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PrayerFormance with Gabriel Meyer Halevy

Monday, May 29
8:00 pm
Electric Lodge

An interactive journey bridging hearts and cultures through original & sacred songs, stories of cross-cultural bridges, peacemaking & humor even beyond enemy lines. Co-create a spontaneous community. If you can breathe, you’re welcome.

Born in Cordoba, Argentina. Son of human rights champion Rabbi Marshall Meyer z’l.  Gabriel travels the Globe performing his music, leading sacred music workshops, interfaith and multicultural facilitation. He has three CD collaborations out – Merkavah, SpiritIsreal & Hateva: Skin of God, and one solo album: The Human Project. He wrote 2 books of poetry and co-founded Metatron Ritual Theater Collective (’94 – ’01). He is the co-founder & co-director of Sulha Peace Project until 2009.

He was initiated into the “order of disorder” by Zen Roshi Bernie Glassman z’l, was given an honorary title of “true representative of the Jewish people” by Rabbi Zalman Schachter Shalomi z’l, had the honor of a private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, studied sacred wisdom with Shamans from the Americas, Sufi Sheiks from the Middle East & Africa, and acclaimed teachers Buddhist such as Jack Kornfield, Stan Groff, Joanna Macy & the late Thich Nhat Chan. He currently is writing an autobiographical fiction of prophetic sorts and is a nomad.

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“Sing unto God a new song.”
-Psalm 96

If God is already tired, as suggests the Psalm, of hearing the old song, all the more so will ordinary mortals be.
-Alcalay (20th c. Jewish lexicographer)

The Open Temple.
Sing a new Song.