Is It Really: Event Selichot and Performance at the Tower of David

An evening of learning, creativity, movement, music, and inspiration, inviting us to think about what we are asking forgiveness for, what we want to leave behind, and what we want to take with us moving forward.

20:30 | Doors open and gathering

21:00 | Choose from tours and workshops:

✦ Movement Workshop – “Here, Like Clay in the Hands of the Creator”
A movement workshop for body and soul, led by Batya Daniel, dancer and dance and movement teacher.
Location: Minaret Plaza

✦ Learning and Conversation – “Together, the Morning Stars”
A conversation about sunrise and the works created in its wake, led by Ido Nitzan, lecturer and researcher, and Roni Eldad, poet and poetry editor.
Location: Roni Hall

✦ Writing Workshop
Led by Dr. Noa Shakargy, poet, researcher, and editor of Ma’ale magazine.
Location: Herb Garden

✦ Guided Night Tour of the Museum Galleries
We will look at unique archaeological artifacts and think together about the concept of “forgiveness” from a 3,000-year perspective. Led by the guides of the Tower of David Museum of Jerusalem.

22:00 | Performance by the Ja’ala Piyyut Band Selichot in an authentic Eretz Israeli style—a moving live encounter with an ancient and deeply rooted tradition.

We invite you to choose your personal connection to the concept of Selichot—through words, texts, the body, and the shared historical story of us all.

Come as you are. With curiosity and an open heart, for a moving and special evening amid the walls of the Old City.

In collaboration with Mavo’a and the Tower of David Museum of Jerusalem

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