Aubrey L. Glazer

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Jun 29, 2015, 10:49 PM

This is the End Again, Fare Thee Well: Endings as Beginnings with the Grateful Dead

Fare you well my honey/Fare thee well my only true one/All the birds that were singing/Have flown except you alone. Goin’ to leave this Broke-down Palace/on my hand and my knees I will roll, roll, roll/Make myself a bed by...

Jun 19, 2015, 12:56 AM

American Jerusalem in Tamuz: Seeing the Sounds of Cancer Redeemed Through Medeski & Scofield Quartet

Fabricated eyes when heated up would shed leaden tears, streaming down the face of the idol of Tamuz placed in the Holy Jerusalem Temple. At least that is what the Ancient Israelites expected and were drawn to in the...

Feb 5, 2015, 4:01 AM

Ancient tune spiralling to Communion at Terrapin’ Crossroads

This light, so hazy-- cast by a new moon through dense thought to an ancient tune-- how pale the rays as the light fades through forest creepers and clinging vines There was musical communion in the air cast by a full moon through the sounds of an...

Jan 12, 2015, 10:23 AM

My redemptive meeting with Upper Pharaoh in American Jerusalem

I had a meeting with Pharaoh recently that was nothing short of redemptive. Not at the die-ins of the East or West Coast. But in line at the bar, chatting with this Pharaoh’s aunt about the pilgrimage people of...

Dec 3, 2014, 1:51 AM

Melancholia of Monochromatic Nation-Statehood: Re-birthing a “Radical Cultural Will” in Israel

Notwithstanding repeated and urgent attempts by his friend, Gershom Scholem to persuade him to immigrate to Palestine, Walter Benjamin held that: “Judaism is to me in no sense an end in itself, but the most distinguished bearer and representative of...

Nov 10, 2014, 8:35 AM

Dancing in the Constellation of San Francisco Kabbalists

“” —Walter Benjamin A strange constellation occurred this Sunday in San Francisco— Haunted Reflections brought one Yankee kabbalist out of bed early coinciding with the yahrzeit of another American mystic already resting in his eternal home. David Meltzer held court at the...

Nov 1, 2014, 11:02 PM

When in American Jerusalem, Praise MLB!

I love living in American Jerusalem! Ever since I relocated to San Francisco to serve as rabbi of a burgeoning, boutique synagogue here in the mid-Richmond district, called Congregation Beth Sholom, I continue to relish the daily halakhic queries posed...

Apr 14, 2014, 11:54 PM

Radicalism of Grace as Redemption: A Review of ART/VIOLENCE

Radicalism of Grace as Redemption: A Review of ART/VIOLENCE In this spring season of Nissan, with the approach of Passover and Easter, how do we remain connected to the possibility of redemption? ART/VIOLENCE (75 minutes | Arabic, English & Hebrew|...

Jan 31, 2014, 9:28 PM

Walking the Tightrope: Reflections on Peter Brook

An abiding and surprising inspiration is there every time I have entered into a theater experience envisioned by Peter Brook. This English dramaturge is responsible for reinvigorating our contemporary experience of theater, re-interpreting classics from Shakespeare to Beckett through...

Nov 29, 2013, 10:31 PM

Night Dawn desert wanderings alighted by Broza & Van Zandt

It took no longer than a few seconds after I landed in Tel Aviv for a year of study that I spotted Elad in the crowd at Ben Gurion Airport. He was wearing Naot sandles, army pants, a tattered...

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About Me

Aubrey L. Glazer, Ph.D. serves as rabbi at Beth Sholom, San Francisco. Aubrey is the author of Mystical Vertigo: Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Cross the Divide (Academic Studies Press, 2013), A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking: Critical Theory After Adorno as Applied to Jewish Thought (New York: Continuum, 2011) and Contemporary Hebrew Mystical Poetry: How It Redeems Jewish Thinking (Edwin Mellen Press: New York, 2009).