Re: Fwd: Spiritrave "Dancing the Tree of Life": February 20

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

Joel and Owen-
Here's my rant for the day:
It's really not funny- this attempt to present something as mysticism which
is so much bullshit. Shades of Jacob Frank. One of the things I love about
music making (at least the sort that I'm involved with) is that it can be
trancy and meditative- that's very cool- but I would NEVER take some common
activity, no matter how cool, and label it as 'kabbalistic'. Of true Jewish
mysticism I know nothing (other than what I can read about in Scholem,
etc), and I would not cheapen the actual secrets of Torah and tradition
(whatever that may mean) by taking some prepackaged crap- like all the
other prepackaged crap that 'American culture' expects us to buy, and label
it Kaballah.
                        EK

At 11:16 PM 2/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
>But Eliezer, of course no one who's unmarried or under 40 will be allowed
>to enter!
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><G>
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>Joel
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>At 06:09 PM 2/4/99 -0600, Eliezer Kaplan wrote:
>>Ain't nothin' piss me off quite as much as 'pop Kaballah'.
>>                      EK
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>>At 12:01 PM 2/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>>I don't know if this belongs on a Jewish Music list or not, but it
>>>sounds interesting, so if anyone is in the San Francisco part of the
>>>world and attends, or knows someone who attends, do report back.
>>>
>>>ari
>>>
>>>>From: TorahRave (at) aol(dot)com
>>>>Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:52:29 EST
>>>>
>>>>Yehudit Steinberg & Friends presents Spiritravetm
>>>> " Dancing the Tree of Life "
>>>>Saturday Nite  February 20,1999
>>>>
>>>>A Comm-unity event
>>>>If you liked Torah Rave, you'll love this one!!!!
>>>>Honoring the Sacred Primal Teachings of all our Ancestors
>>>>Acknowledge Similarites, Celebrate Diversity thru intercultural ceremony
>>>>
>>>>A Guided Estatic Dance Meditation
>>>>Spiritrave is a gently guided,  spontaneous ecstatic movement experience,
>>>>based on Kabbalistic principles. The experience integrates ritual,dance,
>>>>breathing, chant , meditation,creative arts, accompanied by world beat DJ
>>>>music.  This experience is about finding and allowing our bodies to
move to
>>>>different rhythms which correlate to  four elemental worlds in which we
>>>>simultaneously exist: 1. Earth -  the world of doing, grounding earth
>>rhythms;
>>>>2.Water - the world of feeling, flowing water-like rhythm and movement;
>>3. Air
>>>>-the world of knowing, wind & breath, an invigorating, lively, staccato
>>beat ;
>>>>4. Fire -the world of  Eternal Flame, the pinnacle of surrender where the
>>>>dance is moving us. It is in this place of at-one-ment.  Then the rhythms
>>>>begin to lighten up and become inspirational as we move back through the
>>>>Kabbalistic worlds of mind, feeling and body, culminating in a dance of
>>>>stillness. This experience is a  truly holistic integration of body,
>>emotion,
>>>>mind and spirit, in a comm-unity gathering.
>>>>
>>>>Doors Open at 8:30pm. 
>>>>Closing ceremony: Kabbalistic Midnight Meditation
>>>>
>>>>$10.advance $15.at door
>>>>Event Location: 
>>>>Western Sky Dance Studios, 
>>>>(next door to Chochmat Halev) 2525 8th St. (btwn Parker & Dwight) Berkeley
>>>>To Purchase a Ticket Call: 510.232.9750
>>>>email: Torahrave (at) aol(dot)com
>>>>
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