Welcoming Shabbat with Lecha Dodi at the Port of Tel Aviv

Beit Tefilah Israeli (BTI) is a fast-growing community in Tel Aviv that is renewing and revitalizing the notion of prayer. Services at BTI combine live music, modern poetry and literature with the traditional prayer book. 

In recent years BTI became famous for its Summer Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Tel Aviv port, which attracts up to 800 worshippers each week. This phenomenon—attracting many secular Israelis who once felt marginalized by the Jewish community—is now being replicated in Jerusalem and throughout Israel. 

Today we welcome Shabbat with the BTI version of Lecha Dodi, a liturgical poem from the Kabbalat Shabbat service, recorded last week in Tel Aviv.

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

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Welcoming Shabbat with Yedid Nefesh by Beit Tefilah Israeli

Beit Tefilah Israeli (BTI) is a fast-growing community in Tel Aviv that is renewing and revitalizing the notion of prayer. Services at BTI combine live music, modern poetry and literature with the traditional prayer book. 

In recent years BTI became famous for its Summer Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Tel Aviv port, which attracts up to 800 worshippers each week. This phenomenon—attracting many secular Israelis who once felt marginalized by the Jewish community—is now being replicated in Jerusalem and throughout Israel. 

Today we welcome Shabbat with the BTI version of Yedid Nefesh, a liturgical poem at the beginning of the Kabbalat Shabbat service.

Enjoy, and Shabbat shalom!

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Welcoming Shabbat with Veshamru by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried and Atalya Lavi in Tel Aviv

Rabbi Esteban Gottfried is the rabbi, co-founder and director of Beit Tefilah Israeli (BTI), a fast-growing community in Tel Aviv that is renewing and revitalizing the notion of prayer. Services at BTI combine live music, modern poetry and literature with the traditional prayer book. 

In recent years BTI became famous for its Summer Kabbalat Shabbat service at the Tel Aviv port, which attracts up to 800 worshippers each week. This phenomenon—attracting many secular Israelis who once felt marginalized by the Jewish community—is now being replicated in Jerusalem and throughout Israel.

In this video, Rabbi Gottfried and Atalya Lavi sing Veshamru, from the Shabbat service. 

Atalya has been singing from a very young age. When she was in the army she was chosen as the lead singer in the IDF orchestra. After her military service she continued on to major in music in Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music. Since 2009 she has been performing all around Israel and abroad. 

Enjoy and Shabbat shalom!

Welcoming Shabbat with Adon Olam - Eurovision Style at the Tel Aviv Port

Beit Tefilah Israeli is a creative, innovative and inclusive Jewish-Israeli community that offers meaningful Jewish ritual, study, activism and a sense of belonging to the general Israeli public and visiting Jews worldwide.

BTI is a multi-generational community of committed and passionate Israelis. They have created a model for a new kind of experimental and creative Jewish-Israeli congregation, unaffiliated with any movement.  A space where children can celebrate Shabbat in a uniquely Israeli way, where adults can seek answers to life’s essential questions and where men and women can celebrate their heritage together – blending the ancient and the contemporary, the universal and the particular, the Jewish and the Israeli.

Beit Tefilah Israeli will be conducting a one of a kind Eurovision style Kabbalat Shabbat at the Tel Aviv Port with Izhar Cohen as guest star. May 10th 2019 at 6 pm at Tel Aviv Port With Atalya Lavi, Esteban Gottfried, Moran Maisles, Ian Aylon, Eyal Matri, and Assaf Dagan.

Enjoy, and Shabbat Shalom! 

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