“Master, who is the angriest guitar player in the world?”
I was 4 years old when I asked my dad about the oiled African American muscle men in majestic flexed poses, “Why is he brown?” That was when I first realized there could be offense attached to skin color.
I think that's why I started making up stories. Because I wanted to read something, and the story I wanted to read didn't exist.
I suited up in my protective camouflage and allowed myself to fly away into the spiritual arms of God. I swore...
Zeke Finn bares his soul to the world as he joins the Hevria community and shares his new song: "Change".
That was my life now. Blank. I was diving into the scary unknown and for the first time in my life I was not going to have a say on my future. So I deflated my ego down to 6 words.
I didn’t bring it up with him directly, but I spoke to others about my concerns about his beard. The lack thereof. I was afraid that it meant that he accepted the army’s dress standards over our religious ones, allowing a foreign body to dictate his religious choices. My point of reference for that was my having given up playing music on Shabbos, despite that being antithetical to the standards of practicing and performing in the music world. Did that therefore mean that we didn’t share some important values, ones that would affect our relationship in the long term?
My Jewish...
Is not a religion...
It is lusty and dark and different.
Yerachmeil Goldstein, aka Rocky and the Goldstein, welcomes himself as the first "musical blogger" on Hevria with the debut of his song "Our Journey".
As my soul began to shift into 58th Century consciousness, I became imbued with a deeper awareness and confidence in my life calling.
