Podcasts about Hamsa

Witchcraft Practitioner Renee Starr discussing the Hamsa magical talisman and how to use it for both protection against evil as well as prosperity and abundance

On this very special episode of the Growing with Purpose podcast, I sit down with Hamsa Yaqo, formerly the Executive Director of the Small Giants Community, and now a board member. Hamsa is also the Co-Founder of Kintsugi Village, a non-profit hub in Detroit that will provide a childhood education center, artist incubator, culinary kitchen, and more to the local community.  Many of you likely know Hamsa as the bright, caring leader who helmed the Small Giants Community operations for nearly a decade. But you may not know about her previous time in the education and tech sectors, as well as her journey with her family from Iraq to the US when she was 12 years old. All of these experiences have shaped Hamsa into the leader she is today; ready to embark on a new journey in the non-profit space and give back to a city that she loves. Listen to this episode to hear Hamsa and I discuss what it was like for her to be the eldest child of an immigrant family, how learning a new language in a new country made her resourceful, the tough lessons she's learned as a leader, and so much more.    Show Notes: 3:32 - A serendipitous Small Giants journey 5:45 - Moving fast at Mango Languages 10:05 - A childhood on the move 20:06 - Building bonds in academia  29:10 - Areas for improvement 34:18 - “You have to enjoy what you do”

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Welcome back to the in-between state. This practice is in the structure taught and recommended by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, whom is a constant reference point for me in the creation of healing, gentle yoga nidra practices. You can learn more about her here: https://www.yoganidranetwork.org/. This practice is intended to support healing and release the effects of stress on your bodymind. In it, we explore the Hamsa mantra, among other techniques. The word Hamsa translates to "swan" in Sanskrit, and in yoga, it also refers to the breath. The mantra's two syllables, ham and sa, represent the breath's in-breath and out-breath, as well as the life force's ascending and descending currents. The mantra is thought to open a doorway to the experience that that we are identical to the Absolute, or transcendental Self, and the great Life of the cosmos. May this practice contribute to your life in a postive way. Much love, Phoebe ~ Words: Phoebe Boonkerd Voice: Phoebe Boonkerd Cover art: by Penabranca (https://www.penabranca.art/) If you have benefitted from this podcast and would like to make a donation, please do so at paypal.me/theyoganidraproject. Your contributions help to keep this podcast ad-free and helps me with the cost of recording studio time and other resources that help to improve the Yoga Nidra Project offering. It is my goal to keep this podcast freely available and ad-free, so your generosity helps me to stay true to this vision.

Aujourd'hui, vous allez découvrir le parcours incroyable de Hamsa.Son histoire est digne d'un film : un enfant TDAH non diagnostiqué dans un milieu familial marqué par la violence et la maladie mentale, une adolescence chaotique qui aurait pû lui couter la vie...Hamsa est un rescapé...Je vous laisse découvrir son témoignage brut et sans langue de bois.Atelier pour les mamans d'adolescent avec un TDAH : https://sabheart.systeme.io/atelier-adoCompte instagram : https://www.instagram.com/sab_heart_/Groupe privé Telegram : https://sabheart.systeme.io/telegramSite internet: https://www.sabheart.com/Ma newsletter : https://sabheart.systeme.io/inscription-newsletterMon livre numérique dédié à l'enfant tdah : https://sabheart.systeme.io/guide-tdahMa formation TDAH Sérenity : https://sabheart.systeme.io/tdah-serenity-formationHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

In this episode, I had the chance to sit down with Michael Nicklas, Managing Partner at Valor Capital Group, a Brazil-based cross-border venture fund. Valor's fintech and crypto portfolio companies include cross-border payment and trade finance network Hamsa, crypto exchanges Bitso and Coinbase, and stablecoin infrastructure company Circle, among many others. Michael and I had the chance to talk about:* Unique aspects of Latin American that shape the market for financial services* The role the Brazilian central bank plays in fostering progress and innovation in financial services in the country (yes, that includes Pix)* What Valor means when it describes its investing strategy as being “cross border”* How Valor takes into account evolving geopolitical risks as it considers its investing approach* And more! Get full access to Fintech Business Weekly at fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/subscribe

“Today's Morocco is a prime example of what a great peaceful coexistence and international cooperation can be with an Arab country.” Eli Gabay, an Israeli-born lawyer and current president of the oldest continuously active synagogue in the United States, comes from a distinguished family of Jewish leaders who have fostered Jewish communities across Morocco, Israel, and the U.S. Now residing in Philadelphia, Eli and his mother, Rachel, share their deeply personal story of migration from Morocco to Israel, reflecting on the resilience of their family and the significance of preserving Jewish traditions. The Gabay family's commitment to justice and heritage is deeply rooted. Eli, in his legal career, worked with Israel's Ministry of Justice, where he notably helped prosecute John Ivan Demjanjuk, a Cleveland auto worker accused of being the notorious Nazi death camp guard, "Ivan the Terrible." Jessica Marglin, Professor of Religion, Law, and History at the University of Southern California, offers expert insights into the Jewish exodus from Morocco. She explores the enduring relationship between Morocco's Jewish community and the monarchy, and how this connection sets Morocco apart from its neighboring countries. —- Show notes: How much do you know about Jewish history in the Middle East? Take our quiz. Sign up to receive podcast updates. Learn more about the series. Song credits:  Pond5:  “Desert Caravans”: Publisher: Pond5 Publishing Beta (BMI), Composer: Tiemur Zarobov (BMI), IPI#1098108837 “Suspense Middle East” Publisher: Victor Romanov, Composer: Victor Romanov; Item ID: 196056047 ___ Episode Transcript: ELI GABAY: Standing in court and saying ‘on behalf of the State of Israel' were the proudest words of my life. It was very meaningful to serve as a prosecutor. It was very meaningful to serve in the IDF.  These were highlights in my life, because they represented my core identity: as a Jew, as a Sephardic Jew, as an Israeli Sephardic Jew. These are the tenets of my life. MANYA BRACHEAR PASHMAN: The world has overlooked an important episode in modern history: the 800,000 Jews who left or were driven from their homes in the Middle East and North Africa in the mid-20th century. Welcome to the second season of The Forgotten Exodus, brought to you by American Jewish Committee. This series explores that pivotal moment in history and the little-known Jewish heritage of Iran and Arab nations. As Jews around the world confront violent antisemitism and Israelis face daily attacks by terrorists on multiple fronts, our second season explores how Jews have lived throughout the region for generations – despite hardship, hostility, and hatred–then sought safety and new possibilities in their ancestral homeland. I'm your host, Manya Brachear Pashman. Join us as we explore untold family histories and personal stories of courage, perseverance, and resilience from this transformative and tumultuous period of history for the Jewish people and the Middle East.  The world has ignored these voices. We will not. This is The Forgotten Exodus.  Today's episode: leaving Morocco. MANYA: There are three places Eli Gabay calls home: Philadelphia, the city where he has raised his children; Morocco, the land where his parents Rachel and Amram were born and his ancestors lived for generations; and Israel, his birthplace and original ancestral homeland. Eli has been on a quest to honor all those identities since he left Israel at the age of 12. ELI: On my father's side, they were all rabbis. On my mother's side, they were all businesspeople who headed synagogues. And so, my grandfather had a synagogue, and my other grandfather had a synagogue. When they transplanted to Israel, they reopened these synagogues in the transition camp in Be'er Sheva. Both families had a synagogue of their own. MANYA: For the past five years, Eli has served as president of his synagogue--the historic Congregation Mikveh Israel, America's oldest continuous synagogue, founded in Philadelphia in 1740. Descended from a long line of rabbis going back generations, Eli is a litigation attorney, the managing partner of a law firm, a former prosecutor, and, though it might seem odd, the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Nicaragua in Philadelphia. But the professional role that has brought him the most acclaim was his time in the 1980s, working for Israel's Ministry of Justice, decades after the Holocaust, still trying to hold its perpetrators accountable. CLIP - ‘THE DEVIL NEXT DOOR' TRAILER: Charges were filed today against John Demjanjuk, the 66-year-old Ukrainian native, who's accused of being a Nazi death camp guard named Ivan the Terrible. The crimes he was accused of… MANYA: We'll tell you more about that later. But first, we take you to the Jerusalem Israeli Gift Shop in northeast Philadelphia, a little slice of Israel on the corner of Castor Avenue and Chandler Street. [shofar sounds] Every day, amid the menorahs and shofars, frames and mezuzahs, Eli's 84-year-old mother Rachel Gabay, the family matriarch and owner of thisJudaica shop, is transported back to the place where she grew up: Israel. ELI: My father was a teacher all his life, and my mother [shofar sounds] runs a Jewish Judaica store that sells shofars, you can hear in the background. RACHEL: It's my baby. The store here became my baby. CUSTOMER: You're not going to remember this, but you sold us our ketubah 24 years ago. RACHEL: Yeah. How are you, dear? ELI: Nice. CUSTOMER: We're shopping for someone else's wedding now. RACHEL: Oh, very nice… For who? CUSTOMER: A friend of ours, Moshe, who is getting married and we wanted to get him a mezuzah. MANYA: For Rachel, Israel represents the safety, security, and future her parents sought for her when in 1947 they placed her on a boat to sail away from Morocco. By then, Casablanca had become a difficult place to be Jewish. Israel offered a place to belong. And for that, she will always be grateful. RACHEL: To be a Jew, to be very good… ELI: Proud. RACHEL: Proud. I have a country, and I am somebody. ELI: My father's family comes from the High Atlas Mountains, from a small village called Aslim.The family arrived in that area sometime in 1780 or so. There were certain events that went on in Morocco that caused Jews from the periphery and from smaller cities to move to Casablanca. Both my parents were born in Morocco in Casablanca. Both families arrived in Casablanca in the early 30s, mid 30s. MANYA: Today, the port city of Casablanca is home to several synagogues and about 2,000 Jews, the largest community of Morocco. The Museum of Moroccan Judaism in suburban Casablanca, the first museum on Judaism in the Arab world, stands as a symbol of the lasting Jewish legacy in Morocco. Indeed, there's been a Jewish presence in what is considered modern-day Morocco for some 2,000 years, dating back to the early days of the establishment of Roman control.  Morocco was home to thousands of Jews, many of whom lived in special quarters called “Mellah,” or Jewish ghetto. Mellahs were common in cities across Morocco. JESSICA: Morocco was one of the few places in the Islamic world where there emerged the tradition of a distinctive Jewish quarter that had its own walls and was closed with its own gates. MANYA: Jessica Marglin is a professor of religion, law, and history at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on the history of Jews and Muslims in North Africa and the Mediterranean. JESSICA: There's a bit of a debate. Were these quarters there to control Jews and force them to all live in one spot and was it a sort of form of basically repression? Or was it a way to protect them? The first mellah, the one in Fez is right next to the palace. And so there was a sense that the Jews would be closer to the Sultan or the Sultan's representative, and thus more easily protectable. It could be interpreted as a bad thing. And some Jews did see it as an unfair restriction. But I would say that most Jews didn't question the idea that Jews would live together. And that was sort of seen as natural and desirable. And there was a certain kind of autonomous jurisdiction to the mellah, too.  Because Jews had their own courts. They had their own butchers. They had their own ovens. Butchers and ovens would have been kosher. They could sell wine in the mellah. They could do all these things that were particular to them. And that's where all the synagogues were. And that's where the Jewish cemetery was, right? It was really like a little Jewish city, sort of within the city. MANYA: Unlike other parts of the Middle East and North Africa where pogroms and expulsions, especially after the creation of the state of Israel, caused hundreds of thousands of Jews to abruptly flee all at once – spilling out of countries they had called home for centuries – Jews chose to leave Morocco gradually over time, compared to the exodus from other Arab countries.  JESSICA: When I teach these things, I set up Morocco and Iraq as the two ends of the spectrum. Iraq being the most extreme, where Jews were really basically kicked out all at once. Essentially offered no real choice. I mean, some did stay, but it was choosing a totally reduced life.  Versus Morocco, where the Jews who left did so really, with a real choice. They could have stayed and the numbers are much more gradual than anywhere else. So there was a much larger community that remained for years and years and years, even after ‘67, into the ‘70s.  Even though they kept going down, it was really, it was not like Iraq where the population just falls off a cliff, right? It's like one year, there's 100,000, the next year, they're 5,000. In Morocco, it really went down extremely gradually. And that's in part why it's still the largest Jewish community in the Arab world by far. MANYA: Morocco's Jewish history is by no means all rosy. In all Arab countries, antisemitism came in waves and different forms. But there are several moments in history when the Moroccan monarchy could've abandoned the Jewish population but didn't. And in World War II, the Moroccan monarch took steps to safeguard the community. In recent years, there have been significant gestures such as the opening of the Jewish museum in Casablanca, a massive restoration of landmarks that honor Morocco's Jewish past, including 167 Jewish cemeteries, and the inclusion of Holocaust education in school curricula. In 2020, Morocco became one of four Arab countries to sign a normalization agreement with Israel, as part of the U.S.-backed Abraham Accords, which allowed for economic and diplomatic cooperation and direct flights between the two countries. MANYA: Oral histories suggest that Jews have lived in Morocco for some 2,000 years, roughly since the destruction of the Second Temple. But tangible evidence of a Jewish presence doesn't date as far back. JESSICA: The archaeological remains suggest that the community dates more to the Roman period. There was a continual presence from at least since the late Roman period, certainly well before the Islamic conquests. MANYA: Like other parts of the Middle East and North Africa, Jews in Morocco were heavily concentrated in particular artisanal trades. Many were cobblers, tailors, and jewelers who adorned their creations with intricate designs and embellishments. Gemstones, carved coral, geometric designs, and symbols such as the Hamsa to bless the wearer with good fortune and protect them from the evil eye. JESSICA: And there were certain areas where they kind of were overrepresented in part because of stigmas associated with certain crafts for Muslims. So gold and silver jewelry making in certain parts of Morocco, like in the city of Fez, Jews were particularly overrepresented in the trade that made these gold threads, which are called skalli in Moroccan Arabic, and which are used to embroider sort of very fancy clothing for men and for women. Skalli for instance, is a very common last name for Jews.  MANYA: Jessica notes that in the 12th and 13th Centuries, Morocco came under the rule of the Almohad caliphate, a fundamentalist regime that saw itself as a revolutionary reform movement. Under the Almohad dynasty, local Christians in North Africa from Morocco to Libya all but disappeared.  Jews on the other hand stayed. She suspects Morocco developed its own version of crypto-Jews who superficially converted to Islam or at least lived outwardly as Muslims to survive.  JESSICA: There's probably more of a sense of Jews had more experience of living as minorities. Also, where else were they going to go? It wasn't so obvious. So whatever conversions there were, some of them must have stuck. And there are still, for instance, Muslim families in Fez named Kohen . . . Cohen. MANYA: Jews chose Morocco as a place of refuge in 1391, when a series of mob attacks on Jewish communities across Spain killed hundreds and forcibly converted others to Christianity. As opposed to other places in Europe, Morocco was considered a place where Jews could be safe. More refugees arrived after the Alhambra Decree of 1492 expelled Jews from Spain who refused to convert. That is when Eli's father's side of the family landed in Fez.  ELI: Our tradition is that the family came from Spain, and we date our roots to Toledo, Spain. The expulsion of the Jews took place out of Spain in 1492 at which time the family moved from Spain to Morocco to Fez. MANYA: At that time, the first mellahs emerged, the name derived from the Arabic word for salt. Jessica says that might have referred to the brackish swamps where the mellah were built.  JESSICA: The banning of Jews from Spain in 1492 brought a lot of Jews to North Africa, especially Morocco, because Morocco was so close. And, you know, that is why Jews in northern Morocco still speak Spanish today, or a form of Judeo Spanish known as Haketia. So, there were huge numbers of Iberian Jews who ended up throughout Morocco. And then for a long time, they remained a kind of distinctive community with their own laws and their own rabbis and their own traditions. Eventually, they kind of merged with local Jews. And they used Spanish actually, for decades, until they finally sort of Arabized in most of Morocco. ELI: My father's family, as I said, comes from a small town of Aslim. The family arrived in that area sometime in 1780 or so after there was a decree against Jews in Fez to either convert to Islam or leave. And so in a real sense, they were expelled from that region of Fez. There were Jews who arrived throughout the years after different exiles from different places. But predominantly the Jews that arrived in 1492 as a result of the Spanish expulsion were known as the strangers, and they integrated themselves in time into the fabric of Moroccan Jewry.  MANYA: For Eli's family, that meant blending in with the nomadic Amazigh, or indigenous people of North Africa, commonly called Berbers. Many now avoid that term because it was used by European colonialists and resembles the word “barbarians.” But it's still often used colloquially.  ELI: Aslim is in the heart of Berber territory. My father's family did speak Berber. My grandfather spoke Berber, and they dressed as Berbers. They wore jalabia, which is the dress for men, for instance, and women wore dresses only, a head covering.  Men also wore head coverings. They looked like Berbers in some sense, but their origins were all the way back to Spain. MANYA: In most cases across Morocco, Jews were classified as dhimmis, non-Muslim residents who were given protected status. Depending on the rulers, dhimmis lived under different restrictions; most paid a special tax, others were forced to wear different clothes. But it wasn't consistent.  ELI: Rulers, at their whim, would decide if they were good to the Jews or bad to the Jews. And the moment of exchange between rulers was a very critical moment, or if that ruler was attacked. MANYA: The situation for Jews within Morocco shifted again in 1912 when Morocco became a French protectorate. Many Jews adopted French as their spoken language and took advantage of educational opportunities offered to them by Alliance Israélite Universelle. The borders also remained open for many Jews who worked as itinerant merchants to go back and forth throughout the region.  JESSICA: Probably the most famous merchants were the kind of rich, international merchants who dealt a lot with trade across the Mediterranean and in other parts of the Middle East or North Africa. But there were a lot of really small-time merchants, people whose livelihood basically depended on taking donkeys into the hinterland around the cities where Jews tended to congregate.  MANYA: Rachel's family, businesspeople, had origins in two towns – near Agadir and in Essaouira. Eli has copies of three edicts issued to his great-grandfather Nissim Lev, stating that as a merchant, he was protected by the government in his travels. But the open borders didn't contain the violence that erupted in other parts of the Middle East, including the British Mandate of Palestine.  In late August 1929, a clash about the use of space next to the Western Wall in Jerusalem led to riots and a pogrom of Jews who had lived there for thousands of years. Moroccan Jews also were attacked. Rachel's grandfather Nissim died in the violence. RACHEL: He was a peddler. He was a salesman. He used to go all week to work, and before Thursday, he used to come for Shabbat. So they caught him in the road, and they took his money and they killed him there.  ELI: So my great-grandfather– RACHEL: He was very young. ELI: She's speaking of, in 1929 there were riots in Israel, in Palestine. In 1929 my great-grandfather went to the market, and at that point … so . . . a riot had started, and as my mother had described, he was attacked. And he was knifed. And he made it not very far away, all the other Jews in the market fled. Some were killed, and he was not fortunate enough to escape. Of course, all his things were stolen, and it looked like a major robbery of the Jews in the market. It gave the opportunity to do so, but he was buried nearby there in a Jewish cemetery in the Atlas Mountains. So he was not buried closer to his own town. I went to visit that place. MANYA: In the mid-1930s, both Amram and Rachel's families moved to the mellah in Casablanca where Amram's father was a rabbi. Rachel's family ran a bathhouse. Shortly after Amram was born, his mother died, leaving his father to raise three children.  Though France still considered Morocco one of its protectorates, it left Morocco's Sultan Mohammad V as the country's figurehead. When Nazis occupied France during World War II and the Vichy regime instructed the sultan to deport Morocco's Jews to Nazi death camps, he reportedly refused, saving thousands of lives. But Amram's grandmother did not trust that Morocco would protect its Jews. Following the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt, the Axis Powers' second attempt to invade North Africa, she returned to the Atlas Mountains with Amran and his siblings and stayed until they returned to Casablanca at the end of the war.  ELI: There was a fear that the Nazis were going to enter Morocco. My father, his grandmother, took him from Casablanca with two other children and went back to Aslim in the mountains, because she said we can better hide there. We can better hide in the Atlas Mountains. And so my father returned, basically went from Casablanca to the Atlas Mountains to hide from the coming Nazis. MANYA:  In 1947, at the age of 10, Amram went from Casablanca to an Orthodox yeshiva in England. Another destination for Jews also had emerged. Until then, no one had wanted to move to British-controlled Palestine where the political landscape and economic conditions were more unstable.  The British restricted Jewish immigration making the process difficult, even dangerous. Additionally, French Moroccan authorities worked to curb the Zionist movement that was spreading throughout Europe. But Rachel's father saw the writing on the wall and took on a new vocation. RACHEL: His name is Moshe Lev and he was working with people to send to Eretz Yisrael. MANYA: A Zionist activist, Rachel's father worked for a clandestine movement to move children and eventually their families to what soon would become Israel. He wanted his children, including his 7-year-old daughter Rachel, to be the first. RACHEL: He worked there, and he sent everybody. Now our family were big, and they sent me, and then my sister went with my father and two brothers, and then my mom left by herself They flew us to Norvege [Norway].  MANYA: After a year in Norway, Rachel was taken to Villa Gaby in Marseille, France, a villa that became an accommodation center for Jews from France who wanted to join the new State of Israel. There, as she waited for a boat to take her across the Mediterranean to Israel, she spotted her brother from afar. Nissim, named for their late grandfather, was preparing to board his own boat. She pleaded to join him. RACHEL: So we're in Villa Gaby couple months. That time, I saw my brother, I get very emotional. They said ‘No, he's older. I told them ‘I will go with him.' They said ‘No, he's older and you are young, so he will go first. You are going to stay here.' He was already Bar Mitzvah, like 13 years.  I was waiting there. Then they took to us in the boat. I remember it was like six, seven months. We were sitting there in Villa Gaby. And then from Villa Gaby, we went to Israel. The boat, but the boat was quite ahead of time. And then they spoke with us, ‘You're going to go. Somebody will come and pick you up, and you are covered. If fish or something hurts you, you don't scream, you don't say nothing. You stay covered.  So one by one, a couple men they came. They took kids and out. Our foot was wet from the ocean, and here and there they was waiting for us, people with a hot blanket. I remember that. MANYA: Rachel landed at Kibbutz Kabri, then a way station for young newcomers in northern Israel. She waited there for years without her family – until one stormy day. RACHEL: One day. That's emotional. One day we were sitting in the living room, it was raining, pouring. We couldn't go to the rooms, so we were waiting. All of a sudden, a group of three men came in, and I heard my father was talking. His voice came to me. And I said to the teacher, taking care of us. I said ‘You know what? Let me tell you one thing. I think my father is here.' She said ‘No, you just imagination. Now let's go to the rooms to sleep.'  So we went there. And all of a sudden she came to me. She said, ‘You know what? You're right. He insists to come to see you. He will not wait till morning, he said. I wanted to see my daughter now. He was screaming. They didn't want him to be upset. He said we'll bring her because he said here's her picture. Here's her and everything. So I came and oh my god was a nice emotional. And we were there sitting two or three hours. My father said, Baruch Hashem. I got the kids. Some people, they couldn't find their kids, and I find my kids, thanks God. And that's it. It was from that time he wants to take us. They said, No, you live in the Ma'abara. Not comfortable for the kids. We cannot let you take the kids. The kids will stay in their place till you establish nicely. But it was close to Pesach. He said, we promise Pesach, we bring her, for Pesach to your house. You give us the address. Where are you? And we'll bring her, and we come pick her up. JESSICA: Really as everywhere else in the Middle East and North Africa, it was the Declaration of the Independence of Israel. And the war that started in 1947, that sort of set off a wave of migration, especially between ‘48 and ‘50. Those were the kind of highest numbers per year. MANYA: Moroccan Jews also were growing frustrated with how the French government continued to treat them, even after the end of World War II. When the state of Israel declared independence, Sultan Mohammad V assured Moroccan Jews that they would continue to be protected in Morocco. But it was clear that Moroccan Jew's outward expression of support for Israel would face new cultural and political scrutiny and violence.  Choosing to emigrate not only demonstrated solidarity, it indicated an effort to join the forces fighting to defend the Jewish state. In June 1948, 43 Jews were killed by local Muslims in Oujda, a departure point for Moroccan Jews seeking to migrate to Israel. Amram arrived in Israel in the early 1950s. He returned to Morocco to convince his father, stepmother, and brother to make aliyah as well. Together, they went to France, then Israel where his father opened the same synagogue he ran in the mellah of Casablanca. Meanwhile in Morocco, the Sultan's push for Moroccan independence landed him in exile for two years. But that didn't last long. The French left shortly after he returned and Morocco gained its independence in March 1956. CLIP - CASABLANCA 1956 NEWSREEL: North Africa, pomp and pageantry in Morocco as the Sultan Mohamed Ben Youssef made a state entry into Casablanca, his first visit to the city since his restoration last autumn. Aerial pictures reveal the extent of the acclamation given to the ruler whose return has of his hope brought more stable conditions for his people. MANYA: The situation of the Jews improved. For the first time in their history, they were granted equality with Muslims. Jews were appointed high-ranking positions in the first independent government. They became advisors and judges in Morocco's courts of law.  But Jewish emigration to Israel became illegal. The immigration department of the Jewish Agency that had operated inside Morocco since 1949 closed shop and representatives tasked with education about the Zionist movement and facilitating Aliyah were pressed to leave the country. JESSICA: The independent Moroccan state didn't want Jews emigrating to Israel, partly because of anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian sentiment, and partly because they didn't want to lose well-educated, productive members of the State, of the new nation. MANYA: Correctly anticipating that Moroccan independence was imminent and all Zionist activity would be outlawed, Israel's foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, created the Misgeret, which organized self-defense training for Jews across the Arab countries. Casablanca became its center in Morocco. Between November 1961 and the spring of 1964, the Mossad carried out Operation Yakhin, a secret mission to get nearly 100,000 Jews out of Morocco into Israel. JESSICA: There was clandestine migration during this period, and a very famous episode of a boat sinking, which killed a lot of people. And there was increasing pressure on the Moroccan state to open up emigration to Israel. Eventually, there were sort of secret accords between Israelis and the Moroccan King, which did involve a payment of money per Jew who was allowed to leave, from the Israelis to the Moroccans.  MANYA: But cooperation between Israel and Morocco reportedly did not end there. According to revelations by a former Israeli military intelligence chief in 2016, King Hassan II of Morocco provided the intelligence that helped Israel win the Six-Day War. In 1965, he shared recordings of a key meeting between Arab leaders held inside a Casablanca hotel to discuss whether they were prepared for war and unified against Israel. The recordings revealed that the group was not only divided but woefully ill-prepared. JESSICA: Only kind of after 1967, did the numbers really rise again. And 1967, again, was kind of a flashpoint. The war created a lot of anti-Zionist and often anti-Jewish sentiment across the region, including in Morocco, and there were some riots and there were, there was some violence, and there was, again, a kind of uptick in migration after that. For some people, they'll say, yes, there was antisemitism, but that wasn't what made me leave. And other people say yes, at a certain point, the antisemitism got really bad and it felt uncomfortable to be Jewish. I didn't feel safe. I didn't feel like I wanted to raise my children here.  For some people, they will say ‘No, I would have happily stayed, but my whole family had left, I didn't want to be alone.' And you know, there's definitely a sense of some Moroccan Jews who wanted to be part of the Zionist project. It wasn't that they were escaping Morocco. It was that they wanted to build a Jewish state, they wanted to be in the Holy Land. ELI: Jews in Morocco fared better than Jews in other Arab countries. There is no question about that. MANYA: Eli Gabay is grateful to the government for restoring many of the sites where his ancestors are buried or called home. The current king, Mohammed VI, grandson of Mohammed V, has played a significant role in promoting Jewish heritage in Morocco. In 2011, a year after the massive cemetery restoration, a new constitution was approved that recognized the rights of religious minorities, including the Jewish community.  It is the only constitution besides Israel's to recognize the country's Hebraic roots. In 2016, the King attended the rededication ceremony of the Ettedgui Synagogue in Casablanca.  The rededication of the synagogue followed the re-opening of the El Mellah Museum, which chronicles the history of Moroccan Jewry. Other Jewish museums and Jewish cultural centers have opened across the country, including in Essaouira, Fes, and Tangier. Not to mention–the king relies on the same senior advisor as his father did, Andre Azoulay, who is Jewish.  ELI: It is an incredible example. We love and revere the king of Morocco. We loved and revered the king before him, his father, who was a tremendous lover of the Jews. And I can tell you that in Aslim, the cemetery was encircled with a wall and well maintained at the cost, at the pay of the King of Morocco in a small, little town, and he did so across Morocco, preserved all the Jewish sites. Synagogues, cemeteries, etc.  Today's Morocco is a prime example of what a great peaceful coexistence and international cooperation can be with an Arab country. MANYA: Eli is certainly not naïve about the hatred that Jews face around the world. In 1985, the remains of Josef Mengele, known as the Nazis' Angel of Death, were exhumed from a grave outside Sao Paulo, Brazil. Eli was part of a team of experts from four countries who worked to confirm it was indeed the Nazi German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on Jews at Auschwitz. Later that decade, Eli served on the team with Israel's Ministry of Justice that prosecuted John Ivan Demjanjuk, a retired Cleveland auto worker accused of being the notorious Nazi death camp guard known as “Ivan the Terrible.” Demjanjuk was accused of being a Nazi collaborator who murdered Jews in the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. In fact, Eli is featured prominently in a Netflix documentary series about the case called The Devil Next Door. CLIP - ‘THE DEVIL NEXT DOOR' TRAILER: …Nazi death camp guard named Ivan the Terrible. The crimes that he was accused of were horrid.  The Israeli government is seeking his extradition as a war criminal. And that's where the drama begins.  MANYA: Demjanjuk was convicted and sentenced to death, but the verdict was later overturned. U.S. prosecutors later extradited him to Germany on charges of being an accessory to the murder of about 28,000 Jews at Sobibor. He was again convicted but died before the outcome of his appeal. ELI: Going back to Israel and standing in court and saying ‘on behalf of the State of Israel' were the proudest words of my life. It was very meaningful to serve as a prosecutor. It was very meaningful to serve in the IDF. These were highlights in my life.  They represented my core identity: as a Jew, as a Sephardic Jew, as an Israeli Sephardic Jew. These are the tenets of my life. I am proud to serve today as the president of the longest running synagogue in America. MANYA: Eli has encountered hatred in America too. In May 2000 congregants arriving for Shabbat morning prayers at Philadelphia's Beit Harambam Congregation where Eli was first president were greeted by police and firefighters in front of a burned-out shell of a building. Torah scrolls and prayer books were ruined. When Rachel opened her store 36 years ago, it became the target of vandals who shattered her windows. But she doesn't like to talk about that. She has always preferred to focus on the positive. Her daughter Sima Shepard, Eli's sister, says her mother's optimism and resilience are also family traditions. SIMA SHEPARD: Yeah, my mom speaks about the fact that she left Morocco, she is in Israel, she comes to the U.S. And yet consistently, you see one thing: the gift of following tradition. And it's not just again religiously, it's in the way the house is Moroccan, the house is Israeli. Everything that we do touches on previous generations. I'm a little taken that there are people who don't know that there are Jews in Arab lands. They might not know what they did, because European Jews came to America first. They came to Israel first. However, however – we've lived among the Arab countries, proudly so, for so many years. MANYA: Moroccan Jews are just one of the many Jewish communities who, in the last century, left Arab countries to forge new lives for themselves and future generations.  Join us next week as we share another untold story of The Forgotten Exodus. Many thanks to Eli, Rachel and Sima for sharing their family's story.  Too many times during my reporting, I encountered children and grandchildren who didn't have the answers to my questions because they'd never asked. That's why one of the goals of this project is to encourage you to ask those questions. Find your stories. Atara Lakritz is our producer. T.K. Broderick is our sound engineer. Special thanks to Jon Schweitzer, Nicole Mazur, Sean Savage, and Madeleine Stern, and so many of our colleagues, too many to name really, for making this series possible.  You can subscribe to The Forgotten Exodus on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts, and you can learn more at AJC.org/theforgottenexodus.  The views and opinions of our guests don't necessarily reflect the positions of AJC.  You can reach us at theforgottenexodus@ajc.org. If you've enjoyed this episode, please be sure to spread the word, and hop onto Apple Podcasts or Spotify to rate us and write a review to help more listeners find us.

In this class you will be guided into the Hamsa Kriya of the three centers to help clear out negative emotions, and psychic energy. 

In this episode, our host Gaby Azorsky speaks with Hamsa Fae (she/they) to Spiral Deeper. Hamsa is a Vietnamese-French poet, performance artist, and model who is native to Los Angeles. She uses memory as medium for dreamscaping the tragedies and desires within the Asian American diaspora and trans ethereality. Her poetry book, Blood Frequency, was shortlisted by C&R Press and the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network in 2022. She has (forthcoming) publications in diaCRITICS, Vănguard, new words {press}, Yale School of Environment, and Fruitslice. Her solo-exhibition, Trans Aphrodisia, was in February 2024 at The Brown Building.  In our conversation today, we talk about Reiki, traveling between realms of being, love letters, poetry, mystery, beauty, rotting, composting, self-expression and creativity, femininity, facilitating safe and inclusive spaces, the binary, language, trans myth, and at the end Hamsa graces us with a beautiful song.  I learned so much from Hamsa in our conversation today, full of poetry, giggles, learning, and mystery. I feel grateful for her teachings and her art.  Thank you Hamsa for your artistry, poetry, and sweet nectar of life!  *For 20% off your first month of The Flower Portal, use the code SPIRALOFFLOWERS through the end of August*  Connect ~ With our guest Hamsa | Website and IG @hamsalefae  With our host Gaby Azorsky | Website and IG @gaby.azorsky With Spiral Deeper | Website and IG @spiral.deeper Sign up for Gaby's newsletter Partners ~ Thank you to our partners!  Moon Juice - Code ‘GABY.AZORSKY' Activist Manuka Honey - Code ‘GABY15' The Retreat Newspaper - Code ‘GABY100' for your first issue free Music by Gaby's incredible partner, Connor Hayes. Spiral Deeper Icon by Kami Marchand. If you would like to advertise on Spiral Deeper, please email gabyazorsky@gmail.com for packages and information.  Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you listen ~ it means so much. Thank you for your support!

Big thank you to all of our Patreon supporters! Become a supporter of the show today at  https://www.patreon.com/rufftalkvrOn this episode of Ruff Talk VR we are joined by Dave Levy the Creative Director of Underdogs and Co-Founder of One Hamsa! This is one of our favorite interviews of the year so far! Underdogs is a VR mech fighting roguelite available now on the Meta Quest store and PCVR on Steam VR. Listen as we get to know Dave, the story of how One Hamsa and Underdogs came to be, what's next for Underdog, and more!Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rufftalkvrRuff Talk VR Discord: https://discord.gg/9JTdCccucSIf you enjoy the podcast be sure to rate us 5 stars and subscribe! Join our official subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/RuffTalkVR/Underdogs Meta Quest Store Link: https://www.meta.com/experiences/underdogs/5302178529865980/Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2441700/UNDERDOGS/Store Description: Wrap yourself in 5 tons of metal and go smashing through a dark scene of UNDERGROUND MECH FIGHTS!Bash, crush, maul and rip apart enemy bots and mechs - it's full-on metal-on-metal violence in this first of its kind physics-based mech brawler.But rampaging through the pits ain't all - this is a Roguelike. Gear up with 100+ items and power tools, hire hackers and saboteurs, hustle and deal with the gangsters and psychos who run these streets as you claw your way up the food chain.This city is a dog-eat-dog s#@^ show, but luckily you ain't alone.Your little bruv King is in your corner - hacking your enemies and giving you lip while you fight like a wild animal, smashing car sized pit bots that wanna kill you dead to the deafening roars of the blood thirsty crowds.This is New Brakka - The Mech Fighting Capital of the World.This is UNDERDOGS.Send us a text to the Ruff Talk VR fan mail line!Support the Show.

This Hamsa Kriya Meditation helps develop your conscious connection with Source energy or Holy Spirit easily and enjoyably. We tie the energy and awareness with our conscious development and discuss our ability to manifest. We also talk about what's in Steven's screenplay Christ Enlightened, based on his book with the same name.  Christ Enlightened on Amazon   

Alvdis och Hamsa är på förskolan. Utanför fönstret ser de en mamma, Kims mamma. Hon är arg. Varför är hon så arg? Har hennes barn tjatat för mycket om godis? Eller har hon tappat mobilen i toaletten? Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Den här sagan är med i Barnradions tema om känslor. Sagan handlar om att vara arg, och varför man är arg. En sorts känslodeckare!FRÅGOR som passar till sagan:Har du varit arg någon gång?Hur känns det i kroppen när man blir arg?Blir alla arga över samma saker?Varför tror du att olika människor blir arga över olika saker? / Kan det vara bra att bli arg ibland?Författare: Kristina Murray Brodin, Bettina Johansson (boken gavs ut 2018)Berättare: Annika Andersson KorenadoMedverkande: Paulina Witte, Rut Gertrudsson, Max GertrudssonProducent: Klara Grape, BarnradionFörlag: Olika Förlag

ראם אירח את אסף (אוסול) רונן ועומר פרי מסטודיו המשחקים הישראלי One Hamsa. הם פיתחו כבר שני משחקים פורצי דרך בעולם ה-VR. הראשון שבהם, Racket: Nx, הפך להצלחה בשנים שעברו מאז יציאתו והשני, Underdogs, שוחרר בתחילת 2024 והיווה קפיצת דרך משמעותית מבחינות רבות. דיברנו בפרק על ההחלטה לפתח משחקים דווקא בעולמות ה-VR, על הבחירה של אסף להצטרף לצוות למרות הצעות מחברות ענק, על עולם המשחקים בארץ ובעולם, על האהבה לתחום, דרכים לממן את הפיתוח ושלל נושאים אחרים. אם אתם אוהבים משחקים או עסקים, זה פרק שתשמחו לשמוע.   במידה ואתם גם רוצים להצטרף לצוות שמפתח משחק, דורון ניר מחפש אנשים שיצטרפו לחברה החדשה שלו,  SentinelGames. אם אתם מנהלי מוצר או מעצבים שיודעים לעבוד בתוך מנוע Unreal, צרו עם דורון קשר במייל, לינקדאין או פייסבוק. כתובת המייל הרלוונטית היא: doron@sentinelgames.com   נותני החסות לפרק: הפרק בחסות חברת Cato Networks הפרק עם עידן מקייטו נטוורקס

Picking up from where we left off at the end of Episode 3, Helen enjoys a catchup coffee with her neighbours Jennifer, Harry and Nana Madeleine, while Hera and the children try find the 'buzzard' that flew off.  Zeus thinks he's so clever, but he's not the only one who can transform in the wink of an eye.  Thank you so much for your support. Please remember to spread the word, tell your friends, your grandparents, your grandchildren.  You're never too young, or too old, to enjoy a silly story about what other young, and not so young any more folk might get up to, if given half a chance.AND ANOTHER THING:  check out Wendy Lap's podcast The Richard Osman Fan Club, for a very funny tale of derring-do - with me in it! https://lnns.co/HfugmUqKYeASupport the show Please donate to our crowdfunding campaign, so that we can pay the performers and upgrade recording equiment. https://fnd.us/AmIOldYet?ref=sh_1DCqMf Transcripts are available at the dedicated podcast website if your podcast app doesn't provide them. You can leave a comment or review at www.amIoldyet.com/reviews, @AmIOldYet2 The music featured in Seasons 6, 7, 8 and 9 is from "In The Labyrinth" by John T LaBarbera, available on Bandcamp. https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1708289 Thanks for listening. Stay safe.

Drop 1: Transak Partners with Visa to Enable Global Crypto Withdrawalshttps://transak.com/blog/transak-partners-with-visa?linkId=301118937Drop 2: Hamsa + Matera partner to facilitate DREX implementationshttps://web3news.com.br/noticia/1223/hamsa-e-matera-criam-plataforma-inovadora-para-facilitar-transacoes-drexDrop 3: MUFG, Progmat to explore stablecoins to settle trade with emerging marketshttps://www.ledgerinsights.com/mufg-progmat-stablecoins-trade-emerging-markets/ .. More: PayPal invests $5 million of its PYUSD stablecoin into Plaid-for-crypto startup Meshhttps://fortune.com/crypto/2024/01/29/paypal-5-million-pyusd-stablecoin-plaid-crypto-startup-mesh/First cross-border payment made using UAE's Digital Dirham, to China via mBridge https://gulfnews.com/amp/business/video-first-cross-border-payment-made-using-uaes-digital-dirham-1.100731629TechUK and various UK entities released their Digital Currency Glossaryhttps://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7158429015282786304/Hirechain launches integration for job application on Farcaster: Hirecasterhttps://warpcast.com/jac/0xd44c99feUS legislators aim to unblock bank crypto custody by cancelling SEC rule SAB 121https://www.ledgerinsights.com/sab-121-us-legislators-unblock-bank-crypto-custody/Acctual launches crypto invoicehttps://cryptoinvoice.new/BRLA pre-seed round reaches 4M BRLhttps://www.blocknews.com.br/criptoativos/brla-recebe-aporte-da-99-capital-e-captacao-pre-seed-sobe-para-r-4-milhoes/MOSS will offset carbon emissions by Club Atletico Osasuna in Spain https://br.cointelegraph.com/news/brazilian-moss-announces-partnership-involving-rwa-tokens-with-spanish-football-teamMercado Bitcoin announces Mastercard co-branded cardhttps://br.cointelegraph.com/news/mercado-bitcoin-says-it-is-ready-for-ipo-on-b3-but-awaits-improvement-in-bitcoin-price .. Instagram.com/blockdropspodcast.. Twitter.com/blockdropspod.. Blockdrops.lens .. Meu conteúdo em inglês twitter.com/0xmauricio.. Newsletter do linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7056680685142454272.. blockdropspodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blockdropspodcast/message

Drop 1: Transak Partners with Visa to Enable Global Crypto Withdrawals https://transak.com/blog/transak-partners-with-visa?linkId=301118937 Drop 2: Hamsa + Matera partner to facilitate DREX implementations https://web3news.com.br/noticia/1223/hamsa-e-matera-criam-plataforma-inovadora-para-facilitar-transacoes-drex Drop 3: MUFG, Progmat to explore stablecoins to settle trade with emerging markets https://www.ledgerinsights.com/mufg-progmat-stablecoins-trade-emerging-markets/ .. More: PayPal invests $5 million of its PYUSD stablecoin into Plaid-for-crypto startup Mesh https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/01/29/paypal-5-million-pyusd-stablecoin-plaid-crypto-startup-mesh/ First cross-border payment made using UAE's Digital Dirham, to China via mBridge https://gulfnews.com/amp/business/video-first-cross-border-payment-made-using-uaes-digital-dirham-1.100731629 TechUK and various UK entities released their Digital Currency Glossary https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7158429015282786304/ Hirechain launches integration for job application on Farcaster: Hirecaster https://warpcast.com/jac/0xd44c99fe US legislators aim to unblock bank crypto custody by cancelling SEC rule SAB 121 https://www.ledgerinsights.com/sab-121-us-legislators-unblock-bank-crypto-custody/ Acctual launches crypto invoice https://cryptoinvoice.new/ BRLA pre-seed round reaches 4M BRL https://www.blocknews.com.br/criptoativos/brla-recebe-aporte-da-99-capital-e-captacao-pre-seed-sobe-para-r-4-milhoes/ MOSS will offset carbon emissions by Club Atletico Osasuna in Spain https://br.cointelegraph.com/news/brazilian-moss-announces-partnership-involving-rwa-tokens-with-spanish-football-team Mercado Bitcoin announces Mastercard co-branded card https://br.cointelegraph.com/news/mercado-bitcoin-says-it-is-ready-for-ipo-on-b3-but-awaits-improvement-in-bitcoin-price .. Instagram.com/blockdropspodcast.. Twitter.com/blockdropspod.. Blockdrops.lens .. Meu conteúdo em inglês twitter.com/0xmauricio.. Newsletter do linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7056680685142454272.. blockdropspodcast@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blockdropspodcast/message

Hamsa dibhika vichara

Greeting's heathens and witches,Welcome to the Horn and Cauldron podcast… This episode focuses on different types of Apotropaic magic, which is meant to deflect bad luck and ward off the evil eye. We discuss various types of warding magic, like the Evil Eye (Nazar), Hamsa, Eye of Horus, Horseshoes, Fascinum and more. There's lots of talk of our personal practices, and we go over a spell that we plan to do using a tree! Recommended Episodes:Intro to Protection Magic, Episode 12: https://youtu.be/qEVRpeEvl5U?si=sCHDj9fhpv-KTsajIntro to Chaos Magic, Episode 62: https://youtu.be/lRLmFzPSS1k?si=uRS3X2bk22UEZMzUColor Magic, Episode 61: https://youtu.be/XEnmZ-A2b0g?si=QQeOu2UHnlCP7S7ZDionysus Deep Dive, Episode 35: https://youtu.be/2Th58fRQ8r0?si=xr8fhQynllG5o-p9 Sources:https://www.tumblr.com/tolkien-fantasy/712534646154543104/witchcraft-101-cleansing-warding-banishing-andhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascinushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotropaic_magichttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_eyehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazar_(amulet)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Horushttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Rahttps://www.gaia.com/article/ancient-protection-using-apotropaic-magic-to-ward-off-evilhttps://www.tumblr.com/tolkien-fantasy/712534646154543104/witchcraft-101-cleansing-warding-banishing-andhttps://artoftheroot.com/blogs/news/protection-magic-its-history-and-warding-against-invisible-forces-of-evilhttps://thewitchtokcollective.wordpress.com/2020/04/11/basics-of-warding/https://aminoapps.com/c/pagans-witches/page/blog/wards-basics/MQdW_bnETkuZ75gYJWJ5QYDrmQbPoXKbvDhttps://thetravelingwitch.com/blog/2016/12/21/anchor-wardhttps://otherworldlyoracle.com/magical-wards-protection/https://thesubtlewitch.tumblr.com/post/686417453271629824https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/2008/04/11/old-world-witch-shares-tricks/48461830007/https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/history/warding-off-evil-with-witch-markshttps://beccapiastrelli.com/house-witchery/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimenawahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_grovehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_treehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clootie_well#:~:text=A%20clootie%20well%20is%20a,clootie%20tree%20or%20rag%20tree). ===== Links ===== Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NerdJiveWebsite: https://www.nerdjive.com/ Etsy Shop: https://norgroveenterprises.etsy.com Jon's Social:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@NerdJiveInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/NerdJive Twitter: https://twitter.com/NerdJive Julie's Social:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@goddessjulessInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/goddessjules/Twitter: https://twitter.com/goddessjuless

Welcome to the latest episode in a special series of the Resoundingly Human podcast, recorded in person at the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix. For this episode I am joined by Hamsa Balakrishnan with MIT. Hamsa is delivering the keynote session, “Advanced Air Mobility: Are We There Yet?” and she is joining me today to explore this topic.

#Republic #Avalabs #Tokenbridge   Tune in to this episode of the Security Token Show where this week Herwig Konings & Jason Baraza cover the industry leading headlines and go into the leading headlines on how the UK embraces asset management tokenization!   This week we also have special guest interviews including Jeff Vier, Senior Director of Tokenization at Republic, Morgan Krupetsky, Director of BD, Institutional at Ava Labs, Stephen Ashurst, Co-Founder & CEO at Tokenbridge and Daron Pearce, Executive Chairman of Tokenbridge.   Herwig's Company of the Week: Calastone: https://www.calastone.com/    = Stay in touch via our Social Media = Kyle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylesonlin/ Herwig: https://www.linkedin.com/in/herwigkonings/ Opinion articles, interviews, and more: https://medium.com/security-token-group Find the video edition of this episode on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTKdeN3ElyPeqtROWUp0CmQ   All articles that were discussed were sourced from https://STOmarket.com/news    Check out our medium blog for more news!   Token Debrief   Japan's Osaka Digital Exchange Embraces Security Tokens: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japan-embraces-security-tokens-osaka-113439697.html?guccounter=1   Japan's Okasan Securities to Issue Tokenized Bond to Retail Investors: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/okasan-securities-digital-bond-retail/   Asset Manager China AMC teams up with HashKey and Hamsa to Tokenize: https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/669502889/china-amc-hk-hashkey-and-hamsa-forge-mou-to-propel-web-3-0-in-the-asset-management-industry-in-hong-kong   Figure Lending to IPO with JPM, GS, Jeffries Support: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/figure-ipo-goldman-jpm-jeffries/   Capgemini and EuroClear Team Up to Launch D-FMI Tokenization Service: https://ml-eu.globenewswire.com/Resource/Download/3bd200f5-2a1c-4ac0-9a7a-647a2966c3bb   FIRSTavenue Makes Strategic Investment into Frictionless Markets: https://www.firstavenue.com/media/firstavenue-drives-innovation-within-the-private-markets-by-making-strategic-investment-in-frictionless-markets/   UK To Launch Digital Securities Sandbox, Authorizes Fund Tokenization with Blueprint: https://www.calastone.com/insights/a-blueprint-and-breakthrough-for-uk-fund-tokenisation/   The Market Movements Philippines Government Sell $270M in Maiden Tokenized Treasury Bonds: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-20/philippines-sells-270-million-of-maiden-tokenized-bonds#xj4y7vzkg   Canton of Zurich Issues Digital Bond Settled with Wholesale CBDC: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/canton-zurich-idigital-bond-wholesale-cbdc/   Asset Manager Report Suggest Tokenized Funds Are the Future: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/fund-tokenization-within-3-years/ = Check out our Companies = Security Token Group: http://securitytokengroup.com/  Security Token Advisors: http://www.securitytokenadvisors.com/  Security Token Market: https://stm.co InvestReady: https://www.investready.com   ⏰ TABLE OF CONTENTS ⏰ 0:16 Introduction: UK Embraces Asset Management Tokenization 1:04 Japan's Osaka Digital Exchange | The Token Debrief 1:51 Okasan Securities Tokenized Bond | The Token Debrief 3:16 China AMC, HashKey and Hamsa | The Token Debrief 5:23 Figure Lending to IPO with JPM, GS, Jeffries Support | The Token Debrief 7:40 Capgemini & Euroclear | The Token Debrief 9:03 FIRSTavenue investment into Frictionless Markets | The Token Debrief 10:45 UK Digital Securities Sandbox | The Token Debrief 15:18 Republic & Avalanche | STS Interviews 22:09 Philippines Government $270M Tokenized Treasury Bonds | The Market Movements 23:20 Canton of Zurich Digital Bond Settled with Wholesale CBDC | The Market Movements 24:51 Calastone Report suggest Tokenized Funds are the Future | The Market Movements 25:58 Tokenbridge Launches in the UK | STS Interviews 25:43 Company of The Week: Calastone

Welcome to this special convo audio elphic show, loaded ample amounts of nature's voice, grooves and the soundscape of Evan Fraser and Dirtwire.  Host Ande the Elf conversing with Evan Fraser.Enjoy and look around!After some Evan and Elf mischievious teasers we cut right into the convo, with the music infusion at its dirty wired best.All songs by Dirtwire unless indicated...(2:15) Amphipians w/ Elves(4:20) Hamsa Lila- Baba Saal  (7:20) Evan Roots - Evan explores with us some of his roots !(13:37) Intertribal, w/ Black Lodge Singers(19:33) Squirrels n Bass • Beets Antique(25:14) Mycelium(32:28) Evan Drips Hope'sDayPrepper Messages!!! into Shishkabob(37:33) Hamsa Lila Mix Up • Gathering One(44:36) ELf N Evan Grass Blades, Mouth Harps, and Weird Sheep Throat Singing(59:45) Earth Cry(1:02:40) Evan Plays with a bow across his face(1:04:44) Evan's CapPrimary ARTISTEvan Fraser SpotifyEnjoy Dirtwire! Click Here!this will take you to all the info you want!Catch them in their Four Directions Tour!Dirtwire Spotify Click Here!Dirtwire Instagram Click Here!Hamsa Lila InstgramHamsa Lila Spotify! Support the showLinks to Stefin101 and Doctor Bionic Check us out on instagram @wakethefarmup @maintaining_ground_podcast@kastle_369Ask how you could be involved in the show, Subscribe and Support the Show

Get ready to dive into the captivating world of the evil eye within Jewish culture in our newest episode. We unpack the secrets, tales, and traditions surrounding this mystical phenomenon with protective practices and beliefs rooted in Jewish folklore. We spill the beans on amulets, rituals, and powerful symbols like the Hamsa and fish! So grab your favorite drink, sit back, and listen and learn! 1 The Power of the Evil Eye and the Good Eye in Midrashic Literature 2 https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/166909/jewish/What-Is-the-Meaning-of-the-Evil-Eye.htm https://www-jstor-org.ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/stable/1260090?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents 3 4 Jewish Magic and Superstition: Joshua Trachtenberg 5 Divination, Magic, and Healing: The Book of Jewish Folklore by Rabbi Ronald H. Isaacs 6 Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women 7 Dazzling Blue: Color Symbolism, Kabbalistic Myth, and the Evil Eye in Judaism --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jewitches/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jewitches/support

Get ready to dive into the captivating world of the evil eye within Jewish culture in our newest episode. We unpack the secrets, tales, and traditions surrounding this mystical phenomenon with protective practices and beliefs rooted in Jewish folklore. We spill the beans on amulets, rituals, and powerful symbols like the Hamsa and fish! So grab your favorite drink, sit back, and listen and learn! 1 The Power of the Evil Eye and the Good Eye in Midrashic Literature 2 https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/166909/jewish/What-Is-the-Meaning-of-the-Evil-Eye.htm https://www-jstor-org.ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/stable/1260090?seq=4#metadata_info_tab_contents 3 4 Jewish Magic and Superstition: Joshua Trachtenberg 5 Divination, Magic, and Healing: The Book of Jewish Folklore by Rabbi Ronald H. Isaacs 6 Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women 7 Dazzling Blue: Color Symbolism, Kabbalistic Myth, and the Evil Eye in Judaism --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jewitches/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jewitches/support

Antonio Pagliarulo explores the phenomenon of the Evil Eye: what it is, its origins and causes— and, most crucially, how to avoid, repel, and remove it. Rich with cultural anecdotes and traditions, mystical lore, and modern concepts, The Evil Eye offers practical advice for shielding yourself from the destructive and lingering power of this mysterious and persistent force.The book: defines the Evil Eye and traces its roots into antiquity and across an extraordinary breadth of cultures and traditions, shows readers how to diagnose the Evil Eye, how to cure it, and how to cast it on others, explores the use of amulets and talismans bearing the “Evil Eye,” including its remarkable prevalence in popular jewelry designs and Includes the history and use of various talismans such as the Hamsa; the Italian cornicello and mano figa; the azabache stone; the Kabbalah red string; mirror pendants; and many others.

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Jai Deva Sing notes at the end of Dharana 1 that there is an important interpretation of the Dharana still to be considered- that this is the essential teaching of the breath meditation practice “Ham Sah”. The recitation of Ham Sah is an exploration of the ceaseless pulsation of the Goddess Shakti in our lives, a way of observing the pulsation of reality. The meaning of the mantra can only be discovered by listening, by letting the breath move naturally as Shambhavananda and Muktananda teach, which we are taught is the path itself of this practice.Jai Deva Singh (commentary on Dharana 1): “There is another important interpretation of this dhärana.In inhalation, the sound of ha is produced; in exhalation, thesound sah is produced; at the junction point in the centre thesound of m is added. So the whole formula becomes 'Hamsah'.The paradevi goes on sounding this formula or mantra ceaselesslyin every living being.”Swami Lakshmanjoo commentary on Dharana 1:When you take your breath inside, the recitation of ‘ha' will end in ‘ṁ'. When you take it out, [the recitation of ‘sa'] will end in visarga–‘saḥ'. And, in these two starting points, if you concentrate, you will become one with Bhairava because of its fullness.”Swami Muktananda from his book “I am That “This is what we also need to understand. Hamsa is not a mantra that you merely repeat. What you have to do is become established in the awareness of the mantra going on inside you, in the goal of the mantra, in the pulsation which exists in the space where the syllables arise and subside…”Sri ShambhavAnanda on the practice of breath awareness: “Instead of forcibly trying to control your breath, develop the ability to experience and witness it. Follow your natural breath flow and attach it to the mantra “Ham Sah”. A person breathes approximately 26,000 times a day. If you can be aware of your inhalation and exhalation, you will make progress in meditation. When you can control your breath, you can control your mind. But first you have to become aware of the breath. Don't use any forceful practices. Make friends with your breath and be aware of what it is doing in different situations. When you have a certain experience such as fear, anger, or bliss, you will find that your breath will concentrate in a certain area. If you start to pay attention, you will gain some wisdom.”

ARW interviews the founder and CEO of Hamsa Club, Kevin Abner, how about his journey to becoming one of the most successful Internet clothing brands, how is Jewish faith inspired the message behind Hamsa Club and how he and ARW are going to further collab. Follow his brand on Ig @hamsaclub and TikTok @hamsaclubtv --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This episode begins with Faern giving us a basic explanation on how we can use the idea of  'entrainment' and how we already do naturally in our daily lives and practices.We then move into a Guided HamSa Meditation and Breathing Practice.We already learned SoHum last year- which is very similar and to some might even seem the same but given some time and attention one will call you deeper within yourself. Neither is more valid than the other- in fact the difference in the spelling is Sanskrit grammar- not any hierarchy, but honestly they FEEL different from each other.Test them out and get back to us.The intention of the meditation is taking part with 'entrainment', testing the waters, so to speak. This simple meditation is very profound- Faern suggests trying it on your own at different times of day and lengths of time This type of Meditation is focus building as well as calming.This is a very good place to begin with meditation practices but it is also a quintessential experience many people return to over years and years if not their whole lifetime. {Same with SoHum}

Hello beauties, I am SO excited to feature another incredible guest on the Self Remembrance Podcast. Everyone please welcome Hamsa Nguyễn (they/them).Hamsa is the co-founder of the elderflower mystery school, a third generation folk herbalist  & an educator in decolonization + DEI (diversity, equity & inclusion).In this powerful episode, you will receive Hamsa's potent healing medicine. We discuss:- Hamsa's journey with their sexuality and how that merges with their healing work.- The power of voice and how it is a catalyst for deeper healing. - Healing sexual trauma & working with clients who have experiences this as part of their story.- How plant medicine supports us in expansion. - The community & ancestry within herbalism. - Quantum leaps & going beyond the healing work into an expanded state.Connect more with Hamsa by following them on Instagram & connect with me to discuss a referral if you're feeling called to work with them!Love, MegThe Medicine Woman of Self Remembrance 

Hamsa is a digital marketing professional from India. She is passionate about intersectional feminism and human rights. Hamsa shares her perspective and experience as a childfree woman living in India. It's a conversation you won't want to miss! Connect with Hamsa: hamsanandini97@gmail.com ______________________ Want to meet and connect with others who have also chosen not to have kids? Join a growing global network of childfree people: wnk-club.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/anna-marie-olson/message

Across the globe, numerous studies have proven the benefits of regular meditation, especially for our mind and body. Meditation can help us learn how to stay centered, how to see the positive things in life, how to stay happy despite the setbacks and life challenges, and how to keep our inner peace. The biggest question now is this: Is there only one way to meditate? Join us in this episode as we have our guest, Yuktesh Ji, a Spiritual Thought Mentor & Teacher, Meditation & Yoga Expert, talk to us about the different kinds of meditation, how it supports our inner growth and spiritual well-being, to rediscover our underlying sense of connection, fulfillment, and harmony of life.  Enjoy listening! Highlights of the episode … - What does a monk look like? (... a look at Yuktesh life's journey through the flow of love and connection.) - A glimpse at the different meditation techniques and how it helps your mind, your health, and your overall body condition. - Do we act or react in our journey of life? (.... let's hear what Yuktesh has to say based on a wonderful Buddhist story.) - Control vs Love: Why do we get more reactive to the people we love the most?  - The importance of deeply recognizing the blessing that we have in order to fully feel the love and happiness around us.  - What is Right Meditation? Yuktesh shares the context of his article on the benefits of Right Meditation.  - How can we learn to meditate and to quiet our mind? - What is Hamsa Yogi and how does it help people awaken your internal state of who you are?  Connect with Yuktesh Hi: https://hamsayogi.com/ (Hamsa Yogi) https://in.linkedin.com/in/yuktesh-ji-583685b (LinkedIn) Connect with Gail Buck: https://www.instagram.com/gailruthbuck/ (Instagram) https://www.facebook.com/gail.buck.77/ (Facebook) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gail-buck-812945120/ (LinkedIn) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCbKFCYVsxZKHsXrE_91_Ow (YouTube)

I got my Evil Eye on you. Have you ever felt like bad things happen to you more than the average witch? Do you sense that those around you are jealous of how beautiful, rich, and physically strong you are? Or do you feel like expanding your magical amulet collection? Well, you've come to the right episode. On today's episode, Alicia and Terra discuss the differences between The Evil Eye Curse and the Evil Eye Talismans. This ancient dark magic exists all across the globe and can be traced as far back as the 16th century BCE (way before either of our dads were born). From the Turkish Nazar to the mysteries of the Hamsa (or Hand of Fatima), baby witches will learn all about Evil Eye symptoms, diagnosis, remedies, and prevention. On today's witches in the news: a missing pagan tenant in the UK, a witch burning in Montana, and the latest from the Witches of Tiktok. Plus! A very special Patreon Problem. Can the Witch, Yes! Team solve the mystery of the missing Nazar? This episode was brought to you by Blessed Be Magick! Evil Eye Collection Evil Eye Charm with Birthstone Necklace Evil Eye Studs With code: WITCHYES15 Save 15% OFF all full-priced talisman jewelry at BlessedBeMagick! Hosted by Alicia Herder and Terra Keck. Produced by Marcel Pérez. With Research Assistance provided by Brian Rainey. Creative Directing by Mallory Porter. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Official Witch, Yes! Discord! Witch, Yes! on Patreon! Check out our merch on Teepublic! Our Link Tree "Spellbound" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Witches in The News: Pagan burial gone wrong Woman charged with murder claims she was "burning a witch" What is the ‘ghost trend' on TikTok?

I'm a fan of discovering single terms that refer to multiple things within a specific pantheon. Today, we're going to see an example of one such homonym; this one from the Hindu pantheon of beliefs. I'm Tanner Campbell and this is the Dictionary of Mythology and Folklore's entry for Hamsa. -- Hamsa [The Amulet] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa  Hamsa [The Goose] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamsa_(bird)  The Rigveda : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda  -- Review this Podcast on Apple Podcasts : https://swiy.co/apple-review Review this Podcast on Spotify Podcasts : https://swiy.co/spotify-review Review this Podcast on Podchaser.com : https://swiy.co/podchaser-review --

Would you like to sponsor an episode? A series?   We'd love to hear from you : podcasts@ohr.edu   00:00 Rav addresses possible controversial discussions   01:39 Why do we thank G-d for freeing us when He put us in Egypt in the first place?   06:09 Why do people say Baruch Shem Kavod in some capacities?   12:12 Why are there so many rules in Judaism?   19:38 How strict should someone be for checking their food for bugs?   25:35 Do people who support others in learning for the zechus of someone lose out on the reward?   32:02 Why do we read the first aliyah during the week and what is the function of maftir?   35:32 If someone chas vshalom suffered a miscarriage l, Are there Heterim to allow her husband to comfort her (touch, hug)?    40:06 If someone has the Tetragrammaton tattooed on their body, (how) can they go in the bathroom?    42:30 The Gemara in Sotah (46b) says that the angel of death wasn't allowed to work in Luz. It says that when the elderly's mind becomes difficult on them, they would leave the city and die. Was this allowed? And if so, why wouldn't it be evidence that we should be able to pull the plug in a case of brain death?   49:16 How did the chapter divisions of Tanach make it if they are based on non-Jewish sources? Should they stay?   58:32 When someone may not have the right kavana, because of emotion or otherwise, is there a way to deal with that or an exemption of mitzvos of sorts?   59:37 How do we understand taking revenge on the midyanites, and why were women and children saved?   1:10:35 Why in orthodoxy is there absolutely no allowance of physical contact until marriage night where everything happens at once?   1:16:52 What is the purpose of G-d putting evil people into the world only to have them be killed?   1:18:47 What was the magic barrier around Egypt that prevented the Jewish slaves from leaving?   1:20:30 When I am trying to see messages from Hashem, how do I know I'm seeing it the right way or at all?   1:23:42 What is the specific quality of grape-products (wine/grape juice) that in the nine days and regarding nidah harchakos, one can have other alcoholic drinks, or (non-alcoholic) pomegranate juice?   1:26:34 Does the Hamsa ward off ayin horo and what is the basis for this?   1:30:18 Is there such thing as eminent domain in Halacha?   1:34:37 Why in some cases in Tanach were allowed to take the booty but other times we must destroy all their possessions?   1:37:14 What is the best way to improve in Ahavas Yisroel?   https://podcasts.ohr.edu/   Visit us @ ohr.edu    Produced by: Cedar Media Studios  

How to bird watch: Part 4. Last Part In which the author loops in some history and fables and talks about her habitat. Birds are the stuff of myth and legend in every culture. Some of the most beautiful poetic images come from birds. My father, an English professor, loved the Romantic poets: Keats, Shelley, and Wordsworth, who lived in the Yorkshire moors in close proximity to nature and wrote lyrical poems about what they saw. John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale," is one of his favorites. I have read the poem, but I don't really understand it. What speaks to me is Maya Angelou's "I know why the caged bird sings." The eagle is a singular image in Allama Iqbal's poetry. Iqbal reveres the eagle because it proudly disdains eating dead prey or anything other than what it has caught. As Mustansir Mir says in the website, allamaiqbal.com, this description might apply to a hawk rather than an eagle. Iqbal gets a number of bird facts wrong, but as this website points out, the eagle, for him, is a poetic construct. My favorite Urdu poem is a children's song sung by Nuzhat Abbas: “Bulbul ka bacchha. Khatha tha khichdi.” I used to listen to this ad nauseam years ago, and was delighted to discover it on YouTube recently. Sanskrit literature's most resonant bird image has to do with the Hamsa, which can separate milk and water that are mixed together in a bowl. The Hamsa is used as a reference in poetry for anyone that has the discrimination (or judgement) to simply suck up the milk and leave out the water. Then there was the practice of divination based on the movement of birds that was common to most primitive cultures. When the crows caw, my grandmother used to say, you will have unexpected guests: divining arrivals from the sound of a crow's caw. As K.N.Dave's magisterial (and sadly, posthumously published) book, "Birds in Sanskrit Literature," says, superstition surrounds the magpie, not only in India, but also in Europe and England. My tangential interest with respect to bird-watching has been to delve into poetry, but it could be something else for another birdwatcher. This ripple effect is a perk that comes from any deep dive into a hobby or passion; and clearly, I am pushing bird watching as an option. Everyone says that bird-watching requires patience. I don't think so. I think that the pleasure of bird watching comes from the questions you ask. You can watch a crow and try to figure out why it is cawing at that moment. You can listen to the variety of calls that a common mynah makes and try to see if there is a pattern. I watch the birds come and go in the trees in front of my home and see if there is a reason or pattern that they follow when they sit down and take off. I watch the way the parakeets spread their tail feathers just before landing and see the different shades of green. Most interesting of all are the birds that are sitting still. What are they doing? What are they thinking? Does their call predict something? Is the wind changing? Does that define when they take off and land? Bird watching for me is an engrossing and pleasurable hobby. It gives me great aesthetic joy to watch these most beautiful of God's creations. Then again, I see a butterfly and think it beautiful too. Oh, but there is the dragonfly with its transparent wings; and the honeybee that gives up its life for its colony. All waiting to connect with us.

There have been two dramatic developments in the U.S. case against imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange within the past two weeks. The Icelandic newsmagazine Stundin on June 26 revealed that a key U.S. witness in the indictment of Assange for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion had changed his story. And on Wednesday the High Court in London allowed the U.S. to appeal a Jan. 4 magistrate's decision against extraditing Assange to the U.S. because of his mental health and the harsh conditions of U.S. prisons, making him a threat for suicide. The High Court said, however, that the U.S. could not appeal the judgement of Assange's health but only that of U.S. prisons. The U.S. promised it would not put Assange under special measures of isolation if he were extradited and if convicted, would allow him to serve his sentence in Australia. The U.S. has a history of broken promises in such cases. For example, in the September 2020 Assange extradition hearing, lawyer Lindsay A. Lewis testified that the UK had imposed this condition for humanitarian reasons on Abu Hamsa, a prisoner who had lost both hands, but once on U.S. soil, Hamsa was placed in isolation. Joining us to discuss these two major developments will be WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson; ex-Icelandic Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson (on how he resisted an FBI sting against Assange); Stundin journalist Bjartmar Oddur Þeyr Alexandersson (on his piece about Siggi Thordarson); Australian MP Julian Hill; Consortium News legal analyst Alexander Mercouris and radio host and CN columnist John Kiriakou, who was imprisoned for blowing the whistle on the CIA's torture program. Produced by Cathy Vogan, watch it here live with your hosts Elizabeth Vos and Joe Lauria at 9 am EDT; 1 pm in Iceland (GMT); 2 pm BST in the U.K. and 11 pm AEST in Australia

In today's episode Join Shannon & Laura as they dive into the world of Sacred Symbols Since the beginning of time people from all cultures across the globe have created symbols to use in ritual & divination, and to serve as good luck charms & protection sigils. We look into the meaning, folklore and uses of the Heptagram, Evil Eye, Sheela Na Gig, the Hamsa and Hexafoils! Did you know: a Heptagram has 7 points and is also known as a Fairy Star, the Evil Eye is often used to protect babies (there's also a few other tricks that Southern Italians have up their sleeves, such as the cornicello, cimaruta and the 'sign of the horns'), Sheela Na Gig doesn't mind a bit of anasyrma, the Hamsa is also known as The Hand of Fatima - and Hexafoils may just be pretty patterns made by carpentry apprentices practicing back in the day? We also answer a question from a dear listener, Jessie, about what to do when friends discover you are a witch and are less than supportive... Our Divine Tool of the Week - Carving candle magic! Visit Shannon Cotterill, and the Asha Moon websites below www.shannon-cotterill.squarespace.com www.ashamoon.squarespace.com Support Turns Out Network Here Have a witchy question to ask? Get in touch, we would love to hear from you! tospsychic@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram @turnsout_shesawitch Presented by Shannon Cotterill & Laura Turner. Production & music by Matt & Laura Turner.

Let's talk about the EVIL EYE!

It's a funny looking hand with an eye on it. It can be found everywhere and anywhere throughout the world, and is worn decoratively and protectively. But is the Hamsa something that has a basis in traditional Jewish texts?

The Mother of all speech, who rides on the Hamsa of our breath;  With Thy grace the human mind makes choices enlightened, The twangs of Thy Veena, we hear in the melody of a sweet voice, Thy glorious presence we sense in the eloquence of the scholarly.We bow to Thee, Mother Saraswati, Ma Sharade, Vagishwari! On this Vasanta Panchami, bless us Mother Divine, May our speech be benevolent, our skills, to the world useful! May our talents be fragrant blossoms in worship of our Master!Let us fill ourselves with divine thoughts as we enjoy this beautiful garland of bhajans in praise of Mother Saraswati, on this holy Vasanta Panchami day 1. Namo Sharada2. Sadguru Sai Saraswati3. Devi Sai Ma Devi Saraswati Ma4. Vidyadayini Bhagawati5. Jai Durga Lakshmi Saraswathi Sai Jaganmata6. Jai Jai Sai Ma Hey Sai Saraswathi Ma7. Sharade Jaya Sharade Vagvilasini Sharade8. Deena Janavani Vara Dayini9. Maa Hey Maa

Avadhuta Upanishad - Upanishad de l'ascète balayé par le vent Soixante-dix-neuvième Upanishad du canon Muktika, appartenant au Krishna Yajur Véda et classée comme Upanishad du Renoncement. Dattatreya, le grand Avadhuta (stade de réalisation au-delà de celui du Parama Hamsa), enseigne au sage Sankriti la nature de l'Avadhuta, son fonctionnement et son comportement. Dans cette Upanishad, la notion de l'Avadhuta rejoint celle du Hamsa, l'ascète-cygne, car la métaphore de l'oiseau de l'âme est celle qui vient le plus spontanément à l'esprit : le Soi à la recherche du Soi suprême est tel un oiseau qui, bien au-dessus de la vie des hommes, a quitté ses attaches sociales pour partir à la recherche du Brahman; l'âme est un oiseau qui migre, libre, sans attaches, parcourant l'immensité céleste pour trouver le séjour suprême. Plus précisément, cette Upanishad pousse la métaphore jusqu'à associer quatre types de béatitude (joie, délices, délice extrême, félicité suprême, qu'il connaît au fur et à mesure de sa réalisation) aux parties constitutives de l'oiseau. Suit un monologue alerte et savoureux où l'Avadhuta se présente lui-même, tout en se comparant sans fausse modestie à l'homme profane, l'ignorant. La liberté infinie dont jouit celui qui a entièrement réalisé le Brahman permet notamment à notre ascète Avadhuta de poursuivre, par pure compassion pour ceux qui cherchent la libération, des activités dans l'enseignement de la voie, de faire les gestes ordinaires de n'importe quel sannyasin, tout en restant dans une perpétuelle absorption en Brahman. Bibliographie: _ "108 Upanishads" traduction de Martine Buttex, éditions Dervy Musique: _ The Choir Invisible par Bing Satellite (https://archive.org/details/freefloatingmusic012/05+-+The+Choir+Invisible.wav) Narration et réalisation: Bruno Léger Soutenez-nous !

Full Notation -> http://www.shivkumar.org/music/ Ramanatham Ragam: Panthuvarali (Kasiramakriya, 51st Melakartha) ARO: S R1 G3 M2 P D1 N3 S AVA: S N3 D1 P M2 G3 R1 S Talam: Rupakam (Thrishra Ekam) Composer: Dikshitar Version: Hyderabad Brothers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOv1Im0v7QQ) Meaning Courtesy: http://guru-guha.blogspot.com/2008/05/dikshitar-kriti-ramanatham-bhajeham.html Youtube Class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COf1lhAUwbc Audio MP3 Class: http://www.shivkumar.org/music/ramanatham-class.mp3 Meaning Courtesy: http://guru-guha.blogspot.com/2008/05/dikshitar-kriti-ramanatham-bhajeham.html Sahityam: rAma nAthaM bhajE(a)haM rAma candra pUjitam Meaning: I worship Lord Ramanatha… the one worshipped by Ramachandra. bhajE-ahaM - I worship rAma nAthaM - Lord Ramanatha, rAma candra pUjitam - the one worshipped by Ramachandra, Sahityam:kAmita phala prada dEvaM Meaning: the god granting desired benefits , Sahityam:kOTi tIrtha prabhAvaM Meaning: the causer of the efficacy of the sacred tank Koti tirtha, Sahityam kumAra guru guha viditaM Meaning: the one understood by the young Guruguha, Sahityam kapi bRndAdi sannutam Meaning: the one exalted by the hordes of monkeys etc. (of Rama's army), Sahityam: sEtu madhya gandha mAdana - parvata vihAraM Meaning: sEtu madhya gandha mAdana-parvata vihAraM - the one sporting on the Gandhamadana mountain that is in the middle of the Setu region or island, Sahityam: sadA parvata vardhanI manOllAsa-karam Meaning: sadA parvata vardhanI mana-ullAsa-karam - the one who always delights the heart of Goddess Parvatavardhani, Sahityam: hastAmalaka nata varaM hATaka-maya hAra dharaM Meaning: hasta-amalaka nata varaM - the giver of boons to those who salute, apparent like the fruit of Amla on one's palm, Meaning: hATaka-maya hAra dharaM - the one wearing golden necklaces, Sahityam: hatyAdi pApa haraM haMsassOhAkAram Meaning: hatyA-Adi pApa haraM - the remover of sins such as that which arises from killing, Meaning: haMsassOha-AkAram - the embodiment of the Hamsa-soham Mantra.

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Notations -> http://www.shivkumar.org/music/#s Pallavi: Sri Nathadi Guruguho Jayathi Jayathi Sri Chidaananda Naathohamiti Santhatham Hridini Bhaja Anupallavi: Naanaa Prapancha Vichitrakaro Naamaroopa Pancha Bhoothakaro Ajnaana Dhvaanta Prachanda Bhaaskaro Jnaana Pradaayako Maheshwaro Madhyama Kala Sahityam: Dinavanodyukta Divyataro Divyaughaadi Sakala Deha Dharo Maanasaanandakara Chaturataro Mad Guruvaro Mangalam Karotu Charanam: Maaya Maya Visvaadhisthaano Maatmakaadi Mataanusthaano Maalini Mandalaanta Vidhaano Mantraadyjapaa Hamsa Dhyaano Maayaakaarya Kalanaa Heeno Maamaka Sahasra Kamalaasino Maadhurya Gaanaamruta Paano Maadhavaadyabhaya Vara Pradaano Maayaa Sabalitha Brahma rupo Maarakoti Sundara Svarupo Mathimataam Hrudaya Gopura Dipo Matta Suraadi Jayaprataapo Madhyama Kala Sahityam: Maayaamaalavagaulaadidesha Mahipati Pujitha Pada Pradesha Maadhavaadyamara Brunda Prakaasha Maheshasya Mahaarthopadesha MEANING (from TK Govinda Rao's book): Victory (“Jayathi”) to Lord Guruguha, who is adorned (“bhaja”) by all Gods(“santhatham”) beginning with Vishnu. Oh! Mind! Constantly contemplate on the fact (“iti”) that you are the Chidaanandanaatha. He is the originator of different (“naaana”) diversified (“vichitra”) forms (“aakaro”) of worlds (“prapancha”). He manifests (“rupa”) as the five (“pancha”) elements (“bhuta”) and as the named (“naama”) and famed ones. He is the mighty sun (“bhaskaro”) destroying (“prachanda”) the darkness (“dvantha”) of ignorance (“ajnana”). He is the bestower (“pradaayako”) of spiritual knowledge (“jnaana”). He is the Maheshvara. He is the divine (“divya”) Kalpaka Vruksha (“vano dyukta”) for the afflicted (“dinaa”) ones. He bears the sacred rivers like Mandakini. He is adept in granting happiness to the heart of His devotees. May my Guru bless me (“mangalam karo”). He (who) is the substratum (“adhistaano”) for this illusory (“maayaa maya”) world (“visva”). He (who) is to be invoked through mantra (“mataanusthaano”) beginning with “Ka” (“kaadi”), ending with “ma” (“maatmaka”). He resides (“vidhaano”) in the center (“mandalaanta”) of the Malini-Chakra. He (who) is to be meditated (“dhyano”) upon as the swan (“Hamsa”) representing the AJAPAA Mantra. He who is an expert in obliterating (“hino”) the result (“kalana”) of MAAYA, the illusion. HE resides in my heart which is like a thousand (“sahasra”) petalled lotus (“kamalaasino”). Who enjoys the nectar (“amruta”) of mellifluous (“madhurya”) music (“Gaana”). He provides (“pradaano”) sheltor (“abhaya”) and boons (“vara”) to MAADHAVA and others. Whose Brahmasvarupa is veiled (“sabalitha”) by Maaya. Whose beauty (“sundara svarupo”) excels that of crores (“koti”) of Cupids (“mara”). Who shines as the light (“deepo”) atop the tower (“gopura”) like the heart (“hrudaya”) of his devotees (“matimataam”). He who vanquished the proud (“matta”) SURA and others (“adi”). His place of abode is worshipped by the kinds (“mahipathi”) of Mayamalavagoula Desha and the like. Who shines (“prakaasha”) as surrounded by Vishnu (“madhava”) and other Gods (“brundha”). Who impounded (“upadesha”) the real truth (“mahaartha”) of Pranava to His father, Mahesha.

Notation / Meanings --> http://www.shivkumar.org/music/#k Pallavi Kamalaambikaayai Kanakaamshukaayai Karpura Vidikaayai Namaste Namaste Anupallavi Kamalaa Kaanta Anujaayai Kaameshvaryai Ajaayai Himagiri Tanujaayai Hreem Kaara Pujyaayai Kamalaanagara Vihaarinyai Khala Samooha Samhaarinyai Kamaneeya Ratna Haarinyai Kali Kalmasha Parihaarinyai Charanam: Sakala Saubhaagya Daayakaambhoja Charanaayai Samkshobhinyaadi Shaktiyuta Chaturthyaavaranaayai Prakata Chaturddasha Bhuvana Bharanaayai Prabala Guruguha Sampradaayaantah Karanaayai Akalanka Rupa Varnaayai Aparnaayai Suparnaayai Sukara Dhruta Chaapa Baanaayai Shobhanakara Manukonaayai Sakunkumaadi Lepanaayai Charaacharaadi Kalpanaayai Chikura Vijita Neelaghanaayai Chidaananda Purna Ghanaayai Meaning (From Todd Mc Comb's web page: http://www.medieval.org/music/world/carnatic/lyrics/srao/kamala.html): I salute You ("namaste"), Kamalamba. You who wear golden ("kanaka") clothes ("amshuka") and enjoy camphor-flavored ("karpura vidikayai") betal. You are the younger sister ("anujaayai") of Vishnu, the spouse ("kaanta") of Lakshmi ("kamalaa"). You are Kameshvari, and are the unborn ("ajaayai") one, daughter ("tanujaayai") of Mount ("giri") Himalaya, worshiped ("pujyaayai") with the sound ("akaara") Hrim. You who reside ("vihaarinyai") in Kamalanagara. You destroy ("samhaarinyai") the lots ("samooha") of dishonest ("khala") ones. You wear lovely ("kamaneeya") golden chains ("ratna haarinyai"). You remove ("parihaarinyai") the sins ("kalmasha") we commit in the Kali age. You possess lotus-like ("ambhoja") feet ("charanaayai"), which bestows ("daayaka") all fortune ("saubhagya"). You embody the fourth ("chatur") Avarana containing the ("yuta") Shakti Samkshobhini,. You rule ("bharanaayai") the fourteen ("chatur-dasha") manifest ("prakata") worlds ("bhuvana"). You are the heart ("antah karanaayai") of the strong ("prabala") tradition ("samprada") to which Guruguha belongs. You are of flawless ("a-kalanka") beauty ("roopa") and complexion ("varnaayai"). You are called Aparna[1]. You are the bird Hamsa[2] ("suparnaayai"). You hold ("druta") in Your charming ("su") hand ("kara") a bow ("baana") and arrows ("chaapa"). You are the Chakra containing fourteen Konas or triangles ("manu-konaayai"). You are besmeared ("lepanaayai") with Kunkuma ("sa-kunkuma"), etc ("aadi"). You are the creator ("kalpanaayai") of movable ("charaa") as well as unmovable ("acharaa") phenomena. Your black hair ("chikura") triumphs ("vijitha") over the blue ("neela") clouds ("ghanaayai") are the plenitude[3] ("purna") of consciousness ("chit") and bliss ("ananda").

This week on the Practice, Sally Kempton, a former swami in a Vedic tradition and the best-selling author of mediation and Tantra books, teaches a 6-minute mantra practice. Hamsa, meaning I Am That, is a fundamental mantra that flows into your heart and helps you invoke your true self. To study more with Sally, take her Tantra 101 class with Yoga Journal.

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