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Month: April 2025

Beit Tefilah Israeli, Community, Sabbaths and holidays

Monthly musical Shabbat receptions in Ra'anana

Musical Shabbat Kabbalah at the Raanana Music and Arts Center

Kabbalah in the name of independence in Ra'anana

Welcoming Shabbat together! Musical Shabbat reception for At the Raanana Music and Arts Center

Parents and children, grandparents and great-grandparents are welcome to attend., Lighting candles together, Shabbat songs, and more. Join us for a magical and uplifting community experience in the seam between weekdays and Shabbat with The musical ensemble of "Israeli Prayer House" in collaboration with the audience With Israeli songs, , Shabbat hymns, stories, weekly torah, and more.

The event will take place on the lawn –

Admission is free!

06/13/25 at 5:00 PM

2a Palmach Street Raanana

Admission is free.

Beit Tefilah Israeli, Holidays

Time to Build – Before the Shavuot Tikkun 5785

Time to build
Before the Shavuot correction, 5785

Time to build

Before the 2015 Shevets Amendment in an Israeli House of Prayer

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Time to build

Shavuot is the holiday of Matan Torah. The time of year when we receive the Torah anew and take responsibility for it. What is our Torah this year? What are the mitzvot that the situation in the country commands us to commit to? This year we will dedicate the Tikun to conversation and lectures on the social Torah that is being handed down to us this year. We will host Iris Chaim, the mother of the late Yotam Chaim, in conversation with Rabbi Esteban Gottfried, and we will study with Rabbi Tamar Elad Appelbaum, Dr. Nachman Shai, Zeev Dagni, and Michal Beinisch.
 
Together we will welcome the holiday with singing, prayer, and learning about the repairs that it is our turn to install.
 
 
When? Thursday 29.5.25 between 19:00-22:00
 
where?
Beit Shalom Aleichem, Berkowitz 2 Tel Aviv.
 
Admission is free, subject to availability. Register here!
 
 
Tonight's schedule:
 
19:00 – Gathering
19:15 – Musical opening – with Athaliah Lavie and Shani Stern
19:30 – "Where do we start building" – with Dr. Nachman Shai and Dr. Zeev Dagani – Moderator: Esteban Gottfried
20:30 – "Building Bridges" on the healing needed for Israeli society at this time" with Ikis Haim and Harba Tamar Elad Applebaum.
21:30 – "Here We Build" – about the green floor project in the Gaza Strip. A discussion between Michal Beinisch and Ronen Keller.

Participants

Dr. Nachman Shai

Former Minister of Diaspora Affairs and IDF Spokesperson.
Dean of Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem

Rabbi Esteban Gottfried

Rabbi, Co-Founder and CEO of an Israeli House of Prayer

Iris Haim

Palliative care specialist, resident of the Western Negev. Mother of the kidnapped soldier Yotam Haim, late

Michal Beinisch

Founder of Grain, member of the board of directors of the Civilian Labor Organization, one of the leaders of Brothers and Sisters in Arms and the "Green Floors" rehabilitation project in Gaza City.

Dr. Zeev Degani

Principal of Herzliya Gymnasium, Tel Aviv

Many Tamar Elad Appelbaum

Head of Zion Community, founder of the Israeli Rabbinate program

Ronen Koehler

Organizational consultant, leader of Brothers in Arms, chairman of an Israeli prayer house
and the leadership of the Scouts in Tel Aviv

And Atalia Lavie and the musical ensemble of an Israeli prayer house

With Matthias Schulman and Shani Stern

To register for the Shavuot pre-Tikkun
Beit Tefilah Israeli, Holidays

Difference between Memorial Day and Independence Day 5785

Havdalah
A ceremony of transition between Memorial Day and Independence Day

A time to weep and a time to build

Havdalah - a ceremony of transition between Memorial Day and Independence Day

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A time to cry and a time to heal
 
 
Difficult days are passing us by, and the moment of transition between the day of mourning and the day of joy is especially difficult. This is a uniquely Israeli trait, which found expression in the Havdalah – a time to weep and a time to heal. This year, the transition is even more difficult and the current context undermines many of the sentences that make sense throughout the holiday.
 

However, this moment calls for fulfillment, for words, and for togetherness.

About two decades ago, a small group of people who founded the Israeli house of prayer in Tel Aviv It came together to try to provide a response to the ritual need that the juxtaposition of these days invites us to. The proposal received was to dwell precisely on this gap of time, between mourning and joy, and fill it with a ceremony that combines Jewish and Israeli materials and form. A ceremony of Havdalah. A Havdalah between Memorial Day and Independence Day.
The Havdala between Remembrance Day and Independence Day is built from ancient and new, traditional and contemporary creative materials. Through poetry, prayer excerpts, hymns, reflections and Israeli songs, we succeed in creating a gradual emotional transition between the polar states of mourning and joy, and observe the human ability to move between changing states of mind using different layers of the Hebrew language, with the ceremony centered on a free variation of the Havdala blessing between Shabbat and weekdays, adapted to the unique transition between the sanctity of Remembrance Day and the sanctity of Independence Day.

This year, more than ever, we are asked to spend this moment together. An Israeli prayer house invites the general public to a shared Havdalah with Israeli music, prayer songs, and solace for the soul.

 
The Havdalah will take place on Wednesday, April 30th, we will meet at: 6:00 PM > It is recommended to arrive early.
Event location: Beit Shalom Aleichem – Berkovich 2, Tel Aviv
 
Admission is free, subject to availability. Register here!
 

To register for the Havdalah ceremony, fill out the form.

You can download the Havdalah Order 5785 here

To download the Havdalah arrangement
Beit Tefilah Israeli, Holidays, Study

Gathering for Holocaust Remembrance Day 1975

Holocaust Remembrance Day gathering

Holocaust Remembrance Day gathering

5785

2015 Gathering

Music and prayer are two universal languages that express the depths of the soul and spirit. Both connect us to each other, to nature, and to something greater than ourselves. What is it about music that enables a meaningful prayer experience? What is the place of sacred and profane in synagogue music? And what is the role of the piyyutim?

Holocaust Remembrance Day gathering
From lament to hope
5785
 
Holocaust Remembrance Day Eve, 23.4.25 at 8:00 PM
In the "Bafnocho" space – 9 Itamar Ben Avi St., Tel Aviv
 
As every year, we will gather together to remember with hospitality out of the responsibility to remember. For a meaningful, personal and communal ceremony, we will hear testimony, and we will turn mourning into hope. 
 
The event takes place in the space at 9 Itamar Ben Avi St., Tel Aviv. (The new home of the Israeli Prayer House offices). On Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM. Admission is free with advance registration.

 

To register, fill out the form.