Episode 47: Shock-arit (with Billy Jonas)
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Shock-arit
This week, we are elated to bring you our interview with Billy Jonas. For over thirty years, Billy Jonas - performer, singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and playful pray-er extraordinaire - has perfected the art of the neo-tribal hootenanny with audiences around the globe. Using voice, guitar, and industrial re-percussion, each of his concerts is a soul-spelunking, heart-healing, joy-filled journey. We explore using curtains as an invitation to prayer, how to engage the very narrow bridge between the left and right brain in prayer, and when we first considered the benediction of a bird’s song and the rustling of leaves as prayer.
Were you also absent at Hebrew School the day they taught the similarities between Judaism and other ancient earth-based matrixes?
(4:35) Hava Nashira
(4:36) Song Leader Boot Camp
(6:05) Listen to “Leave a Little Bit Undone” by Rabbi Joe Black here
(8:35) The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
(11:09) Adonai sefatai tiftach - יי שפתי תפתח ופי יגיד תהלתך - Adonai open up my lips that my mouth should declare Your praise
(14:17) “The Power of Ritual” by Casper Ter Kuile
(19:24) Iyun - עיון - Consideration, deliberation
(19:26) Kavanot - כוונות - intentions
(22:18) Havdalah
(27:20) Metta meditation
(30:47) Sprechstimme - German for a style of spoken music. Learn more here
(36::57) Gesher tzar me’od - גשר צר מאוד - a very narrow bridge. Find the complete song here
(38:41) URJ Biennial
(41:51) Left brain is analytical, the right brain is creative. Here is the article quoting Grace Tworek PsyD on the subject.
(47:29) Tisha B’av
(50:47) Listen to “Blowin in the Wind” here
(52:34) Cantor Abraham Lubin
(57:22) Arthur Waskow
(1:01:37) Rabbi Randy Fleisher
(1:05:23) Birthright Unplugged
(1:09:01) Dan Nichols
(1:09:05) G’dolim - גדולים - The greats
(1:13:14) Learn more about Billy Jonas and access his discography here