Premiere of "Ravines in the Sands: The History of Hasidic Courts in Tel Aviv"

So, what do you think? It’s precisely during Sukkot that I should premiere my new tour.

A tour in which the mysticism of Eastern Europe will encounter the world of the new State of Israel. And faith will encounter pragmatism.

So, the setting: Tel Aviv in the 1930s–1950s.

This is not only the Bauhaus, workers’ rallies, cafés, and people in shorts building the new Jew.

Hasidic rebbes also came here, with their followers, dynasties, prayer houses, disputes, miracles, and catastrophes. They created courts—and no, this does not mean courtyards with laundry.

How did rebbes, Zionists, socialists, and Tel Aviv residents coexist? What happened to the Hasidic dynasties after the Holocaust? And why did most of this world later disappear from the city’s collective memory—as though it had never existed here?

We will walk through Tel Aviv of the 1930s–1950s: find houses, synagogues, and traces of Hasidic courts; talk about famous rebbes and the people who came to them for advice; about the conflict between tradition and the new Jewish city; about refugees, survivors, and the attempt to piece together a destroyed world anew.

This will not be a walk through a shtetl, but through a Jewish city. It’s just that Tel Aviv will turn out to be completely different from the Tel Aviv we are used to. And I—

The tour will take place on September 28 at 6:30 p.m.
Duration: three hours.
Cost: 130 shekels per person or 250 shekels per couple.
Meeting point: Bialik Square, 22 Bialik Street.

To register, click “I’m going.” If you have questions, write on WhatsApp: 972547985177