"LAMENTING HER TEMPLE SO WOUNDED"
The song ends with a global call for
click here to listen to: Lamenting Her Temple So Wounded (4:10)
Lamenting Her Temple So Wounded is an all-English version
click here to listen to: Kinah Lekhurban Gan Eden (6:17)
And here is Richard Kaplan in concert
In this time of our planet's profound ecological crises -
of mother's milk being one of our most toxic substances
(full of heavy metals and hundreds of other compounds),
of disappearing habitats and their resident species,
of vast numbers of underground water tables now undrinkable -
we offer this chant as a wake-up call to open our hearts and minds
toward the saving of this Eden, which we've been given to steward.
a reverent mending of our "larger Temple."
(downloadable MP3 for ninety-nine cents at: cdbaby.com
of track four from Richard Kaplan's second CD, Life of the Worlds,
where it is sung with Hebrew and English intertwined.
Here is the original recording of Kinah Lekhurban Gan Eden:
(downloadable MP3 for ninety-nine cents at: cdbaby.com
performing the Hebrew-English version:
Lamenting her Temple so wounded
I hear my waters crying,
Have all the lessons been lost?
Oh! oh that I, oh that they, were pure again"
Jeremiah wept, oh! hearing her song,
Lamenting her Temple so wounded
In silence live the children of the poor
Alas! why will they not feel their disgrace?
Oh! oh that I, oh that they, were pure again"
In the night, she weeps and weeps
Longing for her lovers,
Who so seldom come to comfort her
Bring us back to You, oh Soul of Souls
Spark us to turn, that we may be seen
Mending this Temple, our Eden
"The Prophet Jeremiah Laments the Destruction of Jerusalem"
Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630
For more about the creation of this piece,
please visit the "Writings" section
of this website
and scroll down to "track 4" in Christina Roden's interview
concerning Life of the Worlds.
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Hazzan Kaplan's latest CD
"The Hidden One: Jewish Mystical Songs"
was
birthed last year with an initial run of 1000 CDs.
at www.cdbaby.com
"Don't Ever Change" episode #412,
now in syndication
House MD
"Here On Earth"
may be heard online at:
here on earth
Jewish Sacred Music and
his CD "Life of the Worlds"
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