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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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R. Menachem Froman, zts"l, the rabbi of Tekoa in the West Bank and extraordinary visionary for peace, passed away on March 4th. Find out more about his peace work and read one of his sermons on Jerusalem here.

What's new or current? 3/6/2013

  • CONTRIBUTE TO NEOHASID'S INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN until Shavuot!
  • Read "Shmita: The Purpose of Sinai" for Shabbat Behar, on the Torah's radical blueprint for sustainability. Or read it in the Huffington Post!
  • See neohasid's Shavuot content! Check out resources on neohasid for the Omer! and get the Omer widget for your website!
  • Read lechem tafayl journal online! (JTS winter 1990, 1:1)
  • Here's a new dance tune from the Tzanzer chasidim!
  • Get neohasid's Omer app for iPhone on itunes.
  • A Kavvanah for Bedikat Chametz on the earth and the soil.
  • neohasid = ecohasid: 50 entries under Eco-Torah. Check them out!
  • Waking Up the Chamets! – A strange rule about Chamets can teach us profound lessons.
  • More on neohasid:
  • Yoram Getzler z"l was a creative force in Israeli Jewish Renewal. Listen to Yoram Getzler's instrumental versions of nigunim and piyutim here.
  • neohasid.org got a shout-out near the end of a NY Times article about Chulent. See our page about Chulent related to the article here!
  • "Confessions of a Jewish Post-Postmodernist", Response '94
  • Y'kum Purkan Lish'maya: A prayer for the earth ~ Something we need now more than ever.
  • Kashroots: Noah and the Kosher Laws.
  • Find out about the current campaign to protect Bedouin rights.
  • Also featured:
  • Reb Duvid's articles on food, ecology and Judaism here.
  • Reb Zalman'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 and the birds, with all creatures that walk on the Earth, that bow and sword and battle will disappear from the land, so that all may safely rest.
    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

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


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