It's Monday, already?

Happy Isru Chag Everybody.
It's Monday, and we're back with our Monday Schedule:


6:00 Health Matters that Matter! with Benzion Eliyahu Lehrer and Lorelai
7:00 Brainwaves with Brian Blum and
9:00 Monday night music with Maya, tonight, as Maya says:"Tonight we'll take a musical journey to the world of MTV unplugged."

Shabbos is Coming, Shavuos is Coming - Let's Go Get Our Torah!

It's about to be a 2-day holiday in Israel, and a 3-day holiday outside of Israel - Shabbos Parshas BaMidbar (we're starting Book 4 of the 5 Books of Moses of the Torah this Shabbat!) PLUS, following exactly when Shabbos stops and the next day begins - the holiday of SHAVUOS, the commemoration of when we as "Am Yisrael" - the People of Israel - with one heart and one mind accepted the Torah from HaShem on Mt. Sinai.

Tonight - Shabbat. We'll count the LAST of the Sefirat haOmer - "Malchut Sheb'b'Malchut" - and spend Shabbat with some sense of satisfaction that we've completed the entire Sefirat haOmer period, in anticipation of what comes next. Now that we've rectified all the levels from Chessed to Malchut, it's time to receive the Torah, together!

Shavuos runs from Saturday night to Sunday night - we'll be off the air until Sunday a bit after 9pm Israel time. For those of you in Chutz l'Eretz who keep TWO days of Yom Tov - good luck with that! We suggest you come home to the Land of Israel and keep ONE day with us - one long day because it's going to be a day without sleep - we're staying up all night learning Torah - in the morning we'll read Megillat Ruth and then sit down to a meal full of dairy products (yes we Jewish people are nothing if not obsessed with food symbolism!) and then maybe we'll get a nap on Sunday afternoon!

Chag Sameach everybody far and near - may you receive the Torah exactly as you're supposed to, at the level you need to receive it at, may it be SWEET, and may this year be a year of personal and spiritual growth for each and every one of us!

See ya at Sinai! :)

It's Bob Dylan's 71st Birthday on Radio Free Nachlaot!

Yom Huledet Samach - Happy Birthday Mr. Robert Zimmerman, you're 71 years forever young today! That's right, it's Bob Dylan's 71st Birthday, and l'kavod the Jewish Gemini Singer/Songwriter who defined our generation and then went on to re-define it, over and over again, it's going to be All Bob, All Day Long .... don't miss BOBFEST 5772 - May 24th 2012.

Please note that Bob Dylan was actually born on the 28th of Iyar in the year 5701, (9:05pm May 24th, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) which was that year the 43rd Day of the Omer - Chessed Sheb'b'Malchut. It makes so much sense - and little did he know (or maybe he did) that only 26 years later that same day of Chessed Sheb'b'Malchut would become the day Jerusalem was liberated in the 1967 "6-Day War" - again, on Chessed Sheb'b'Malchut.

Chessed is loving-kindness, and Malchut is the Kingdom, it's royalty, it's bringing everything down from heaven to manifest on earth - like Yom Yerushalyim, like Shmuel HaNavi (Samuel the Prophet who was also born on the 28th of Iyar), Bob is (in the words of Rabbi Chaim Richman) "a great manifestation of Chessed Sheb'b'Malchut."

Some of what we'll be hearing today includes:

9am - 10:40am - Bob Dylan's "Live 75," the Rolling Thunder Revue

11am - 1pm - on the Final Vinyl Show, the 3 albums that appear in the Rolling Stone Top 50 Albums of all time - #4 of the Top 50: "Highway 61 Revisited" (1965), Number 9 of the Top 50: "Blonde on Blonde" (1966), and Number 16 of the Top 50: "Blood on the Tracks" (1975).

2pm - 4:15pm - The All-Star 30th Anniversary Concert - A Tribute to Bob Dylan recorded in 1993 and featuring Bob Dylan tribute cover songs by such luminaries as John Cougar Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed, Eddie Vedder, Tracie Chapman, June Carter Cash, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Johnny Winter, Ronnie Wood, Ritchie Havens, The Clancy Brothers, Mary Chapan Carpenter, Roseanne Cash, Shawn Colvin, Neil Young, Chrissie Hynde, Eric Clapton, The O'Jays, The Band, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Roger McGuinn and more.

4:15pm - 7:15pm - RABBI CHAIM RICHMAN'S BOB DYLAN BIRTHDAY SPECIAL SHOW - recorded live at Radio Free Nachlaot last year on Bob's 70th birthday, this show is "Evergreen" as well as ever-fresh, and features our beloved Rabbi Chaim Richman whose dearest wish is to walk upon the Temple Mount with Bob Dylan playing the harmonica together with him, spinning 3 hours of his favorite Dylan tunes with much narration and a Rashi-like commentary upon each and every song. Don't miss it!!!

All times are Jerusalem times, please calculate for your time zone - and stay with us today for BOBFEST 5772, and may G*d bless and keep us always, may our feet always be swift, may we have a strong foundation when the winds of changes shift, may we build a ladder to the sky and climb on every rung, and may each and every one of us stay forever young!

Come, take a Walk in the Garden.

That's right. Tonight, Wednesday, at 8:00 PM, Radio Free Nachlaot is proud to present:  A Walk in the Garden.

Please join us tonight, and every Wednesday night at 8:00 PM for our Weekly conversation with Rav Dror Moshe Cassouto, of the Chut Shel Chessed Yeshiva, discussing and explaining Torah Concepts based on Rav Shalom Arush’s sefer, The Garden of Peace.

This program is brought to you by The Chut Shel Chessed Yeshiva, located at 13 Shmuel Hanavi Street, in Jerusalem.

For more information on The Chut Shel Chessed Yeshiva you can visit them on the web at

WWW.Breslov.Co.il.

Be sure not to miss tonight's first in this new Radio Free Nachlaot Torah Series, A Walk in the Garden.

So what do you think, 30 more minutes of Torah on a Wednesday Night can't hurt, can it?

C Ya on the Radio!

Shavua Tov! Shavua Tov! It's Yom Yerushalayim!

Shavua Tov everybody. Motzoei Shabbos is now, the new week is starting, and what a way to begin.
Yom Yerushalayim.
Yerushalayim Shel Zahav.
45 years since we won back our beloved city.
45 years since we united Yerushalayim.
Unification.
Achdus.
Putting together that which should never have been broken apart.

We will celebrate Jerusalem in our own, Radio Free Nachlaot way:
Motzoei Shabbos Melave Malke and learning with Lorelai, Benzion and Mica --> Saturday Night with Steve will just be the beginning.  The middle - music all day long.  The End:

Sunday Night Live - 8:00 - 10:00 PM

Steve, Lorelai and our special guest, Yerachmiel - LIVE from Jerusalem!!!!

It will be a wonderful end to Yom Yerushalayim to have some "live" music. I'm sure we'll hear songs about Jerusalem, and maybe even a few from Yerachmiel's new album, "In the Hands of Heaven."
Hey, it's going to be LIVE from Jerusalem.
This wasn't happening 45 years ago!!!!!

Shavua Tov everybody.

Happy Yom Yerushalayim everybody.

C Ya on the Radio!!!!

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It's Thursday - Yes, it's come around again!!!!

Happy Thursday Everybody.
More of the same, but never a repeat? Except for the new stuf....
(Btw  Did you hear Rena on the Radio?  That might become a new regular show, you know?)
Yes,we go round and round, hopefully getting further and further, higher and higher, toward our goals.
Goals? Do we have GOALS? Well, maybe it's just to be, maybe it's to connect with the Shoresh of our Neshama - maybe it's -- fill in the blanks folks, and while you're doing that, remember Radio Free Nachlaot, where Jerry meets Shlomo and everything in between -- Music, Talk and Torah - the perfect soundtrack for your lives....really. trust me. want to buy a bridge?
Thursday - Rabbi Richman's Parshat Hashavua at 7:00 PM
Steve's Cookin for Shabbos show at 10 - but you know we like to get started early....
Then there's Friday:
2:00 Not for Kids Only Childrens' Hour
3:30 'til Shabbos - Down the Road to Shabbos...
and there's Motzoei Shabbos:
Melave Malke from Tzfat with Lorelai and Benzion and an always surprise cast of thousands....--> Saturday Night music - programmed to help us move back into the week.
and - don't forget Sunday --
not only is it Yom Yerushalayim, but it's Sunday Night Live this week, with Steve and Lorelai, Live from Studio B with a soon to be confirmed special guest,
Live Music, Finally !!!!!
so, what else is there to say?
Good Shabbos everybody.
C Ya on the Radio!!!!!

Happy Lag B'Omer Everybody

Well, we've had our bonfires, and now we're back to "live" music.  All afternoon long we will bring you live concerts from some of our favorites, including Yossi Piamenta, Simply Tzfat, Shlomo Katz, and Lazer Lloyd Blumen.  ...and don't forget, we "cook for Shabbos" at 10:00!

C Ya on the Radio. 

It's Monday, and you know what that means!

Yes, Monday is upon us!
...and why should this Monday's schedule be any different than the Monday schedule you've come to expect? No Reason!

Today - 6:00 PM - Benzion and Lorelai will talk Health Matters that Matter!
7:00 - 9:00 Brian Blum's Brainwaves - 2 hours of Brian and his eclectic mix of indie pop and just great rock and roll.
9:00 - 11:00 Maya's Monday night Musical voyage will lead us to the world of Movie Music. Yes, music from movies that we've come to know and love -- and don't you worry, NO TITANIC!!!!!
and then at 11:00 Steve will take us into the "overnight" as he does everynight...New music, some old music and maybe even a surprise or two....
IT'S Monday on Radio Free Nachlaot
C Ya on the Radio!