{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":""We Need the Fantasy of a Destination and a Journey and a Path": Living Tangientially with Basya Schechter","description":" \u201cI think this is such a great line for your podcast. It\u2019s from my third album, Exile. \u2018I am in exile in my own home. My real home is moving, it\u2019s a wandering home. I give birth to contradictions, I give up in indecision, and worry.' \u201d Basya Schecter is one of my favorite wanderers. From a prolific early singer-songwriter career as the leader of Pharaoh\u2019s Daughter, to her nine-year stint as the full-time musical director and then spiritual leader of communities in Manhattan and Brooklyn, to her recent sabbatical and transition to a more fluid mix of communal leadership and \u201cmusical adventures,\u201d she has embodied an insistence to listening to one\u2019s inner voice that I deeply admire. Speaking about the surprising comfort and inspiration she was able to find within the Jewish Renewal community (after a Hassidic upbringing in Borough Park that traumatized her relationship with Jewish community) \u2014 and about how the contingencies and demands of single-motherhood pushed her to reconfigure her life in a way that opened unexpected portals to self-connection \u2014 she is also frank about he perils of burnout and the non-negotiability of maintaining an active creative life. \u201cCreativity is finding the thing inside you that you didn\u2019t know was inside. To find that thing that\u2019s higher and beyond what I can actually do, and yet something that comes through anyway. And it\u2019s a surprise. Those are gifts. Those are such gifts. Then those gifts become your friends.\u201d ","author_name":"Bad Rabbi Media","author_url":"https:\/\/www.badrabbicharliebuckholtz.com\/","html":"