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Samuel Avital
Samuel Avital, born in Sefrou (near Fez in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco), is a mime artist and educator teaching kinesthetic awareness and ḳabbalah. He moved to a kibbutz in Israel when he was fourteen. From 1958 he studied dance and drama at the Sorbonne in Paris, and also mime under Étienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau and Jean-Louis Barrault. He moved to the United States, and in 1971 started a school of mime, Le Centre du Silence, in Boulder, Colorado. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Avitalתְּפִלָה לְשָׁלוֹם | Prayer for Peace, by Samuel Avital (March 1984)
Contributed on: 16 Aug 2024 by ❧
This Prayer for Peace by Samuel Avital was composed in January 1984 for a gathering of spiritual teachers from all over the world at Mt. Sinai in March 1984. A month later, the State of Israel would return the Sinai to Egyptian sovereignty. While that event was not documented in any media, the prayer was first published in Four Worlds Journal vol. 2 no. 4, (January 1985), pp. 16-17. Of the event itself, Samuel Avital adds, “I performed there some of my mime performances like Jacob & Angel, Black & White and others.” The prayer for peace is included in Samuel Avital’s Passover Haggadah (2021). . . .
