Conversation with Rabbi Moshe Waldoks - founding Rabbi of Temple Zion (TBZ) based in Brookline, author of the “Big Book of Jewish Humor” a part of legendary “ The Jew in the Lotus” Jewish delegation to HH Dalai Lama, and currently presenting his latest solo show: “You Could Live If They Let You”
Dear Ones,
Here we start the last lesson of the year, the one, where we dismantle our self-importance, with humor. Before we can begin the spiritual year as sovereigns of ourselves and start articulating our story, we need to be able to laugh at ourselves. To shed the last bit of superfluous persona that guards our essence.
Throughout history, herstory, and our story, and in different cultures and nations, there were models of humor disruptors. The Buffon, a holy fool who could make the king laugh and even laugh at the king, protected by his hilarity, without the danger of being beheaded. In Aramaic they were called “badchana demalka” in the main Kabalistic text of the Zohar, in Lakota: Heyoka, the one who might even disrupt and act as a contrarian, in the most sacred of ceremonies, while still considered an integral part of it. The legend goes that in ancient Thebes, There were 42 gods and goddesses, one had to traverse after the river of death, the Duad, and the last one of these goddesses, Meshkenet, would erase the previous ones with her laughter.
Some news!
March 1st my new Book is officially out:
You can get it on Bookshop.org - Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
Press and media, for my book:
On the Verge of the Verb - an autobiographical fiction of prophetic sorts -
1 - 11:11 Magazine Podcast - Editor and host SIMRAN
2 - The Journey of Awakening Podcast - Host Lynna Teer
3 - Why? Podcast - Hosts Luke Poling and Heidi Heidquist
4 - “It May Interest You To Know” Podcast - Host Toni Ann Marcolini
If you are in the New York area, Come celebrate the book with me, in Crown heights Brooklyn, Sunday, March 9th @ Barzakh cafe - Doors open: 3 pm.
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