Spend your winter vacation with Yeshivat Hadar faculty for a four-day interactive exploration of Nusah (prayer chants), Nigunim (melodies), and classical Jewish-Musical texts.
Taught by Rabbi Elie Kaunfer and Joey Weisenberg.
Dates: Monday, December 26 - Thursday, December 29
Location: Mechon Hadar, 190 Amsterdam Avenue
Price: $700, scholarships available ($300 for students)
Full schedule will be available shortly. For more information, please contact info@mechonhadar.org.
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Tentative Daily schedule:
I. 9:00-10:30 Nigunim and Building Singing Communities
II. 10:45 to 12:00 Texts about Music from Jewish Tradition
III. 12:00 to 1:00 Lunch/Break
IV. 1:00 to 2:30 Shabbat Nusach Masterclass
V. 2:45 to 3:45:
a. Monday: Silence in Jewish Tradition
b. Tuesday: What are we praying? Textual analysis
c. Wednesday Table top percusssion
d. Thursday : What are we praying? Textual analysis
VI. 3:45 - 4:30 Closing Nigun Session
Download Audio Recordings:
Joey Weisenberg, Nusah and Building Singing Communities, Dec. 27
Joey Weisenberg, Shabbat Nusah Master Class, Dec. 27
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, What Are We Praying? Textual Analysis, Dec. 27, Part 1
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer, What Are We Praying? Textual Analysis, Dec. 27, Part 2
Joey Weisenberg, Closing Nigun Session, Dec. 27
Joey Weisenberg, Nusah and Building Singing Communities, Dec. 29
Joey Weisenberg, Shabbat Nusah Master Class, Dec. 29
Joey Weisenberg, Closing Nigun Session, Dec. 29
