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Sowing & Reaping | Sukkot & Simchat Torah 5782

You drew me a map to a paper kingdom
Said "I'm a hundred percent sure, just follow me in"
We built it in whispers, for over a year
A future on fire, forgetting the fear
I did all my homework, I fought my own wars
Finally ready to walk through that door...

But your courage was just a facade in the end
A castle you built on the air, my pretend friend
You chose your safe harbor, your comfortable sin
And left me alone with the mess I was in
You promised me mornings, but vanished by night
And turned all our colors to black and to white.

She's fighting for you with a new silhouette
Gym-toned and perfect, a desperate bet
And you're playing the prisoner, noble and sad
Taking the comfort for which you sold the mad
The passion we had, the potential, the spark
Now just a ghost in the quiet and dark.

'Cause your courage was just a facade in the end
A castle you built on the air, my pretend friend
You chose your safe harbor, your comfortable sin
And left me alone with the mess I was in
You promised me mornings, but vanished by night
And turned all our colors to black and to white.

And now a good man waits for me, he knows the truth and still he stays
But my heart's a battlefield, it's stuck in a different phase
Do I stay for the loyalty, a half-life, a debt to pay?
Or do I walk through the pain and find my own damn way?
This isn't love, it's just a choice made from guilt and fear...
The only way out is through these tears.

And MY courage will not be a facade in the end
I'll tear down that castle, my own heart I'll mend
I'll leave your safe harbor, your comfortable sin
I'll face the wide ocean and boldly dive in
I'll trade your false mornings for my own honest light
And I'll paint my whole world in colors so bright.

I deserved more than an option...
I was a promise you broke.
I'm taking my heart back now...
With every single breath I choke.
I'm letting go... letting go...
Finally learning to fly alone.

100 Percent

Er schaut mi an mit die blaue Augn, silb

Booklet: https://eklektikaberlin.com/files/1387300/seduction-control-and-misbelief-booklet.pdf

“Alchemist” portrays a scammer who weaponises humanity’s oldest desire—the longing for transformation—by presenting himself as a modern miracle-maker, offering elixirs and secrets that promise renewal, healing, and transcendence. The song reveals how easily people, driven by pain or hope, can be drawn into illusions that sound scientific, mystical, or spiritually elevated, and how the scammer exploits that vulnerability with theatrical confidence. The imagery of gold, fire, vials, and crucibles reflects both ancient alchemical symbolism and contemporary pseudoscience, showing that the scammer’s power comes not from magic but from the ability to manipulate belief. Ultimately, the song describes the emotional fallout: the victims left with nothing but broken promises and the lingering shame of having trusted a dream that was always designed to deceive.

The Alchemist Scam: Miracle Cures, Modern Magic, and the Enduring Psychology of Transformation Fraud
For as long as human beings have suffered, they have dreamed of shortcuts to transformation. Alchemists once promised to turn lead into gold, distil immortality from vapours, and manipulate the hidden forces of nature. Though the laboratories have changed and the vials have been replaced by slick digital ads, the alchemist’s promise endures. Today’s “alchemist scam” is less about medieval furnaces and more about wellness influencers, biotech impostors, crypto-gurus, and miracle-cure entrepreneurs who exploit the same ancient desire: the longing to become more than we are with minimal effort. It is the oldest fraud in a new costume.

Modern alchemists succeed by selling transformation without process. They promise weight loss without discipline, wealth without risk, rejuvenation without time, healing without medical evidence. Their language draws directly from the symbolic vocabulary of old alchemy—purification, transmutation, rebirth—but is reframed in the glossy jargon of the 21st century: “cellular reset,” “quantum detox,” “bio-harmonic realignment,” “algorithmic abundance.” These phrases are no less mystical than the alchemical diagrams of the Middle Ages; they simply appear scientific enough to bypass critical judgment.

What makes the alchemist scam particularly potent is its ability to collapse emotional, spiritual, and scientific needs into a single seductive narrative. Victims are not merely purchasing a product; they are buying a new self, one freed from insecurity, illness, debt, or invisibility. The scammer becomes a modern-day sage, offering access to forbidden knowledge. Just as medieval alchemists guarded their “secrets” in coded manuscripts, contemporary fraudsters use paywalled online courses, pseudo-scientific white papers, and staged testimonials to create an aura of exclusivity. Scarcity becomes legitimacy.

Financially, the alchemist scam is highly adaptive. It appears in the form of miracle supplements, anti-aging tonics, “quantum healing” devices, crypto-alchemists promising wealth transmutation, and coaching programs promising spiritual ascension for a fee. Psychologically, the strategy remains constant: elevate the victim’s hope to the point where critical thinking feels like betrayal of possibility. The victim imagines transformation so vividly that they become complicit in the illusion.


ALCHEMIST (Scam 8)

adon olam

Vocals - Batya Levine
Percussion - Simcha Halpert Hanson

Nechama - Batya Levine

Part 1: 
May this body be a bridge for the healing of this land
May the river flow through us cleansing greed from our hands

May this body be a bridge for the healing of this land
May the river flow through us cleansing grief from our hands

Part 2:
We are, we are born from the water
We are, we are made from the land

Teach us, teach us, oh Great Mother
To bring, to bring peace to this land

Lyrics: Part one is inspired by Said Abdallah; part 2 by Theresa Martin
Melody: Theresa Martin

May This Body Be A Bridge

Ir Yidn Zolt Zayn Heylig  by Noam Lerman. Zoë Aqua on violin

Batya Levine, Rena Branson, Aliza Schwartz, Tamar Sandweiss-Back, Becky Havivi

Galeh (Rabbi Moshe Shur)

Paschal Nigun - Shiru Ladonai (Psalm 96)

Nigun Esh - Mizmor Ledavid (Psalm 29)

Carousel Nigun – Lecha Dodi

Sung with chickens at Linke Fligl, 10/1/20
http://linkefligl.com/

Linke Fligl Nigun

ושמחת בחגך והיית אך שמח
Vesamachta bechagecha vehayita ach sameach
You shall rejoice on your festivals​ and be fully joyous.
(Deuteronomy 16: 14a, 15b)

Vesamachta Bechagecha (Chabad)

אֱכוֹל בְּשִׂמְחָה כִּי כְבָר רָצָךְ
Echol b'simcha ki kvar ratzach

Eat in joy, you are already wanted
You're divinely desired
Eat in joy, you are already wanted
Your being is wanted

Line from "Menucha v'Simcha" ("Rest & Joy"), a medieval zemer/song for Shabbat, traditionally sung on Friday nights

You Are Already Wanted/Ki Kvar Ratzach (line from Shabbat song)

Grateful for this little melody coming to me from the pages of my siddur one summer morning.

Ma tovu ohalecha Yaakov, mishk’notecha Yisrael
How lovely are your tents [people of] Jacob; your sanctuaries [people of] Israel.

Mah Tovu

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