Past Tahara Training
Chanting During Tahara
An afternoon of chanting with the Boulder Women's Chevra Kaddisha
Prepared by Rabbi Eva Sax-Bolder
Chanting During Taharah
The handout is an excerpt from a chapter in The Magic of Hebrew Chant by Rabbi Shefa Gold. Shefa has included a chapter on Tahara, after presenting on the topic at the 2012 Kavod V'Nichun conference in Los Angeles. I have included a few additional chants into the text, as well as omitting and editing for our purposes.
The audio for the selected chants by Rabbi Shefa Gold (as well as many others) can be found on her website: https://www.rabbishefagold.com/. Below are links to the audio files for the chants in the handout.
Chants by: Rabbi Shefa Gold
https://www.rabbishefagold.com/
Rabbi Shefa Gold is a leader in ALEPH: the Alliance for Jewish Renewal and received her ordination both from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (z”l). She is the director of C-DEEP, The Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. She teaches workshops and retreats on the theory and art of Chanting, Devotional Healing, Spiritual Community-Building and Meditation.
Rabbi Shefa composes and performs spiritual music, has produced ten albums, and her liturgies have been published in several new prayerbooks. She is the author of Torah Journeys: The Inner Path to the Promised Land and In the Fever of Love: An Illumination of The Song of Songs, both published by Ben Yehuda Press. Her latest book, published by Jewish Lights, is The Magic of Hebrew Chant: Healing the Spirit, Transforming the Mind, Deepening Love.
By combining her grounding in Judaism with a background in Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, and Native American spiritual traditions, Rabbi Shefa is uniquely qualified as a spiritual bridge celebrating the shared path of devotion.