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To: SiouxPal who wrote (275247)	7/5/2015 5:14:43 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362302

If I see them. Things are out of control... What's Jewish about The Grateful Dead?There was never much on the surface that was Jewish about The Grateful Dead. Still, the Dead have clearly touched something in Jewish fans. By The Forward and Seth Rogovoy \| Jul. 5, 2015 \| 4:12 PM In The Grateful Dead’s 30-year-career, the band recorded only about a dozen studio albums. These formed the basis for the group’s live performances, which were The Grateful Dead’s raison d’être. The manner in which the basic tracks on their studio albums turned into their legendary group improvisations are relatively analogous to the role that the Written Torah and the Oral Torah have played in the evolution and perpetuation of Jewish law and wisdom. The Grateful Dead’s policy since the very beginning of allowing fans to tape their concerts, even setting aside taping areas and permitting bootleggers to plug right into their sound console, merely served to encourage the dissemination of The Dead’s “oral tradition,” as if they were religious disquisitions by Hasidic rebbes. When the band was still mostly a Bay Area phenomenon in the mid to late 1960s, they were heavily involved in community action, playing free concerts and taking part in efforts to feed and house those in need, in acts of what modern Jews might term tikkun olam, repairing the world. The kind of “noodle dancing” one typically witnesses at a Grateful Dead concert has often been likened to the active shuckling seen in enthusiastic Jewish prayer.... haaretz.com How about maybe a tribe of Sioux doing peyote and dancing all night to the sound of drums pounding out the heartbeat of the universe?