Ooh, ah. Lai, lai, [...] lai. Lai, lai, [...] lai. Ay lai lai lai lai, ay lai lai lai Ay lai lai lai, lai [...] Lai, lai, [...] lai Ruach, Ruach

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Ooh-ah. Ooh-ah. Ooh-ah. Ooh, ah. I lie, [...] lie. I lie, [...] lie. Ay lai la lai [...] Lai lai la lai lai la lai Ay lai la lai lai la lai lai la lai

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Ay lai [...] Ay lai [...] Ay lai [...] Ooh-ah. Ooh-ah. Ooh-ah. Ruach Ruach Ruach

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Do, do, [...] do. Do, do, [...] do. Do, do, [...] do. Do, do. do [...]

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Voo-ah Voo-ah Voo-ah Luach, Luach, Luach. When I talked about the four worlds on Wednesday and made this crazy diagram, what I didn't say is that

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As long as I remain unconscious of these higher realms, they all sit with tremendous weight at that point of the physical heart. and sit with amazing intensity on the physical head, brain, mind. But just by opening up to Ruach, just reaching to one level of soul, one dimension of soul more expanded, a weight is lifted from my heart, is lifted from my mind, And these higher dimensions, instead of sitting and weighing upon me, they lift me up.

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They carry me. So let's make sure that Our ruach, our spirit, lifts us and blows us, blows our mind. ruach Ruach [...] Lai [...]

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Ay lai la lai lai la lai lai Ay lai la lai lai la lai la lai Ay lai la lai lai la lai Ay lai la lai lai la lai lai la lai Ay lai la lai lai la lai lai Ay lai la lai lai la lai la lai Lai, lai, [...] lai Ruach Ruach

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Ruach Ruach Ruach ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Thank you very much.

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Shalom. Oh. Shabbat shalom.

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Shabbat shalom. [...] Shabbat Shalom Shabbat, [...] Shalom. Shabbat, [...] Shalom. Shabbat, [...] Shalom. Shabbat, [...] Shalom. Shabbat, [...] Shalom. Shabbat, Shabbat. Shabbat Shabbat Shalom Shabbat [...] Shalom Shabbat Shalom Shabbat [...] Shalom Shabbat Shalom Shabbat [...] Shalom

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Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat In the good old days. In the good old days. We need a microphone. And we have... ...the heart with sand. So... Thank you.

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Yes, it's working At the beginning of Shabbat, the feminine side plays a big role. Sie zündet das Sabbatlicht an.

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Thank you. Anybody else want to write? Thank you.

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So we begin with lighting candles. And the candle light symbolizes a different kind of light than the light of the six days. And this Sabbath candlelight symbolizes a different light than the light of the other six days. Because we acknowledge that the Sabbath was God's gift.

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A chance for us to come back into that world of soul. beyond the ego and the outer levels of people. And it is the role of the women to bring in this special inner godly light.

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Shalom. And if I'm alone, I kiss all my kids. I wanted to tell a story, and if the weather permits it, before we begin the

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Before we do the next part of the Sabbath prayers. There were two very well-known Hasidic rabbis. They were still quite young. And they started talking to one another. They said, of course the Sabbath seems so special. We spend all day Friday shopping and cleaning and cooking. We spend all day Friday shopping and cleaning and cooking. Everybody bathes and puts on the most beautiful clothes they have.

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And then we light candles. And we have a special prayer that comes from there. And then we have some prayers over wine. So we have some good drink. And then we have all this wonderful food that was cooked during the day. And we spend the whole Sabbath singing and eating and praying and... Natürlich fühlen wir uns da besonders toll. Aber wenn wir das jetzt an einem Mittwoch täten, dann würde es sich genauso besonders anfühlen.

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Und nächsten Mittwoch werden wir das beweisen. So, der nächste Mittwoch kam. shopping and cleaning and cooking. The whole day was put into the preparation for that evening. And they went to the ritual bath and took a special bath. And they put on their best clothes. And they lit candles. And they said all these extra special prayers in the singing and the dancing that went with it. And then they said their prayers over wine. And they looked at each other and they realized they were just as high as they were on Sabbath.

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Now this is no simple thing. The Sabbath is a very, very, very important practice. And it's stressed how important it is to do it on the Sabbath. And here they were, Wednesday night. And it was Sabbath. And they looked at each other in fear and said, what have we done? And of course, right at that minute comes the knock on the door. And in comes one of the students of their rabbi and master. Says, the rabbi wants to see you right away. So they come. and they're very scared.

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And they come to the rabbi and look at them and they say, Rabbi, what have we done? What does it mean? And the rabbi said, where do you think Shabbos goes. Where do you think the Sabbath goes during the rest of the week? It's a hard story to understand for some of the children. I think it's maybe hard for the grown-ups. But what the rabbi wanted to let them know was Shabbos exists all the time. Just as God exists all the time.

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Just as our soul exists all the time. But it takes some work to bring it out. And we live in a world where we're also commanded to work in the world and do things for other people and so on. And so one day has been set aside for now. For us to connect with our souls. To connect with this timeless dimension.

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There are small bits of time during the week as well. That's where our practices of meditation and prayer, they're all meant to help us access this Sabbath timeless place. In our teachings we learn that there are dimensions of the individual, of being, and of time and of space. We usually only live in an experience of very small,

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confined space and very limited time and very limited being. And much of our spiritual work is learning how to access is to learn, to find access to myself, space, time, and being. The word sabbath It comes from the word that means to sit.

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To return. To go inward. And so it is the basis for our words for sitting and meditating. as well as the word for the Sabbath. The day of stopping, of sitting, of resting. In a sense, one could say that the commandment to keep the Sabbath isn't just to keep that seventh day, But it really is a commandment to take time out. It's a commandment to meditate. So, I want to just give you a little bit of a flavor.

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We can't do all the different parts of bringing in the Sabbath, but we'll pull a couple things together. Normally we would sing six different songs. Some people would just say them, some will sing them. And then after those six, there is a special song greeting the Sabbath Queen. And because we are dealing with bringing in a feminine aspect of time, So I just want to say a couple of things about these six songs, and what we'll do is probably just sing one melody, and it will include all of them.

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And hopefully we'll dance them too. So the way that I learned this was that each one of those songs, of those six songs, represented each of the six days of the week. So that as we would sing the first song, I would think, what did I do from last Saturday night to Sunday sunset? What work did I do? Who did I talk to? Who did I help? Who helped me? Who did I get along so well with?

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Who do I need to forgive? Who do I need to ask forgiveness from? What do I need to do to clean up that day? And to complete whatever was left incomplete. And then the second song we would move on to Sunday night to Monday sunset. Now the purpose of this is because on the Sabbath we're not allowed to carry things that aren't relevant to the Sabbath. I don't want to carry around my baggage from the six days of the week.

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So I try as best as I can to fix, to complete, to be able to lay down to rest all those things. Now at Sufi camp, maybe it's a little bit easier to remember what you did and things were a lot easier. If you do this at the end of a regular week, it's an interesting exercise to see what you remember. All the days the same? I got up, I went to work, I came home, I watched television, I went to bed.

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What makes the day different for you? Ah, Sunday is turkey and Monday is spaghetti. Or Sunday is the movies on television. Monday is sports. And Tuesday is comedy. You know what? makes a difference in my days. Do I remember something special that I did? Do I remember a special conversation with somebody? Did I give somebody a special favor? It's a very, very good question. Now I do this with my children every night.

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I didn't get... Say for the day, what happened today? What do you remember that you did? Or were you very helpful this morning? And then you went to school. What happened in school? Did you play well or did you have a fight with somebody? Did you get hurt? Did somebody hurt you? and kind of look at what happened and remember things and put the day to rest so that they could go to sleep.

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When they didn't want to go to sleep, I would say, oh, I hear your dream angels knocking on the door. And if they don't want to sleep, then I say, I hear your dream angels knocking on the door. They want to take you on a dream trip to very beautiful places. But before that, you have to sleep. But if you don't clean up your room, if you don't clean up your day, your dream angels are going to have to spend all your dreams going over things you did during the day and fix them. But if we go over your day now, then your dream angels will take you to amazing, beautiful places.

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There's a whole other level of the work. I'm just going to mention it, but we're not going to try and get everything done in one... Because on Sunday, no matter what kind of things happen, there's a way of understanding this is all a form of divine energy, heavenly energy of loving kindness. Ein ganzer Tag von Liebe, Güte, Lernen, Studieren.

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Und Montag war ein Tag von Urteilen, Richten. Dienstag war ein Tag der Schönheit. So each day represents a different process in my own unfolding. Every day represents a certain process in my development.

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There is work to be done, both for adults and for children, to complete a day. Und diese Arbeit tun wir dann am Ende der Woche. Sarah und ich verbrachten jetzt einige Wochenenden mit Thich Nhat Hanh. He is a very special Zen teacher. And we come to Israel to read these meditations for you. And he came to Israel to hold his meditation retreats.

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And he said, what does it take to become really present for another person? [...] It was really a practice of learning how to become present. So there are many different ways to become present. And one would just say, forget about what's happening and get into the present. But the other says, I need to take care of what was in the past in order to be fully in the present.

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So, Shabbat takes just the initial time at the beginning. to heal and make whole the past, in order to fully enter into the present. So, So let's pick a melody. And we'll sing it for a while. And every now and then, I'll sort of shout out, go on to the next day. OK. So we're starting last Saturday night to Sunday afternoon.

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For some of you who are arriving here, or have been here for a while, or who knows where you are, Wir singen also jetzt und ihr fangt an, euch daran zu erinnern an die Zeit zwischen letzten Samstagabend und Sonntagabend. Wir gehen dann weiter und ich rufe dann irgendwann den nächsten Tag. lailai [...] Lai lai [...] Lai, lai, [...] lai.

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La la [...] Sunday night to Monday night. Thank you. La la [...]

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Lai lai, lai [...] lai. la [...] Monday night to Tuesday night.

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La la [...] La la [...] La la [...] Lay lay [...] Lay lay [...]

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lalai [...] la [...] La la [...]

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La, la, [...] la. La, la, [...] la. La la la la... La, la, [...] la.

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La la la la la la la la [...]

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La, la, [...] la. This is for the fighting fun. Unfun. Unfun. because now that we've done as much work as we can in getting to the present moment and it was so special with the exchange that took place with Thich Nhat Hanh at that time

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He translated his mantra into basically saying, my darling, I'm really here for you. And whether you are talking to a dear friend, or how you attract yourself to your own soul, then speak to yourself, my darling, I am really here for you now. And if you work on something in yourself that needs healing, but if you still avoid going there, And you can turn to this injured part of you and say, my darling, I am really here for you now.

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Nachdem wir diesen etwas anderen Ansatz zum Gegenwärtigsein gemacht haben. Nachdem wir die Übung hinter uns haben, alle sechs Tage der Woche durchgegangen zu sein, in uns hineingenommen zu haben. An diesem Punkt der Feier wenden wir uns und begrüßen den Sabbat. Und wir rufen die Sabbatbraut, die Sabbatkönigin. Und wenn wir wirklich die Arbeit gemacht haben und die sechs Tage durchgeputzt haben, Then we can now turn to the Sabbath Queen and say, My darling, now I'm really there for you.

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Come, my beloved, let us welcome the bride. Let us welcome the Sabbath. lai [...] La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la [...] La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la- Ya lai lai lai... Oy yoy yoy yoy, oy yoy yoy yoy Oy yoy yoy yoy, oy yoy yoy yoy Oy yoy yoy yoy yoy, oy yoy yoy yoy

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Yoy, yoy, [...] yoy. Lai [...] Oh, yoy, yoy, yoy. Oh, yoy, yoy, yoy.

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Oh, yoy, yoy, yoy. Oh, yo, yo, yo, yo. [...] Oh, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Oh, yo, [...] yo. Oh, yo, [...] yo. Oh, yeah, yeah. Aiyaiyai, [...] Aiyaiyai.

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Oh, yo, yo, yo. Oh, yo, yo, yo. Ay, lai, [...] lai. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. [...] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, [...] oh, Thank you.

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Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, yo, yo, yo.

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Oh, yo, yo, yo. [...] Yo, yo, yo, yo. Oh, yo, yo, yo. Oh, yo, yo, yo. Ho, yo, yo, yo [...] Ho, yo, yo, yo, yo Ho, yo, [...] yo, yo, yo

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Hooray! [...] Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Good job is, good job is

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Good challenge, good challenge. Good challenge, good challenge. Good challenge, good challenge. Tu ch'aves, tu [...] ch'aves Tu ch'aves, tu ch'aves, tu ch'aves, tu ch'aves After we take in this sharpest presence, this feminine, godly dimension of our own being, enables us to really turn to ourselves and to the people around us.

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Sie bewegt uns, uns selbst und den Menschen um uns herum, uns zuzuwenden. Und tief im Herzen können wir einander versprechen, wirklich hier füreinander zu sein, da zu sein. In this sabbath consciousness we can stop all other thoughts and worries and concerns. We can reconnect with ourselves and with each other. There are many people who keep Shabbat and observe Shabbat, but not so many that achieve Shabbat.

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If we really manage to come a little bit inside Then you get to a different level of prayer. I want to take just one minute for this one part of the prayer. Es ist die Zeit, wo wir erklären, Gott ist eins. Das bedeutet nicht, da ist nur ein Gott und keine zwei Götter. Nämlich da ist eine Totalität, die uns mit einschließt.

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We declare that oneness. And this week we're reading in the Torah where this particular statement of God's oneness is. The extra special strength of oneness. The extra special strength of oneness. Kein Teil von uns sollte zurückgehalten werden von der Liebe und dem Sehnen nach dieser Einheit, die wir Gott nennen.

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Wir rufen unser eigenes Selbst an, unsere tiefere Selbst, die Einheit. Und wir erinnern uns daran, alles das, was für uns so wichtig ist, Am wichtigsten ist diese alles umfassende Präsenz, diese alles umfassende liebende Einheit. Und wir erklären, dass wir alles Ego auflösen, in die Seele eintreten. uh

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This unity of God also corresponds to this comprehensive divine presence. And then we enter into the part of prayer where we stand in silence. Anything that's still left of our sense of self in a way we can just for these couple of minutes let it fall away. The beloved meets the beloved.

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And when I look at the I of my body, I find the I of my soul. And when I look at the I of my soul, I find the I of God. This presence, this spiritual fulfillment, Diese Gotterfülltheit, diese allumfassende Einheit. Sabenu, Sabenu, Sabenu

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Cleanse your heart. oh oh oh Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you. So this would more or less finish the communal prayer entering into the Sabbath. And then we take all the energy that has formed there and bring it into our house.

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The first thing we do when we come home is we greet the angels. As a sense of really In the sense that we really came into contact with other dimensions and now bring them into our house. And we are now singing a song. Peace to you, angels of peace. Friede mit euch, Engel des Friedens.

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And you charge this angelic presence. We ask them to bless us in peace. And that when they depart from us, they should depart in peace. And then we sing a song to the feminine presence Then we sing a song to the female presence in the family.

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All the female presence. But it also points to the own female spiritual inner side. Lai [...]

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I think even at this Sufi camp Are there more women in the kitchen than men? And I would like to acknowledge that it is this feminine quality that nourishes us, not only our body, but also our soul. And it's a good time to take the whole staff, which includes men and women, working with that loving energy.

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It provides this nourishing atmosphere for all of our souls to grow and blossom a little bit. die unserer Seele viel Segen bringt.

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