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The Baal Shem Tov, or Besht —  the founder of Chasidism — 
met the soul of the Messiah during an ascent to heaven. 
The Besht asked him, "When will the Master come?" 
The Messiah answered, "When your wellsprings break forth to the outside!" 
(from a letter written by the Besht to his brother-in-law about one of his soul ascents) 

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neohasid.org was launched on the 10th anniversary of the first Chasidic egalitarian minyan, founded by Rabbi David Seidenberg in NYC in 1995, to help people integrate Chasidic customs, learning, and nusach into new contexts. Over time neohasid has added eco-Torah and earth-centered liturgy to its mission, and neohasid.org is now a member of the Green Hevra.
neohasid.org is dedicated to the memory of Maidi Katz, who was a devoted participant in that minyan.

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What's new or current? 6/4/2018

  • A revised prayer for the State of Israel
  • Get the 2017 update of Laments, a fresh translation of Eikhah/Lamentations, ten years in the making, here! Please sign up for our list to find out when updates for this year arrive.
  • Incorporate earth prayers into your service!
  • NEW SONGS! Umei-ushpizin Ila'in, Hashem Ro'i, and "Wade in the Water" sung by Julius Lester
  • Deep teachings we can learn from Yedid Nefesh
  • Read more about Tisha B'Av and learn nigunim here (including Reb Zalman's Nachamu).
  • Scroll down for the video of Shimshai and Assi Rose singing "V'kharati Lahem"
  • Read the Introduction to Kabbalah and Ecology here
  • Reb Duvid's articles online: Times of Israel | Jewish Journal | Tikkun Daily | Huffington Post | The Jew and the Carrot | Scribd | Academia.edu
  • Reb Duvid's liturgy on other sites: opensiddur | ritualwell
  • neohasid = ecohasid: 50+ entries under Eco-Torah. Check them out!
    • More on neohasid:
  • Read lechem tafayl journal online! (JTS winter 1990, 1:1)
  • "Confessions of a Jewish Post-Postmodernist", Response '94
  • Kashroots: Noah and the Kosher Laws.
  • Find more of Reb Duvid's articles on food, ecology and Judaism here.
  • Read more about and listen to Reb Zalman z"l's nigun Bati LeGani.
  • Entries on R. Froman, the Moshav band, Rav Kook, the Rebbe's Ohel and more ~ filed under Culture.


    • The words from this song video are from Hoshea 2:20. They are about the messianic rainbow covenant that is yet to come:

    V'kharati lahem brit bayom hahu im chayat hasadeh v’im of hashamayim v’remes ha’adamah v’keshet v’cherev umilchamah eshbor min ha’aretz v’hishkavtim lavetach
        On that day, I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the birds pf the skies, and all creatures that crawl on the Earth, and bow and sword and war I will break from the land, so that they all will lay down in safety.

    Music by Shimshai with Assi Rose on accordion. You can listen to another version of this song by Amen here!

    "Chasidic-Egalitarian"?
    I guess it's not an oxymoron anymore.

    —David Roskies, JTS professor of Yiddish Literature,
    after the first meeting of the Chasidic Egalitarian minyan in 1995

    לעילוי נשמת עזריאל גודל בן אפרים הלוי וידידיה     for my father
       The real issue of our age is how we make a graceful and ethical descent from the energy peak. ~ David Holmgren      

    Eco-Hasid   Eco-Torah!

    embracing the Earth, confronting climate change in our lives and hearts

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    Bring Chasidic Nusach to your Community

    NeoHasid.org is dedicated to bringing the wellsprings of Chasidut as far as the internet can carry them–an open door to Chasidic songs and traditions (aka "Chasidus"), for everyone: women and men, religious or secular, however observant, connected to a Jewish community or not, featuring eco-Torah, egalitarian and eco- liturgies, and cultural reports on the new Chasidus.

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    Features:

  • "Liberation and the Land" ~ Part 2.
  • On the Kabbalah Centre.
  • Eco-Torah: The Land Ethic, Eco-Rambam, more.
  • Basics: Intro to Kabbalah, and a neohasid glossary, and links to everything on Neohasid related to gender issues.
  • Listen to Dovid Din's Shir Hama'alot.

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