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Based out of the Judean Hills, Yaakov is a part-time rabbinic student, part-time social entrepreneur. Previous endeavors include founding a California music festival, creating an award winning film series, and co-founding of an Israeli tech company. Chassidic to the core, teacher of Tai Chi; L’chaim!
Spending Shabbat in a 7-family settlement atop a hill in Samaria.
Someone yelled at Yaakov for carrying coffee on Shabbat. Here's what he learned from the experience.
Describing the era immediately preceding the Big Bang and ensuing inception of life as we know it, the Kabbalists describe how this unified intelligence shattered, sending sparks of primordial light throughout what would soon become our entire universe. These luminescent shards of the ultimate source-code remain hidden away to this day, concealed in mundane aspects of our life, waiting for someone to come along and decode the message
While borrowing lines from ancient liturgy, Zusha’s music is a blend of jazz, reggae, folk, ska, gypsy swing, and traditional Jewish soul.
Nostalgia calls,
Beaming from ancient hillsides,
A legacy lay dormant,
buried in the Judean soil
contoured crests and valleys
unfolding along a lush river of time;
Tevia’s iconic translation is blaringly wrong! L’Chaim would mean ‘to life’. L’Chaim, plural, literally means ‘to lives.’
Welcoming a new Kabbalistic paradigm of consciousness.
As my soul began to shift into 58th Century consciousness, I became imbued with a deeper awareness and confidence in my life calling.
