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OPEN TO WONDER BAND members:
Left > Right
JOY KRAUTHAMMER, percussion, crystal & Tibetan singing bowls
IAN KROOP, bass
TIA COHEN, singer, guitar (award winning recording artist)
K'VOD WIEDER, singer, spiritual leader - Open To Wonder, now Rabbi
OPEN TO WONDER BAND members:
Left > Right
JOY KRAUTHAMMER, percussion, crystal & Tibetan singing bowls
IAN KROOP, bass
TIA COHEN, singer, guitar (award winning recording artist)
K'VOD WIEDER, singer, spiritual leader - Open To Wonder, now Rabbi
PHIL BELL, singer, guitar, composer
ALAN KLEIN, baritone horn (missing in group photo), see below
SHAVUOT & Shabbat Retreat,
Thurs.-Sat., May 28-30 . 6-8 Sivan 5769
Brandeis Bardin, AJU Simi Campus
http://kvodwieder.com/Open_To_Wonder/Home.html
http://valleynews.com/TheValley/Events/Music/Event~616094.aspx
Uniting Heaven And Earth:
How Revelation and Mystical Experience Are Lived in the Details of Our lives.
Tikkun Leil Shavuot learning with teachers:
Rabbi TOBA AUGUST, Rabbi SHERYL LEWART, Rabbi T'MIMAH ICKOVITZ, K'VOD WIEDER and JOSHUA CORBER.
With Open to Wonder Band– Joy, Ian, Tia, K'vod, Phil & Alan
and
Shavuot Guest Artists:
Eli Lester, keyboard, percussion
Rabbi Laurie Matzkin, flute
The OPEN TO WONDER BAND (AKA Shabbat Spirit Band) world-music musicians regularly play in Los Angeles synagogues and bands for Shabbat, Holiday services & Farbrangens: Lev Eisha, Makom Ohr Shalom, B'nai Horin, N'Shama Minyan, Chassidic Orchestra, Valley Beth Shalom, Shomrei Torah Synagogue, Temple Judea, Temple Ramat Zion, Mishkon Tefilah, Etz Chayim, Ohr HaMakor, Ohr Hadash, Ahavat Torah, and Young Israel of Northridge.
OPEN TO WONDER ~ A Shabbat & Holiday Experience with K'vod Wieder and the Shabbat Spirit Band, invites everybody: community, friends and family, to join us during our joyous moments of music, meditation, magical illusions, yoga, sound healing and connection.
K'VOD WIEDER, M.A. gifted retreat leader, and rabbinic student at American Jewish University, brings his joy of Judaism to AJU, Los Angeles, from his greater spiritual community.
Renewal style Shabbat Torah service with deep and high davvening in Kabbalistic Four Worlds--Spirit, Mind, Heart, Body, is borrowed from Siddurs of Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank, of blessed memory, Rabbi David Zaslow and other creative world Renewal leadership.
Guest Artists in Song, Dance, Torah and the Written Word join us.
Open To Wonder has hosted: Academy of Jewish Religion ordained Chaplains Ruth Belonsky, violinist, and Judith Sommerstein, leading healing prayers, and AJR Rabbi & Chaplain Tsvi Bar-David.
Paulette-Rochelle Levy, dancer, artist, poet, from B'nai Horin leading Sacred Dance ~ Dancing Our Prayers: the embodiment of the Divine through movement and stillness.
Evelyn Baran, from Metivta and the Shtibl Minyan, leyns / chants Torah.
Eli Lester, drummer from Makom Ohr Shalom.
and Joy Krauthammer, percussionist, poet, sound healer.
Open To Wonder makes the world a sweeter place to be by including graduates of all rabbinic schools in our inclusive, pluralistic egalitarian service (formerly held at the AJU, LA campus).
Open to Wonder AKA Shabbat Spirit Band includes traditional and uplifting melodies from Reb Shlomo Carlebach, z'tl of blessed memory, and from contemporary composer-musicians, including Phil Bell, Rabbi Shefa Gold, and Debbie Friedman.
K'vod Wieder, M.A. received his masters degree from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto. K'vod has been teaching classes, leading retreats, and counseling students in meditation, prayer, and creative forms of Jewish spirituality in the United States for over twelve years. He has served as the assistant director of Chochmat HaLev - a Jewish meditation center in Berkeley, director of the B'nai Tzedek Teen Philanthropy Program for the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, and program director for Elat Chayyim Center of Jewish Spirituality. Currently, K'vod is a student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University. K'vod Wieder, gifted and beloved retreat leader, brings his sense of wonder and joy of Judaism to So. California, from his greater spiritual community.
For more information contact band leader,
JOY KRAUTHAMMER
joyofwisdom1 at gmail.com
or K'VOD WIEDER, now Rabbi
http://http://www.opentowonder.com
Lisa Kassner said,
"K'vod's presence exudes such energy and joy and light simply through his being. Through his presence, his intelligence, his heart, and his creativity in combining all his talents for holy aims, he is surely making a difference in the lives of many people."
Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav said,
"You should accustom yourself to serve G*d with niggunim/wordless song and with joy and with dancing and hand clapping; and especially during the time of Torah and prayer you should greatly rejoice.
"For the loftiness of melody is beyond all measure. Through dancing and movement you make with your body, you awaken joy within yourself."
.
ALAN KLEIN, baritone horn (missing in group photo), see below
SHAVUOT & Shabbat Retreat,
Thurs.-Sat., May 28-30 . 6-8 Sivan 5769
Brandeis Bardin, AJU Simi Campus
http://kvodwieder.com/Open_To_Wonder/Home.html
http://valleynews.com/TheValley/Events/Music/Event~616094.aspx
Uniting Heaven And Earth:
How Revelation and Mystical Experience Are Lived in the Details of Our lives.
Tikkun Leil Shavuot learning with teachers:
Rabbi TOBA AUGUST, Rabbi SHERYL LEWART, Rabbi T'MIMAH ICKOVITZ, K'VOD WIEDER and JOSHUA CORBER.
With Open to Wonder Band– Joy, Ian, Tia, K'vod, Phil & Alan
and
Shavuot Guest Artists:
Eli Lester, keyboard, percussion
Rabbi Laurie Matzkin, flute
The OPEN TO WONDER BAND (AKA Shabbat Spirit Band) world-music musicians regularly play in Los Angeles synagogues and bands for Shabbat, Holiday services & Farbrangens: Lev Eisha, Makom Ohr Shalom, B'nai Horin, N'Shama Minyan, Chassidic Orchestra, Valley Beth Shalom, Shomrei Torah Synagogue, Temple Judea, Temple Ramat Zion, Mishkon Tefilah, Etz Chayim, Ohr HaMakor, Ohr Hadash, Ahavat Torah, and Young Israel of Northridge.
OPEN TO WONDER ~ A Shabbat & Holiday Experience with K'vod Wieder and the Shabbat Spirit Band, invites everybody: community, friends and family, to join us during our joyous moments of music, meditation, magical illusions, yoga, sound healing and connection.
K'VOD WIEDER, M.A. gifted retreat leader, and rabbinic student at American Jewish University, brings his joy of Judaism to AJU, Los Angeles, from his greater spiritual community.
Renewal style Shabbat Torah service with deep and high davvening in Kabbalistic Four Worlds--Spirit, Mind, Heart, Body, is borrowed from Siddurs of Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank, of blessed memory, Rabbi David Zaslow and other creative world Renewal leadership.
Guest Artists in Song, Dance, Torah and the Written Word join us.
Open To Wonder has hosted: Academy of Jewish Religion ordained Chaplains Ruth Belonsky, violinist, and Judith Sommerstein, leading healing prayers, and AJR Rabbi & Chaplain Tsvi Bar-David.
Paulette-Rochelle Levy, dancer, artist, poet, from B'nai Horin leading Sacred Dance ~ Dancing Our Prayers: the embodiment of the Divine through movement and stillness.
Evelyn Baran, from Metivta and the Shtibl Minyan, leyns / chants Torah.
Eli Lester, drummer from Makom Ohr Shalom.
and Joy Krauthammer, percussionist, poet, sound healer.
Open To Wonder makes the world a sweeter place to be by including graduates of all rabbinic schools in our inclusive, pluralistic egalitarian service (formerly held at the AJU, LA campus).
Open to Wonder AKA Shabbat Spirit Band includes traditional and uplifting melodies from Reb Shlomo Carlebach, z'tl of blessed memory, and from contemporary composer-musicians, including Phil Bell, Rabbi Shefa Gold, and Debbie Friedman.
K'vod Wieder, M.A. received his masters degree from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto. K'vod has been teaching classes, leading retreats, and counseling students in meditation, prayer, and creative forms of Jewish spirituality in the United States for over twelve years. He has served as the assistant director of Chochmat HaLev - a Jewish meditation center in Berkeley, director of the B'nai Tzedek Teen Philanthropy Program for the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, and program director for Elat Chayyim Center of Jewish Spirituality. Currently, K'vod is a student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University. K'vod Wieder, gifted and beloved retreat leader, brings his sense of wonder and joy of Judaism to So. California, from his greater spiritual community.
For more information contact band leader,
JOY KRAUTHAMMER
joyofwisdom1 at gmail.com
or K'VOD WIEDER, now Rabbi
http://http://www.opentowonder.com
Lisa Kassner said,
"K'vod's presence exudes such energy and joy and light simply through his being. Through his presence, his intelligence, his heart, and his creativity in combining all his talents for holy aims, he is surely making a difference in the lives of many people."
Rebbe Nachman of Bratslav said,
"You should accustom yourself to serve G*d with niggunim/wordless song and with joy and with dancing and hand clapping; and especially during the time of Torah and prayer you should greatly rejoice.
"For the loftiness of melody is beyond all measure. Through dancing and movement you make with your body, you awaken joy within yourself."
.
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