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Mostly trying to convince a friend in another country that it’s a mitzvah to over eat at a seder and making jokes about that.
I don’t have anyone here to celebrate chagim with and am never organised enough to put together a seder plate to do it on my own.

It’s really difficult for me to get to other Jews and Purim needs people. Like all our chag do, but some are easier to adapt than others.

they’re burying the Bibas babies and their mum today

עוֹשֶׂה שָׁלוֹם בִּמְרוֹמָיו הוּא יַעֲשֶׂה שָׁלוֹם עָלֵינוּ וְעַל כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל וְעַל כָּל יֹשְׁבֵי תֵבֵל

Oseh shalom bimromav, hu ya’aseh shalom aleinu, v’al kol yisrael, v’al kol yosh’vei tevel.

today is a day for grief

because there is an overwhelming amount to feel, a space to share in community

Im Hashem Lo Yivneh Bayis - Shira Choir | מקהלת שירה מבצעת את ׳אם השם לא יבנה בית

Highly recommend this one on repeat The way the arrangement takes these excellent voices through all the rhythms and moods… So good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckVYO9oI8vc

@talya said in should we keep following the news cycle, or disengage?:

another big question for me is if i cut back, by how much

This isn’t a question you need to answer going in. Two approaches I can think of: Drop it all for a few days for a rest, see what it is you miss the most and add a few back until you find a better balance. Or go in the other direction and cut or limit them gradually.

I’m personally avoiding speculation as much as I can - some of the political podcasts are so bad for that - and sticking more to later analysis of facts. I do more looking in than regular listening/reading too, and then pay more attention when something has actually happened.

@DukePAaron said in DPA - Intro:

I’ve been really struggling with social media these days. I’ve found it incredibly hostile and unfulfilling so I’m looking forward to experiments like this mirroring older self-selection models.

Exactly this.

As the mi sheberach is said during the Torah service, maybe this section is a good place to put a thread where we can share names of those in need of healing?

This week I’m including entire countries - Israel, the US, Ukraine - and the world in general, v’al kol yoshvei tevel.

Aviv Yitzhak ben Sarah
Elisheva Meira bat Sarah

Debbie Friedman singing her version of the prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHKo3CjuzpY

Good to see you here

The arrangement of this set of tunes, as it moves through all its different moods, is exquisite

Moishe’s Bagel playing in Perthshire, 2005
Greg Lawson on fiddle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DmDKUSXAjk

עם ישראל חי ️
הללוי־ה - Z יוני

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbLZoxIiWcA

You’re welcome I love everything they do, but this is my favourite.

Many years ago, members of Muzsikás, a traditional folk band from Hungary, went in search of lost Jewish music. They found two surviving Roma who had played with Jewish musicians before the Shoah. Together they made a gorgeous album, Máramaros: The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania. Hungarian singer Sebestyén Márta also collaborates.

Maramureș is the Romanian name for the region. I used to understand some of its complicated history involving Hungary and Romania but it’s been too long. If you want to know, look it up

The full album is available on youtube Máramaros

http://www.muzsikasband.com/en/lost-jewish-music/