Calling all freaky Jews All misfit Hebrews All fan boys and girls All Creepy freakey deekey converse wearing Semites from around the world All bop Kabbalah beatniks
all transgender peaceniks All the friends of Zalman All the maggidim All the neo-Hasidim All "alternative" members of the tribe All Emma Goldman activist scribes All people of the book with an agnostic vibe All of Judah's atheists All believers in ein Soph's infinite radiance And Inspiration And Pure consciousness And Pure love that's spontaneous And Justice that is impervious And the balance which splits like a radius The Jazz Between form and content
All who want to celebrate every meal All who find their spirit in their jam If that's your shpiel All who want to mix and remix Everything If that's what you bring It's all going out to you Do you feel it too? If at least some of these things aren't true That's cool I will give you a pool of Shuls to choose from There are many institutions
But not this one
This is for us Our sanctuary Our shtiebel Our people Where we were made to make memories Mixing and remixing our Judaism Finding ourselves in it's culture and teachings And this is our davenning Again and again and again
This is our spirituality If you hear me Do you hear this? Come with me
Mordecai Kaplan said that no matter what you Believe as long as you are directed toward ethics and being in Jewish community you are on the right tree.
Let us not make an idol out of our institutions or god
The idols Abraham bashed Let's be iconoclasts Together Jewish iconoclasts Come Celebrate our weirdness with me. Meet me on the Hudson River On a date real soon Just after the full moon We will croon Bring your weirdness And I'll bring mine It'll be divine Lets drink some wine Move beyond time
Why are we here The answer is in front of us To celebrate who we are
to speak like music
to create and bring our gifts to the world To find balance And justice truth and love
