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OPEN TO WONDER
A SHABBAT MORNING EXPERIENCE
With K'vod Wieder &
The Shabbat Spirit Band
Saturday, March 8th, 2008, Rosh Chodesh Adar II, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
15600 Mulholland Drive, Bel Air, CA 90077. Free.
RSVP desired by Wed., Mar 5th.
OPEN TO WONDER ~ A Shabbat Morning Experience with K'vod Wieder, invites
everybody: community, friends and family, to join us again THIS SHABBAT for our
joyous morning of music, meditation, magical illusions, and connection at the
American Jewish University (AJU formerly UJ), Chapel, second floor. Saturday,
March 8th, 2008, Rosh Chodesh Adar II, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., 15600 Mulholland
Drive, Bel Air, CA 90077. Free. RSVP desired by Wed., Mar 5th. rsvp@opentowonder.com
Lunch is $10 for those who want to join us and can be purchased before Shabbat
(see below). *
K'VOD WIEDER, M.A. gifted retreat leader, and rabbinic student at American
Jewish University, brings his joy of Judaism to AJU, Los Angeles, from his
greater spiritual community. Renewal style Shabbat Torah service with deep and
high davvening in Kabbalistic Four Worlds--Spirit, Mind, Heart, Body, is
borrowed from Siddurs of Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank, of blessed memory, Rabbi David
Zaslow and other creative world Renewal leadership.
World music MUSICIANS, who regularly play in Los Angeles synagogues and bands,
include PHIL BELL - singer, guitar, composer; TIA COHEN - singer, guitar, banjo;
ALAN KLEIN - baritone horn; JOY KRAUTHAMMER - percussion, crystal & Tibetan
singing bowls, and IAN KROOP - bass.
* If you would like Friday night lodging or Shabbat meals, please call Julie at
Conference Services at (310) 476-9777 X548 and reference "OPEN TO WONDER
SHABBAT SERVICE."
DIRECTIONS : Take Mulholland/Skirball exit off the 405 freeway, follow the signs
to Mulholland Drive and University of Judaism. After turning right on Mulholland
Dr. turn right onto Casiano Road. Enter the driveway Parking Lot 3. Free
convenient parking. Enter the front of the university and go down the stairs to
the 2nd floor. The chapel is directly across from the elevators.
Shabbat Spirit band includes traditional and uplifting melodies from Reb Shlomo
Carlebach, z'tl of blessed memory, and from contemporary composer/musicians,
including Phil Bell, Rabbi Shefa Gold, and Debbie Friedman.
Shabbat Spirit band musicians are borrowed from Los Angeles Synagogues: Makom
Ohr Shalom, Adat Shalom's Lev Eisha, Mishkon Tefilah, B'nai Horin, Valley Beth
Shalom's N'Shama Minyan, Etz Chayim, Ohr HaMakor, and Ohr Hadash.
K'vod Wieder, M.A. received his masters degree from the Institute of
Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto. K'vod has been teaching classes, leading
retreats, and counseling students in meditation, prayer, and creative forms of
Jewish spirituality in the United States for over twelve years. He has served as
the assistant director of Chochmat HaLev - a Jewish meditation center in
Berkeley, director of the B'nai Tzedek Teen Philanthropy Program for the Harold
Grinspoon Foundation, and program director for Elat Chayyim Center of Jewish
Spirituality. Currently, K'vod is a student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic
Studies at the American Jewish University. K'vod Wieder, gifted and beloved
retreat leader, brings his sense of wonder and joy of Judaism to AJU, from his
greater spiritual community. For more information http://www.opentowonder.com/Open_To_Wonder/Events.html
Lisa Kassner said, "K'vod's presence exudes such energy and joy and light
simply through his being. Through his presence, his intelligence, his heart, and
his creativity in combining all his talents for holy aims, he is surely making a
difference in the lives of many people."
Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav said, "You should accustom yourself to serve G*d
with niggunim/wordless song and with joy and with dancing and hand clapping; and
especially during the time of Torah and prayer you should greatly rejoice.
"For the loftiness of melody is beyond all measure. Through dancing and
movement you make with your body, you awaken joy within yourself."
Guests are invited to bring and share their own community organizational event
flyers.
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