{"id":1419,"date":"2018-06-05T22:10:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/06\/05\/learn-the-reform-blessings-before-after-reading-the-haftarah-with-prayer-eoke"},"modified":"2018-06-05T22:14:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:14:29","slug":"learn-the-reform-blessings-before-after-reading-the-haftarah-with-prayer-eoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/06\/05\/learn-the-reform-blessings-before-after-reading-the-haftarah-with-prayer-eoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Reform Blessings Before &amp; After Reading the Haftarah with &#8220;Prayer-eoke&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>These two short\u00a0videos demonstrate the singing of the blessings recited\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rn5MAKUm0Us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">before<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WHydzcEaj40\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">after<\/a> the reading of the haftarah in Reform congregations. The haftarah is a selection from the book of Prophets publicly\u00a0read in synagogue following the Torah reading on Shabbat, Jewish festivals and fast days. In many communities, the entire haftarah is read by the Bar\/Bat Mitzvah celebrant, or at least the blessings before and after the reading. These videos with Hebrew and transliterated subtitles were<\/em><em>\u00a0created by Rabbi Ahuva Zaches of Congregation\u00a0Or Ami (Reform) in Richmond, VA, as part of her YouTube series, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheUTubeRabbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prayer-eoke<\/a>,&#8221; a Karaoke-style program for learning Hebrew prayers.\u00a0She uses popular melodies for the blessings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M8LAwocWEew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two short\u00a0videos demonstrate the singing of the blessings recited\u00a0before and after the reading of the haftarah in Reform congregations. The haftarah is a selection from the book of Prophets publicly\u00a0read in synagogue following the Torah reading on Shabbat, Jewish festivals and fast days. In many communities, the entire haftarah is read by the Bar\/Bat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[210,219],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/"}],"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\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5619,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/5619\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1420\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}