Reflections on One Year of Below the Bible Belt by Rabbi Amichai Why was I sobbing on the subway this morning? It’s not like I didn’t know it was coming, but still, Saul’s death got to me. Even though it happened, if at all, 3,000 years ago. Saul was the handsome, tall and tragic first […]

Amichai’s Top 50/50 “GO UP MOSES” “My people, let pharaoh go You don’t need him; you don’t need his tricks, you don’t need his trinkets Let pharaoh go Pharaoh doesn’t want, but he needs you My people, let pharaoh go Without you there is no pharaoh So all you have to do to let him […]

Amichai’s Top 50/49 She Who Dwells in the Gardens היושבת בגנים היושבת בגנים חברים מקשיבים לקולך השמיעיני She Who Dwells in The Gardens: The friends are listening to your voice. Let me hear it. (Song of Songs) Victoria Hana, a dear friend and artistic collaborator of many years, remarkable renowned vocalist, takes scriptures and languages […]

Amichai’s Top 50/48 “FLY – I Am Holy” 1,000 people sitting together and singing over and over again: I Am Holy. Chills. Unforgettable. It doesn’t get much higher. That moment when Netanel Goldberg and I sat in my backyard a few months earlier , summer of 2014, to think of songs and prayer for the […]