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
