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A reading of the Megillah with musical accompaniment for the whole family and a singing circle to boost morale!
On Friday, March 13, 25, at 6:00 PM
In an Israeli house of prayer, 2 Berkowitz Street, Tel Aviv.
Come dressed up! Admission is free with advance registration.
Intended for professional musicians who wish to expand their familiarity with Jewish prayer, piyyut, traditions, and intentions.
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?
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?
We invite you to join us on a fascinating journey into the world of Jewish prayer. Together we will explore the deep connection between music and prayer, discover the secrets of ancient and new melodies, and learn how music plays a central role in the prayer experience. As part of the study, we will delve into the foundations, sounds, history, and traditions of prayer, while observing its development throughout the generations: from piyyutim to Hasidic niggun, and from traditional prayer to contemporary Israeli prayer.
During the Beit Midrash, we will dedicate time to playing together, exploring possibilities for composing old and new prayers inspired by the meetings, and at the end of the program, we will invite you to record the new compositions we created together.
Among the lecturers:
Additional details:
The meetings will open and close with shared music, and traditional and new prayers will be taught. The pieces composed in the Beit Midrash will be produced as part of a new prayer album by an Israeli prayer house.
when?
11 meetings on Thursdays 10:30-12:30, starting 20.3.25
where?
The new cultural center on Da Vinci Street in Tel Aviv.
The cost is 300 NIS per participant with the possibility of subsidizing subject to a personal interview.
For further details please contact the prayer house team: Esteban Gottfried or Rabbi Dror by email: office@btfila.org1
Thank you for celebrating with us!
We seek to celebrate spiritual entrepreneurship, taking responsibility to actively shape our spiritual and cultural lives, the longing for community even in the secular realm, the personal search and preparation for a meaningful prayer language within the sea of Jewish-Israeli tradition.
We wish to celebrate the opportunity we have been given to add our own touch to the traditions we have inherited, so that they will be more relevant to us and our sons and daughters.
We seek to celebrate the desire of tens of thousands of women who have joined us over these two decades to make our Jewish identity relevant and meaningful.
Today we celebrate the human connections that have been forged over the years between friends, teachers and students, musicians and parents, bar mitzvah boys and girls, and community members.
We seek to celebrate the daily sacred work of dozens of volunteers from Iri Panim, in Shabbat receptions, in social activities, in teams, in joys and in moments of pain.
We wish to celebrate the freedom and inspiration of the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo, which has allowed us to create a cultural and spiritual work that has lasted for many years, and to the Tel Aviv audience who has found a home in our homes.
We seek to celebrate the music that serves as a second language for us to express our personal, communal, and national feelings.
And above all, we would like to celebrate and thank you for the deep trust we have received over so many years from generous friends and partners in Israel and around the world, who have allowed the small dream we planted 20 years ago to become a reality that has a life of its own and is capable of touching and expressing a clear voice of hope in the cultural fabric of Israel.
And we seek to do all of this today, in the way that is natural to us, in the native language of an Israeli house of prayer – in the musical language. In Israeli prayer.
Rabbi Esteban Gottfried, Rabbi Dr. Rani Yager, Rabbi Ravi Dror, Chairman Ronen Keller
Connecting the tearsTisha B'Av Eve in an Israeli synagogueReading the Book of LamentationsA circle of poetry and lamentations from then and nowScreening of the film NOVA#A conversation with the film director In one of the most difficult years in the history of the country, we ask to unite on the eve of Tisha B'Av with the tears of then and now. We will gather together on the day of mourning of the Jewish people in order to connect hearts to the difficult times, distant and near. During the evening, we will screen the moving film # Nova From director Dan Far Zahorai, a film composed entirely of material filmed and recorded in real time at a nature party near Kibbutz Reim, which was cut short when Hamas terrorists committed a mass massacre of the partygoers, and kidnapped some of them to Gaza. Minute by minute, the horror unfolds before us.
Entry is restricted to those over 18 years of age. Warning: The film is not easy to watch. At the end of the film, we will have a conversation with the film's director and other participants. Led by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried, Rabbi Dr. Rani YagrovParticipation Ensemble Israeli Prayer House Beit Shalom Aleichem, Berkowitz 2, Tel AvivMonday 12.8.24 at 8:00 PM Admission is free with advance registration Link to article about the film here
To register for the evening of Tisha B'Av
Since the beginning of the war, we found ourselves bringing singing circles and musical Shabbat kabbalahs to evacuees from the south and the north,
In hospitals, and also in the square that symbolizes more than anything the great pain that still afflicts us.
Every two weeks we gather at 5:00 PM in the square, and welcome Shabbat together with the families and all the people of Israel who come to embrace and identify.
You are welcome!
