But Hatikvah was only the beginning. Zasloff has perfected the art of playing the shofar as a musical instrument. He has a band that plays "Zen Jazz" that he defines as African Jewish Japanese Latin Caribbean BeBop. In this video he launches into a standup comic routine in which he explains the principles of "Zen Judaism" - "We believe everything is sacred and everything is marketable."
The last few minutes of the video show him playing a medley of Christmas songs on the shofar - songs mostly written by Jews, and "blues for the Jews" -- Jumpin' in Jerusalem on a giant Yemenite shofar.
Enjoy!
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This is bit sacrireligious and uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteThe music was interesting, the comedy not so funny and the audience ignorant.
ReplyDeleteAgree.
ReplyDeleteI don't know. I thought it was ok. The audience wasn't so much ignorant as just not so religious. I've seen funnier and I've seen worse on this site (the Bark Mitzvah comes to mind as an example of real disrespect and ignorance) and he could have skipped "Silent Night," as it wasn't written by a Jew, but the rest of them were. True, he should come to shul more often. But I actually wish him luck. I'm saying this as a former comedian and as a rabbi.
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