Jewish Spiritual Renewal: New Class: Fun/Light: Perek Shira: Shabbat 2/16/13 perek shira: song of nature Shalom my dear Chaverim, Talmidim, v' Rabbanim, friends, students, and fellow rabbis. An oneg, joy-filled, Shabbat this coming weekend to all. For this series, we are studying Perek Shira. It will be fun and light and short for those that wish it to be, as well as deep and involved from those who like to delve into our traditions texts. Perek Shira is 6 chapters long with verses of various heavenly and earthly bodies, plants and creatures singing praises to God. If you would like, consider the phrase the entity is singing, and ascribe to it what the entity is trying to teach us... about what traits to mirror and what traits to avoid. More on the text is found in the first class. ''The FIRST of EIGHT ROOSTERS is singing : 'When the Holy One, blessed be He, comes to the righteous in the Garden of Eden, all the trees in the Garden of Eden scatter their spices, and they rejoice and praise, and then He, too, is aroused and praises.' (Zohar Vayakhel 195b),[Perek Shira 4:1, Nature's Song].'' Painting by Maryanne Jacobser | | | | | |