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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) 

לעילוי נשמת עזריאל גודל בן אפרים הלוי וידידיה     for my father
You are listening to me sing—with a sore throat—Shirat Ha'asavim, "The Song of the Grasses". My sore throat may not go away in time to re-record before Tu Bishvat so I figured I'd just share the song now. Click to pause and to restart:

What's new? 1/24/2010 ~ Happy New Year to the Trees!

  • Tu Bish'vat ~ one of the best collections of resources on the net. Find ideas about leading the seder, thoughts on tree-planting in Israel, the Kabbalistic prayer for the trees from the original Tu Bish'vat seder, a *new edition* of texts to learn and teach at your seder, and more.
  • Y'kum Purkan Lish'maya: A prayer for the earth ~ Use it for Tu Bish'vat! Also for use in your synagogue, minyan, or havurah, on Tu Bishvat, Shabbat Noach and Shabbat Shirah, or anytime.
  • Find links to Rabbi David's articles on food, ecology and Judaism here.
  • Reb Zalman's nigun Bati LeGani ~ posted in my father's memory.
  • Entries on the Moshav band, Rav Kook, the Rebbe's Ohel, Canfei and more ~ filed under Culture.


    "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
  •    The real issue of our age is how we make a graceful and ethical descent from the energy peak. ~ David Holmgren      

    StoptheFlood!    Eco-Torah

    Confronting global climate change
    in our lives and hearts

    Save the Negev
    Hope for the people, hope for the earth

    O God, who makes, forms, creates, and emanates the highest worlds! You made the trees and grasses grow from the ground in the shape and pattern of these highest worlds. And this full moon is the beginning of Your work to renew and ripen the fruit trees, to bring forth the fruit of 'the Tree of Life in the midst of the garden'. May it be Your will that our eating the fruits of Tu Bish'vat will strengthen the flow of love and blessing over the trees, to make them grow and bloom, for good life, for blessing and for peace. May all Creation return to its original strength, and may all the sparks of divinity scattered by our hands, or by the hands of our ancestors, or by the sin of the first human against the fruit of the tree, be returned and included in the majestic might of the Tree of Life. ~ P'ri Eitz Hadar for Tu Bish'vat

    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. Neohasid.org also features eco-Torah, egalitarian liturgies, and cultural reports on the new Chasidim. The vision for NeoHasid is egalitarian: everyone is invited to create and use these resources, and to share them with their communities. Connect here with the spirit and song of Chasidut and with the new Chasidus.

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