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Shabbat Shalom Everyone!

Tonight, we begin Shabbat HaGadol, the great Shabbat before Passover.

Not long after I started JMT, I got the opportunity (and, as importantly, permission) to discuss the life and work of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, who, as you may know, had an extensive list of songs for Kabbalat Shabbat (the Receiving of Shabbat service held on Friday night, as part of the evening prayers).

This was the first of my lessons on those songs, and part of a whole month of Carlebach related videos. To watch all 6 videos, go to -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ6SrIpIKgQ&list=PLNbxzJQwgKspLZrkadcUUb8vAa7hOgoc4

12 January 1903 Birth of Theodor Carlebach, Farmer, Pastor and Vicar #otdimjh

Theodor Carlebach came from a well-respected Jewish family in Germany, which spread in the 19th and 20th centuries.  Ernst Carlebach (1838-1923) moved from Mannheim to Heidelberg in 1863 and founded a book and art antiquarian business there.  His son Rudolf (1870-1917) came to Mannheim as a notary in 1900 and married Lili Goldmann in 1901.  They had two sons: Theodor and Alfred (born February 4,…

It’s Jewish Music Week here in Toronto, and the annual event has some great stuff lined up on its schedule. We actually missed out on telling you about Rocky Mountain Jewgrass performing last night, and it’s probably a little late to tell you about tonight’s Amy Sky show at Zoomer Hall in Liberty Village (link here if you think you can make it down by 8 tonight - http://www.jewishmusicweek.com/sky-in-the-city), but it’s not too late to tell you about Cantor Tibor Kovari performing classic tunes from Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach!