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

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Eliezer Kaplan wrote:
> 
> 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 06:09 PM 2/4/99 -0600, Eliezer Kaplan wrote:
> >>Ain't nothin' piss me off quite as much as 'pop Kaballah'.
> >>                      EK


> >>>>Yehudit Steinberg & Friends presents Spiritravetm
> >>>> " Dancing the Tree of Life "
> >>>>Saturday Nite  February 20,1999

     
Haiku Yehudit

 Dancing is better 
      than complaining
  Eliezer
              cannot 
                          faze her


Wolf

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