Temenos presents a Passover Seder infused with wisdom and music. Rabbi Zach Fredman will lead us through spiritual teachings, delving into the myth, mysticism and liberatory ethos of this sacred celebration. Over wine, food, music, questions and stories we will illuminate the Passover narrative, exploring its ancient resonance in an unparalleled year.
The gathering will feature the music from Duo al Rouh, a collaboration between Rabbi Zach Multi-instrumentalist Zafer Tawil.
Join us for a rare night of enlightenment and inspiration, darkness and freedom where we distill prayer to its essential elements through music and meditation.
Seder Event Tickets include a four course meal at our community tables in the barn. The food and ceremony is offered in four movements echoing the four seder cups of wine - Sanctification, Deliverance, Redemption, Praise. All integrating together in a nourishing of all sides of our collective being.
Stay over with us! Guests attending the Seder gathering on April 12th can get a 15% discount on accommodations using the discount code “TEMENOS” . Click here to book your room now.
Seder Dinner Menu TBA
SATURDAY APRIL 12th 2025
Passover Seder & Celebration with Rabi Zach Fredman (Zaki Asher)
6:30pm In the Barnspace at Race Brook Lodge
864 South Undermountain road ( AKA Rt 41 ) Sheffield, MATickets include the Passover program and 4-course dinner
Full price: $118
Discounted rate: $75
Kids under 12: $25
Temenos is the boundary around a place of ceremony, the periphery physical or spiritual that nurtures the energy of creativity and transformation. We chose this word because even the smallest act of distinguishment can turn the mundane into a site of magic. Temenos is a home for ritual and creativity that honors the wild humanity of all people. We create transformative offerings and events rooted in the particulars of Jewish wisdom, opening to the universal. We create projects, art, offerings that live at the intersection of art and spirit. temenosnyc.com
Rabi Zach Fredman, also known as Zachi Asher, is the Founder and Creative Director of the Temenos Center for the Arts, a New York non profit organization that creates projects, wisdom and ceremonies that live at the intersection of spirituality and the arts. Zach is composer, oud player, and bandleader of the Epichorus, an ensemble performing new music rooted in classical Arabic maqam and Hebrew poetry. They have released three studio albums and a book of stories.
Duo al Roo7
Palestinian multi-instrumentalist Zafer Tawil, performs alongside friend, collaborator, and oud player Rabi Zachi Asher – a set of sorrow songs, traditional and new, that give voice to the brokenness and yearnings of our days. The textures and aesthetics of shared poetry, musical modes, and memory create vessels of song tender and wide, places of safety and comfort that make room to reach unto the depths.
Songs from the queens of the Arabic canon, Fairouz and Oum Kulthum, stretch between the sorrows of their days and ours, alongside folk songs, sufi poems and melodies, and new compositions the two performers have written together, from within the longings of recent days. In welcoming the truth and grief of one another, the two make room for new sounds to emerge from the place of shared displacements that mark the stories of each of their communities.
Jerusalem born Zafer Tawil is fluent on the violin, oud, qanun, percussion and nay. He is the most in demand musician of the Brooklyn Arabic music community, and he is the most joyful. Rabi Zaki Asher, studied the oud and Arabic maqam with Lebanese master Bassam Saba for many years. He is the creative director of the Temenos Center for the Arts, a New York 501c3, and is an activist for Palestinian liberation.
Race Brook Lodge is a hidden gem in The Berkshires, at the foot of Mt. Race and a short hike from the Appalachian trail. The yoga & event barn at Race Brook is simultaneously rustic and sublime, steeped in hundreds of years of New England history. The Stagecoach Tavern is unpretentious fine dining, exquisite farm-to-table cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. Much of the food is sourced from Race Farm, right on the property!
Timothy Sonder’s long-form instrumental guitar works explore the space between classical, global folk, and minimalist traditions