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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Seven Species--A culinary workshop for Tu Bishevat": Why is the Jewish people likened to wheat? And why do we hope to have our merits multiply like the seeds of a pomegranate? Why are honest and righteous people held to resemble figs? And what is the connection between the seven species and fertility and abundance?In honor of Tu Bishevat,
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Beit Avi Chai presents "The Orchestra--Back by popular demand: An original musical composition.An original musical drama for narrator and string orchestra by composer Aaron Razel, based on S. J. Agnon's story "The Orchestra" (from Sefer ha-ma'asim in the collection Samukh ve-nireh).This is a tale of personal soul-searching on the eve of the New Year. In a plot that wavers read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Kicking Off the Month--Shevat: Familology": Family Day falls in the month of Shevat in the Jewish calendar. As we kick off the month, we will get to know our families, past and present, a bit better.With:• Dr. Ruhama Weiss, Talmudic scholar-rebellious youth and honor for parents in rabbinic literature • Yuval Rivlin, lecturer in film and read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "A Yiddishe Mame": How did the Jewish mother come to symbolize Yiddish? How did she enter literature, how did she appear on stage and screen, and how did she metamorphose into the Polish mother from Ramat Aviv Gimmel?This event is in honor of the sixth issue of Davka, a Hebrew periodical about Yiddish language and culture, dedicated to the multifaceted persona of the read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents The Magical World of Hasidic Melodies (Back by popular demand):
Paths of the Ein-sof (Infinity): The Melodies of the Karlin Hasidim
An encounter with the lively, joyous melodies of these hasidim, known for their length and their ability to bring dancers to a different state of consciousness. New, energetic arrangements performed by the Tizmoret Amamit, together read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Slaughtering the Cow," on Tuesdays throughout January and February 2010.
Dear Jew,How long will we sit by the rivers of Babylon? How long will we linger in the pasture like lost sheep? How long will we waste our time at pubs acting like dead meat? Let's go down to P7, have a drink, get together around a significant, essential, kosher cow, and then-slaughter read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "Myth and Mystery": Three dances by different artists bring to the stage myth and mystery from the treasure trove of Jewish culture. The three are combined to create a unique, enthralling evening of dance. Opening remarks: Dr. Haim Weiss, Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University, "Necromancy and Mystery in Jewish Culture" (In Hebrew)
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Beit Avi Chai presents "We Were Like Dreamers" -- The return to Zion: from destruction to revival.
Only 48 years elapsed from the day Jerusalem was destroyed until Cyrus declared that the Jews could return, but the Babylonian Exile and the Return to Zion became concepts whose influence exceeded the boundaries of time and space. In this four-part series we will learn about read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents a new exhibition--Amos Kenan: Hebrew Art
Painting and Sculpture, 1955–2005
The first retrospective of its kind focusing on 50 years of Amos Kenan’s drawings, watercolors, and sculptures. The exhibition reflects Kenan’s long struggle for art with a Hebrew character, rooted in ancient Middle Eastern culture and read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents: Mysticism in Contemporary Israeli Poetry--Over the generations, Jewish mysticism has expressed powerful emotional experiences in literary and poetic texts. Modern Hebrew poets (Bialik, Ben-Yitzhak, Gilboa, Sadeh) have continued this literary genre with some amazing works. Mystical poetry is still being written today in Israel, giving expression to fascinating trends in Israeli read more
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Painter and sculptor Eliyahu Sidi displays his work at Beit Avi Chai in an exhibit entitled "Likutei Eliyahu." Sidi's work is rich with decorative multiplications of steryotypical images, interwoven with thin strings of hidden distress, whose roots are in his childhood in occupied France. The artist lives and works in the Nahlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem. His work has been read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents "A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book": An evening in honor of Dr. Aliza Lavie's book.In this unique prayer book, the first of its kind, Dr. Aliza Lavie presents women's prayers from various periods in history and communities around the Jewish world. It includes prayers written by and for women, prayers intended for experiences and events read more
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Beit Avi Chai presents Study of the literature of the ancient Land of Israel: legend and prayer, liturgical poetry and interpretation
Lecturer: Prof. Avigdor Shinan
During the series of 4 sessions we will be introduced to the cultural heritage of the ancient Land of Israel and learn about the differences between it and that customary today in prayer, read more
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