oh take that veil from off of your eyes...
Nov. 1st, 2005 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starfrostingI have been running from it and I know that's not what I need to do. It is so rare that I get self-destructive that it was a tiny bit disorienting and difficult to recognize that that's precisely what's been happening. So, I am going to look at things straight on, and stop a potential tailspin before it starts.
I am researching stuff for the Shabbat service I'm leading this week, and meeting with Rena (the rabbi) in...oh dear me, 20 minutes. I found a transliterated Hebrew version of "We All Come From the G-ddess" which I would really love to use. I have to strike a balance though, yknow? I think my focus is going to be on the Shekhinah, and see how it opens up from there. I want to do some different songs/versions of songs and prayers in addition to the recognizable and beautiful favorites, and I would really like to have short little meditations in between songs. I don't know how it will work. I'm so used to doing ritual where you can at least cast a circle and raise some energy in a really focused and obviou way- so I think one way to do that in this Shabbos context is to create sacred space by means of all of us focusing our intent at the beginning, and raising energy through singing and davening (which I will actually pronounce correctly ;)). Maybe it could even be explicit that what we are doing by praying and singing is simultaneously praising and evoking the divine.
Also I found a not-so-patristic version of Adon Olam called "Elat Olam." It seems cool but I don't know what all of it means--so if any of you (ahem, Ren, Reich, Noah...) would be willing to try to translate it for me I'd really appreciate it.
Okay, I gotta go!
I am researching stuff for the Shabbat service I'm leading this week, and meeting with Rena (the rabbi) in...oh dear me, 20 minutes. I found a transliterated Hebrew version of "We All Come From the G-ddess" which I would really love to use. I have to strike a balance though, yknow? I think my focus is going to be on the Shekhinah, and see how it opens up from there. I want to do some different songs/versions of songs and prayers in addition to the recognizable and beautiful favorites, and I would really like to have short little meditations in between songs. I don't know how it will work. I'm so used to doing ritual where you can at least cast a circle and raise some energy in a really focused and obviou way- so I think one way to do that in this Shabbos context is to create sacred space by means of all of us focusing our intent at the beginning, and raising energy through singing and davening (which I will actually pronounce correctly ;)). Maybe it could even be explicit that what we are doing by praying and singing is simultaneously praising and evoking the divine.
Also I found a not-so-patristic version of Adon Olam called "Elat Olam." It seems cool but I don't know what all of it means--so if any of you (ahem, Ren, Reich, Noah...) would be willing to try to translate it for me I'd really appreciate it.
Okay, I gotta go!
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Date: 2005-11-01 11:05 pm (UTC)And: no shit!
Talk to you later.
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Date: 2005-11-01 11:12 pm (UTC)Also in response to yr other questions about moma, nyc, other acronyms etc, I actually don't know yet--I need to talk to my daddy-o and see what's going on. So since you need to know asap about the museum, I guess the safest thing to do would be assume I can't make it? I don't know. I'm so goddamn hungry I can't even think straight right now. Dinner. I will call my dad.
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Date: 2005-11-02 03:30 am (UTC)I hope you've called yr dad.
Uhhhhhh :yawwwn: :can't think either:
-ren
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Date: 2005-11-02 04:13 am (UTC)love love!
the exhausted one