Go forth and rock out
Self promotion alert (and no – it does not involve the selling of anything apart from Torah). As some of you already know, I launched g-dcast.com two weeks ago for Simchat Torah. Sadly this website was down and I couldn’t let ya’ll know. I hope you’ll go check out our cartoons for parshas Bereshit and Noah while you’re foolin around, I mean, learning on the innertubes.
Each episode is wildly different and this week’s is a music video sung through Sarah’s point of view, courtesy of the wonderful duo Stereo Sinai of Chicago. They wrote this Lech Lecha song on a G-dcast commission, and we can’t get it out of our heads!
If you like this, I hope you’ll pass it along to a teacher, Hillel rabbi, or teen near you. We have teacher’s guides up on the website, thanks to Matthue Roth, and all the animation is done by the amazing Nick Fox-Gieg.
I work in J.ed. & I was thrilled by the first g-dcast and sent word of it out to all the Jewish schools in our area. I am even more thrilled by the teacher’s guides (b/c teachers like “stuff”–even if they go off and riff on their own, they like getting someone else’s idea first.) On this first musical one though, I’d’ve liked to have lyric sheet attached, not everyone can make out all the words as well as everyone else, and there are some powerful messages in those words that may not be caught from just audio. Just a minor suggestion for future musical versions… Kol ha Kavod, though on the whole concept. It’s really lovely, and very necessary.
Sof Maarav
Thanks Penina, that’s a great idea. In fact, I think I’ll do it right now.
“Zayomer Hashem”?