Ruah: the spirit, the breath, conveying the sound which touches us inside and connects us to all living beings, our environment and the mystical.
My music is an expression shaped by two mystical traditions my Jewish ethnicity and culture and my Buddhist practice. The jewish people and their culture feature a yearning for truth, a questioning of authority, a thirst for mystical connection and joyful celebration. The scales and modes of the synagogue and the melodic inflections of Klezmer are passed from one generation to the next, traveling with the diaspora across the world.
As a follower of the Lotus Sutra- the final and definitive teaching of the historical Buddha, Shakyamuni-Three thousand realms in a single moment of life is a theory of the human psyche or the nature of being. We all live in a continuous multidimensional flux, the three thousand realms, and our attitude and balance in this ocean of being explains how we shift, in a moment, from hell to paradise and back.