Singing Community and Creation: The Jewish Practice of Avodat Lev

Ethnomusicologist Dr. Elyse Carter Vosen explores the sounds, spiritual purposes and social force of Avodat Lev (roughly translated as “work of the heart”). Avodat Lev is a recently-developed form of intimate, imaginative and contemplative Jewish prayer service made up of song, chant, meditation and poetry as an outgrowth of the Jewish farming movement.