The Life and Music of Shlomo Carlebach
Will Soll and Rabbi James Goodman will present the life and music of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. This Verein event will be in-person at Kol Rinah.
Neshama Carlebach will be performing at this year’s Kol Rinah Summerfest weekend in August.
Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, considered to be the most influential composer of Jewish religious music of the 20th century, is credited with reviving the Jewish spirit in the aftermath of the Holocaust. He was born in Berlin in 1925, grew up in Baden where his father, Rabbi Naphtali Carlebach, served as chief rabbi. With the Nazi rise to power, the Carlebach family traveled to Lithuania, and then to New York in 1939 where he had a Haredi education. In 1949, he joined Zalman Schachter as the first and outreach emissaries for the 6th Chabad Lubavitch Rebbe. In 1954, he received rabbinic ordination.
In 1966 at the Berkeley Folk Music Festival, Shlomo realized that a guitar playing Orthodox Rabbi could reach out to a hippie generation. Shlomo gained the friendship and understanding of Swamis, Gurus and spiritual seekers by offering a Jewish mode of experience without deprecating their path. At the time of his death in 1994, he had recorded 27 albums, amassing a broad following.
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