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Music?
Books?
up into several pages for your convenience.
| The great rabbis from the seventies. | ||
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| This is the saintly rabbi known as Reb Itsik'l of Przeworsk (5642-5737 1882-1975) |
The famous Baba Saly (The old Rabbi Israel, who prays) |
The Grand Rabbi Y.Y. Halberstamm of Klausenburg |
| The venerated and beloved Rebbe, Reb Itsik'l,
renowned for his charity and modesty. I personally received blessings from
him and testify to incredible miracles wrought. After the Holocaust he settled in
Paris, afterwards he moved to Antwerp, where he left his stamp on the whole Jewish community. He ascended on the Day of Atonement 5736 (1975) at the age of 96 fruitful years. His son-in-law Reb Yankele of Antwerp, succeeds him there in the divine service. The Baba Saly, scion of the saintly family of Abuhazera from Morocco. Some say, that his name is a diminutive of Israel (his real name), some say, that it means "praying". He was famous for his prayers, which were always answered. Sick and infirm lined up outside his home in Netivot, to be cured by his prayers. The famous Klausenburger Rebbe, from Klausenburg (i.e. Cluj in Romania) from the dynasty of Sanz (Poland). Survived the Holocaust in various concentration camps, was savagely beaten. Once when discovered, wrapped in his prayer-shawl, he was thrown to the ground and brutally kicked: "How are you feeling, son of the Chosen People?" "Yes", he answered undaunted, lying on the ground, "now I know, what it means to be just that!" "What do you mean?" "A Jew could never lower himself to such cruelty!" After the Holocaust he settled in U.S.A. and founded a Hassidic suburb in "Kiryat Sanz", near Nethanya (Israel), (after which he was also known as "Sanzer Rebbe"), whence he moved later on. Famous for his sanctity, kindness and sense of humor. | ||
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Dancing with the bride son Azriel's wedding (Jan. 1997) |
at cantorial rehearsal (1996) | |
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After the wedding is over and the guests have left, the families stay on
and the uncles and brothers of the bride and groom are invited to dance.
The ladies are seated in two or three tiers, while the men do the same
at the other side of the dance-floor.
The ceremony is lively, but serene, for its great spiritual meaning.
The men don't touch the bride, but the relative and the bride hold on
to a long ribbon (gartel) at each end and for several moments, intoning a
song or "chant sans paroles", they "dance" opposite each other.
Then, while the bride returns to her seat, the other male relatives join
in a dance. The ceremony is presided by a "badchan", who is instructed about each "dancer" and invites him to dance, enumerating his qualities, improvising in rhyme. The more proficient he is, the higher his fee! | ||
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| Posing ..... (1992) | Posing ..... (1994) | During the Gulf War the nightly alert |
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During the Gulf War, we were living in "gas-tight" rooms, while the
gas-mask was safely accessible at all moments of the day or night. The radio was at hand, to instruct, which areas were threatened and when each area was cleared and we could take off the mask and go back to sleep. | ||
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| at the billboard, announcing my book (1996) |
Prof André Hajdu (May 1995) |
Passover 1995 (London) close-up |
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About my book you can read elsewhere! Prof. André Hajdu is a leading contemporary musicologist and internationally renowned researcher and composer. Born (1932) in Hungary, he escaped in 1956 to France and continued studying music under Messiaen. Though a true genius, he is very modest and humble and his students adore him. His modest home is at Giv'at Mordechai in Jerusalem. Currently lecturing at Bar Ilan University, as seen here expounding on new improvisatory techniques from his latest book. | ||
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