This performance took place at the ICC Scottish Rite Auditorium on February 21, 2004. The amazing singer David D'Or and his band came form Israel to participate in the production.
"NESHAMA, Stories of the Soul," is a performance inspired by personal spiritual experiences enriched by thousands of years of Jewish legends, commentaries, and religious texts, all centered on the significance of human life. Neshama seeks to embrace biblical images and portray them as dramas of the soul. This visual language corresponds to the inner space and journey that each one of us makes towards self-knowledge.
Imbued with movement, song, visuals, and narration, this multimedia performance sweeps through the millennia. It begins even before the creation of the universe and ends in the present. Its heart is the Stone of Foundation, which according to legend, is the very center of Jerusalem, in itself the very center of human consciousness and of the world; it is the place on which the first human was created; where the first monotheist, Abraham, was called to bind his son, and where in ancient days the solitary self of the High Priest was summoned to come face-to-face with the Divine on behalf of the people. |
Angels representing Air & Water | 
Angels representing Fire & Water | 
Adam (Asaf) and Eve (Dorit) |
Adam (Asaf) and Eve (Dorit) | 
Idol Worship, Idol (Moti) & victim (Rebecca) dramatized the period in which humanity worshipped molten images instead of God. | 
Idol Worship - On a personal level, it dramatizes the difficulty many of us face when we lose our own true and original selves. |
Abraham (Brian) & Isaac (Armen), represents the binding of Isaac as a sacrifice to God | Moses (Tsion). Generations after Abraham, leading his sheep in the desert, Moses hears the voice of God for the first time |
Solomon's Builders, The building of the temple, on that same Stone of the Foundation, pays homage to the humility of the construction workers themselves |
The Offering, celebrates the pilgrimage of the people to the site of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem to express gratitude for the bounty from God | 
The Offering | 
Halleluyah, choreographed by Eytan Avisar |
Halleluyah, "Praise God with all the elements that He created" (Tehilim). |  Simchat Bet Ha Shoeva, for seven days, in ecstatic celebration, libations of water were poured from golden flagons at the Temple in Jerusalem |  Simchat Bet Ha Shoeva, every courtyard of Jerusalem reflected the light of the great celebration at the Temple
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Struggle & Corruption: the tragic loss of the divine attributes of compassion and loving kindness in the hearts and behavior of the people | 
Destruction, Soldiers representing Biblical Wars. | 
Mourning and Diaspora, representing the shoah and the two thousand years of Jewish people wandering in the Diaspora |
Shema Israel, sung by David D'Or with Tsion in mourning | 
Tishmor Al Ha Olam Yeled, sung by David D'Or with Asaf as the Israeli soldier | 
The Chalutzim: Building a new homeland. The pioneers of Israel express the death-defying endurance of the people to build the State of Israel |
The Chalutzim, armed with courage, conviction and passion, the early settlers tilled the stubborn soil, and made it flower | 
The Battle for Freedom, at any moment a peaceful, happy scene could change to a battlefield | 
Recalling the Past, Light and Redemption. Asaf representing a lone Israeli Soldier |
The history of consciousness itself whose heart is the heart of Jerusalem is in turn the heart of out world | 
Hu Yavo, (finale). "Calling the messiah to come for better days ahead." | 
Hu Yavo |
