6 min
Music
Ahavah Rabah
Ahavah Rabah, the prayer about the great love that precedes the Shema, set as kirtan.
About the artist
YofiYah
American singer, born Susan Deikman, who founded Hebrew or Kabbalistic Kirtan: an ecstatic practice that takes the call-and-response form of Indian kirtan and applies it to sacred Hebrew texts and the Names of God. This is a contemporary form she created rather than an inherited one. Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi gave her the name YofiYah, and her albums include Kiss the Beloved and Kabbalah Kirtan.
Upcoming events
Meet YofiYah in person.
Talks, day programmes and retreats currently listed in the Paths Are Many calendar.
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Talks & videos
Watch before you attend.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this artist in their own words.
10 min
Music
Harachaman
Harachaman, the Merciful One, sung as a repeated chant.
101 min
Music
A Full Evening of Kabbalah Kirtan
An entire Kabbalah Kirtan evening, recorded by community television: Hebrew sacred phrases sung in the call-and-response form of Indian kirtan.
Path
The wider context.
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Concealment & the hidden light
Kabbalah
The Jewish mystical tradition centred on hidden dimensions of scripture and the nature of the divine, often explored through symbolic systems such as the Tree of Life.
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