A Musical Journey: Saturday Night Soul Spa

Arabic and Jewish musical traditions combined this weekend for a spiritually rousing and heart-opening evening of music, prayer, and contemplation.  The evening started with a moving Havdalah service to usher out the Shabbat.  What followed was a musical journey led by Samuel Torjman Thomas, who has traveled many times to North Africa and learned to play the Oud along with more traditional western instruments.  Hazzan Jessi Roemer, Rabbi Yosef Goldman and Rabbi Annie Lewis collaborated on the musical Melaveh Malkah. Saturday Night Soul Spa was co-sponsored with Society Hill Synagogue and the Rising Song Institute.