BEIT AVI CHAI

September - October 2016

Time

Event

Details

Admission

Sunday, September
4, 8:00 PM

Kicking Off the

Month

The last meeting of the

year and this time we will
meet Jacobs youngest
son, Benjamin. What is the
role of the youngest son in
the family? And from
family to kingship: we will
study one of the most
fascinating Biblical stories
about the Tribe of
Benjamin and one of the
most significant figures
known to us from this
tribe: Saul the son of Kish,
who goes in search of
donkeys and finds
kingship.

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.

The Month of Elul:

Binyamin

Tickets may be
reserved in
advance
The event will be
broadcast live on
the Beit Avi Chai
website

Moderator: Danna Bar Lev

With: Bible scholar Prof.
Alexander Rrofe on Saul
and the asses, Clinical
Psychologist Tzippi Gon
Gross radio
correspondent and Israeli
author on the youngest
son in the family
Communal singing: Michal
Nave
Monday, September The High Holy
5, 8:00 PM
Days and the End
of Time
First session

Dr. Yael Ziegler, Lecturer,

Herzog College
This series explores
several biblical stories and
prophecies in preparation
for the High Holy Days and
Sukkot. We will encounter

Admission: 20
NIS.

The event will be

broadcast live on

Elijah and Moses as they

the Beit Avi Chai
struggle with divine justice website
and mercy in their role as
God's prophets. We will
also examine the haftarot
readings for Sukkot that
describe the earthquake,
divine judgment, and the
ideal end of days.

Monday, September The High Holy

12, 8:00 PM
Days and the End
of Time
Second session

Elijah the Zealot and

Elijah the Penitent: A
Biblical and Rabbinic
Portrayal
Is Elijah a gentle prophet
who brings messages of
redemption, or a harsh
firebrand,
uncompromising in his
staunch commitment to
God? We will examine the
biblical portrayal of Elijah
and his radical
transformation in rabbinic
texts.
* The program will take
place in English
Dr. Yael Ziegler, Lecturer,
Herzog College
This series explores
several biblical stories and
prophecies in preparation
for the High Holy Days and
Sukkot. We will encounter
Elijah and Moses as they
struggle with divine justice
and mercy in their role as
God's prophets. We will
also examine the haftarot
readings for Sukkot that
describe the earthquake,
divine judgment, and the
ideal end of days.
Moses and Elijah at
Horeb: Divine Justice and
Mercy

Admission: 20
NIS.

The event will be

broadcast live on
the Beit Avi Chai
website

Monday, September Eating Supervision

12, 8:00 PM
Kosher Foods in
the Public Domain,
from our Sages to
the High Court of
Justice

Tuesday, September Bialik:

13, 7:30 PM
Autobiography as
a Work of Art

What does God require

from the prophets chosen
to transmit His message?
We will compare and
contrast Moshe and Elijah
as they are taught lessons
of divine justice and
mercy.
* The program will take
place in English
Social outlooks have
shaped the world of
Jewish Law from the
Second Temple through to
our own times. What is
the social significance of
the kashrut seals on the
food we eat today?
With:
MK Elazar Stern (Yesh
Atid)
Dr. Yair Furstenberg,
author of Purity and
Community in Ancient
Times
Moderator: Tehila
Friedman-Nachalon
(Neemanei Torah
VeAvodah)
The fifth lecture in a series
dealing with major
autobiographies in
contemporary Hebrew
literature
Harvest On the
tension, confrontation and
meeting points between
the life and the stories
of Hayyim Nahman Bialik
and biography as the
starting point and home
port for the act of
creation.

Admission: 20
NIS.

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.
Tickets may be
reserved in
advance.
The event will be
broadcast live on
the Beit Avi Chai
website

Bilha Ben-Elyahu, Kerem

Institute Jerusalem, David
Yellin College
Tuesday, September The Weekly
13, 8:00 PM
Portion in Film

Wednesday,
September 14, 5:00
PM

Lunar Legends
Monthly
performances for
parents and
children
Two Cats

A cinematic look at the

weekly Torah Portions of
Shoftim and Ki Teitze
How are the heroes and
themes of the weekly
Torah portion presented
in Israeli and international
cinema?
A refreshing look at timely
and timeless topics.
If You Want to be a King
Parshat Shoftim deals
with the kings rights yet
lists his restrictions. The
Hebrew king must
remember there is
Someone above. In
Parshat Ki Teitze,
leadership in time of crisis:
the forbidden, the
permitted, and the
required attitude to a
religious leadership. We
will watch and discuss
excerpts from Beckett,
A Man for All Seasons,
Lord of the Rings The
Return of the King, and
more.
Moderator: Yuval Rivlin,
Film Researcher, Kerem
Institute, David Yellin
College
A Play for the Month of
Elul:
Two Cats
Two cats of opposite
colors argue and get dirty,
until they forgive each
other.
Geared to children age 4
8 years old

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.
Tickets may be
reserved in
advanced

Admission: First
child 40 NIS; 30
NIS for each
additional child.
Accompanying
adult free of
charge. Advance

reservations are
advised

Director: Brachi Lifshitz

Cast: Galit Tzabari, Eran
Kraus
Sunday, September
18, 5:00 PM

Lunar Legends
Monthly
performances for
parents and
children
Two Cats

A Play for the Month of

Elul:
Two Cats
Two cats of opposite
colors argue and get dirty,
until they forgive each
other.
Geared to children age 4
8 years old
Director: Brachi Lifshitz

Admission: First
child 40 NIS; 30
NIS for each
additional child.
Accompanying
adult free of
charge. Advance

reservations are
advised

Cast: Galit Tzabari, Eran

Kraus
Monday, September Lunar Legends
19, 5:00 PM
Monthly
performances for
parents and
children
Two Cats

A Play for the Month of

Elul:
Two Cats
Two cats of opposite
colors argue and get dirty,
until they forgive each
other.
Geared to children age 4
8 years old
Director: Brachi Lifshitz

Admission: First
child 40 NIS; 30
NIS for each
additional child.
Accompanying
adult free of
charge. Advance

reservations are
advised

Cast: Galit Tzabari, Eran

Kraus
Sunday, September
19, 8:00 PM

The Israeli portion

Parashat Ki Tavo: The

Samaritans are Coming
A monthly discussion of
well-known and more
obscure ancient texts
about the Land of Israel
relating to the weekly
Torah portion and
contemporary Israeli
society.
Editor and Moderator: Dr.
Gila Vachman
With: Guy Yehoshua,
member of and guide to

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.
Tickets may be
reserved in
advanced
The event will be
broadcast live on
the Beit Avi Chai
website

Tuesday, September Lunar Legends

20, 5:00 PM
Monthly
performances for
parents and
children
Two Cats

the Samaritan community,

and director of the
Shomronim website.
A Play for the Month of
Elul:
Two Cats
Two cats of opposite
colors argue and get dirty,
until they forgive each
other.
Geared to children age 4
8 years old
Director: Brachi Lifshitz

Admission: First
child 40 NIS; 30
NIS for each
additional child.
Accompanying
adult free of
charge. Advance

reservations are
advised

Cast: Galit Tzabari, Eran

Kraus
Tuesday, September Meter al Meter #9
20, 10:00 PM

A Jerusalem Festival of
Song
The Voice of Surprise
Reading Poetry Events

Wednesday,
September 21,
10:00 PM

Meter al Meter #9

A Jerusalem Festival of
Song
The Voice of Surprise
Reading Poetry Events

Thursday,
September 22, 5:00
PM

Meter al Meter #9

My Story
Encounter and Writing
Workshop for Children
A discussion with author
Shira Geffen

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.
Tickets may be
reserved in
advanced

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.
Tickets may be
reserved in
advanced

Entrance free and

through advance
booking: 026524601
Places limited!

For ages 10 to 13

Monday, September Falling Beyond

26, 8:30 PM
Time

An evening to launch
The Field Marshal
based on a story by Uri
Grossman

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.
Tickets may be

With:
David Grossman, Ilana
Dayan, Amichai Chasson,
Noam Nadav, Idan
Alterman
Moderator: Yuval Malchi

reserved in
advanced

A screening of animated
films from the A Face. The
Day. A Memorial project.
The evening is in memory
of Uri Grossman zl, who
was killed with his tank
comrades in the Second
Lebanon War:
The Field Marshal
Creators: Noam Nadav
and Noam Meshulam
(Studio PitchiPoy)
Field Marshal Archibald
Lomumba is the wild
persona of a tyrannical
despot invented by Uri
Grossman in his youth.
Uris character is now
being revived, in
conversation with writer
David Grossman.
Uri Creators: Guy Harlap
and Sefi Geigu
Uri is a child full of
dreams, imagination and
creativity.
Music: Hila Cohen-Elazar ,
Miki Vershai, Elad Eder
Thursday,
September 29, 8:00
PM

On the Shores of
Forgiveness

Open my Lips Prayers

that Continue to be
Written
An evening in honor of the
special edition of On the

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.
Tickets may be
reserved in

Shores of Forgiveness,
advanced
from the Mashiv HaRuach
journal, and a festive
finale to the writing
workshop for new prayers,
Open My Lips Prayers
that Continue to be
Written, that took place
over the summer at Beit
Avi Chai.

Wednesday,
October 5, 8:00 PM

Thursday, October
6, 8:30 PM

From The
Beginning

PIYUT Festival

With:
Eliaz Cohen, Hadas
Shacham Zonnenfeld
Music: Yoni Gannot
An Evening in Honor of
Tsila Hayuns New Book
Tsila Hayun and her family
are returning from a
summer vacation at the
beach, when a barrage of
shots tears through the
calm of the night journey
home. A shooting attack.
From The Beginning is
the stormy and disturbing
story of a return to life.
Welcome: Dr. Ruth KaraIvanov Kaniel
Author Tsila Hayun talks
with Bilha Ben-Elyahu
from the Kerem Institute,
David Yellin College
Music: Asher Kruger and
Yoav Ilan
Ja'alleh: A Jerusalem
Yemenite Celebration
Shai Tsabari, Zion Golan,
Gila Bashari, Tom Fogel
and others

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.
Tickets may be
reserved in
advanced

Admission: 60
NIS. Students: 30
NIS

Friday, October 7,
11:30 AM

PIYUT Festival

The Sabbath As An Oasis:

From Theory to Practice
Dr. Meir Buzaglo, Prof.
Haviva Pedaya, MK Prof.
Manuel Trajtenberg,
Tamir Nir, Shmuel Chaim
Papenhaim

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.
Tickets may be
reserved in
advanced

Friday, October 7,
1:30 PM

PIYUT Festival

A Feminine Journey To
The Sabbath

Admission: 60
NIS. Students: 30
NIS

A Special Kabbalat
Shabbat in The Beit Avi
Chai Courtyard
Maya Belsitzman, Rona
Kenan, Neta Elkayam and
a String Quartet.
Friday, October 7,
Midnight

PIYUT Festival

A Meeting at Midnight
Inspired by a Chassidic
Tish
Prof. Haviva Pedaya Ariel
Levinson, David
Menachem, Aharon Razel

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.

Saturday, October 8, PIYUT Festival

4:30 PM

Shabbat Stories for

Children
Stories and music of piyut
for children in the Beit Avi
Chai Courtyard

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.

Saturday night,
October 8, 9:30 PM

Shirat HaBakashot Songs of Supplication

Admission: 60
NIS. Students: 30
NIS

PIYUT Festival

New interpretations of
ancient Piyutim from the
liturgy and music of
Moroccan Jewry
Yagel Haroush and the

Shir Yedidiot Ensemble

host Rabbi Chaim louk,
Erez Lev Ari
Sunday, October 9,
8:30 PM

PIYUT Festival
Jerusalems Safra
Square

Closing Program:
Knocking on Heaven's
Door
To Sing a Prayer

Admission: 60
NIS.

Miri Mesika, Mark

Eliyahu, Idan and Elad
Amedi, Ziv Yehezkel and
Nasrin Kadri, Moshe Louk
and The Jerusalem
Andalusian Orchestra

Thursday, October
13, 8:00 PM

The High Holy

Days and the End
of Time
Final session

Dr. Yael Ziegler, Lecturer,

Herzog College
This series explores
several biblical stories and
prophecies in preparation
for the High Holy Days and
Sukkot. We will encounter
Elijah and Moses as they
struggle with divine justice
and mercy in their role as
God's prophets. We will
also examine the haftarot
readings for Sukkot that
describe the earthquake,
divine judgment, and the
ideal end of days.
After the Quake:
Repentance and the End of
Days
Is Ezekiel's description of the
earthquake and the war
identical to that of
Zechariah? Why do we read
these haftarot on the Sukkot
holiday? We will examine
these haftarot to understand
better these biblical
prophecies, their
interconnections and

Admission: 20
NIS.

The event will be

broadcast live on
the Beit Avi Chai
website

meaning.

Thursday, October
13, 8:30 PM

Thursday, October
27, 5:00 PM

Who Can Know

the Human Spirit?

Lunar Legends
Monthly
performances for
parents and
children
The Woman and
the Wind

* The program will take

place in English
Good and evil, the
meaning of existence,
optimism, attitude to
death, and more.
A special event for Sukkot
and the end of the
workshop, with the
workshop moderators and
participants
A Play for the Month of
Tishrei:
The Woman and the Wind
A woman demands justice
from the wind, who
grabbed her last piece of
bread.

Admission: 40
NIS. Students: 25
NIS

Admission: First
child 40 NIS; 30
NIS for each
additional child.
Accompanying
adult free of
charge. Advance

reservations are
advised

Geared to children age 4

8 years old
Director: Brachi Lifshitz
Cast: Galit Tzabari, Eran
Kraus
Thursday, October
27, 8:30 PM

Cotton
An Evening in
Honor of Yali
Shners First Book

From an intimate and

subtle perspective, the
poet in her first book of
poems, recently published
by Carmel plaits a path
between the historical and
biographical, between the
individual and the couple,
and between the kibbutz
and Jerusalem.
Moderator: Bacol Serlui
With: Orit Gidali, Yali
Shner, Muki Tzur, Tal
Nitzan
Music: Chen Rotem and
Nimrod Gilboa

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.
Tickets may be
reserved in
advanced

Sunday, October 30,

5:00 PM

Lunar Legends
Monthly
performances for
parents and
children
The Woman and
the Wind

A Play for the Month of

Tishrei:
The Woman and the Wind
A woman demands justice
from the wind, who
grabbed her last piece of
bread.

Admission: First
child 40 NIS; 30
NIS for each
additional child.
Accompanying
adult free of
charge. Advance

reservations are
advised

Geared to children age 4

8 years old
Director: Brachi Lifshitz
Cast: Galit Tzabari, Eran
Kraus
Sunday, October 30,
8:00 PM

The Interpreter of
Gods Word in our
Time
Rav Elyashiv

The cinematic persona of

Rabbi Yosef Shalom
Elyashiv (1910-2012), the
ultra-Orthodox-Lithuanian
Halachic adjudicator of
the generation.
The Program:
Screening of the film The
Interpreter of Gods Word
in our Time (93 mins,
Director and Editor: Ami
Drozad, Producer: Israel
Goldvicht)
Discussion following the
film, with Rabbi and jurist
Dov Halbertal and
journalist Yair Ettinger
Moderator: Film
Researcher Yuval Rivlin

Entrance is free,
subject to
availability.
Tickets may be
reserved in
advanced