significant changes have been made to its content. If your station has a copy of last year?s program, please contact Common Soul Productions to receive the re-titled program on CD.
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Review of The Jewish New Year: Music and Inspirational Teachings from the KabbalahThis program really opens up the meaning of the Jewish High Holidays for every listener. Therapist Estelle Frankel shares insights into the spiritual meaning of the Jewish New Year that most Jews will not have heard, and cantor Richard Kaplan's beautiful music both deepens and lightens up the hour. Through the stories and teachings these two share, listeners are given useful advice for spiritual development , whether they are Jewish or not, whether they are observant or not. "The Jewish New Year" provides an understanding of how Judaism approaches questions of personal indentity and development, redemption and transformation that will be illuminating to anyone interested in the world's great religions. This reviewer looks forward to listening to it again! |
Broadcast History
First offered for broadcast in 2004, with the title, "Mystical Fusion: An inspirational program for the Jewish New Year." No significant change in content. If your station has a copy of the 2004 version, please contact Russ@CommonSoul.com for a cd copy of the newly titled program.
Timing and Cues
The program is 58:49. No particular cues. It is totally self contained, but announcer could use program description above as intro.
Musical Works
All music is either performed live, by Cantor Richard Kaplan or is taken from his two cds: Life of the Worlds, and Turning the Soul. www.kaplanmusic.com
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Review of The Jewish New Year: Music and Inspirational Teachings from the Kabbalah
Listen, Richard Kaplan is transcendent. His intellect has expanded into spirit, and his spirit takes wing on voice. In "The Jewish New Year" Kaplan takes very specific traditions from Eastern Europe and North Africa and runs with them like streamers across a broad America.
Make no mistake – this programming is more than "a Jewish thing". People everywhere understand.
Because producer Russ Jennings elegantly arranges Kaplan – songwriter, pianist, ethnomusicologist, and teacher – with Estelle Frankel – author, psychotherapist, teacher of meditation, and student of the Kabbalah – and she is as unique and astonishing with word as he with song.
What you get is chicken soup, stirring, that comes out of the radio soulful and fragrant.
Frankel's storytelling reveals the intricacies of Rosh Hashanah, commencing with the ram's horn, the shofar, whose cry must break hearts open to hear the cry even of our enemy. Only then is there "wholeness that comes after the brokenness life inevitably brings us – and that is the New Year."
Kaplan sings from the Song of Songs, "The voice of my beloved who knocks / Open to me", and Frankel softly offers the "spiritual alchemy" that can make mistakes into gifts – renewing time, beginning again.
At Yom Kippur, aloneness transforms to connectedness, and we remember our original face.
"The Jewish New Year" presents a poignant message of hope, ripened in humanity. It's the blessing of a fresh start that there's no need to wait for.