kaphtziel's album

Rumi on Sderot and Gaza

This is a video collage that arose from a reaction to the fighting in Gaza and Sderot. It is a juxtaposition of a poem by Rumi about religious tolerance, footage of the bombings in Gaza and Sderot, and old and new footage of Jerusalem holy sites.


Here is the text of the poem:

Move beyond any attachment to
names.
Every war and every conflict between
human beings
has happened because of some
disagreement about names.
It's such an unnecessary foolishness,
because just beyond the arguing
there's a long table of companionship,
set and waiting for us to sit down.
What is praised is one, so the praise is
one too,
many jugs being poured into a huge
basin.
All religions, all this singing, one song.
The differences are just illusion and
vanity.
Sunlight looks slightly different on this
wall than it does on that wall.
and a lot different on this other one,
but it is still one light.
We have borrowed these clothes,
these time-and-space personalities,
from a light,
and when we praise,
we pour them back in.
~Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi - 13th century~

Heschel Eternal Light Interview


A program produced by JTS in the 90s on the 20th anniversery of Heschel's death. Dialogue between cornell west and ismar schorsch followed by 1972 Eternal Light interview with Heshel himself.

[Audio Only-- For Video, Please Contact the Jewish Theological Seminary or NBC Television and Tell Them to Make it Available for Purchase]

all the world is holy

Abraham Joshua Heschel Remembered

[These videos are currently unavailable-- Please listen to audio version above, or contact JTS or NBC to ask them to sell it or release it to the general public]

-- 1972 Interview with Heschel Introduced by Cornell West and Ismar Schorch (Part 1)



Part 2 (West and Schorch)



Part 3 (Start of Eternal Light Interview)



Part 4 (EL Interview Continued)



Part 5 (EL Interview Cont.)

Excerpts from 1972 Interview With AJ Heschel

Ofra Haza - 1979 - Chad Gadya

The 4 Passover questions in Yiddish -Yiddish

Billie Holiday: A Yiddishe Momme