I atrribute the healing work
I am doing in this blog
to Joshua Tree Flower Essence,
a tool I have been using to retrace
and repattern Original Pain Work.
For more on this powerful remedy
intended for this time of Shift,
go here.
This Plant Your Dream Blog
called--
From Yelling for "Help!!!" to Saying "Wow!!
in less than 48 Hours at the ALEPH Kallah 2011--
shares my experiences.
It contains photos and links
to online blog entries and other resources.
I wrote the majority of these Plant Your Dream Blogs
betwen July 1 and July 7, 2011.
The ALEPH Kallah was held June 27-July 3, 2011
at the U of Redlands in So Cal.
I attended for the weekend
of the ALEPH Kalllah,
The ALEPH Kallah is organized by ALEPH,
The Alliance for Jewish Renewal.
The Signature at the bottom
of this Plant Your Dream Blog
also has some of the main
main Plant Your Dream Blogs in this series.
Reflections on the Shift I had--
from yelling for "help!!!
to saying "Wow!! in less than 48 hours
are detailed in the various sections
below with links to photo Gallery
on Facebook.
HOW I SUPPORT MY WRITING
I am a full time blogger.
The Curezone Blog is my daily journal
where I organize my mind and daily life.
I write first here about my thoughts,
projects, and mundane activities.
I am open to receiving trades of services
for all the work I do.
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
July 7, 2011
5:54 am
Began writing
this morning
5:25 am
July 7, 2011
"Dear Leslie,
Wow! Thank you for that video---
being able to catch a glimpse of the Kallah was a treat.
I give thanks for whatever healing you experienced!"
--Eve Ilsen,
wife of Reb Zalman
July 4, 2011
9:51 pm
SOW IN TEARS. REAP IN JOY!
ALEPH KALLAH 2011 HARVEST!
Left home for the ALEPH Kallah
at the University of Redlands around noon
on July 1. I was yelling "Help!!! Help!!
repeatedly enroute up.
The pollution was intense.
I was gasping for fresh air.
I ran into a couple traffic jams.
Approaching Readlands I was in severe smog
and other kinds of pollution.
It was hot as in a desert.
in Redlands, I could see mountains
but they were shrouded in haze.
I could not close my driver's side window!!!!!
The window fell in a few weeks ago.
I attended a Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
right after the holiday of Shavuot.
The event was being held at CBS Television City,
a couple blocks from Fairfax High School,
my alma mater. It was a big deal to go up.
Mike, my mechanic, hd been too busy
to get the window fixed before I left,
I wasn't sure what kind of conditions
I was going to run into in Redlands.
I wasn't sure how safe my things would be
in the EG Mobile, my 68 VW van.
The ALEPH Kallah 2011,
was in So Cal for the first time.
This is an event an held every two years that draws
the international Jewish Renewal Communities
together.
I have not attended an ALEPH Kallah since
1997, I attended in 1993, 1995, and 1997.
My experiences at those Kallahs and
some of the issues that shaped my experience
back then are detailed in this
Plant Your Dream Blog:
Healing Original Pain Work in Progress
--Writing Up a Storm
I finished this blog on July 6.
I sent to visit my friend Hani at his
Mid East Foods around 6 pm
after working for numbers of hours.
The VIdeo
Sow in Tears. Weap in Joy.
ALEPH Kallah 2011 was starting to circulate.
I was exhausted from making the video
and running on empty.
I started to get some positive responses
to the video, one positive message from
one of the people who impacted my
decision to stop attending Kallah's back in 97.
Hani is a butcher who prepares pasture fed lamb
I eat. He butchers his meat by Moslem custom.
It is as close to Kosher as I get.
Hani was born in Bethlehem and has been
a friend for more than 2o years. He speaks better
hebrew than I do.
Although I was tired, I made some videos
and took some photos in the store.
There was a rainbow outside the store
when I walked out. No rain. Just a rainbow.
It had been a very hot day without clouds.
FEELINGS PACKING FOR REDLANDS
I was fearful to take my laptop because
of the security issues of leaving it in my
unlocked vehicle.
The message was go simply,
but I knew that if I did not have it,
I would be limited in the number of photos
I could take without unloading.
I did not see myself doing too much work on the computer,
but in retrospect, I am so happy I took this leap of
faith and brought along the PowerBook.
By Sunday afternoon, my camera disk was full.
I had to do some uploading. There was still
another adventure that I wanted to record.
I wanted to see if I could find the organic farm
at the University of Redlands.
Arriving on Campus...
Finding my bearings.
Finding the Shabbat Walk.
PHOTOS UPLOADED TO FACEBOOK
Finding Allies in Rhonda and Rina.
Incident with Shulamit, disturbing.
Meeting Annie Klein.
Touch in from Rabbi Aryeh Hirshfield.
Tom Herz singing Aryeh song....
Upload to do:
ATTENDING THE FRIDAY NIGHT SERVICES
Support received:
Burt and Ellyn Bialik
Feeling safe because of Ellyn Dosick.
Meeting Debra Kolodny for the first time,
a "Wow!" What a delight!
Feelings of sadness around not feeling at home
in this type of praying.
Admiring Debra and how she prayed.
I cannot pray to God this way.
What to do after the service?
Everyone is eating dinner.
I am hungry but am uninvited.
I do not want to break the rules.
Sheri had said, I was invited to services
but dinner had no seats left.
I wanted to stay for Friday night activities,
post dinner. What to do.
I was sitting outside alone
in a feeling of not belonging.
I was wearing my Essene Dead Sea Scrolls T Shirt
and Joseph's Coat.
I decide to go in to the Cafe at Orlon Hall.
I find Rina and the family from B'nai Horin.
Shulamit is sitting there.
Rina is eating. I do not tell her I have not eating.
She is my mother person in Jewish Renewal,
where I stay in L.A.
I better go find AriellaShira, my main spiritual ally
in Jewish Renewal.
She is at the table with Phil Bell, grad of Fairfax High,
my alma mater, class of 60,
and Connie, class of 65, my class, his wife,who I remember from Kindergarden.
I saw Phil two weeks ago at CBS TV City
when I went up to LA for another leg of this
Joshua Tree Remedy Journey to Reclaim my
Indigenous Jewish Roots.
FOR MORE ON JOSHUA TREE
PERUSE THESE PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOGS
SATURDAY,
JULY 2, 2011
DOWNERS AND "WOWS!"
MEETING WITH THE KITCHEN STAFF
EARLY SATURDAY MORNING BEFORE SHABBATH
SERVICES
Danna Ashbaker, sous chef in the University of Redlands
Kitchen and part of her staff. She was a "wow!"
sharing with me that the she bought food from local
organic farmers whenever possible. She told me
that they had a farm right near campus.
It was behind the Buckner Student Apartments.
The Kitchen bought food from the farm.
That was exciting! What a model
for all schools to follow!
I spent time in the kitchen getting to know
Danna Ashbaker, the Sous Chef. She took me into
the kitchen and introduced me to the staff.
I took a lot of photos. I asked her about the sources
of the food. She was proud that the kitchen supported
local organic farmers whenever possible, and she named them.
She was told me the they had a farm on campus behind
the buildings, and that the kitchen bought organic food
from those who grew it.
Bingo! What a healing model for all schools!
Grow food on campus where lawns how stand.
Hire students to grow it. Give them a real Edu
growing food. Then pay them for the food they grow
that is eaten in the kitchen.
That had to be one of my top "Wow!"
to take home from the Kallah 2011 Harvest.
SATURDAY NIGHT
Rabbi Jack Gabriel on stage.
He expressed thanks for the spices
I brought. More to this story.
I will write about it.
FINDING THE FARM
RE ENTERING THE GATE TO THE GARDEN
FACEBOOK NOTE
Visiting the Onion patch at the University of Redland's Organic Farm. I heard from Danna Ashbaker, the sous chef, at the U of Redlands, that they had a farm where students grew food. The Farm sold to the kitchen. I had to work really hard to find it. Few on campus knew where it was. To find the Farm for me was like reentering Eden, the Promised Land. I was not going to leave Redlands until I found it. I made it through the Gate with AriellaShira Lewis and Gloria Krasno, two veteran ALEPH Kallah participants. AriellaShira is a very close ally of mine. For more on my healing journey go here: http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1831428
We gave homage to the plants in the garden in behalf of the ALEPH Kallah and planted Sacred Seeds. We entered for all of us. For my opening starement of intent, to bring Sacred Foods to the ALEPH Kallah and the Jewish People, watch the video "Sow In Tears. Reap in Joy: ALEPH KALLAH 2011 Harvest. http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1831867
Uploaded
July 6, 2011
9:29 am
THE FARM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
REDLANDS WHERE THEY GROW ORGANIC FOOD
AND SELL IT TO THE KITCHEN
AriellaShira Lewis, (L), with Gloria Krasno.
I heard early Saturday morning that they had a farm
here. It only took me a few hours on campus to
discover this and I announced that that had one
when Rabbi Gabriel asked if anyone had any advise
to give to the next generation during the Torah service
Saturday morning.
I announced that there was a garden.
Many want to find it and enter it as well,
but it took really research and two attempts before
three attempts before I succeeded. I had to get a map
finally from Student Services. I was insistent
that I was not going to leave Redlands until
I entered the Garden.
THE FARM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS
at the University of Redlands
I had to work hard, but found it
Sunday afternoon after
three tries.
First I went looking for it in the EG Mobile.
I found a grove, and asked the man who ran the
shuttle. No one knew where it was.
I asked someone from the kitchen staff.
They guided to an organic herb garden right in
back of the kitchen, but they had no idea
where the farm was.
Then, I went to student services.
I got a map.
I met one of the students who worked there.
I asked him if the students were calling for organic food.
he said they were.
He knew where the farm was.
He drew the location.
It was at the back of Buckner Student Apartments.
GOOGLE
UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS SUSTAINABLE FARM
FOR MORE URL'S ON THIS LOVELY PROJECT
There is a lovely video here
of the farm and a story about it.
The Sustainable University of Redlands Farm (SURF) is a natural farm in its beginning stages, but already grows and sells fresh vegetables to Bon Appetit, the Food Management Company on campus, composts pre-consumed food from the cafeteria, has a Zuni Waffle Garden, and is almost finished building Campus Community Garden Plots that will be available to students, staff, faculty, and any organization on campus. If you would like to get involved with the Farm or would just like to get more information about it please contact CSL at 909.748.8288.
I knew I had purpose in attending some part of the
2011 ALEPH KALLAH.
My spirit had been wanting me to come back for numbers
of years. My last Kallah was in 1997 in Fort Collins.
My Original Pain Work is in a Jewish context; it had only
taken me three Kallah to get plugged into my core issues,
and then decide I no longer needed this experience;
but then, then, there was the other side of me that
loved the Jewish people and wanted to play a role
in restoring Sacred Foods to the Tribe of birth.
My weekly life is about food, I work along side farmers.
I daily write about food and healing issues on the
Plant Your Dream Blogs, and products, projects
and Seed Dreams I want to see succeed.
I got into my head this idea that I could play a role
in restoring Sacred Foods to the ALEPH,
and if I had any real aspiration of taking that on,
this was going to be the place to begin.
The Kallah was being held for the first time
with driving distance of San Diego at the University of Redlands,
I also knew that in order to have any success in
this Seed Dream, I would have to navigate through
some difficult relationships and feelings I had left behind.
THE KALLAH HEALING JOURNEY
The ALEPH Kallah began Monday, June 24,
but I was emmersed in two other writing assignments
that kept me pinned to my computer most of the week.
I could not see myself clear to go till Friday.
Then there was the issue of the EG Mobile,
my 68 VW van and the broken window.
FOOD;
HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO KNOW HOW TO EAT?
Food, how important is it to know our foods,
their healing qualities, how to eat, and how to grow
our own food?
This in itself could be a shared class I would teach
at the Kallah 2013.
We wake up in a world each morning
where more and more we are capable of having
a really bad day through our food choices.
Much of the food we eat today is poisoned.
It is not really food fit for human consumption.
The energy that it takes to digest what we call food
is out of balance with cost to our health and immune
system thanks to pesticides and other additives
that have nothing to do with feeding us nutrients.
Then today we are alive in a world where science
has taken on the world of genes. There are things
we need to know about called Genetically Modified Organisms
that have been altered the ability of Foods to deliver
what God and nature had in mind.
There is a school of thought in Judaism that knows
the healing power of food.
I keep it simple:
Sacred Foods are here to help Plant Your Dream.
It is one thing have an idea, a Seed Dream, but for each
Seed Dream it takes 1000 details and a ton of will power
to deliver the goods. Healthy Sacred food, in here
to help us connect body, mind, and soul
or in Kaballistic terms, the Worlds from inner thought
to outer expression.
Sacred Foods are essential as well to the will to carry
out our dreams.
BIOTECHNOLOGY
The world of science and medicine has given
us breathing room to survive the mistakes we make in life.
Surgery is intended to be a Heroic measure.
It is a gift from God that allows us the ability to
recover and life on to learn our life lessons.
Medicine as well is a gift.
It gives us the ability to make war on nature
that we might put off a premature death due to ignorance;
but the bottomline of health is still,
and will always be that Food is intended to be our
medicine. In the hands of a mother who knows her
kitchen, and a child who grows up outside the fast food
establishments, food as a tool to hallow us,
in other words, be one one piece.
Then we come to Biotechnology.
I do not believe there is another inherently wrong with
knowing our genes, but when the ability to
invade genes and treating genes as real estate get on the same
page, we have a potential problem.
Today we live in a world, even among the fortunate
here in the US were most people are farmed.
Most people and kids are kept on minimal life support.
We have enough micro-nutients to survive, but not thrive,
not enough to keep the Four Worlds together.
This is very unkosher.
Most people who get a regular education about food
get it from TV
Today we live in a world where few Rabbis can teach
about food because they were never been taught how to eat.
They do not know the role of food in helping us
be whole, pure, and natural. Fresh is not on the map.
Growing food is no longer seen as basic to a Holy Life.
All this education cries to be restored
if we are to regain a foothold on repopulating
Eden.
That is what my work is about.
The Enchanted Garden is a name for our renewed
earth we can grow one seed and seed dream at a time.
I have written volumes about this.
BIotechnology when applied to medicine and
extending life is another heroic measure.
It can help extend life until we know better; but Biotechnology
applied to agriculture is off base. Some would
go so far as to call it devil's play and I can see
this point of view.
Biotech, when applied to Agriculture will never feed the poor as touted,
may for a season or a number of seasons,
but it eventually makes farmers who by into this system
want to kill themselves. Many do.
It does not bring us closer to Eden or being
wise. Sorry.
JEWISH PEOPLE, AND JEWISH RENEWAL
PEOPLE ARE VERY CONCERNED
ABOUT JUSTICE
By ANDREW MALONE
Last updated at 12:48 AM on 3rd November 2008
CHEW ON THIS
AN AUTHENTIC DIALOGUE ON SCIENCE,
ETHICS, AND FOOD IS NEEDED NOW
I am willing to discuss this issue about Biotechnology
as applied to agriculture. We also need to restore
our Sacred Relationship with Food, and that means
learning how to grow food ourself and return to the original
meaning of Organically grown.
THE MEANING OF ORGANICALLY GROWN
The meaning of organic means living in harmony with
the beat of nature.
I respectfully would like to interact with anyone in
Jewish and other secular circles
who imagines they know differently, Having
a Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food is now
the Jewish thing, as well as the Sacred Thing to do.
It is definitely a topic that deserves to be on the table,
and is not about name calling, or vilifying.
JOIN THE DIALOGUE ON SCIENCE,
ETHICS, AND FOOD HERE
I was able to upload all my photos
in the Cafeteria, get more battery power,
and plug in my Iphone, and then go on with
the adventure.
The final adventure, accomplished with the help
of AriellaShira and Gloria, was an astounding
find! We did find the gate to the University of Redlands
Farm. I really had to work hard to make this pasage through
that Gate! We made it! With the help of some student
working at the Burchard Student Apartments, we found
the gate. It had a lock, but it was open!!!!
Yes! Yes! Yes!
AriellaShira, Gloria, and I were able to
cross the desert of the gate and enter this
Promised Land!!! It threw me into the space
of Epic Journey, and AriellaShira and Gloria
where right there with me to in the Divine Play
of Entering the Garden!!!
7:45 pm
Back soon!
My computer is still in the EG Mobile
and I did not put away food from Whole Foods Market Hillcrest.
I stopped on the way home.
That was where I started to say "Wow!! "Wow!!! "Wow!!!"
I was beside myself with banner headline positive feelings
shooting like billiard balls into the mind from so
many good feeling experiences.
I really got to engage!!!!!!!!
I really got to engage!!!!!!!
I was seen by delightful eyes of all ages!!!
It does not take that many experiences like that
to put me over the top with "Wow!!!
This was not just "wow!!!.
It was "Wow! "Wow!" "Wow""
Right now there are people traveling in airplanes and
in cars to different parts of the country who either
have little bags of very special Spices with them--
gifts I gave out--or pieces of Eucalyptus--
I handed out a bunch of that too!!!!
Brian and Sarah Rohr.
They met at the ALEPH KALLAH
two Kallah's ago.
Now they are married.
Brian is a storyteller.
I had met him the evening before.
I had given Sarah a number of gifts.
I asked for something from her.
She gave me the DVD that Brian made.
I was looking at it the evening before.
I will review it here
soon and take a photo of it.
It is in my Holy Basket still in
the EG Mobile.
They live in Port Townsend.
I want to connect them up with
Sanda and Brian who have land
near there at Dragon Belly Farm.
Follow Up with that!!!
Sarah is a Capricorn,
She is born January 6, 1983.
That was the year I was doing
the World Peace Celebration
at the Starlight Bowl with Reb Shlomo Carlebach.
I gave Sarah a laminated copy
of "Your Creation>'
I also gave here a some Job's Tears
to Plant.
I gave here some Havdallah Herbs.
She is a dula.
She smelled the peppermint oil of Jonathan Shaloka.
I Showed her "The Rebirth of Mother Earth."
I told here the story of the plum tree that came back alive.
Her looking into my eyes was a real connection
not to be forgotten.
Then there was one of the last engagements--
I went back to see Sarah Rohr after I showered in
Gloria's room. I went into the empty walll of the
Shuk--bookstore--and the room was cleared out.
I had missed here!!! I did not have any way to
connect with this delightful 27 year old who
said she really got me, but then, then, when
went to the street outside the Bookstore Shuk...
there so was with Brian, her husband!!!!
Yes! Yes! Yes! I got her contact info!
I will be able to follow up!!!!
That was such a sweet closing moment!
And then, it was followup by two to four other special gifts!!!!
These included an effortless upload of materials.
A place to do that in quiet in the Cafeteria entrance.
Support from AriellaShira, bringing me a bear and goodies
to eat!!!! So Sweet! Doing a little candle light with Gloria
and AriellaShira!!! With the candle that was in the Opening
Ceremony, no less for the Kallah--Gloria got that !!!!
GOLDIE MILGRIM AND GOLDMAN
And then, wanting a water bottle momento...
I go over to where I see some left behind....
I had interacted with Goldie....hearts,
hearts, hearts...that morning and the day before...
so very healing...A whole blog to write on that alone...
and, and, and, guest what?????????
There were three water bottles abandoned,
and one of them was Goldie's!!!!!!!!!!
How very sweet!!!!
I have Goldie's water bottle!!!!
The water bottle she drank from!!!
How touching! SHe really was the top healing
of the weekend for me!!! ...As far as new allies....
Then, there were many others...including
Yehudit and Ruvan Goldfarb from Svat.
There is a whole blog to write on that....
They were part of the Shabbat telling of the story...
I got to tell my story....of the wounding.
I was heard....the three of them listened
to my whole story on Shabbat.
How very special!!!
More later....
7:59 pm
Going to secure my food and computer...
HEALING MOMENTS
Marcia Prager....Shabbat Service...
Retracing Steps...
ASK FOR HELP FROM GUIDES
Retracing my steps...
Dr. Jensen..under the bridge..
Go back where we lost the parts...
"Dear Leslie,
You have always been one of those folks
out there on the fragile growing edge of things,
sniffing way ahead of most of us.
And you have had the courage to be quirky and insistent,
and to proceed even when you weren't understood.
I choose to believe that what you have already planted in this world
---in the earth, or in people's hearts--will quietly take root,
and perhaps go unnoticed for long enough to really dig in
without provoking opposition, and therefore acquire depth
and strength to burgeon forth. Thank you for your generosity,
for all you do, and for persevering even when it's been lonely.
You have been seen and appreciated;
please forgive me for not letting you know sooner.
Warmly,
Eve
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sees and plant seeds of success for
super ripe people and their dreams.
His Life purpose
is growing the Enchanted Garden,
a name for our renewed earth that grows
one seed and seed dream at a time.
The Plant Your Dream Blog,
his primary communication tool,
has more than 567,000 page views.
It is #1 Blog on the #2 Alternative Health Site.
"Leslie Goldman is the best Photographer on the Planet!"
--Rick Frishman, publicist, Chicken Soup for the Soul
more than 100 Million sold.
"I’ve been waiting half my life to tell somebody about Leslie Goldman.
Always figured I’d wait for some desperate moment.
Now it’s here."-- Bob Baker, Los Angeles times Magazine
"Do you remember, a lifetime ago,
when Nat King Cole had a hit song
called "Nature Boy"? It told about
"a strange, enchanted boy"
who wandered far, very far,
and when he met you,
he taught you many things.
I've met that boy,
or someone very much like him,
and he is now a man known as
"The Enchanted Gardener..."
I may never be the same."
--Paul Froemming,
Montecito Journal,
July 16, '99
"A magic day he passed my way and while we spoke
of many things Fools and Kings, this he said to me,
'The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be
loved in return.' " -- "Nature Boy," written by eden
ahbez, recorded by Nat King Cole in 1947.
Testimonials for Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener:
“Come my friends, let us make no more walls and fences.
Close your eyes. Hold hands. Let’s make Peace through asking,
listening, and affirming the Enchanted Garden on earth that exists deep,
deep, within us. May we open our eyes to peace as well,
use gardening tools to uplift each other,
spades to confirm peace visibly before us.”
--Leslie Goldman, Your Enchanted Gardener
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IN "REKINDLING OF FAITH"
Leslie's Bio note:
“Leslie has breathed life into physical pain and rejection.
He speaks for those who suffer, entrapped by silent blocked emotions.
His gift is to evoke within each reader
both the joyful and the painful memories of the past. In so doing,
Leslie brings to his audiences the light of understanding
and the cure of forgiveness. Rekindling
of Faith is a psalm that absorbs some of life’s suffering
for all of us.” --Paul Brenner, author, Hospice movement
pioneer.
“Urban Shaman, Leslie Goldman, communes with God
in his Magic Garden, coaxing healing form herbs and plants
and writes verse blossoms that lift the heart, touch the soul
and somehow gladden the wounded spirit weeping in us.”:
--Rabbi Zalman M. Schacter-Shalomi, grandfather,
Jewish Renewal movement.
“When I hear you, I hear the prophets, their words
their teachings, their passion, flowing through you,
speaking through you. You, you are not their mouthpiece.
You are their mouth, a living wholly human person. Your
words, your poems, intuitively, inherently speak an old
new voice from deep within our tradition and our faith.
You have your very personal dialogue with God,
and touch the deeply personal in each of us.”
--Rabbi Stan Levy, Rabbi B’nai Horin Community.
“May we each become hardeners tilling the soil
of Leslie’s sweet dream.” --Rabbi Wayne Dosick,
author, Rabbi Elijah Minyan
“Thank you for keeping us focused on the essential.”--
Jack Canfield, EEO, Chicken Soul for the Soul Enterprises, Inc.
“We can’t afford to have anyone think they are disabled.:
This book helps.” --Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup
for Soul, Co-author
“Thank you for lessons learned from all of her creations,
from the carvings o the canyon walls to everything in the compost pile.”
--William Spear, Fortunate Blessings Foundation.
“When the Messiah comes, Leslie will be his M.C..!”
--Rabbi Schlomo Carlebach, ‘83
“Let us make our entire miraculous planet one Enchanted Garden.”
--Robert Muller, U.N., Assistant
Secretary General, ‘82
LESLIE GOLDMAN
YOUR ENCHANTED GARDENER
PHOTOS FROM THE ALEPH KALLAH 2011
WHERE THEY CAN BE FOUND
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SOW IN TEARS. REAP IN JOY.
ALEPH KALLAH 2011 HARVEST
Watch this video for a sense of the project
of healing I envision that will influence
Sacred Foods at the ALEPH Kallah and for
the Jewish People.
YOUTUBE NOTES
Spending time writing Plant Your Dream Blogs looking at my return visit to the ALEPH Kallah 2011. ALEPH is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet; Kallah means gathering. The ALEPH Kallah in the international Gathering of the Alliance for Jewish Renewal Communities held every two years. The last time I was at an ALEPH Kallah was in 1997. Tremendous healing happening inside within a few days of this marvelous test tube for growth and community building within a Jewish setting. I highly recommend the ALEPH Kallah and the richness of the Jewish Renewal Communities in the US and around the world as a place to regain our roots in Judiasm and its healthy future. My continued dream is that Sacred Foods, Organic Food Growing, and ALEPH become one. --Your Enchanted Gardener, Leslie Goldman. To share in my
personal journey bringing Sacred Foods to the Kallah and Jewish people,
Google: Going from Yelling "Help!" to saying "Wow!" in Less than 48 hours at the ALEPH Kallah 2011
"Leslie, thank you so much for making this precious little video and for your dedication and your life's work to bring awareness of healthy foods to our community. So glad you came again to Kallah and that we reconnected. May you be blessed."
This is a photo with Debra Kolodny, the new Rabbi at the Jewish
Renewal community in Portland She is moving on from being
the executive director of ALEPH. I met her through the work
she was doing years ago on the Sacred Foods Project through ALEPH.
This photo was taken on July 3 at the Closing Ceremony.
THE FARM?
ARRIVING IN THE PROMISED LAND
I went with AriellaShira Lewis And Gloria Krasno
twp ALEPH Kallah veterans.
I heard upon arrival at the University of Redlands,
through talking to the staff in the kitchen how they supported
Organic food, a cornerstone of Sacred Foods.
They bought local organic foods
from farmers. They had a farm right off campus
where the students grew organic food that the kitchen would
buy. It took determination to find the Farm. For future reference,
This treasure called the University of Redlands Sustainability Farm (URSF)
is located behind the Brockton Avenue Apartments
at the back far end of a fenced gate
within view of the Soccer Field.
The Brochton Avenue Apartments are located at the corner
of Grove Street and Blockton Avenue north of the
soccer field (307) on this map.
Sunday morning, July 3, 2011.
It was difficult to find, but I persevered.
I went looking three times.
When I finally found it later in the day,
People on campus said the Gate would be locked,
but I found it open although no one was there
but we who entered.
FROM R'GOLDIE
"Let's embroider the farm into a kallah should it be held at the same site. environmental care and sacred foods is so important and actual central in Jewish renewal, Recon, etc."
July 6, 2011
WORK IN PROGRESS
ORGANIC OUTREACH TO THE UNIVERSITY
OF REDLANDS
Summary of work done thusfar.
Seed Dreams for this school as a model
for other Universities. Remarkable progress
toward Organic and Sacred Foods are being made
here!! They are to be congratulated!
My spirit is asking that I rejuvenate the Sacred Food Project
This was on my list of intentions when I attended the final
couple days of the Kallah.
I knew that to make progress I would have to step through
some Original Pain Work reflected in a handful of relationships
I left uncooked at the Kallah back in 1997.
At the Kallah I saw a new generation of youth
that need to be supported now.
I made some new allies.
I am willing to do the Soul Growth
that I might continue to serve my purpose.
QUOTE FROM R'GOLDIE
On Jul 5, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Goldie Milgram wrote:
Dear Leslie:
Just saw the video and your blog re Kallah.
I deeply admire your approach to healing.
The honest way you spoke your truth and points of wounding
with Jewish renewal in the past.
When you told me about your "planting dreams" work
with the school students, I recognized our friendship
would blossom with the years.
That is the kind of supportive education
that is so needed. Tears flow as I reflect we would not have met
if not for our courage to come and confront, discuss,
connect and reconnect. Your gifts are
so timely for Jewish renewal and all peoples.
I look forward to future connections."
God made a rainbow covenant
in the heavens with each of us.
How is it that there are so
many rainbow colors
on earth reflected
in all our flowers,
fruits, herbs, and vegetables?
Our health and happiness
comes out of partaking
in the full rainbow
of flowers and foods.
This fulfills our part
in the covenant.
Started July 6, early in the morning.
Healing proceeding through completing
the video. There was a tremendous rainbow
in the sky July 6, an hour after I finished
the Video. I wrote more on this Blog today.
"Dear Leslie,
You have always been one of those folks
out there on the fragile growing edge of things,
sniffing way ahead of most of us.
And you have had the courage to be quirky and insistent,
and to proceed even when you weren't understood.
I choose to believe that what you have already planted in this world
---in the earth, or in people's hearts--will quietly take root,
and perhaps go unnoticed for long enough to really dig in
without provoking opposition, and therefore acquire depth
and strength to burgeon forth. Thank you for your generosity,
for all you do, and for persevering even when it's been lonely.
You have been seen and appreciated;
please forgive me for not letting you know sooner.
Warmly,
Eve
DANNA ASHBAKER, SOUS CHEF
AT THE U OF REDLAND'S TALKS
ORGANIC FOODS WITH LESLIE GOLDMAN
YOUR ENCHANTED GARDEN
Saturday morning, July 2, 2011
in the U of Redland's Kitchen
Silk, a product in the NON GMO Verified Project,
is one of the foods I found already served at the
U of Redlands. I see and seed using my Organic Trade
Association Resources to suggest and develop more.
READ THIS PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG HERE
Organic Support for the University of Redlands Kitchen
PHIL BELL
Head Cheerleader
from my alma mater, Fairfax High School,
1960.
A GREAT INTERFAITH MINISTRY
IS DESCRIBED HERE IN RABBI ARYEH HIRSHFIELD
I felt the presence of Rabbi Aryeh Hirshfield, the former rabbi of Portland with me during my journey
to the Kallah. I took his CD with me. He was one of my favorite
Jewish Renewal rabbis, and died in the Ocean in January 2009.
I have permission of Beth Hirshfield to use music of
Aryeh in an upcoming video I have in mind.
This is a remedy I have been using to work with bioenergetic patterns
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It was recommended to me by Richard Katz of the Flower Essence Society
last March.
I highly recommend this to all who wish to work with their
own bioenergetic patterns embedded in our Jewish experience.
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Patterns of imbalance:
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I am a full time blogger.
I see and seed setting up a budget
to include reinvigoration a Sacred Food
project within the ALEPH KALLAH
and ongoing for the Jewish People.
I am requesting support through
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