Showing posts with label Water drawing ceremony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Water drawing ceremony. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 October 2024

The water-drawing ceremony set to music

We've just received from our member and composer Max Stern a charming YouTube clip of his reconstruction of the Water Drawing Ceremony for Beit Hasho'evah: This clip (which lasts one minute and 41 seconds) was made in October 2012. It seeks to describe the ancient ritual prayer for rain in the courtyard above King David's Tomb on Har Tzion.

You can check out this jolly piece by clicking hereThanks, Max, for sharing this with us.


The story of the Steins

 The following is an account by Pessy Krausz of the story of two of our most senior members: Dr David Stein z'l, who sadly passed on onl...