{"id":5636,"date":"2018-04-23T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T06:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/04\/23\/tikkun-leil-shavuot-videos-study-guides-from-the-reform-movement-2-2"},"modified":"2018-10-10T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T06:37:22","slug":"tikkun-leil-shavuot-videos-study-guides-from-the-reform-movement-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/04\/23\/tikkun-leil-shavuot-videos-study-guides-from-the-reform-movement-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ancient Melody for Akdamut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7fsfuVwVPCs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This video<\/a> presents an ancient melody for Akdamut,\u00a0the lengthy Aramaic poem recited during the Torah reading in synagogue on the morning of Shavuot. The\u00a0liturgical poem is recited responsively in almost all Ashkenazi synagogues prior to the reading of the Ten Commandments. The words, written in the 11th century by\u00a0Rabbi Meir bar Yitzchak (Nehorai), a cantor in\u00a0Worms, Germany, are displayed onscreen. The poem\u00a0consists of praise for God, the Torah and the Jewish people. This rendition is sung by Chaim Burshtein while accompanied by Israel Idelson on the piano.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video presents an ancient melody for Akdamut,\u00a0the lengthy Aramaic poem recited during the Torah reading in synagogue on the morning of Shavuot. The\u00a0liturgical poem is recited responsively in almost all Ashkenazi synagogues prior to the reading of the Ten Commandments. The words, written in the 11th century by\u00a0Rabbi Meir bar Yitzchak (Nehorai), a cantor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":5637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/"}],"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=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5637\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}