{"id":11056,"date":"2018-09-13T20:01:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/09\/13\/the-idf-sings-unetanneh-tokeh-to-a-melody-inspired-by-the-yom-kippur-war"},"modified":"2018-12-31T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:35:10","slug":"the-idf-sings-unetanneh-tokeh-to-a-melody-inspired-by-the-yom-kippur-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/09\/13\/the-idf-sings-unetanneh-tokeh-to-a-melody-inspired-by-the-yom-kippur-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The IDF Sings Unetanneh Tokeh to a Melody Inspired by the Yom Kippur War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DyBToUaon2w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>To the backdrop of footage from the Yom Kippur War, this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DyBToUaon2w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moving video<\/a> shows the\u00a0IDF Chief Cantor Ltc. Shai Abramson and IDF soldiers singing the prayer &#8220;Unetanneh Tokef&#8221; to the melody composed by Yair Rosenblum at the request of Kibbutz Bet HaShita, a secular kibbutz that lost 11 members during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.\u00a0<\/em><em>A powerful and dramatic prayer recited on both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in many communities,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unetanneh_Tokef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unetaneh Tokef<\/a>\u00a0describes God sitting in the seat of judgement deciding the fate of each individual during the Days of Awe. Following such an enormous tragedy on Yom Kippur, the non-observant kibbutz members felt connected to this haunting prayer, which they now gather to sing each year on Yom Kippur. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To see an example script to introduce this version of the prayer and the immense weight of the Yom Kippur War in Israeli society to your community, <a href=\"http:https:\/\/makomisrael.org\/blog\/a-different-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><em>This resource was created by the educational wing of the Jewish Agency,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/makomisrael.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Makom<\/a>, an organization that\u00a0empowers community leaders to\u00a0ask tough questions and articulate compelling visions, and provides the content and tools to craft honest programming that embraces the vibrant complexity of Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the backdrop of footage from the Yom Kippur War, this moving video shows the\u00a0IDF Chief Cantor Ltc. Shai Abramson and IDF soldiers singing the prayer &#8220;Unetanneh Tokef&#8221; to the melody composed by Yair Rosenblum at the request of Kibbutz Bet HaShita, a secular kibbutz that lost 11 members during the Yom Kippur War in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":11057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2550,2548,2611],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=11056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12838,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions\/12838\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11057\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=11056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=11056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=11056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}