Liturgy

The selichot in the Eastern Ashkenazi rite

A selection of selichot performed by Benzion Miller, Kwartin Zawel, Moshe Stern, Moshe Koussevitzky, Binyamin Unger and Avi Toledano… …

The selichot in the Spanish-Portuguese rite

A selection of selichot performed by Abraham Lopes Cardozo, Daniel Halfon, Gilbert Léon, Guy Herrera and Roland Mossé …

The selichot in the Moroccan rite

A selection of selichot performed by Jo Amar, Ouriel Amar, Ouria Bensoussan, Ouriel Elbilia, Lior Elmaliah', Haim Louk and Avraham Toledano …

The selichot in the Western Ashkenazi rite

A selection of selichot performed by Adolphe Attia, Joseph Borin, Michel Heymann, Emile Kaçmann, Samuel Lison and Max Warchawski... …

The Selichot – סליחות

The Selichot are penitential prayers in which the worshipper implores forgiveness to God for the sins committed. This tradition is based on the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy which have been, …

The interpretation of rites

Broadcasted on French radio France Culture, on October 5 & 12, 2014, Marc-Alain Ouaknin invites in his program "Talmudiques" Hervé Roten who will analyse the relations between music and liturgy through various rites, and more generally the place of music in Judaism... …

Chasidism and music

Chasidism, the mystic Jewish movement born in Eastern Europe in the middle of the 18th century, enabled the emergence of a lot of music aimed to transcend the impurities of this world …

Three Passover songs: Adir hu, Echad mi yodea and Chad gadya

Learn everything about the three songs that end the Passover seder : Adir hu, Echad mi yodea and Chad gadya

Echad mi yodea, a Passover song

Echad mi yodea, the Passover song of numbers, sung in all (or almost !) Jewish traditions …

Chad gadya, a Passover song

Chad gadya (the goat), the famous Passover song sung in all (or almost !) Jewish traditions …