Awakening Wisdom Workshop: Sacred Ecstatic Music (with Rabbi Tsvi)

12-10-2016
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
 Fireside Room


A Personal Path to the Heart through Sacred Ecstatic Music

 

rabbi-tsvi-photoFollowing Rabbi Tsvi’s (pronounced SVEE) wonderful Personal Theology talk at UUCB, many participants asked that the Rabbi conduct a longer workshop focused on the sacred experiences he guided participants through at Personal Theology.

That workshop is scheduled for Saturday, December 10, 2016, at 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Fireside room at UUCB.  Donation to Rabbi Tsvi and UUCB is $35.00 $20.00  Wear loose fitting and relaxing clothing!

 

Note:  A SPECIAL INVITATION FROM RABBI TSVI to ALL PARTICIPANTS of the workshop (and anyone else who can’t make the workshop during the day).  There will be a special sacred ecstatic JAM SESSION at a home in Richmond, CA.  The JAM starts at 7 pm, Saturday, Dec 10.  Rabbi Tsvi will provide the address during the workshop to participants.

 

If you want to attend the Ecstatic JAM Saturday evening, email Wisdom@uucb.org for the address.
REGISTER by email to Wisdom@uucb.org or call Lonnie Moseley (510-655-1444).

 

This workshop is for you, if you…

  • Want to connect to the deepest part of your own heart.
  • Want to connect deeply to the other, the Beloved in Sufi language. Chasidim call this ecstatic state dveikut – cleaving to the Beloved.
  • Want to connect to the world, to all of creation. Connect to that which IS every quark in the cosmos, and paradoxically is beyond the cosmos; surrounding the universe like a mother hugging her child to her breast, in the ultimate expression of love.

 

Rabbi Tsvi says that there are many paths to connection/dveikut. One of the more direct paths is through sacred ecstatic music. To which he is personally called through his own mother’s Vizhnitzer Chassidic lineage.

 

In this workshop you will learn:

  • Breathing exercises, because singing and drumming require much breath.
  • To chant melodies, both wordless and with words. The words are taken from the spiritual traditions of the three sister Semitic languages – Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic – and English.
  • Rhythms–and these rhythms will be drummed on a drum and on the body.
  • Just enough head learning, so as to understand the spiritual and mystical back story to the chanting, drumming and movement.

 

Bio for Rabbi Tsvi Bar-David:

For the last several years, Rabbi Tsvi Bar-David has been producing and performing in sacred ecstatic concerts and workshops, around the San Francisco bay area and beyond. This, after many years of studying and teaching Jewish spiritual and mystical texts from the original Hebrew and Aramaic. Having grown dissatisfied with reading ABOUT other people’s direct ecstatic experience of the divine, Reb Tsvi resolved to find an accessible path to the ecstatic heart for his students and himself. And that path was as close as his mother’s Vizhnitzer Chassidic heritage: niggun, chant, drumming and movement.  Email: tsvi.bardavid@gmail.com.