Shachar Avakescha
Shachar Avakescha, "at dawn I seek you", a poem by Solomon ibn Gabirol that has been sung for nine centuries.
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Music · Maureen Nehedar · 2026Shachar Avakescha
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Persian Jewish Piyyut
Maureen Nehedar
Iranian Israeli singer whose work is devoted to recovering and recording the mystical piyyutim of the Persian Jews, a repertoire that came close to being lost when the community left Iran. She learned much of it by ear, at home, and sings it as devotion rather than as performance.
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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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