An invitation to Piyut- “Soundtrack of Hebrew culture” for school

Vision

The Songs – melodies and lyrics learned during childhood accompany the individual throughout life and form a bridge between past, present and future.

We wish to create and implement life and year cycle soundtrack of Piyutim from different Jewish Traditions for the education system chosen together with the Ministry Of Education particularly for elementary and junior high schools.

Activity

As a result of the success of the program ‘Bo’u Le’gani’ Piyut in Kindergartens, we wish to take a leap forward and create and implement life and year cycle soundtrack for the education system chosen with the Ministry Of Education particularly for elementary and junior high schools.

We plan to:

Create an attractive and accessible repertoire that will connection to year and life cycle events and enable learning the content of Jewish holidays in an experiential way

The repertoire will relate to and be acceptable by as many sections in Israeli society as possible (secular, national-religious, Ashkenazi, Sephardi and more) and will include a variety of Jewish and Israeli traditions.

Create a high Level musical production that will be widely accepted

Creating the recordings + work plans for teachers in different curriculums
To Work together with leading partners in the Education System in order to implement the songs into to the curriculum and everyday life of elementary and junior high schools.

web.nli.org.il/sites/nlis/he/song

Now therefore write this poem for yourselves, and teach it the children of Yisra᾽el: put it in their mouths, that this poem may be a witness

- Book of Deuteronomy 31, 19

Uri Kroizer

Uri Kroizer – director of Education and Community for the Piyut and Tefillah Website. He is Jerusalem born, married to Chani and is the father of four children. Uri engages in education for many years. In the last fifteen years, he studies and researches the Piyut, Niggun and Tefillah traditions from a variety of Jewish communities, eastern and western, and teaches them in various programs. Initiator and leader of several study programs, among them Bo’u Le’gani for teaching Piyut in more than 400 kindergartens across Israel this year. He plays a key role in the renaissance of Piyut and Tefillah. Uri is an alumnus of the first cohort The Beit Midrash for Israeli Rabbis, where he was ordained. He leads prayer at Kabbalot Shabbat in Jerusalem’s public squares and Shliach Tzibur at Zion – an Eretz Israeli Congregation.

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