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YofiYah

Kabbalah · Kabbalah Kirtan

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.

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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.

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