Our Cantor’s Music Corner Continue from page 4 (Messager from our Cantor) 1 2 Cantor Watch and Listen to “Chad Gadya” by Chava Alberstein https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QOA0WnVgXaM G’s rendition of “Un Kavritico” (Chag Gadya in Ladino) and his Pesach CD is featured on the radio with Yitzhak Perlman. The audio version of Cantor G’s Pesach CD is available on the Internet. His rendition of “Un Kavritico” (Chad Gadya in Ladino) was included in a Passover music special produced by WQXR, New York’s Classical Radio Station, entitled “A Musical Feast for Passover,” hosted by Itzhak Perlman! Click https://beta.prx.org/stories/94066 for the audio. Listen to the whole special, but if you want to locate the song and the host’s introduction of Cantor G, click on “PearlmanPassover2FINAL” on the player, then scroll to minute 54:00. 3 Pesach With an Accent The first album of the series of Cantor Gastón’s “Jewish Music with an Accent”. 28 songs to enjoy, sing and dance with your kids, your students and your colleagues. New, old, and story telling with a “slight” accent! ChagSameach! You can either purchase the CD online or at the office. 18% of the proceeds will be donated to Beth Torah’s Social Action Fund (http://www.btbrc.org/donate-to-social-action/) equal? Who are we to judge our own brothers and sisters? And why do we feel the need and the right to think we might be superior than others? Why don’t we embrace the “different than me”? What are we afraid of? In this coming Pesach, I invite you to break the chains of slavery and free yourself from judging others, criticizing your fellow human being, ignoring the one that looks or think different. I invite you to liberate yourself to a point that you can only flow love all over you and give it towards your fellow man, but remember love starts from oneself. As you are about to pursue any type of violence and cruelty towards another God’s beautiful creature regardless of color, weight, illness, disability, language, creed, country, etc. stop and think twice: “Why?” Why am I behaving in this way? What moves me to behave as such? What is it about him/her that bothers me so much? And finally ask to yourself: “Aren’t my actions considered murder? Or contributing to create a future monster? Yes, Nikolas Cruz killed 17 souls on February 14, <strong>2018</strong>, and he should be sentenced by the law for his crime; but how many times was he killed by the ones who surrounded him? How many times was he a victim of psychological and/or physical violence? I am sure numerous times. We don’t want to see it, but the answer has always been here: true and genuine love, compassion, kindness, empathy. In the Shema we are commanded to love Hashem with all our hearts, with all our soul and with all our might. That’s the way Hashem want us to love each other. Thus, to remind myself every morning I love to start the day by reciting the ARI’s (Rabbi Isaac Luria) words: “Hareini mekabel alai et mitzvah ha boreh v’ahavta l’rei’acha kamocha”. Behold, I hereby take upon myself the Instruction of the Creator: “You shall love your fellow as yourself”. What about you? Will you repeat this beautiful statement every morning with me? You might be surprise, but it can really change the world. Happy Holiday of Freedom, Happy Pesach! Gastón Bogomolni Cantor 38 BETH <strong>TORAH</strong> <strong>TIMES</strong>
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